The 1978 S-Class was the first passenger vehicle in the world to get antilock brakes.

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It's a four-door hatchback, with a 1.3-liter engine, dual air bags and antilock brakes.

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The stability control and antilock braking systems kept wheels with no traction from spinning pointlessly.

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When antilock brakes were new, some people feared the technology would lengthen stopping distances, but today most drivers wouldn't be without them.

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Some models sold in Brazil, like the Chinese-made JAC J3, scored only one star in a recent crash test despite having air bags and antilock brakes.

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Only next year will laws require frontal air bags and antilock braking systems on all cars, safety features that have been standard in industrial countries for years.

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Louis lawyers who had illegally taken confidential information while they were employed at one of the company's outside law firms, and then used it to file lawsuits claiming Chrysler had defective antilock brakes.

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He argues that with antilock brake and stability systems, 100 percent reliability is possible because they merely survey signals from within the car: wheel speed, pressure applied to the brake pedal, and so on.

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Combined with standard stability control that uses the antilock braking system to keep the car headed in the direction you're steering, we found the W8 unstoppable, even during a near-whiteout snowstorm that had a lot of SUV drivers skidding all over the road.

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