Comments on: Give Me A Brake https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/blog/give-me-a-brake/ News and views about cars in Australia Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.5 By: Bill Nixon https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/blog/give-me-a-brake/#comment-7723 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 05:41:26 +0000 http://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/?p=9658#comment-7723 I would add one final and extreme way to stop a car whose brakes have failed. After applying all the measures described in the video above, if you are still in danger of a serious accident and assuming you have an automatic transmission you are willing to sacrifice, you should attempt to move the transmission into reverse and then apply pressure to the accelerator. You will stop, real fast, but you will likely destroy the transmission. I know, my car did this one time accidentally, because the transmission was running low on fluid and it malfunctioned moving into reverse while the car was moving at 100 Km/h forward. The harder I pushed the gas pedal the faster the car decelerated.

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