Here's A Video Of A Man Selecting Reverse At 70mph For Some Reason

We don’t want to burst your bubble too soon, but this doesn’t end with a huge bang and bits of gearbox littering the road. The thing that does happen is arguably, for anyone not already an expert on the subject, even more surprising.

After previous videos showing what happens when you push the start/stop button while driving and what happens when you toss the key fob out of the window while driving, the man behind AutoVlog has apparently been getting loads of requests to see what happens when you put a car in reverse while travelling at 70mph. Forwards.

Frankly, we’d either have told people to get stuffed or we’d have bought an old scrap-ready beater to try it out with. The fact that he tries this on the public road at 70mph in a modern, automatic Ford Fusion – that’s the Mondeo to us – shows either foreknowledge of the end result or a massive ignorance of the risks. But hey, we’re not the police.

SPOILER ALERT. When he shifts into reverse, what happens is… nothing at all, apart from the rear-view camera coming online via the central screen. The gearbox stays in neutral. The fact that there are safeguards in place to stop morons doing this isn’t so surprising, but the lack of sirens, klaxons, panicked dashboard light displays or even so much as a gentle prod to tell you you’re being a tit is unexpected.

Safe to say this might not happen with all automatic cars. Possibly not even all automatic Fords. If you try it in a manual then you might just win yourself a Darwin award.