1.   GM began the study this summer after an insurance industry analysis found that anti-lock brakes did little to reduce the chance of crashes.

2.   Practice, know what your brakes will do when they are most needed and allow DISTANCE and TIME in extra abundance.

3.   To understand ABS, it is necessary first to understand what your brakes do in the first place.

4.   Unlike regular brakes, which many drivers learned to pump in emergencies, antilock brakes do the pumping automatically.