The phrase "drive backwards" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of driving a vehicle in reverse. For example: "The driver had to drive backwards for a few feet in order to get out of the tight parking spot."
This limited Opportunity's ability to drive backwards autonomously.But Scott Maxwell, the rover's driver, devised a clever workaround.
But a lot of politicians, fresh from their recent thumping failure to reform the country's tangled tax system, are having a good try.Unexpectedly heading the new drive backwards is Wolfgang Schäuble, the parliamentary leader of Helmut Kohl's ruling Christian Democratic Union and recently anointed in public by Mr Kohl as his (55-year-old) "crown prince".
In 2009 a second current spike led to an important decision: Opportunity would also drive backwards from then on, rather than risk the loss of a wheel.The rover is nearly as nimble going backwards as it was going forwards but driving backwards it could not initially cover as much distance each day.
I stop a lot, walk a lot, drive backwards, forwards and sideways a lot, so that by the time I trickle into Brownsville I have driven, according to the milometer, 5,152 miles, more than twice the length of the road – almost all of them slowly.
Over the years, as Paul Silk writes in "How Parliament Works," the guidebook sold to tourists in the lobby of the House of Commons, "an Act could be passed to make all Welshmen wear kilts or all cars drive backwards or for only orange jellies to be sold in supermarkets.
It can dive, surface, turn left and right or drive forwards and drive backwards.
"Looks like he drove backwards and struck the victims and drove forwards and struck them again.
Nick Grigg makes a couple of yards, then Pete HOrne is driven backwards by Justin Tipuric.
The Hmong have been driven backwards and forwards across south-east Asia.
They're driven backwards and Farrell goes for the drop goal, which flies wide.
Jessica Lander '10 is a graduate student, freelance writer, and author of Driving Backwards, a nonfiction portrait of small-town New Hampshire.
