Originally Posted by
Auto Enthusiast
Airplanes with a sudden emergency and need to abort takeoff can have this problem. They need to apply the brakes fully after just accelerating to several hundred miles an hour and immediately switch to reverse thrust so they don't overshoot the runway. All that heat builds up and can blow the tires. With cars, I don't think such things easily happen.
Reverse thrust would reduce the load on the brakes and thus reduce the heat build up on the wheels.