If you've got an angry red brake light on your dash, don't just ignore it — it's likely important. Here are five things that light might indicate.

There are numerous everyday traffic scenarios that could be made safer by cars with front-facing braking indicators. The scenario reads like this: you’re in your car, stopped at an intersection—but ...

If your car's brake lights stay on even when the engine is off, the brake light switch — a small, innocuous electrical part you'd only see once something goes wrong with it — is likely the culprit. It ...

While it's easy to see what the headlights at the front of our cars do, the same isn't necessarily true for lights at the rear. But we're not talking about brake lights. Put simply, tail lights, which ...

The scenario reads like this: you’re in your car, stopped at an intersection — but cross traffic isn’t required to stop. You want to pull out, either to go straight through the intersection or to turn ...