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A vehicle parking brake system having an AUTO selector for selectively establishing an automatic mode and a manual mode, parking brake units, and an electronic control unit operable in the automatic mode to automatically activate the parking brake units to apply a parking brake to vehicle rear left and right wheels (RW<HIL><PDAT>1, </BOLD><PDAT>RW<HIL><PDAT>2</BOLD><PDAT>) when the vehicle is in a parked state, and to automatically de-activate the parking brake units to remove the parking brake from the vehicle wheel, and in the manual mode to selectively apply and remove the parking brake to and from the vehicle wheels according to operations of a MANUAL MODE control switch. Where the MANUAL MODE control switch is operated in the automatic mode, data indicative of the operation of the control switch is kept stored in a memory until the memory is cleared when predetermined operating state of the vehicle is detected, so that the control of the parking brake units in the automatic mode is restricted to control the parking rake units according to the operations of the MANUAL MODE control switch in the manual mode.</PTEXT>
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