Q: I took my 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid to my regular mechanic five weeks ago with a broken brake line. He kept it for two days, then gave it back to me with no functioning antilock braking system and ...

Hydraulic brakes have been around for nearly a century, and though many manufacturers were using this system by the 1920s, Ford for instance, waited until 1939 to introduce four-wheel hydraulic brakes ...