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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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.
Back in the day, when center mounted parking brake handles were a thing that was also an option (unless you had a stick shift which meant you could do engine braking). Also a fun option in other regards.
Brakes completely failing is extremely rare. But when your going down a hill and your break pedal hits the floor it’s scary as shit. What my mechanic explained was there are two brake lines for this reason. When one fails you still have some braking ability. So keep pumping those brakes.
Brakes completely failing is extremely rare. But when your going down a hill and your break pedal hits the floor it’s scary as shit. What my mechanic explained was there are two brake lines for this reason. When one fails you still have some braking ability. So keep pumping those brakes.
Brakes completely failing is extremely rare. But when your going down a hill and your break pedal hits the floor it’s scary as shit. What my mechanic explained was there are two brake lines for this reason. When one fails you still have some braking ability. So keep pumping those brakes.
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