I think the point was that anti-lock brakes remove options and make things less safe in certain (not very uncommon) instances.
With anti-lock brakes, you're protected if you've never learned anything and you just try to put the brake pedal to the floor.
If you know how brakes work, you're worse off than if you don't have anti-lock brakes, since you can no longer properly control your brakes. In other words, we're punishing people who learn and know how to do things in order to ostensibly protect people who can't be bothered to learn.
Consider how many people drive with their headlights on, but no other lights. It's because automakers are selling "features", so it feels like we're actively encouraging people to think and pay attention less. Unfortunately, these "automatic" lights aren't truly automatic, and the value of having simple off and on states is lost because of these "features". It's actively unsafe.
> With anti-lock brakes, you're protected if you've never learned anything and you just try to put the brake pedal to the floor.
That sounds nice on paper, but in reality you need training in order to overcome the instinct to smash the pedal through the floor... and you need regular practice to avoid reverting to instinct. Needless to say very few people can _actually_ take advantage of manually controlling the brakes.
With anti-lock brakes, you're protected if you've never learned anything and you just try to put the brake pedal to the floor.
If you know how brakes work, you're worse off than if you don't have anti-lock brakes, since you can no longer properly control your brakes. In other words, we're punishing people who learn and know how to do things in order to ostensibly protect people who can't be bothered to learn.
Consider how many people drive with their headlights on, but no other lights. It's because automakers are selling "features", so it feels like we're actively encouraging people to think and pay attention less. Unfortunately, these "automatic" lights aren't truly automatic, and the value of having simple off and on states is lost because of these "features". It's actively unsafe.