sorry but i don't ponder stuff when i hit the brake. when i am behind the wheel i am driving im not on my cell im not looking for hot chicks driving around me. 100% of my focus is on driving the car. partly because driving a short wheelbase sport truck it gets away from you faster then a longer car like our impala.
last winter i was coming back from my gf's house about 15 miles away from my house. from about 5 pm till 2 am it was some of the worst icy snow/rain for. there was areas that were 5 inches of snow that was slushy and there was areas that were just wet snow that froze and was all icy. freeway traffic was doing 10 mph and i saw about 6-7 cars in the ditch some i would say where totaled people in brand new trailblazers and Cadillac escalades. one guy came out of a enternce on to the freeway and just kept in the turn all the way around under the bridge and in to the ditch on the other side of the road he had just came off of.
well i as on my way home around 12 at nite most of the roads i was on where just ice. after about 4 miles there was just slick spots and you could do more then just 10-20 mph. so as im doing 35 in a 45 going over a bridge they had been working on for the last 2 years every thing was ok till then. the road between normal street and the bridge was about a 3 inch tall bump that when my truck hit it the back tires both came off the ground (due to the bump stops hitting) and also due to the slop of the bridge the back end started to come around to the right, so my very first instinct was keep the gas steady, turn to the right right a little and hold it till i can regain control safely. i went from the front of my car pointed at 12 oclock to pointing between 9 and 10 o'clock after about 60 feet or so the super slick bridge was pass me and was just on a semi slick road and could recover the slide with out incident. the only other guy on the road was behind me about a quarter mile or so and after watching me i guess felt it would be a good idea to slam on the brakes when he saw the bump at the bridge that wasn't there a week ago. hitting the bump with abs locked up his tires and threw the car in to a quick spin and he ended up backwards sliding in to the rail on the bridge almost facing the wrong way on a divided highway. abs for the normal idiot gives them the idea that if they just push really hard on the brakes it will make the car stop under complete control.
i was going to a robotics meet in a car pool where one of the other students parents where driving and it was much of the same weather all the roads where icy and snow and cars in the ditches. for about 20 mins of a 1hr drive every time she pushed the brakes the abs kicked in and gave you that kicking action on the peddle and she would release the brakes and push again every time till she stopped. i finally got to the point where i told her just hold your foot on it when it does that its the abs kicking in you don't need to pump the brakes its doing it for you. and she had no idea that, that was what was happening. abs is for the normal every day driver that doesn't want to learn how to drive or become a better driver just wants to get some place. if you drive as if you don't have abs you are every bit as safe if not safer then some fool that thinks b/c i have abs im safer on the roads.
70-0 on dry roads is only about 120-140 feet, in that distance there isn't much your going to do that abs would help you accomplish that you couldn't do your self. its only in rainy, snowy, icy roads that abs comes in to play and its only a last ditch effort by the car to try and save you.