I’m surprised she didn’t hear it. A deflated tyre flogging along kicks up quite a racket.
You’re right about modern high-tech cars. A work colleague was proudly telling me of his new Kia yesterday: about the automatic braking and how it nudges the steering to keep you in lane on the motorway if it detects you wandering. Joking, I said “so you can just nap most of the way home?” (he has a 2 hour commute). “Oh, no” he replied, “if your hands let go of the steering wheel it sounds an alarm which wakes you up.”
Even ABS is a hazard in the wrong hands. A few years ago I was heading into London on the M3 (when it was 50mph policed by average speed cameras). Someone cut across me in order to undertake the vehicle doing 50 mph in lane 3, as he missed the corner of my car by about 10mm I flashed my lights at him. He took that as a declaration of war and brake checked me, twice. He had ABS, I don’t and it was a bloody miracle he didn’t cause the collision he intended.