Why do people back into parking spaces?

[Anonymous]

Because I can and it's easier to pull away and leave.

I see people who pull in almost back over pedestrians and plow into moving traffic all the time on city streets...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because I can and it's easier to pull away and leave.

I see people who pull in almost back over pedestrians and plow into moving traffic all the time on city streets...

more facts!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because I can and it's easier to pull away and leave.

I see people who pull in almost back over pedestrians and plow into moving traffic all the time on city streets...

I watched a person who had backed in blaze forward out of their spot and almost hit someone yesterday.

Bad drivers are bad drivers no matter which way they park. With the cameras we have now, it should be straight forward either way.

But there are a lot of bad drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because I can and it's easier to pull away and leave.

I see people who pull in almost back over pedestrians and plow into moving traffic all the time on city streets...

This is me. It’s really not that hard for most of us, and it makes leaving easier. Maybe I’m one of those deferred-gratification people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can’t back in you suck at driving and should have your license revoked. Or your car is stupidly sized and you are incapable of driving it.

I can back in effortlessly. It’s still a douche move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you can’t back in you suck at driving and should have your license revoked. Or your car is stupidly sized and you are incapable of driving it.

I can back in effortlessly. It’s still a douche move.

You're way overthinking it. Which is douchy, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you ever go to a sporting event, concert or some other event with tons of people, ALWAYS park so you can pull out.

If you have to back out when there's a mad rush to leave you're screwed. Only amateurs pull into spots in the parking lots during a sporting event.

Backing in doesn't take long if you know how to actually drive. The problem is so many stupid suburban drivers don't know how to drive. On top of that they have asininely sized vehicles like SUVs.

Was with you for a while, but on this: what the FK are you talking about? “City” drivers are middle aged children who drive once or twice a week, usually weekends to leave town for the beach. They also probably went to college for 10 years and got their license at 28.

One of the great quiet joys when I go home (Midwestern suburb) is that people can FKing drive… they drive fast, many don’t signal, they whip in and out of parking spots. But they do it competently and thus, as a group, relatively safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you ever go to a sporting event, concert or some other event with tons of people, ALWAYS park so you can pull out.

If you have to back out when there's a mad rush to leave you're screwed. Only amateurs pull into spots in the parking lots during a sporting event.

Backing in doesn't take long if you know how to actually drive. The problem is so many stupid suburban drivers don't know how to drive. On top of that they have asininely sized vehicles like SUVs.

Was with you for a while, but on this: what the FK are you talking about? “City” drivers are middle aged children who drive once or twice a week, usually weekends to leave town for the beach. They also probably went to college for 10 years and got their license at 28.

One of the great quiet joys when I go home (Midwestern suburb) is that people can FKing drive… they drive fast, many don’t signal, they whip in and out of parking spots. But they do it competently and thus, as a group, relatively safely.

I’m with you on the “city drivers” because your take is pretty much spot-on. Without exception, every (US-born) terrible driver I’ve ever known has grown up in a city, didn’t drive a car until sometime in college or more likely after, and despite owning a car now as an adult, only drives a few times a week, IF that often. Yet they will swear they are better drivers “because they drive in the city “. As if that’s some kind of badge of achievement or something…

The best drivers are rural and suburban raised kids who started driving with a learner’s at 15, and then went on to drive daily starting the day they got their licenses. They drive every day, hundreds of miles a week, and have probably done 50k miles by the time they finish undergrad or sooner.

People raised in cities are absolute morons behind the wheel.

[Anonymous]

They are Greek

[Anonymous]

I never back into parking spaces. In a lot I'll pull forward into the space ahead though.

I don't mind people backing into spaces normally but I've had it happen a bunch of times on the ramp between floors in a parking garage. I find that pretty rude.

[Anonymous]

I will wait for someone to park in a spot in any manner they deem the best, but a lot of you backers-in really need to practice in a parking lot somewhere. I could take out a mortgage in the time it takes you to dither around in six directions and, I don't know, consult the handbook in your glove box.

[Anonymous]

Backing in is safer. The military and many companies with fleets of vehicles require backing into spaces because statistical analysis has shown it’s safer to pull out of a space than back out.

It’s not even up for debate. It’s settled science.

Don’t be a back-in-is-safer denier. It makes you look as foolish as climate change deniers.

[Anonymous]

My husband almost lost his mind this weekend when he saw someone back into a spot they could have pulled through. lol!

[Anonymous]

Cause it's safer and better

[Anonymous]

The backing in is painful to watch.

Why do people back on at Costco? Good luck getting your case of tp in your back.