Reverse parking is the suggested way to park a car by my employer in Norway for safety reasons. So yes, I reverse park every day at work to be compliant.
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#22Reverse parking. It's mandatory on most mining sites that I have visited in Australia, for safety reasons. The miners love to slam it into reverse and crunch their gearbox as they back into a space. Not good for when you are going shopping and need to access the boot, however.
It's fairly common on industrial sites I've been to - particularly ones that you might want to leave in a hurry!
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#23I always park like this because it's much easier. Not just to get out, but to get in.
Because your front wheels rotate, not the back wheels, it's much easier to get into proper position when parking backwards especially when you're between 2 other cars and the space is small.
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#24Reverse parking (as it is known in the UK) is one of a number of tasks than can be tested in a UK driving test. I reverse park 99pct of the time. I think it's safer to be able to see where you are going when getting out of a space, so you can more easily see other cars, children etc. I think it also makes more sense with the steering mechanics, and I find it easier than going in nose first.
I've been told that in the army (UK) its illegal to park forwards. They had so many accidents that they banned it.
But yea, definitely easier to squeeze into tighter spots going backwards, and not that much harder after you've done it a few times.
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#25Reverse parking (as it is known in the UK) is one of a number of tasks than can be tested in a UK driving test. I reverse park 99pct of the time. I think it's safer to be able to see where you are going when getting out of a space, so you can more easily see other cars, children etc. I think it also makes more sense with the steering mechanics, and I find it easier than going in nose first.
It totally makes sense with the steering mechanics (assuming you have a normal car that is steered using its front wheels) but if there is a low wall or bollards at the back of the parking space and you don't have sensors or cameras or whatever then you (or at least I) can't easily reverse-park and so entering the parking space involves changing direction about six times, and leaving it involves changing direction about three times.
If there's a narrow parking space with a narrow aisle in front of it then forward-parking is basically impossible so you have to reverse-park, so it's a skill worth having.
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#26Have you ever stubbled upon a website, and gazed in awe at how certain textual content isn't actually text at all? Maybe you didn't know that H*T*ML was called H*T*ML for a reason. Rather than simply creating a website in photoshop then splicing it into multiple images with zero regards for accessibility, SEO, performance, or usability, sane web developers take their time to convert textual content to text. It's a wa…
Text is so yesterday, just look at that fancy Flash photo gallery. The future is now, get used to it.
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#27Huh? I honestly thought this was the normal way to park. I guess parking spaces are big enough in america that you don't need it.
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#28This is mandatory in a lot of sites I've been too. Half for safety reasons, half so they can see who knows the rules and who doesn't belong.
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#29I got a ticket once for backing into a parking spot in one of the various the parking garages in Santa Monica, blew my mind as a European. After some Googling there didn't seem to be any consensus as to why you're not allowed to. My hypotheses: The ability to check license plates on out of state cars where they're not required to have a front plate? Who knows.
In the UK when there are parking spaces next to a building with windows that may be open then there is often a notice telling people not to reverse-park because of the exhaust fumes. (So presumably there is an implicit exception for electric vehicles!)
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#30It's all neat and supreme until you are coming out of a grocery store with 9 bags and an XXXL pack of toilet paper and realize that your fancy-parked trunk is way over there, in the bushes.