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

My personal experience, with a ’92 Camry automatic, was that switching from Drive to Reverse, while moving forward, caused the engine to shut off immediately. It happened only once, so I can’t say that’s what happens every time for every ’92 Camry automatic. It was accidental and I wasn’t in the mindset to experiment further with that hypothesis.