You are so correct Ken. ABS does NOT make a vehicle stop in a shorter distance but rather it actually increases the stopping distance in most cases. What ABS does is it helps avoid a skid and also allows the driver to maintain steering control during a panic braking maneuver. I agree, this is a feature that is, like so many others, only there to compensate for unskilled and incompetent drivers. ABS can rather easily be removed from a 90's Imperial and its sister Mopars as is documented on the OIC site. The big picture problem with features like this, IMO, is that they breed more unskilled and incompetent drivers. Will technology be able to keep up with the ever so rapidly declining skill and soaring apathy of modern drivers? Are we willing to go down that road to find out? An undeniable truth of life is that the smarter machines and computers get, the dumber people get. How long will it be before the machines and computers are smarter than we are? Who will run the world after that happens? Whose fault will that be? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Lang" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:46 AM Subject: RE: IML: Drums to Discs Tom, I have not seen any after-market anti-lock brake systems available for any car much less an Imperial. For anti-lock brakes to work each wheel needs to have sensors that monitor their movement. There needs to be a set of pump motors that pump in a pulsating fashion to each wheel, overriding your efforts with the brake pedal. And this is all controlled by an on-board computer that thinks it knows how to stop better than you do. All this was done to get around the fact that most people have lost or never had the skill to modulate their brakes in an emergency. Numerous tests over the years have shown that anti-lock brakes are only effective in the rain. Manually operating your brakes on all other surfaces (snow, ice, gravel, sand, etc) produces better results than the anti-lock systems. Personally, if I could remove the anti-lock system from my newer vehicles, I would. Ken 67 Crown 4 Dr Ht ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm