Toyota Landcruisers and other lareg Toyotas have had hydraulic directly connected brakes assisted by an electric pressure pump/accumulator since the late 90's, a reliable simple system capable of really powerful braking, is this the sort of thing being referred to?

Mercedes had a similar type of pressurised system called SBS in the noughties, it wasn't great because as far as i understood it was pre programed with so many thousand operations and would then shut down, it was dropped in later models, a good indy could reset the 'counter' as it were, it also required some care when being worked on because the system didn't fully go to sleep, crushed fingers for the unwary was a real if rare risk if the system wasn't put to sleep correctly.