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The only downside to such systems that I have seen is when a very old
driver first encounters them, as in very old drivers were taught not to
press the brakes as hard as you can in a panic stop yet the anti-skid
systems "want" you to do exactly that.

There is a downside for newer drivers, too, in that those who have driven
mostly cars with ABS tend to constantly ram the brakes at the last minute,
confident that the ABS will bring them to a safe stop without a skid. The
problems here are that they don't know what to do if the ABS fails, and they
often don't understand that ABS does not reduce minimum stopping distance, so
they can still crash into the car in front of them even with the system
running if they are too careless about braking.

I drive all cars as if they don't have ABS. In other words, I make sure that I
can stop with completely normal braking (not impending-skid braking, although
I learned to do that, too).

Which reminds me (incidentally) that supposedly Southwest has ABS disabled on
all its aircraft, because some of their older models don't have it, and they
want a consistent experience for all pilots on all 737 models. I've heard the
same about autothrottle. It makes me wonder how much automation Southwest
aircraft actually use.

Even then it takes only once to adjust to the new reality (for me that was
more than 15 years ago) and since pilots train for other than normal
circumstances while drivers do not, I see no problem with such a system
in aircraft.

Hmm ... does this rapid adjustment to reality apply generally?