Featuring brake-by-wire on a performance car like Alfa's is important because such vehicles are a test bed to see how enthusiasts react to electric systems replacing mechanical counterparts.

So what does it take to engineer a high-level brake system from scratch? That’s the challenge we faced with Max Effort (our 1967 Mercury Cougar project car), since none of our chassis ...

Bosch drove a care equipped with its bold brake-by-wire system for 2,000 miles in 6 days—and survived. Here's how the bold technology works.

It was not until 1.3 seconds before impact that the car's self-driving system "determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision," NTSB explained.

In May 2004, Mercedes recalled 680,000 vehicles to fix the complex brake-by-wire system. Then, in March 2005, 1.3 million cars were recalled, partly because of further unspecified problems with ...