Explain how
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get out of the car
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disassemble the car
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reassemble everything in an appropriate location
Let’s say you turn right to park in a spot but your turning radius sucks so you’re at an angle and your rear right is really close to the car sitting in the space to the right.
Crank the wheel right as far as it’ll go and crawl forward a handful of inches so the front of your car is equally close to the car on the right and you’re parallel with that car but really close.
Straighten your wheels, reverse out all parallel to that car until your front bumper clears that car, then crank the wheel left and crawl in reverse a handful of inches, until the rear of the car is aiming in the other direction.
Straighten the wheel and crawl another couple of inches, until your rear axle is centered in the space, then put it in drive and pull right in now that the rear is centered.
You’ll see some people try to straighten out but they just straight up reverse out of the spot and wind up back at square one, you don’t want to do that, you want to use a bit excess room in front of and behind the car to essentially guide the offending axle into place, once that’s done rest follows
depends on how ‘unsuccessful’ you were the first try.
No, if you failed the first time you failed your life
While I get the point, this does overlook the seeming law of physics that if you fuck it up once, you will fuck it up every subsequent time.
If you’re always reparking your car you run a risk of a collision with a distracted driver. If someone sees a car going into a spot its not unreasonable to think they’d assume the car is out of play and can be ignored. When you back out to adjust back between the lines eventually one of those times someone won’t be paying attention to you.]
Don’t go in forwards. Never understood why people insist on going forwards into a parking bay. Less control, needs more room, harder to leave.
I just assume people that go in forwards can’t drive.
My logic is that driving into a parking is more difficult than exiting, and that driving backwards is more difficult than driving forward.
So why choose both difficult options when you can make exiting as easy as entering?
For safety.
When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up
When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of
Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse
If I want to be able to access my trunk easily I will have to go forwards.
Otherwise I always go backwards.
Significantly less turning going in forwards, with the exception of parallel parking where both are pretty even, but some people see you pass a park and go right up your arse even though you wanted to back in.
Also car has great visibility forward and fuck all backwards, rear view mirror is like double the size of the rear window (in the reflection, not side by side).
“Also car has great visibility forward and fuck all backwards, rear view mirror is like double the size of the rear window (in the reflection, not side by side).”
Yeah - this is exactly why you should reverse park. When you come out again into potentially a stream of traffic, if you reverse park, you’re coming out forwards, you can see them & they can see you. If you forward park you have literally no idea what you’re backing out into.
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
Maybe a parking bay refers to something I’m not familiar with, but if it’s just a parking lot…backing out to leave is easier than some of the failures I often see backing in, when they could have just pulled in straight. Less control? Parking is something on even the US driving test, which is a joke itself. If you can’t park a vehicle then you certainly shouldn’t be moving it at speed.
