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When your car or truck is stopped, the brakes aren't the only things keeping your car wheels from rotating. Individuals with a manual transmission know this, because they can often take their foot off the brake and don't start idling forward. The essential device that engages and disengages the rotation of your vehicle's wheels is the clutch (and yes, they are present on automatic transmission vehicles as well). This component is what allows your engine to spin all the time without constantly spinning the wheels. It is accomplished through the use of friction discs. In a manual transmission, pressing the clutch pedal pushes the discs against a flywheel through a spring mechanism. In an automatic transmission, the car performs this action for you. Similarly, pressing the clutch again will also disengage the disc from the flywheel. The disc, which is directly connected to the engine, rotates constantly. The wheels, which are directly linked to the flywheel, only turn when the disc completes the connection to the moving engine.