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Just passed my driving test, now I need parking help!!
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I must be strange. I can reverse park just fine, but if I try to drive forwards into a space I mess it up. So I just reverse park all the time.Murphy's No More Pies Club #209
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I must be strange. I can reverse park just fine, but if I try to drive forwards into a space I mess it up. So I just reverse park all the time.
Exactly..... And most people would find the same if they just tried it.
Imagine a world where everyone parks straight and you don't have to dodge some pillock reversing off their drive first thing in the morning, causing traffic mayhem.
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They don't teach you how to park your car these days? I think the advice above is best; practice, practice, practice
Seeing as parking is now part of the test, I would imagine that they do. However, they never used to teach parking, when I learned to drive, as it wasn't part of the test.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
From memory (learnt 35 years ago) with parallel parking you reverse until 1/3rd of your car is behind the car you are parking behind, turn in for the next 1/3rd and turn the other way for the last 1/3rd.
Whilst google returns descriptions of how to park on UK website, this one from the States includes diagrams (you just need to swap left and right). http://www.fearlessdriver.com/stresslessparallelparking.html
Those pictograms look impossible, to be honest. Or does that car have wheels at the side. The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
It depends on the test centre. If it doesn't have a car park you won't be tested on it, and so some instructors won't bother teaching it. I wasn't taught, but I went into an empty carpark and tried til I could. I recently managed to park next to a fence and a huge 4x4 thing that took up half of my space as well - couldn't open the door after, but I got in the space!Seeing as parking is now part of the test, I would imagine that they do. However, they never used to teach parking, when I learned to drive, as it wasn't part of the test.Murphy's No More Pies Club #209
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couldn't open the door after, but I got in the space!
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Am I the 'only' person to think that it is 'usually' better to drive into a car parking space FORWARDS, rather than backwards?
I often see people advising to 'reverse' into a parking space, because it makes driving out simple.
No, becasue it makes driving out safer.I agree with the second bit, because, of course, driving forward is easy (you can see where you're going).
But it means the initial reversing into the parking space is more difficult (reversing isn't particularly difficult for 'me' or many other people, but I DO appreciate that it is difficult for many people, and certainly more difficult that driving forward).
So...why do 'I' recommend driving FORWARDS in to a parking space?Well firstly, you are driving forwards, so can see where you're going, so is relatively simple. (In many car parks, I am prepared effectively to do a mini-three point turn if necessary, to get into a space forwards. ie. drive forwards turning into the space; if it is tight or awkward, reverse a little continuing the turn; finally drive straight into the space. Is very simple.)
And this is why it is less efficient and less safe.Secondly.....getting out. YES. You DO have to reverse. But......you are reversing into a BIG space. NOT reversing into a tiny parking space. Surely it is MUCH simpler to reverse OUT of a parking space (where you are reversing into a big space without cars on either side) that it is if you are reversing IN to a parking space where you have to avoid cars on either side?
Or into another car or into a pedestrian, whilst reversing out inti a blind roadway.I often see people trying to reverse into a space, and having a lot of difficulty. They inch backwards, trying to look over both shoulders. Never sure where the back of the car is. Forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards. Inch by inch by inch.
No different to those who can't reverse out of a parking space.Sometimes I see friends doing it and when asked they say they do it so that it's easier to drive out afterwards. It's only when I point out the irony of the situation, that they realise it would be a lot simpler to drive FORWARDS into the parking space, and then the reverse out afterwards is very simple - quick reverse out, and drive off. SIMPLES.
And crash into a car or a pedestrian you can't see.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
One of my pet hates, people who drive into parking bays and always end up at a angle so if you're parked next to them you struggle to get out.
Or at home they drive onto their paths and expect to be let out when they're reversing into the road, I always give way and let people out, but only when they're coming out forwards.
Indeed, selfish gits who take up two, or even three, parking spaces with no regard to other users.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
No your not the only one. I agree 100% with your post. Its common sense that you'll have tons of room to reverse out,
Not in a busy car park you won't. You also won't have tons of room when you hit something you can't see.someone will stop and let you because they want your space and you can get at your boot!!
How will you know, if you can't see them?The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Personally I think bays should be in a herring bone pattern (45 degrees to road) rather than the more usual grid patter (90 degrees to road) because it makes it easier to getting in, safer getting out and the roads around the car park can be narrower.
Costco have car parks like this. They have arrows telling drivers which way to go and double yellow lines with zig-zag lines for zebra crossings; but does anyone take a blind bit of effing notice........no they flipping don't.
They actually struggle around, doing six-point-turns to fit into a diagonal parking space, the wrong way, because they have driven the wrong way down a one way lane. They ignore the double yellow lines, because they are too damn lazy to find a parking spaces, therefore blocking the lanes and even park on the zig-zag lines and on top of the zebra crossings, because they can't be bothered to park properly. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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