Man puts his car in 'park' while driving at 65mph to find out what would actually happen
Looking after your car should be relatively easy. Make sure you put the right fuel in, take it for a regular service, and don't excessively race it around. We'd advise not taking a leaf out of the book of the guy who fired a gun at his Cybertruck, nor the woman who didn't change her car's oil for two years.
As one video shows, you also probably shouldn't try and put it into ‘park’ at 65 mph. For starters, there's a chance that you'd ruin your transmission, and as it's typically cheaper to scrap a car than replace its transmission, it could be a costly mistake.
It's easier than you think to accidentally knock a car into park while driving along, but what about doing it on purpose? A resurfaced video from AutoVlog's Michael Vaim warns how putting a car into park when traveling at 65 mph is NOT recommended. Vaim says he gets numerous questions about what would happen, so decided to try it out for himself.
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Getting the car up to about 65 mph on a quiet stretch of road, Vaim placed it in park and was surprised by the results: "When I put the transmission park, nothing really seemed to be happening."
He noted that there was a scratching sound, and although he decided it's obviously not a good thing, he tried the test again. After a second try, Vaim added, "Nothing really seemed to have happened, although that noise was, yeah, that is not a good noise."
Vaim suggests that most modern cars are probably 'dummy-proof', meaning that if you do accidentally knock it into park, it won't suddenly slam on the brakes and cause a catastrophic accident.
Despite the scratching noise, his car seemed to be running just fine. Still, he warned you not to try this at home an how you probably shouldn't try and actively put your car in park when driving at any speed, let alone 65 mph.
Even though the park light might've come on the driver's dash, the reality is that the locking tabs probably didn't engage but the scratching sound was them trying to.
Responding to the video, one user commented: "There’s a lot of electrical safety switches that won’t allow it to actaully go into park otherwise you would’ve lost control and probably rolled."
Another added: "If I did this in my Jeep it'd be a one way ticket to snap city."
Someone else joked: Had it been an older car you would hear a sound so vicious you would think Micheal Bay directed this."
It seems that most modern cars are so technologically advanced, that putting them into park while driving won't actually do much. Still, we wouldn't recommend doing it at all, let alone in an older car.