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I believe that the statistics are that most people don't brake anywhere near hard enough in accidents, because you're just not used to pushing the pedal that ha

• jjav 3y ago
  Yes this is what we see in the car control clinics. I've been involved in these since the 90s. Back then the braking exercises were about teaching threshhold braking since most cars didn't have ABS. I speculated that once ABS becomes mainstream we'll need to remove these exercises from the classes since there won't be anything left to teach, just press the brake and the car will do all the work. I never foresaw that "just press the brake" was going to be so difficult for so many people that the braking exercises are still to this day very useful and most people fail badly the first few attempts! For anyone reading, if you've never braked hard, braking hard in an ABS car means push on that brake pedal with the full force of your leg muscles as hard as you possibly can and then keep that pressure on, don't let go. (Also, please sign up for a car control clinic.)