[Sli(ks]

The vibration your feeling is actually the ABS shoving the pedal back towards you with a hydraulic pump or something. If it thinks your wheels are locking up (loosing traction, etc) , it assumes you've slammed on the breaks and forces the pedal back towards you to ease off and give you more control of the car. At least, that's what I've gathered.

Bad ABS system's can be dangerous as hell. Like, if there's bumps or train tracks or something on the road before a stop sign or something and you slow down over them - it might think you're in trouble and shove your foot away from the break, sending you into an intersection, off a cliff, down a ravine, into a badger etc.

I was thinking about it though, and that might not be so bad. Like, what if you were about to hit that badger, and you slam on the breaks. You may hit it anyway, doing extensive damage to your car. If the ABS were to shove you off the break, the weight of the car would go flying to the rear - lifting the nose and taking pressure off the front tires (hitting the gas at this step would help too). That would reduce the contact area of the front tires to the road (making them skinny) and the badger would be rudely shoved under your raised front and between your now skinny front tires. It’s perfect, because it may only scrape the bottom of your bumper instead of smashing it in – and with the wheels skinny it would be less likely to hit them which would mean your tires wouldn’t be flinging blood and guts all over your car. Then, hit the breaks when it's directly under your car (under the cupholders and that nifty rollout plastic thing, lets say), forcing the weight towards the front which would raise your car’s stylish ass and take pressure off the rear tires, making them skinny. This would presumably allow the badger to coast between your back tires and snuggly under the rear of your car.

Heh, makes sense to me. Hell, it might even survive.