Originally posted by Cool Blue Mystique:
To the person (persons) who recommended threshold braking...when you're driving 70 in the freeway and an animal bolts across the road infront of you, what do your instincts tell you to do? Pump the brakes? I think not!
Any driving technique is worthless if you must take time to think about it. You have not mastered it unless it has become an instinct. If you need to think about how to handle an emergency, it is too late. Threshold braking does not need to interfear with ABS. Learning to gently let up on the pedal, ever so slightly but instantaneously, when you are on the threshold and just as gently and instantaneously applying again is the key. If you are actually pumping the pedal, you are not doing it right.
Letting off the pedal too much or actually pumping the pedal during an ABS event will greatly lengthen your stopping distance, and can be very deadly. Improperly trained Highway Patrol officers have crashed new police cruisers because they backed off on the pedal too far when the ABS event happened. One even died (he was driving a Chevy, not a Ford) Perhaps they were as much scared from the ABS noise as they were from the hammering brake pedal.
