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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The anti-reverse movement is unsurprising.  Most don't understand the geometry that shows why backing in is easier and if you look through any parking lot, a full 2/3s of those who have pulled in forwards cannot do so and stay between the lines.  If they can't do that is it surprising that they are incapable of backing a car into a parking space?[/quote]

Once you kind of understand how to back, ie how to line up your car, checking mirrors and front, etc, it's not too hard.

But when I was younger, parallel parking was the part of the test that everyone would worry about and was supposed to be the hard part of the test.

And from what I heard, Maryland doesn't even test parallel parking anymore and replaced it with back in parking.

Which to me, makes no sense because it seems like they replaced the harder test with an easier one.

And again, going back to my younger days, going to places like DC and Bethesda, the only option was to parallel park.  And in some parking garages in Baltimore (back then, not sure if it's still the case now) you had to parallel park next to a concrete barrier with no curb or anything for a boundary between your car and the concrete barrier.

Like sometimes I see people taking forever to back in park.  Where those type of people probably shouldn't be backing in to park until they learn how.

But I've seen more cases of bystanders trying to coach drivers how to parallel park.  And in one case a lady telling a younger guy to just get out of the car and she'd help him park his car.[/quote]

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