Yes, .......if you are
autocross racing.
If you drive like most of the guys on this site, you barely ever use your brakes at all.
It's not that we avoid using our brakes, but rather that we do not
need to.
When you drive like an ecomodder, you pay attention to the lights ahead of you, and anticipate a change to red.
Rather than slam on the brakes 20 feet in front of the red light, we coast up to the light and barely have to use the brakes at all. Most of the time we get there just in time for the light to change to green .