Brakes are important. In daily use, your C6's brakes are quite effective in preventing you from wrapping your prized Corvette around a telephone pole or wadding it up against some wanker's minivan.
Here's an easy quiz:Which of your Corvette's pedals do you want to push all the way to the floor, and which one do you never want to touch the carpet? If you answered "accelerator" first and "brake" ...