The handbrake turning off by itself

I have good experiences by simply changing the two code lines (as I described above). Everything runs fine for me then. AI's handbrakes are open, mine stays engaged until releasing the handbrake with any of the two keybindings (toggle or hold EDIT: on key release). I have no side effect. Why is this not a solution for you? (Although I didn't tested it in missions or career)

 

Can you not just press the P key on your keyboard?

 

I think the best solution to this problem might be just having an option to disable automatically applied parking brake

 

They're talking about when you spawn the car, the handbrake auto turns off when you press the throttle

 

Then they should start using realistic gearbox, I think that fixes it.

 

Doesn't work mostly.
>>Spawn car
>>(manually)Shift into gear
>>Drive
>>Get mildly inconvenienced by the car auto turning off the handbrake

 

How, exactly, is this an inconvenience?

 

I'm actually fine with the handbrake doing that.
It's what I imagine the OP would be thinking when the handbrake disengages

 

Unfortunately, the feature that keeps the handbrake engaged is still not implemented in version 0.35. Not even for the "realistic" mode. Since I absolutely prefer to explicitly release the handbrake myself for the reasons mentioned above, the only solution is small hack again:

For BeamNG version 0.35, this has changed slightly:
Now it's in the file:
[game installation folder]\lua\vehicle\controller\vehicleController\vehicleController.lua
Line 816:

Change
handBrakeHandling.smartParkingBrakeActive = true
to
handBrakeHandling.smartParkingBrakeActive = false

In the line above (815), you can read the devs' comment:
--only make it the smart version if we are in arcade mode

It looks to me like this is meant as a "TODO," and the issue is therefore under construction. This gives hope that in a next update of BeamNG there will be a "manual handbrake" depending on the mode (arvade/realistic) and/or vehicle dependent. Please make this an option like the ABS can be overwritten. Thnks for this great game !

 

It also annoys me when the car is with the parking brake turned on and if I want to survive the clutch, the parking brake for some reason goes down on its own

 

No changes in 0.35.5. Also no changes for the hack (
[game installation folder]\lua\vehicle\controller\vehicleController\vehicleController.lua
Line 816)
.