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For a professional driver, maybe.

For the average person, no.

Then the average person needs to take care to drive in a conservative way that
will not exceed his abilities.

Unfortunately, systems like ABS make drivers complacent, and soon they are
making every stop as if it were a panic stop, confident that the ABS will save
them.

This is a very consistent pattern of human behavior when gadgets like this are
installed on vehicles. In aviation, one sees this in the near-total
dependence on GPS that some private pilots have quickly embraced once they've
started using the receivers. Not only are they routinely taking risks that
they should not, but they've forgotten what to do if the GPS fails.

Or something totally unexpected happeded like a kid runs into the street
chasing a ball, someone pulls out in front of you without looking, a parked
car opens their door right in front of you, or someone runs a red light.

An ABS might not help you at all in these cases if you aren't driving
cautiously enough to have the correct stopping distance. And if you do allow a
generous stopping distance, you may not need ABS.

In other words, a system like ABS helps in a minority of cases, but makes no
difference in many other cases. If that were the end of it, no problem, but
the flip side is that automation of this kind makes drivers (or pilots) lazy
and allows them to get far ahead of their actual abilities.