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.
Comments
He needed to accelerate
You can skip the 2:02 minutes incredibly lame intro straight to the point where nothing happens and figure out you should probably have done something more usefull with this precious time
I can say with absolute certainty that a 98 Camry will engage reverse going as much as 55 mph, probably more. But with that I can also say that they have rather strong transmissions.
Why so buthurt?
Nothing happened because this car might be working on electronic gear shifts and there is a logic to not engage the reverse gear when the car is moving forward however if it was a manual transmission with mechanical gear shifts things would have changed tremendously.
So putting it into reverse does the same thing as when you hit the gas in drive for a fusion. Nothing at all lol.
Auto vehicles usually have a torque converter. That’s hydraulic, so even if something were to happen, it wouldn’t just blow up I guess. As for manuals, the reverse gear does not usually have a synchromesh unlike other gears, so you can only really put a car in reverse when it’s stopped. If - and a big if - you manage to forcefully put it in reverse (which is possible), then you would in the very least lock your wheels, or in a worst case scenario, blow up the transmission which could be life threatening.