I've never found this to be true, and I was engineer. Engineers seldom search for problems (Edison was not an engineer, scientists are also not engineers), the customers come to them with problems. If marketing for truck and airplane ABS asks for the same solution for cars, the engineer will provide a solution. In this case, I suspect, that the cost constraints led to a poor solution. These same cost considerations probably led to less than adequate testing.
BTW, in another post, mention was made of high powered motorcycles. Yes, my last bike was a Kawasaki Ninja 750 and it didn't need ABS, but old age finally prevailed and I found it more and more difficult to anticipate the traps set by the cell phone crowd.
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