when your brakes fail, can you shift to Reverse in order to stop the vehicle? why or why not?

Question

I’m mostly thinking about a scenario where you are going down a highway (say, at 120kmh for the sake of the example) and suddenly your brakes fail

could shifting to Reverse function as a brake in that situation?

edit: thank you all for the answers, I want to note that I myself don’t drive and did not consider doing this, I was just wondering if this was possible

have a lovely day o/

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Answer 1

Brakes completely failing is extremely rare. But when your going down a hill and your break pedal hits the floor it’s scary as shit. What my mechanic explained was there are two brake lines for this reason. When one fails you still have some braking ability. So keep pumping those brakes.