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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If you have a manual transmission you just need to stop applying gas and have the current great engaging and the engine works like a break. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_braking It worked fine for a four-stroke gasoline engine and for some diesel engines. I have no idea how it works with an automatic gearbox.
Shifting down will increase the force needed to drive the engine around because the RPM increase. Shifting down to a to low gear will get the RPM to high and it can damage the engine. So just shift down so the RPM are keeptreasonable.
Shifting to reverse is a bad idea because it will force the engine to go on the other direction. There will be a lot of force on the engine and clutch and gearbox when you do that. It might be the case that the image gets damaged if it is go in the reverse. But even if there is no damage you end up with practically the same RPM as if you had first gear and you risk damaging the engine so just avoid it.
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