What Happens If You Suddenly Shift into Reverse While Driving at High Speed?
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Shifting into reverse suddenly while driving at high speed will fill the entire cabin with the sound of intense metal collisions and tearing metal parts. The drive wheels will suddenly lock up, making the steering wheel uncontrollable, but the drive wheels will quickly resume rotation. Inside the cabin, apart from the sound of the damaged transmission, there will be metallic noises caused by various broken parts churning inside the transmission. During normal driving, all the gears in the transmission are transmitting power normally. To shift into reverse, an additional gear is required to make the transmission output shaft rotate in the opposite direction. Forcing the car into reverse while moving forward causes the reverse gear to forcibly engage, creating a very strong counterforce impact between the input gear, reverse gear, and output gear.