What does it mean if your car has (ABS)anti-lock brake system?

On the old break systems, when your car starts to slide on a patch of ice, you would have to manually pump the break with your foot to get the car to stop. This alternating pressure-and-release on the tires is supposed to help keep them from locking up and slow the car out of the skid. ABS eliminates the manual pumping, and instead pumps the breaks for you. All you have to do is keep your foot firmly on the break, even though you will feel the break peddle 'vibrating".|||It means that the system is designed to prevent locking-up if you stomp the brakes in a panic situation.The system takes over and begins to pump the brakes very quickly;and much more lightly than anyone could physically.Imagine the brakes being pumped lightly 5 times a second,that is about what happens.


As the car slows down,the pumping pressure increases until it comes to a stop.|||this kind of brake system allows you to just smash the pedal as hard as you can with your foot and the computer automatically applies optimal braking for you





in the old days you had to pump the brakes for best braking , now the computer does that by itself for you|||It also allows you to steer the car and possibly avoid collision while panic braking. Few drivers do as most tend to apply a "death grip" to the steering wheel during these moments.





You car will typically stop in a slightly shorter distance as well.|||Slam the brakes on, you will know if you have ABS. if you do have it, the brakes shouldn't lock. if you don't, they will skid. old cars have no ABS, cars built from the early-mid nineties do.|||Look up "Anti lock braking system" on Wikipedia, this gives you a full explanation of what it is, and how it works!


Hope this helps.