On snow or ice in a vehicle with anti-lock brakes, how should you use the brake pedal?

The ABS instruction speaks only to pedal pressure; steering corrections belong to the separate skid-recovery steps taught earlier in the same section. This answer fuses an evasive swerve-and-brake reflex into a rule that governs pedal use alone.

Pumping is the technique for cars without ABS; with ABS, steady pressure is what lets the system cycle the brakes on its own. This answer carries the pumping-the-brakes habit from older non-ABS vehicles into a system engineered to do that pulsing automatically.

Releasing the pedal interrupts the ABS cycle; the manual calls for even pressure held on the pedal so the system can keep working. This answer mistakes the ABS rule for the threshold-brake-then-release routine taught in performance and stunt-driving lessons.