We have this already, it's called "activating a contracting spring". I just tried to make a contraption with a front end that could rear up via contracting spring pulleys, last night, and instead of doing that it just hunched over for a second, spun around in place like sonic the hedgehog for a while, and then cartwheeled into low orbit.

All joking aside, sure why not. It would be like the "nuke" button in those old Lemmings games... you COULD just hit spacebar twice to start over but it'd be more entertaining to see your vehicle spontaneously combust or fly apart for no discernable reason...

They'd just have to make sure that activating that feature will prevent you from actually winning the mission in the process of that explosion; if you want a kamikaze vehicle you should have to put some design and building effort into its self-destruction, the old fashion way.