Can I Disable ABS Brakes?

[why?]

Originally Posted by Bluevitz-rs

Sorry man, but take a trip up to the great white north and try driving in a snow storm where you don't know weather you're driving on slush, snow, ice, or wet asphalt and have someone slide out in front of you and tell me you don't need ABS for every day emergency situations. When you have less than 1 second to react by braking and steering to avoid getting hit head on, you don't want to have to worry about preventing your wheels from locking because you can't turn with your wheels locked. [end rant]

even there it depends, if the abs/nanny system completely segregates you're steering wheel from the road and you have no idea what you are driving on that is terrible. In that situation I want as much road feel as I can possibly have so I know if I am on ice or snow or slush or w/e.

Not to mention in most emergency situations the last thing you want to do is slam on the brakes, even with ABS it gives you less control over the vehicle. Slamming on the brakes should always be a "last ditch I have nowhere to go and if I don't stop right now I will die" choice. Not a "it is snowing hard and I can't feel what the car is doing and some jerk just cut me off and even though there are 3 empty lanes all around me I am still going to slam on the brakes for the hell of it choice."

The safest way is to not have to use your brakes and to never be put into a situation where it is stop or die. That means assume everyone around you wants you dead and keep the heck away from them.