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On any loose gravel drive [or most surfaces where a slid, it's trivial for an untrained driver to out brake an ABS-equipped car 9 (or 10) out of 10 times.

Try it sometime.

Or read the NHTSA study on it: http://www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/NRD/Multimedia/PDFs/VRTC/ca/c...




Mangled the text above; it should say “where a sliding tire deforms the surface]




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