Nah. I’m gonna name some names.

I had a client in the compliance space - they handle detailed product information for Apple, Boeing, BAE systems, Philips, Siemens - you know, nothing important, just literally classified material and incredibly sensitive corporate material.

Anyway. We did ISO27001. We did it well, audited by Lloyds register, reputable stuff all the way down. Built actual meaningful processes.

Anyway, a massive PE entity bought them in a hostile takeover, fired everybody, binned the ISMS, moved to some “compliance” goons.

I saw the box ticking chicanery as it happened - as after firing everyone they of course didn’t follow the off boarding process, so I retained full access to their JIRA. I only lost access a year later when atlassian terminated the account for non-payment.

Nobody actually gives a shit, about anything.

True if we all drove unicycles - but in the real world, tyre wear is uneven, brake wear is uneven, loading is uneven, the surface is uneven, and those differential forces are what modern ABS seeks to control.

The key difference between braking and accelerating is that in the former case, independent, potentially differentially worn brakes, apply force unevenly, making the chance of a loss of traction on one or more wheels higher. With acceleration, that force is applied through a differential, meaning it will be far more likely to be appropriately distributed.

If you want to decelerate while swerving it can be done, but it should be done through engine braking - and the tricky bit there is matching revs as you drop the clutch back in, otherwise you have too much retarding force and overcome the coefficient of friction, resulting in a skid.

Easier for those of us who grew up with double de-clutching and no synchromeshes, but when you’re in a critical situation, it’s still an awful lot easier to apply acceleration.

Absolutely. I was recently driving on a motorway in Portugal when a boulder (giant chunk of granite, 10+ tonnes) fell off the back of a truck - right in front of us, in a heavily laden (7 pax and luggage) car. Immediate massive cloud of dust, I checked my blind spot, veered across two lanes, and continued our journey, unscathed. I looked in the rear view, to see the car behind us jump on the brakes instead of evading. They caught the boulder.

Nobody killed, according to the news, but several taken to hospital in critical condition.

Oh, I say unscathed but our tyre exploded the next day, as apparently we caught a fragment, and again, that’s not a “slam on the brakes” moment, but rather “trundle to a stop on the shoulder and walk to the conveniently nearby tyre shop”.