2010 brake failure - unintended acceleration

[echaru]

Yeah, the ABS is troublesome. I got into a accident on Monday because of it. A car in front of be braked and I braked. There was some ice on the road, so the ABS turned on and stop my car too quickly. The car behind me didn't have ABS and I got rear ended. I was pissed, I just bought my car less than 3 months ago. My car is now officially broken in.

[Zaphod]

Originally Posted by echaru

Yeah, the ABS is troublesome. I got into a accident on Monday because of it. A car in front of be braked and I braked. There was some ice on the road, so the ABS turned on and stop my car too quickly. The car behind me didn't have ABS and I got rear ended. I was pissed, I just bought my car less than 3 months ago. My car is now officially broken in.

I hope you are just being sarcastic.

You do realize that you could have taken your foot off the brake to stop slower, right? If you had to stop that fast to avoid an accident, you were too close to the car in front of you, because even if you can stop as fast the car in front of you, the guy behind you may not be able to as you just observed. If you hadn't mashed the brakes, they wouldn't have locked up and the ABS wouldn't have kicked on in the 1st place.

Ok, here's the deal ... in icy conditions you leave yourself lots of room. You always stay aware of who's around you, how close they are to you and even whether or not they're paying attention themselves.

In any weather, you want to know who's eating hamburgers, fries or picking their nose, whose texting, or yacking on their phones, who's fidgeting with their GPS system, who's racing each other, etc ... You want to be able to predict the accidents before they occur so that the fools don't involve your vehicle with their accidents. You should drive to never need brakes at all, control the traffic behind you and always try to plan for a path to swerve into a different lane, shoulder of the road, etc ... Kind of like if you're flying a plane and always looking for that place to land in an emergency. Finally, you should always be scanning way ahead in traffic with a good idea of who's doing what.