What happens when a car 'accidentally' shifts into reverse gear?

If you accidentally put your car in R (reverse) while it is running, it will be very dangerous. The car's gearbox will quickly become "scrap metal" when it encounters this situation.

In many cases, subjective or objective factors directly affect the driver. Sometimes, they just accidentally change the gear lever while the car is moving or it can also be because someone else touches it.

Which vehicles can experience this problem?

Of course, older cars will be the ones most affected. These cars are not equipped with reverse gear prevention systems.

New generation cars are much safer with reverse gear prevention system.

In today's new car models, most have this system to prevent unfortunate incidents from happening regardless of whether the car is automatic or manual. This reverse gear prevention system will not allow the driver to shift into reverse while the car is running, even though the indicator light may still be on. But in reality, the car must be completely stopped for reverse to work.

But in any case, drivers should not be curious to try to shift to R (reverse) or P while the car is running to ensure safety and protect the gearbox. More or less, it will affect your car's gearbox.

The risk of the gearbox turning into "scrap metal"

In old cars, the situation of the car being in reverse gear while running is not uncommon. The consequences of this are also very large, directly affecting the car and human life.

When the car is running, if you return the gear lever from the forward gear to the reverse gear, the car will "stop" and die. If this happens while the car is moving at high speed, it will be very dangerous. It can cause a series of accidents when the cars behind can hit your car if the distance between the two cars is not too far. Stopping suddenly to keep the road like that is a taboo when driving on the road.

The transmission gears are the victims if the vehicle is shifted into reverse while in motion.

More importantly, the gears that are working at high speed and have problems shifting to R will cause them to break. When the gears in the gearbox break, replacing the vehicle's gearbox is inevitable.

Therefore, drivers need to be very focused when driving. In particular, absolutely do not let your hand rest on the gear lever when not necessary and warn people sitting around not to approach the gear lever when the car is running to ensure safety.

According to VNN