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#1: This one always leaves me dumbfounded. Think of two parking spaces, I guess you could say like an H, with no curbing between the two. If you're pulling into one and the one in front is empty, is there actually a reason why you wouldn't pull ahead into the next one to avoid having to reverse out? I see people stop mid way all the time. Never could understand why.
#2: Question number two is aimed at the majority of drivers out there. Why don't you reverse into parking spaces?
One of the safety rules I always try to follow is that my front end is always pointing out when I'm done parking. If I can drive through to the next space, I do that, if I can't, I back in.
#1: This one always leaves me dumbfounded. Think of two parking spaces, I guess you could say like an H, with no curbing between the two. If you're pulling into one and the one in front is empty, is there actually a reason why you wouldn't pull ahead into the next one to avoid having to reverse out? I see people stop mid way all the time. Never could understand why.
#2: Question number two is aimed at the majority of drivers out there. Why don't you reverse into parking spaces?
One of the safety rules I always try to follow is that my front end is always pointing out when I'm done parking. If I can drive through to the next space, I do that, if I can't, I back in.
Firstly, backing in requires extra effort and thinking ahead, if only 10 minutes ahead, so it's a non-starter for most.
Yeah, I do try to pull through so I can avoid backing up at all when it's available, but not many do.
Was it Edison who said "5% of people think, another 10% think they think, but the rest would rather die than think"?
#1. Getting a "pull-through" is enough to make my whole day better, I love it, but to answer your question, there is one instance I can think of where it is not best. If you are grocery shopping and plan to get a lot of stuff, and need to put it in your trunk, then it may be easier to "front in", just so you don't have to negotiate the cart between vehicles, and so you can easily return it to the store.
#2. I'm also big on backing into a spot, I always do if it's a decent lot, BUT, if you are in a very busy lot, and spaces are at a premium, then at best you could cause confusion by someone being right up behind you, making it hard to back in, or worse yet, some b@$tard will sneak into your spot before you back in.
My wife an I always joke about backing in, I always say "you never know when you need to get away fast". hahahaha
I mostly agree with you, but I tried to answer both questions with thoughts that have actually crossed my mind and led me to park differently.
EDIT> I just read your questions to my wife and she answered both the same as me. I guess we WERE meant to be together. SOULMATES!!!!! <3
Many people have trouble backing up. Also, a lot of parking areas require head in parking only.
Can't say I've ever seen one that required it. There are some that encourage it with angled spaces, but I've never seen a sign posted that required you to go in front first.
or worse yet, some b@$tard will sneak into your spot before you back in.
That happened to me once, and only once. Now if I have the slightest inkling that the guy behind me will try it, I pull along side the space and block it until the guy goes by.
Generally though, most people around here do at least know enough to recognize when you are swing out to back in, and will wait until you are safely out of the way.
Firstly, backing in requires extra effort and thinking ahead, if only 10 minutes ahead, so it's a non-starter for most.
What extra effort? It's no big deal to back in. I back in 95% of the time without difficulty.
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BUT, if you are in a very busy lot, and spaces are at a premium, then at best you could cause confusion by someone being right up behind you, making it hard to back in, or worse yet, some b@$tard will sneak into your spot before you back in.
It's all in how you do it. I've seen drives who want to sneak in, but I do pull up in such a way that they can't.
#1: This one always leaves me dumbfounded. Think of two parking spaces, I guess you could say like an H, with no curbing between the two. If you're pulling into one and the one in front is empty, is there actually a reason why you wouldn't pull ahead into the next one to avoid having to reverse out? I see people stop mid way all the time. Never could understand why.
Depends on the traffic flow, since sometimes the lanes can only go one direction, or they are angled. Also, one time I did this and another car was trying to get into that opposite spot and was surprised my car popped out from the other side. Could have been a collision if either was going too fast. As someone else posted, accessing the trunk is much easier head in.
#1: This one always leaves me dumbfounded. Think of two parking spaces, I guess you could say like an H, with no curbing between the two. If you're pulling into one and the one in front is empty, is there actually a reason why you wouldn't pull ahead into the next one to avoid having to reverse out? I see people stop mid way all the time. Never could understand why.
Because someone trying to pull in the "conventional" way may not even see you coming through from the other side, and you risk meeting grille-to-grille in the middle of the parking spot.
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#2: Question number two is aimed at the majority of drivers out there. Why don't you reverse into parking spaces?
A couple reasons: First, I live in a very busy, crowded, congested city with small, congested parking lots (when you can even find one) where just the extra 30 seconds you take trying to maneuver backward into a spot can unnecessarily clog up the flow of traffic through the parking lot. Around here, you get where you need to go with the minimum amount of time it takes to get there, and you get out of peoples' way ASAP. Not to mention some impatient squid will drive straight into your spot while you're trying to back into it. Furthermore, when I'm parking somewhere, it's usually to get something. The trunk on my car is in the back, and I want to be able to get to my trunk to put whatever I just got in there with the minimum of fuss.
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Can't say I've ever seen one that required it. There are some that encourage it with angled spaces, but I've never seen a sign posted that required you to go in front first.
I try to never have to back out of a parking space. I can't tell where the back end of my one car is, and the other one is almost too big for a lot of spaces. I've heard of backing into a parking space as a "Michigan thing," and in other places, I've noticed that almost nobody does it.
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