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Going from “straight sections” of the road, applying breaks and getting:

> when the tires recover traction the whole car is angled 20 degrees to the left.

That’s not just some loss of yaw control. That’s an ABS system utterly failing to do it’s job. The point of an ABS system is to avoid the exact situation described.

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That's pretty normal behavior, in my experience.

In that case, I honestly believe you may want to get a new vehicle, or at a minimum get yours checked by a competent mechanic. There have been plenty of advancements in ABS and traction control, but this is literally what they where designed to deal with.

Ex: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9_4qiSXkw

Especially if rather than stopping with a slight twist it’s twisting enough that hard breaking means you often lose control.

I don't think I have ever seen any vehicle whose ABS wasn't essentially rapid cadence braking, and in bad road conditions, the car will turn a bit during the intervals while the wheels are locked (so I generally found threshold braking more useful). If the road is bad enough, even leaving the wheels free won't necessarily keep the car pointed forward. That said, I haven't really had issues recovering from these situations.

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