Removing parking brake street/strip car

Professor Fate said

Nor is it meant to- it's purpose is to keep the car stationary. I suppose the term "Emergency brake" is somewhat of a misnomer, I should more properly refer to it as "parking brake".
And yes, the safety aspect is keeping the car where you left it.

It's other purpose is doing "Rockford turns"... :)

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Not really a misnomer. Or at least it didn’t used to be. In the event of a hydraulic failure, a real emergency brake can be used to stop the car since it’s mechanically actuated. Yeah, the stopping distance won’t be good, but it’s a crap ton better than nothing.

I like having a real emergency brake, most newer cars have done away with them. They have parking brakes, but if it’s a button on the dash you sure as heck can’t figure that’ll work if you push it at speed.

So it depends, “emergency brake” and “parking brake” get used interchangeably but they’re really different things. An emergency brake should still function after a hydraulic failure so you have some kind of way to stop the car. A parking brake either isn’t totally separate or isn’t actuated in a way you can use to stop the car. At least in my book, for whatever that’s worth.