I know what you mean julie, I myself have had a couple of near heart attacks with the brakes slamming on, I say “slamming” but in truth its sort of a stab of the brakes but makes my heart skip a beat when it does it.
I never turned the system off thought because over the 4 years I had the VW Golf Mk7 I had two occasion in low speed city traffic where your attention is easily taken away and the car in front unexpectedly stops dead and the cars system hit the brake a couple of micro-seconds before I did saving the day.