Steel Braided Brake Lines

[Kneale Brownson]

In my experience (several too old OEM rubber hoses failing), you eventually lose enough brake fluid to make the system inoperable.

Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:  

What about the dual braking circuits featured on pretty much every 
modern car? Losing a slave hose (or a metal line or a cylinder...) only 
kills half the brakes - dangerous, sure, but not an absolute loss of 
braking.

Not that I would promote this, but I drove my Chevy truck home from 
buying it with only one working brake (they were back roads and I went 
slow, but I could still stop).