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If you dont know how to park the car in reverse, please don't. Whats the obsession with parking car in reverse anyway? I dont get it.

Do you mean parallel parking?

cardinalkarp wrote:Do you mean parallel parking?

No. Parking car in reverse. Some people park car in reverse and they take up half of the next parking spot as well.

I have the same gripe. I don't get why people take the time and effort to put their car in reverse so that they can save 2 seconds on their way out. That's really overthinking the job to me, just pull the car in and be done with it.

I really think people that do this have a personality flaw. A little obsessive compulsive or anal.

Hmm, I rarely park my car in reverse. It just takes too much time.

jim wrote:I have the same gripe. I don't get why people take the time and effort to put their car in reverse so that they can save 2 seconds on their way out. That's really overthinking the job to me, just pull the car in and be done with it.

I really think people that do this have a personality flaw. A little obsessive compulsive or anal.

I back into a parking spot whenever i'm able.

If there are cars behind me, or it's a busy location I obviously don't do it. And I always look for a spot where I can just pull forward instead of backing into a spot. My truck had a camper for the first year and a half I owned it and I could see jack out of my rear-view mirror or by turning my neck and looking behind me, but I could see out of my left and right mirrors no problem, so backing out of a spot and avoiding traffic and things behind me was way harder than backing into a spot and using my side-mirrors to make sure i'm actually in a parking spot.

I still have the same truck, sans the camper, but I still find that I prefer backing into a spot and not having to bother about worrying about backing out of a spot when i'm leaving. Though keep in mind I generally park further away or in less used locations to ensure that I have this luxury.

TheoSqua wrote:

jim wrote:I have the same gripe. I don't get why people take the time and effort to put their car in reverse so that they can save 2 seconds on their way out. That's really overthinking the job to me, just pull the car in and be done with it.

I really think people that do this have a personality flaw. A little obsessive compulsive or anal.

I back into a parking spot whenever i'm able.

So do I. It's more convenient when leaving and it doesn't take me long to back into a parking spot. It saves more than a few seconds on a busy parking lot. If you pull in, when you're ready to leave you have to look behind you, make sure there are no people walking behind your car, make sure there is no car directly across from you also trying to back out, then you have to SLOWLY inch your way out of the spot in case someone is driving (sometimes way too fast) down the row you are trying to leave.

You back in you can see everything in front of you.

I back into parking spots as much as I can to bother people like Dil and jim.

jim wrote:I have the same gripe. I don't get why people take the time and effort to put their car in reverse so that they can save 2 seconds on their way out. That's really overthinking the job to me, just pull the car in and be done with it.

I really think people that do this have a personality flaw. A little obsessive compulsive or anal.

Something like 60% of all auto accidents happen when a car is in reverse in a parking lot. Studies have apparently shown that when you back into a parking space after driving, you're still more into the driving mode, and rarely have an accident. Versus backing out of the space when you first get into the car, and are getting adjusted.

I'm not sure how valid that is or not. That's just what my old company said when they instituted a "back-in, pull-through" policy with company vehicles. You were required to back into 90 degree spaces, or pull-through if two joining spaces were open. Angled parking spots you were supposed to pull-in normally.