Here's A Video Of A Man Selecting Reverse At 70mph For Some Reason
We don’t want to burst your bubble too soon, but this doesn’t end with a huge bang and bits of gearbox littering the road. The thing that does happen is arguably, for anyone not already an expert on the subject, even more surprising.
After previous videos showing what happens when you push the start/stop button while driving and what happens when you toss the key fob out of the window while driving, the man behind AutoVlog has apparently been getting loads of requests to see what happens when you put a car in reverse while travelling at 70mph. Forwards.
Frankly, we’d either have told people to get stuffed or we’d have bought an old scrap-ready beater to try it out with. The fact that he tries this on the public road at 70mph in a modern, automatic Ford Fusion – that’s the Mondeo to us – shows either foreknowledge of the end result or a massive ignorance of the risks. But hey, we’re not the police.
SPOILER ALERT. When he shifts into reverse, what happens is… nothing at all, apart from the rear-view camera coming online via the central screen. The gearbox stays in neutral. The fact that there are safeguards in place to stop morons doing this isn’t so surprising, but the lack of sirens, klaxons, panicked dashboard light displays or even so much as a gentle prod to tell you you’re being a tit is unexpected.
Safe to say this might not happen with all automatic cars. Possibly not even all automatic Fords. If you try it in a manual then you might just win yourself a Darwin award.
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Had an apprentice throw aan older work van into reverse at 60km/h. Engine and tranny were destroyed.
Time to put Alex back to work with his cheap cars
My m8 once tried this with old Škoda (dont need to mention that its manual) and nothing special happened. it needed more strengh to pit in reverse but when it happened the clutch handled it without problem. Car just slowed down until it stopped and imediately started to run backwards.
Now if this guy wants to make it more interesting he should try to put in Parking :D
Talk about milking it - 6 minutes of my life I will not get back
What a stupid test. Read it and thought, oh this will be good. And then it’s a fu*king automatic!
Do it in a manual!
This guy is like the brave wilderness guy of the car world
Did this once by mistake with my 1983 Caprice with a 700r4 automatic… had cruise enabled with my feet sitting flat on the floor and hit a bump and nailed the column shifter with my knee. Went right into reverse with no damage caused. It just turned the car off and kept the car in neutral just like above. Put the car back in neutral and restarted and put it back in drive. Apparently no big deal
Hes just got the balls to do stuff to his car that we wont lolol
Try this with a ‘70”or 80’s car with real mechanical shift linkage rather the electronic shift. The mechanical one will make a hell of a lot of noise, the car shudders, and starts to stop. Ruins your transmission pretty quickly.
Makes a channel, things not to do while driving.
Does the things while driving