• Asidonhopo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.]

    • HeChomk@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • Noobnarski@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        If I want to be able to access my trunk easily I will have to go forwards.

        Otherwise I always go backwards.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        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).

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          3 months ago

          “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.

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            3 months ago

            We must have different parks, if there’s a car next to me regardless of facing forwards or back, I can’t see shit til I’m half out the park anyway. Part of that is most cars being twice the height of my previously normal sized car I guess, so I can’t see through their windows anymore.

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              3 months ago

              How many kilometers is your hood?

              Wait, sorry. If cars are that big around you, you must be American. Let me rephrase: how many Washington Monuments is your hood?

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        3 months ago

        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”