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A runaway truck ramp on the A7 in Germany. A runaway truck ramp, runaway truck lane, escape lane, safety ramp, emergency escape ramp, or truck arrester bed is a traffic device that enables vehicles which are having braking problems to stop safely.
Truck air-actuated disc brake. An air brake or, more formally, a compressed-air-brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to both release the parking/emergency brakes in order to move the vehicle, and also to apply pressure to the brake pads or brake shoes to slow and stop the vehicle.
Lapel video of the incident showed an officer use the Grappler, but the truck flipping isn't caught on video. The officer gets out of his vehicle with his gun drawn, and the stolen truck can be ...
A Husky truck stop in Calgary in Alberta, Canada. A truck stop (known as a service station in the United Kingdom, [1] a travel center by major chains in the United States and a roadhouse in rural Australia) is a commercial facility which provides refueling, rest (), and often ready-made food and other services to motorists and truck drivers.
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System components on a spacecraft that put it into a safe mode or cause it to execute default behaviors when no command is received within a predefined time window can be considered a dead man's switch, but hardware or software that attempts to receive a command from human operators through an alternate channel is an auto-recovering or adaptive ...
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One system with limited success was a device that mechanically limited the angle which a trailer could swing. A much more successful system was to fit the tractor with anti-lock brakes . Fitted originally to airplanes in the 1950s, anti-lock brakes have significantly reduced the number of heavy-vehicle accidents.