Ignoring the hazard and apparently taking inspiration from Fred Flintstone, the man continued to drive, using his feet outside the car door as brakes. Witnesses said he came to a complete stop at ...

Warning to readers: though Fred Flintstone may have been able to brake his car with his feet, the physics of cartoons does not play out in real life. A 24-year-old in the Detroit metro area did ...

Midas has found its new spokespeople — Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. Two of the first automobile drivers ever, the pair reportedly walk into a Midas service shop and trade up their sore red ...

FAIL! Brakeless driver imitates Fred Flintstone, uses feet to brake and strikes vehicles by agiantman on YouTube. ROSEVILLE (WWJ) - A man called "Fred Flintstone" because he tried to stop his car ...

Anyone who has ever seen The Flintstones is probably aware of the unique braking mechanism on Fred's stone age car. I always considered the technique of dragging your feet on the ground to bring ...

It started with a Facebook posting; A newsroom staffer noticed something strange about a Perry Buick ad in a recent Saturday edition of The Virginian-Pilot. If you saw the ad, you might not think a… ...

From brake basics to the latest technological developments—and plenty of factoids in between—here's our primer on automotive brakes.

Let’s put aside the fact that Fred Flintstone basically runs to work and therefore doesn’t really need his wheels (or that he would need the quads of a god to get them moving). What is much more ...