Antilock braking — New Hampshire Permit Test
Antilock braking on the New Hampshire permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A vehicle equipped with an Anti-lock Braking System allows a driver to stop without skidding and keep steering control.
Keeping the steering is the point. A locked wheel cannot be steered, however hard the driver turns it.
Vehicles equipped with ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) will allow a driver to stop the vehicle without skidding and keep steering control.
With an anti-lock braking system a driver should press on the brake pedal and keep applying pressure, because the system will only work while pressure is kept on.
Pumping the pedal switches the system off and on, which is the habit drivers learned before anti-lock brakes existed.
Drivers should press on the brake pedal and keep applying pressure. ABS will work only if the driver keeps the pressure on the brake pedal.
A driver may feel the brake pedal vibrate and hear a clicking noise when anti-lock brakes operate, which is normal.
Drivers lift off when they feel it because it feels like a failure, which is exactly the wrong response.
A driver may feel the pedal vibrate and hear a clicking noise, which is normal.
On the test
What does an anti-lock braking system let a driver keep?
Steering control while stopping. Keeping the steering is the point. A locked wheel cannot be steered, however hard the driver turns it. New Hampshire Driver's Manual, p.34: “Vehicles equipped with ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) will allow a driver to stop the vehicle without skidding and keep steering control.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against New Hampshire Driver's Manual, published by the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NH.pdf (New Hampshire Driver's Manual, Rev. 11/25, New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NH.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 6, folioMarker, nonLawPages, signGalleryPages and the extraction flag, each with its basis)