2010 brake failure - unintended acceleration

[xnamerxx]

Have you ever heard of something called ABS ice mode?

The ABS is working exactly as intended, when your applying the brakes it detects that the brakes are locking tires up and try's to compensate by getting the car to slow down. If there were no abs there may have been a accident from the ice you may or may not have seen. Tires play a huge roll in how a car feels on ice.
With abs pumping the pedal was the wrong thing to do. It has a motor and is already doing that for you by you pumping the pedal your giving the computer more instructions than it needs to slow the car down thus making its job more difficult.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6162289_do...ice-snow_.html


Its not specific to any manufacture but its the abs trying to save you when your stuck in ice and it sounds exactly like that's what your experiencing. If you choose to drive in the snow and let yourself get into limit space situations you really need to evaluate the way you drive as a accident is inevitable.

I may not have your 25 years of experience but I do have 9 years and over 300k miles behind my belt and to this day I have only been in 1 accident that was due to my stupidity.

I should rephrase the word stomped I should say abruptly pressed the brakes. The more rapid you make your inputs on the car the less actual grip you have from the tires. Its like shooting a rifle if you want to get the most from it you need to be smooth. The smoother your inputs are ie not quick and jerky the better the car will react.
The smoother you can make your inputs the less this will affect you.

"...any transfer of load from one tire of a pair to the other reduces the total tractive capacity of the pair."
-Carroll Smith