Given the difference between life and death can be millimeters or milliseconds I suspect any improvement in braking can make a difference and in some cases a HUGE difference it would seem. In the case of the vid, who knows how much quicker the poor chap might have come to a standstill given the car he hit was part of the distance involved in bringing the Morgan to a stop...? Given the opportunity to have abs or not in heading towards such a situation which would you choose..?
With or without, that driver could not stop in that distance.He woke up too late. My point is that there's a belief abs reduces stopping distances which it doesn't. It enables steering which is it's great safety benefit. There is no manufacturer who claims abs reduces stopping distances. On the contrary, it is freely admitted that on a less than perfect surface abs can considerably increase stopping distances. Which is why you can turn it off in off road vehicles. So the presentation of that video as some sort of endorsement of abs encourages the dangerous belief that abs will help us out in situations such as the one on the video. What I'm claiming is easily confirmed by any investigation, even on wikipedia! Anyway, I'm going to stop going on about it now Nick
