Effortless Mobility: Benefits of Easy Release Handbrake Driving Aids
Discover the benefits of Easy Release Handbrake driving aids, designed to simplify vehicle operation for drivers with limited hand strength or dexterity, ensuring safety and convenience on the road.
What Is an Easy Release Handbrake Driving Aid?
For newer makes and models, especially automatics, the handbrake has been redesigned into a switch that is naturally less dexterous and more accessible.
However for most manual vehicles and older cars, they use the traditional mechanical handbrake design. This requires more strength and dexterity to operate, so an Easy Release Handbrake driving aid can be fitted onto it to eliminate the need to put pressure on your thumb to depress the button.
Making it an ideal solution for most manual vehicles with a traditional mechanical handbrake.
Benefits of Using an Easy Release Handbrake
An Easy Release Handbrake allows you to engage the release button by using the entire handle rather than exclusively flexing your thumb joint. This reduces the physical strain usually required to operate a traditional mechanical handbrake, enabling you to enjoy a safer and more comfortable driving experience.
Our Easy Release Handbrake from Brig-Ayd has an ergonomic T-Grip that makes the handbrake more comfortable to use and affords you greater control over engaging and disengaging the brake. Further to this, it is available in two sizes (4-inch and 6-inch) to best suit your vehicle and your individual requirements.
Who Can Benefit from Easy Release Handbrake Aids?
Designed for drivers with limited hand dexterity, the easy release handbrake can benefit anyone who struggles or finds it uncomfortable to operate a standard handbrake lever.
This can include those with arthritis, particularly in the hands, as well as health conditions that can impact your mobility, joints and dexterity such as Parkinson’s, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis and following a Stroke.
If you’d like further advice to see if this is a suitable solution for your needs, we can provide a mobility assessment with our vehicle adaptations specialists to understand your requirements and capabilities. We can also take this opportunity to discuss additional adaptations that could improve your driving and travelling experience such as car accessibility aids, steering aids and safety enhancements including the panoramic mirror and seat belt extender.
How to Install and Maintain Easy Release Handbrake Aids
The Easy Release Handbrake is simple to install by a trained engineer and attached onto the standard mechanical handbrake. This does not change or impede on the function of the original manufacturer’s handbrake, but is important that this is carried out by an accredited vehicle adaptations installer.
The nature and design of an Easy Release Handbrake means it requires very little maintenance. It can be wiped and cleaned as you would with any interior of your car and like with any of our vehicle adaptations, we do recommend an annual maintenance check.
Get in touch with the Mobility in Motion team who are available to answer any further questions you have and get you back behind the wheel with confidence.
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