Backing into your own driveway on a quiet street...why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Quick getaway in the morning. Protection against snow and ice in the morning. Seem like good reasons to me.

+1. There are certain spots in my driveway where my car won’t get ice/snow/frost because of the way the sun hits.

My parents like backing in because they can load items/unload groceries in an organized way that is easier.

It doesn’t really matter. People do what they do, OP.

I back in so I can unload everything from the trunk more easily. Also, occasionally there will be a landscaper’s truck parked on the street, and I can look for bikes and kids on scooters better if I am facing the street when I leave. Hope this helps OP understand why.

Isn’t that what the panoramic rear view back-up camera is for.

[Anonymous]

When you back out of a parking space the cars in the street have right-of-way. When you back into a space, the cars behind you have to wait.

People are salty over someone else having more control for 10 seconds so they safely park. Boo hoo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor kid growing up was ran over by his mother when she was backing out of their driveway, on a quiet street. I always back in when I can.

Wouldn’t you be just as likely to run the kid over backing in, as backing out?!! That sounds like an unimaginable tragedy but it doesn’t sound related to which direction the car was headed backwards - toward or away from the house

No, because when you approach the place you're going to park, you have a chance to scope out the full area -- are there any kids coming down the sidewalk who might end up in your driveway as you pull in, is the family next door just leaving their house to walk to the park, etc.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you back out of a parking space the cars in the street have right-of-way. When you back into a space, the cars behind you have to wait.

People are salty over someone else having more control for 10 seconds so they safely park. Boo hoo.

And in this case, it's a sparsely-populated cul-de-sac. Presumably if there's no one around during most back-outs, there's also no one around during the back-ins.

[Anonymous]

My driveway has a vertical drop, backing in is helpful when the groceries may have settled oddly. No one has to wait though.

[Anonymous]

I can't stand the people who back in at work. It always takes them multiple tries and they make other wait.

You can tell it's the lower educated, menial job people.

[Anonymous]

Last night as I was pulling in to our driveway my daughter, who is a couple months from getting her license, said she was going to back in so the drivers door would be closer to the house door. I just rolled my eyes and said walking around the car is faster than backing in.

I back in sometimes because if it's going to snow/freeze the windshield will get more sun facing that direction. (We live in a place where that's often a concern, not the DMV)

[Anonymous]

Loving all the paper pushers here who feel so threatened about people who understand how things like cars and traffic work in the real world.

Not knowing how your equipment and your environment works isn't the flex you think it is, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last night as I was pulling in to our driveway my daughter, who is a couple months from getting her license, said she was going to back in so the drivers door would be closer to the house door. I just rolled my eyes and said walking around the car is faster than backing in.

I back in sometimes because if it's going to snow/freeze the windshield will get more sun facing that direction. (We live in a place where that's often a concern, not the DMV)

Your daughter understands the difference between being inside vs outside a car in bad weather.

[Anonymous]

My car was incapacitated by one of you idiots backing out of a parking spot without looking, probably distracted by daydreaming about how upper class and highly educated you are.

[Anonymous]

Why do people care so much about how people park, especially in their own driveway on a quiet street? If it’s a quiet cul de sac it’s not likely that they’re delaying anyone else.

I don’t get the hate. Everyone I know who regularly backs in does it in one motion. I’ve never encountered all of these people who allegedly take multiple attempts in busy places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't stand the people who back in at work. It always takes them multiple tries and they make other wait.

You can tell it's the lower educated, menial job people.

Funny. I don't like when they do it in our parking garage, either. But everyone I work with has a master's degree (required).

I got a ticket in the Silver Spring Metro parking garage almost 40 years ago for backing in to a space (I returned to the ticket; it wasn't as if a cop saw me do it). Not a soul around. I do understand how annoying it is to hold up other folks trying to park. But when nobody else is around, who cares?

[Anonymous]

This thread gave me a laugh this morning. I don’t think I’ve ever considered how a neighbor parks their car in their own driveway.

When learning to drive, we lived on a hill with a driveway that was also pretty steep. My old manual transmission Opel GT was kinda fussy and, sometimes, when “cold” it’d cut off. But rolling down the hill (either the driveway or street) I could pop the clutch and was usually back in business. Dear ole Dad always advised to back up with a “warm” engine and the habit has stuck.

I’ve even converted my DH and we’ve taught both DC to be good backer-uppers! I’m the only one without a backup camera and can back in around a vehicle in the slot closest to the street next to another vehicle in our narrow two-car garage. I occasionally need a small adjustment but I’m on our property (not in the traffic flow).

In a parking lot, though, I prefer a pull/drive-thru spot and will even park in the back to get one. Gives me a few extra steps, keeps door dings to a minimum and I get a pull-in and pull away.

Know too many professional drivers (or those for whom driving is an essential part of their job) for me to even give this a second thought, except it was a nice trip down memory lane. Dang, I wish I had a car like that again.

[Anonymous]

They’re Army vets/military vets.