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by et-al 3596 days ago
First off, please explain to me the scenario where you're drag racing someone and limiting your upshifts in an automatic transmission car. Okay, so you're in 5th gear (D), which happens to be overdrive. If you know what overdrive is, then you'd know that the possibility of redlining in that gear is next to none.

Lastly, with any automatic-transmission car made in the past 20 years, they won't let you shift into reverse from drive.

See:

https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-if-a-person-suddenly-...

Shift Transmission into Reverse While Driving (https://youtu.be/GR13mElbqxM)

Anyways, you don't have to agree with my analysis. AFAIK, Toyota hasn't had a recall for this shift pattern.