Parking

[hnpcc]

OK, I've watched the P-plater for 5 minutes now, so a quick poll:

[Poll #454801]

Personally I find it easier to drive in, reverse out (there's more space to reverse into) but a large number of people seem to spend a lot of time carefully reversing in. And I'm curious, hence the poll.

Comments

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

I tend to drive in to spaces if I think I have a lot of space or time to get back out or if I'm parked outside a supermarket (boot access). I tend to reverse into spaces if I think I'll have more hassle getting out (multistory car-parks).

It doesn't really matter what I do in the KA to be honest as it's so small and nippy I have no problems at all. I've never had a problem reverse parking any car but that's mostly because I have the good sense to always choose a pretty big parking space.

[dsn.livejournal.com]

I would tend to reverse in and drive out of tight parking spaces; when reversing in, the rear of the car has only a small amount of sideways movement with the main turning of the car being away from the other parked vehicles; when driving in forward the front of the car ( which is between vehicles ) has the most lateral movement and I find makes it more difficult to get lined up

If there is enough space to just drive in forwards in one go, I tend to do that.

Dave

[numbat.livejournal.com]

No idea boss, I've never owned a car or a driver's license for that matter. I'm probably inside a car less than once a month. (Buses are a different matter obviously.)

[hnpcc]

I knew I should have included a clicky thing for "neither: don't drive"!

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I avoid driving whenever I can so I've not done a whole lot of parking.

But your terminology confuses me: 90oC angle car space

Should the C be there? I keep reading it as an angled, nearly boiling parking space.

[hnpcc]

Heh, I'd just finished writing protocols and the C jumped in by mistake. Oops. I think that counts as my daftest thing for the week so far...

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

If I know it's a bitch to get our by reversing (all university car parks then) then I'd reverse into it. Not had to do anything since I got my new car with powersteering, however, so I dunno if this will remain. In car parks I'll normally drive into a space where I can just roll on through to the space opposite it so I'd drive in/drive out kinda thing.

Like driving into 1 and then parking in two, facing out.
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[hnpcc]

Oh yeah, I love the two parks. Our spaces are relatively easy to back out of though, must be more distance between lanes or something.

[valamelmeo.livejournal.com]

At my university, the Parking Code prohibits parking in a reverse position (either by reversing in or by driving through to the space on the next row), so since I've been there I've gotten out of the habit of doing it. Besides that, I seem to remember from driver's ed that in Texas it's illegal (though not enforced) to drive across parking lot lines. Lots of people do it anyway, as did I before the University of Texas at Arlington got me out of the habit.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

I usually drive in, drive out, drive in again with my wheels turned so I can fit into the space and then reverse out, squealing my eyes shut to see if I'm not going to hit any other cars :-)

[fahran.livejournal.com]

It can depend on my mood, the traffic, and quite often the side of the road I'm parking on.

If I'm parking on the left (the same side I'm driving along) then I'm more likely to reverse in, and if I'm parking on the opposite side of the road, I'll probably drive in forwards simply because it's easier from the starting position of the car.

As a side note, I always reverse in to the driveway at home. The main reason for that, however, is that there are occassions when I don't drive for a while (I catch the bus to and from work) and it's a lot easier to jump start the car when it's facing the road. It's only happened once but it was a major pain having to push the car uphill (only a slight slope but steep enough to warrant plenty of sweating and swearing) to the road.