Q: Car runs til I hit breaks without a battery

asked by on October 07, 2016

My battery died. And I jumped it with another car. So I got in it and got ready to move it out of the way and when I hit the brakes it died and the battery was still dead

My car has 12900 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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