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Ford Man, technically you're correct. The idiot was so close, I slammed on my brakes hard, without time to think about pulsing the brakes. The antilock system pulsed them for me, causing the shuddering and the grip and loosen cycle that broke my skid on the wet pavement. When I said I locked the brakes, that's what my foot and reflexes did. The modern safety features kept the brakes from staying locked, and sliding me into the accident.

That didn't happen the time a deer ran in front of my '87 GTA. I didn't have time to do any pulsing on that emergency stop, either. My car screeched to a stop after it tipped the fawn off of its feet, and I killed the car because I didn't have time to think about touching the clutch pedal. I thought I'd killed the fawn, but it got up and ran off, apparently uninjured, and with no broken legs.