In case of brake failure, why isn’t going resverse and gassing correct solution?
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From first hand experience I can tell you that you’ll probably break something.
Years and years ago I had an old beater POS car. It was an automatic and the gate to move between gears was broken. Without pushing the button on the shifter I could just slap it into any position. One day I was driving on a highway with my two brothers in the car, we were doing about 45mph. They were horseplaying and screwing around with each other between the front and back seat. One of them accidentally kicked the shifter and it went straight into reverse. The car made a loud sound and I quickly put it back into drive and kept going. The next time I tried to use reverse the car would reverse but extremely slowly – basically a slow crawl. You could rev the gas and it wouldn’t make it move much faster. We used to joke that the reverse gear only had two teeth left.
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