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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No it would just break something if it doesn’t have an interlock to prevent you from doing it in the first place.
If you have a manual transmission, start by downshifting and taking your foot off the throttle, progress down through the gears and then pull over and shut the engine off when you get down to first gear, then pull parking brake/emergency brake.
If you have an automatic, put it in 2, or whatever the lowest gear you can get it to shift into and then when the drag of the engine doesn’t slow you any more, find an uphill slope, turn the engine off, then pull the emergency brake and put it in park the instant you’re stopped.
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