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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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.
Shifting into reverse if you trans allows it will cause a catastrophic failure of the transmission causing the wheels to lock and inevitably a catastrophic crash.
When I was a kid, my mom accidentally did this while driving down the highway, it basically just killed the engine and put it in neutral – you are better off down shifting.
[myth buster did it.](https://youtu.be/hakNxO5pME4)
It’s about halfway thru the video when they start “testing”
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.
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.
When I was a kid, my mom accidentally did this while driving down the highway, it basically just killed the engine and put it in neutral – you are better off down shifting.
When I was a kid, my mom accidentally did this while driving down the highway, it basically just killed the engine and put it in neutral – you are better off down shifting.
Shifting into reverse if you trans allows it will cause a catastrophic failure of the transmission causing the wheels to lock and inevitably a catastrophic crash.
Shifting into reverse if you trans allows it will cause a catastrophic failure of the transmission causing the wheels to lock and inevitably a catastrophic crash.
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