There is certainly a wide swath of the population I wouldn’t trust with driving a two ton steel brick, but this is the world that has been built for us.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
Maybe a parking bay refers to something I’m not familiar with, but if it’s just a parking lot…backing out to leave is easier than some of the failures I often see backing in, when they could have just pulled in straight. Less control? Parking is something on even the US driving test, which is a joke itself. If you can’t park a vehicle then you certainly shouldn’t be moving it at speed.
Don’t go in forwards. Never understood why people insist on going forwards into a parking bay. Less control, needs more room, harder to leave.
I just assume people that go in forwards can’t drive.
Looking at any parking lot, this means 99% of people can’t drive.
There is certainly a wide swath of the population I wouldn’t trust with driving a two ton steel brick, but this is the world that has been built for us.
Looking at any road, that number seems about right.
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
My logic is that driving into a parking is more difficult than exiting, and that driving backwards is more difficult than driving forward.
So why choose both difficult options when you can make exiting as easy as entering?
For safety.
When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up
When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of
Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse
If I want to be able to access my trunk easily I will have to go forwards.
Otherwise I always go backwards.
This is the way
I was just never taught how to back in to a parking spot.
Maybe a parking bay refers to something I’m not familiar with, but if it’s just a parking lot…backing out to leave is easier than some of the failures I often see backing in, when they could have just pulled in straight. Less control? Parking is something on even the US driving test, which is a joke itself. If you can’t park a vehicle then you certainly shouldn’t be moving it at speed.