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

Assuming the handbrake doesn’t work. No. You’ll grind your reverse gear to scrap. Best advice is in a manual, change down to sequentially lower gears and let the car come to a stop. Throwing the car sideways might work but more than likely you’ll end up rolling the car as the road isn’t wide enough to really get the maneuver to work.