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MrScorpio

(73,772 posts)
Tue Aug 12, 2014, 11:03 PM Aug 2014

Let's say you're in a car which that's in a moving semi-trailer. Let's assume that it's an automatic [View all]

The back flips down to make a ramp, and you throw the car into reverse to back down that ramp.

Now, instead of doing an immediate 180 and ending up facing traffic, you throw the gear into drive, while you're still in reverse, so that way you can pass the moving truck that you've just exited.

Now, how do you do this without coming to a complete stop first? Aren't you going to fuck up the transmission? Are today's vehicles even capable of being put into drive while they're still moving in reverse?

Or do you either do the 180 or just come to that complete stop first?

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