This video fed that dormant knowledge even more. The sentence you shared made me remember one of those pieces of knowledge I acquired that saved my life.

I'll try to be brief:

I was new and learning to drive, traveling on a highway with a very experienced truck driver from the company where I worked. I asked him a typical rookie question: "What do I do if the car loses its brakes on a highway like this and I'm going very fast?" He told me: Pull the handbrake or turn the engine off and on again. I said, if I do that I'll ruin the engine, and he replied, "better to ruin the engine than to die." Weeks later I was in the car on a slope and, when I got in the car in a hurry, I switched on the electricals and forgot to start the engine—rookie mistake. I released the brakes and the car quickly picked up speed and I couldn't press the brake because the car was off. Then I remembered what he had told me and I started the engine (at the time I thought it was already running), which allowed me to brake. I nearly crashed into the cars ahead.