In places like Alaska and Scandinavia they have proper winters and drive around with studded tyres which will have grip in the ice and snow so ABS should function well.

Over here in the UK (south of the border at least) we don't get such extreme conditions and drive around on normal tyres which is a completely different story. Our problems here are compounded by the fact that the authorities always seem to be caught out on the rare occasions that there is any significant amount of snow/ice and the roads are not correctly treated.

Are winter tyres used up there in Scotland?