Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 19:54     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
I always back into my parents' long driveway. Once had a dead battery and couldn't get a jump because we couldn't access the front of my car.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 19:46     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
So if backing in is safer, why do most large parking lots have angled spaces and arrows that guide you up the rows with the spaces forward, not backward?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 19:44     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:If it takes you more than 1 second longer to back into a spot than pull into from the front, you need to go back to drivers ed.


Merely stopping and shifting into reverse will take more than a second!
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 19:34     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So now it's considered safer to back into parking spots? It's far slower. I hate backing into small spots. It feels easier to back out.


It always was. Welcome to the party.


Yay, a party! I need one after having to go back to work today.

I've been driving more than 35 years, all over the country, and I swear I never noticed all this backing in until the past few years in the VA burbs. I thought it was a local thing, like owning machine guns and pit bulls.

I'll give it a try. You kids and your new-fangled safety fads.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 19:28     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
I think anyone who believes that you're an idiot for backing into your space is clearly not THINING CLEARLY!
It is by far the safest way to enter and exit into a space. I would like to know, without having to read through 6 pages of idiotic replies, WHY people are so against it?

Its the only way to park in IMHO.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 19:08     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:Just one more:

When the parking spaces are angled in a parking lot, the arrows typically guide you up aisles where pulling in forward is much easier than backing in.

Do you just go against the arrows? Or can you back into an angled space that requires a 200+degree turn in reverse?


I suspect most of the people advocating backing in do not do so in angled spaces.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 19:06     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:Can we be done with this now?

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2011/02/youre_parking_wrong.single.html


Probably not--the people who insist backing in is slower or unsafe are using their own opinion of what "seems" to take longer or make sense. Professional drivers and law enforcement say backing in is better, but you'll never change some people's minds. Seriously... 7 pages...
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 17:48     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:If you are in an accident while your vehicle is in reverse, it is your fault. (as told to me by a VA state trooper after I was hit immediately after switching my car from reverse to drive after backing out of a driveway.)


Pretty sure you're also at fault if you pull out facing forward and slam into someone.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 17:30     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
If you are in an accident while your vehicle is in reverse, it is your fault. (as told to me by a VA state trooper after I was hit immediately after switching my car from reverse to drive after backing out of a driveway.)
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 17:18     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:Seems to be common in New England, parts of RI I used to summer in required back-in parking. Of course people there know how to drive, so it was never a problem.


If you needed any further evidence that this is an idiotic practice, look not further than "Most people in New England do it."
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 17:14     Subject: Re:If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I agree, what the hell is wrong with parking normally then reversing out?


Because you are more likely to hit someone, either a pedestrian or another car. You have way too many blind spots when you back out.


There are exactly the same number of blind spots backing into a parking space as backing out, and there is a lot more space backing out than backing in. It's simple math.



Duh. But nothing behind you is moving at this point. No one is walking behind you on a cell phone. No little kid has run ahead from mom or dad. No car is driving behind you. See? So if you can actually do a decent job the first time of backing in (I can and parallel park well too!) you have ZERO blind spots pulling out while all the activity is going on in front of you!


p.s. If you don't like it...don't do it! Too each his/her own.


Those are obstacles not blind spots. The blind spots are all the same but the objects are different and it really makes zero difference if you are backing in or out because people can still come out of nowhere.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 16:17     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:i hate when people dont pull through if the spot in front of them is empty.


I thought it was illegal to do this?


when parking? maybe when leaving...


Pulling through in general. Whether to park or leave. Because someone could be pulling in on the other side and not see you, causing an accident.


Actually, I think it's because you are crossing a solid line.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 15:46     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Just one more:

When the parking spaces are angled in a parking lot, the arrows typically guide you up aisles where pulling in forward is much easier than backing in.

Do you just go against the arrows? Or can you back into an angled space that requires a 200+degree turn in reverse?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 15:35     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
Can we be done with this now?

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2011/02/youre_parking_wrong.single.html
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2013 14:59     Subject: If you back into parking spaces
In commuter lots, it's so much faster and easier to exit if the cars are backed in (or pulled through). Backing in definitely takes longer in the first place, but the cars are arriving more spaced out than when the train deposits a large crowd of people who all want to leave as fast as possible. Same goes for events.