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This is absolutely correct. If you are driving on a loose service (not just _packed_ snow) like snow or gravel, emergency braking is faster without ABS because
by NLips 8y ago
This is absolutely correct. If you are driving on a loose service (not just _packed_ snow) like snow or gravel, emergency braking is faster without ABS because skidding the wheels causes the material to bunch up in front of the wheels, dramatically reducing vehicle speed.
On a constantly slippery surface (ice, snow, not normally gravel) you may want to disable ABS because the ECU cannot correctly tell the vehicle speed, so may activate ABS incorrectly. However, modern systems to tend to be quite good. I believe it is best to keep systems such as traction control on though.
- jcadam 8y agoI learned to drive in Colorado (plenty of snow and ice in the winter), where I was a poor college student driving a typical poor college student car (old, beat-up, no modern safety features like ABS, etc). Now that I can afford to drive a reasonably modern/safe car and live in Florida, I still can't bring myself to not instinctively pump the brakes when making an emergency stop.