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I watched two cars today lock up their brakes and go sailing into intersections causing wonderful accidents. I prefer to give myself lots and lots of yardage between cars in the snow, and using the engine to slow myslef down (Manual Transmission), and then braking when I below 10 mph just to ease myself to a complete stop while in 1st.
Now, not having ABS, and having to quickly brake because of jerk who pulled right in front of me, or decided to make a right turn from the left lane right in front of me at the last second... Well, then I leave it in gear and start pumping on the brakes. I made the mistake one-time while I was in RWD (drive a '95 4runner) of dropping gears when someone cut me off on ice, and the added power to the rear wheel sent me into a spin, I wave hello to everyone behind me and then gassed it once I was facing the correct direction again, somehow I pulled a 360 on a 3-lane road, and came right out of it. I dropped it into 4WD at the light, and the guy in the VW Touraq next to me was giving me two thumbs up, while I was trying to keep my heart from jumping out of my chest.
I'm gonna have to find an abandoned parking lot and find out if neutral or having it in gear and doing my brake-pumping is more effective.
If I'm going for style, then E-Brake all the way!!
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