MythBuster - Car Stopping in Reverse Gear?!

Mythbusters trying to stop a car in reverse gear & parking gear?!

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[2012GT500Supersnake]

if this was topgear the car would explode

[Rustaholic777]

@JustinKennith Why not?

As a much younger guy I had a 1972 Opel Manta Rallye.

My favorite stunt was to approach a 90 degree intercetion at 100 MPH,

Just at the corner I would slap it into 2nd gear and pop the clutch.

Then do a quick turn of the wheel and the locked up rear wheels would start coming around.

Slam it into third gear and I was around the corner doing 85 MPH.

The tach. slammed the needle just over ten GRAND.

Seven years I drove that car like that. Then I sold it.

[kurtwilliamnicholls]

in my 2004 toyota camrey it stopes in reverse

[TommyTollandVids]

You can do it in games

[ManofChrist101]

they didnt need to do the first part because those 2 cars had different masses hence different momentums because momentum is mass x velocity, so what did the 65 to 7- ft difference make?

[hitachi088]

@markowina true.

[hitachi088]

@boothill24 i was riding the other day with my friend car, i wanted to put the car in neutral (automatic) but i hit reverse in accident, the transmission made a really strange noise. and yeah, it works.

[Mx583]

it works in my 98 lincoln town car! we throw our cars into reverse just for fun, the tires spin backwards and the car slides sideways lol its fun

[Colt45hatchback]

when my 1982 subaru leone was automatic, i shifted to reverse instead of neutral once, all it did was stall the engine, threw it back in 2nd and it restarted and then i selected drive and kept going about my business, although my 1990 ford fairmont on the other hand, selected reverse while moving coz i was going to replace the transmission anyway (reverse was slipping in the first place) doing 60km/h on a gravel rd, neutral, rev-limiter (5400) then reverse, actually split the transmission case

[cartmanrlsusall]

ships can do it but they have to stop their propeller shafts and shift to reverse,some propeller planes can rverse thrust by reversing pitch on their props,jets use deflectors to redirect engine thrust,steam piston trains and cars can do this to slow downwithout damage it was simular to power brakes,the stanley steamer could be put into reverse at any speedwith no damage other than soiled shorts

[cartmanrlsusall]

@catpee3000 i call bullshit on that if you did that for real all you get is a clicking noise and sometimes a stalled engine

[cartmanrlsusall]

@dickcheney6 there is no such thing as a e brake.there is a pedal or handle in all cars that is connected by cable to your drive wheel brakes ,people call it an e brake,but its a parking brake.p on an auto tranny engages the parking pawl a wedge tha t blocks the gearsd in your tranny.a call to any tranny shop could have saved them a transmission,