[Coventrysucks]

Originally Posted by www.timesonline.co.uk

TEST 1: BRAKING

She may not have known what ABS was but she missed it when it wasn’t there. Griffiths had added a little water to the surface to reduce grip and the results were predictable. The wheels locked and Curran could no longer steer the car out of danger. The BMW ploughed straight on into the cones, leaving a trail of rubber tyre marks.

Instantly invalidates any idea of this being a serious test.

How can you compare ABS to non-ABS if you change the conditions of the test?

How do we know for certain that the ABS equipped car would have stopped in the wet conditions?

Therefore we can't say for certain that ABS, or lack thereof, was responsible for the "crash".

Had this been a real-life situation on a busy motorway, they would have ploughed into other traffic and probably caused a multiple pile-up.

Had this been a real-life situation they wouldn't have been deliberately driving at 50mph towards a stationary car, would they.

Complete bollocks.

"Technology has moved on and drivers have been left behind.”

What?!

Why does it matter if people don't understand how ABS etc work?

Aside from cadance braking, nothing has been removed from driver instruction in the last 10 years that affects their understanding of car control.

A driver picking up his new BMW 15 years ago wouldn't know anything that a new driver isn't taught today, except perhaps knowledge gained from experience.

What next, the shocking expose on how modern train drivers don't know how to operate a steam engine?

Soliders found to be appalingly unaware of how to use muzzle-loading muskets and longbows?