Originally Posted by
littlewaywelt
skid marks only indicate that the car's wheels locked up or the car drifted off axis. With ABS and dynamic electronic stability control systems, skid marks are becoming less frequent. A lack of skid marks doesn't necessarily indicate that person didn't try to stop or avoid the person or car he hit. I don't know what was being driven in this case, but a lack of skid marks is often incorrectly cited here to explain what a driver was doing.
Those things usually are only found on higher-end cars and more recent cars. . . Do you consider a 91 Oldsmobile wagon either of those? And all those things look nice on paper but they TCS/ESS still take driver input into account, so hard braking inputed by pressing hard on the brakes gets picked up by these systems, as use the brakes to the traction-limit of the tires. Real world tests still show skid marks, for most cars.
But we are getting off topic, talking about car technology in a cycling forum.