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

[Anonymous]

I think I must be the only person on earth who doesn’t notice or care about this.

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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

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Anonymous wrote:Pulling in to a parking space is such an American thing. I live overseas and the only people I see pulling in are Americans. It’s kind of funny. Everyone else backs in. I do too now out of habit. With a backup camera I can do it just as smoothly as pulling in.

Those of you complaining about delays in a parking lot, you have to wait when they back out too?

No because backing out usually takes one attempt. In my experience, in America, people backing in take on average 3 attempts as traffic backs up in both directions.

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Anonymous wrote:-Because they are inept at standard parking and backing out of spaces.
-Also, they enjoy creating delays and making dumb spectacles as they take their sweet time backing in and adjusting their vehicle.
-General douchery.

LOL. We recently went to dinner w friends and then drove 5 minutes to an event. We pull into the small parking lot and car is having trouble backing into space, so we’re cursing and then realize it’s our friends. I admit I thought a little bit less of the DH after that. 🤔

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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.

[Anonymous]

Maybe so they can make a quick beer run during half time of a football game. 😜

[Anonymous]

Woman here. I back into my driveway every single time. If possible I back into every parking space. I have taught my children to to the same. We can all do it in one shot. It's safer.

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Anonymous wrote:Woman here. I back into my driveway every single time. If possible I back into every parking space. I have taught my children to to the same. We can all do it in one shot. It's safer.

Most people can’t do it in one shot and they are super annoying.

[Anonymous]

It’s like packing your bag either the night before or the morning of. Does it save you any work to pack the night before? No but you made the next day slightly easier.

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Double driveway - I back my daily driver into the space closest to the house's entrance so I A) don't need to walk around the car, B) have a wide berth to swing the car door open, and C) for my dog to jump down onto soft grass vs hard driveway.

Second car, I pull forward into the adjacent space (farther away from the house's door) because I still want a wide berth to swing the door open (and not hit my daily driver) and for the dog to have a soft landing spot.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s like packing your bag either the night before or the morning of. Does it save you any work to pack the night before? No but you made the next day slightly easier.

No, it’s nothing like that.

[Anonymous]

I don’t back in because I’m bad at it but it’s clearly safer to back in since there is no traffic on your driveway but some traffic on the street.

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Anonymous wrote:-Because they are inept at standard parking and backing out of spaces.
-Also, they enjoy creating delays and making dumb spectacles as they take their sweet time backing in and adjusting their vehicle.
-General douchery.

+1

Ugh so many people who insist on reversing are so bad at it. It drives me crazy. I swear I can pull in get out if my car, shut the door, open the door, get out go into the post office and then get back in and back out in half the time it takes most of these people to back in.

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Anonymous wrote:We live on a quiet, dead-end, residential street. We have two sets of neighbors who universally back their cars into their driveways, 100% of the time. One of the sets not only backs in, but also parks at the very bottom of the driveway, furthest from their front door. Its like they are worried about making a quick getaway or something! Yes, I know its "none of my business" but I'm so curious why they do this!! It is extremely easy to back out of the driveways on our street - no one is ever coming.

Anyone have a hypothetical guess why someone would do this?

some "groups" have learned to park like this no matter where vehicle is parked. Won't get into it here because it might be "racist" for moderator, but learned about it from a co-worker who explained it. Makes so much sense for anyone to do this tho.

Can you gently try and explain?

This person is being as ridiculous as the OP. Parking front in and backing out is neither better nor worse than backing in and driving out. Each version takes a little more time in one direction than the other.

Driver's ed in some communities teaches one, and in some communities teaches the other. As someone pointed out above, in many African countries this is just how people are taught to do it. Some white people assume that if they do something one way, and black people do it another way, that the black people way must be "low class" or lesser. It's pathetic.

I've never heard of it being a race thing, rather a military or law enforcement thing.

It’s definitely a white dude in a big ole pickup truck thing.