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Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by fragmede »

duckqlz wrote: post #48
thsksbd wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its incredible how few people appreciate this, or how hard it is to explain to people. The rear wheels pivot!! This is also why the quality of the rear tires is far more important - the fulcrum, or pivot, sees the most stress!

Op was talking about the front wheels pivoting. Rear wheels do not pivot. Furthermore, the quality is sometimes better on rear tires in a rear wheel drive car if the owner is trying to be frugal and save money when changing their tires. Similarly with front wheel drive drive train, owners will often opt to replace only their front tires as they will wear quicker. This is all due to the traction needed to start the ca…

Totally besides the point, but the real wheels on some cars actually do pivot! :)

On top of the Honda Prelude, there's also the Porsche 911 GT3, the BMW 7 Series, Audi Q7, Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32, R33, R34 had HICAS), Renault Laguna (only in some European markets), Acura RLX (P-AWS), Lexus GS and LS, Infiniti Q50 and Q60, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado, and then to round out the list, the Lamborghini Aventador and the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta.

All of those feature rear wheels that pivot.

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by medwards666 »

huhtenberg wrote: post #30

It'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.

You still go to the store for your groceries? How quaint.

Re: Fancy Parking

#53

Post by throw0101a »

eloisant wrote: post #23

I 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.

> I always park like this because it's much easier.

Easier? Do you have some kind of system/algorithm that you use, because I find backing in harder than driving in.

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by ghaff »

medwards666 wrote: post #52
huhtenberg wrote: post #30

It'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.

You still go to the store for your groceries? How quaint.

I'm going to go out on a limb and bet the vast majority of people do. For the typical person going to a supermarket with a car where they can see what is available and looks good just isn't a big task--especially because you usually have other errands to run in a given week.

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by wink »

jonasdegendt wrote: post #8

I 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 Germany there are tons of signs that you should not park this way when it's close to a wall, probably because of the exhaust fumes. Sure, it's not a law but I suppose the tenants or shops won't be happy if you follow the signs. Actually interesting thing to think about with electric cars now :)

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by ghaff »

jhoechtl wrote: post #47

Was assigned as ofroad driver during my military service. There I learned that what is called fancy parking should be the rule. When you have to leave (maybe in a hurry) you are set to go. Since back then that has become my standard way of parking. It's also easier to park "back first" in constrained parking situations.

>It's also easier to park "back first" in constrained parking situations.

Not that I park in garages much but every once in a great while, I find myself in a situation when I just pull in forward where I'm not literally parked in but do have to inch the car out with very little clearance and a whole lot of back and forth turning.

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by avidphantasm »

jhoechtl wrote: post #49
avidphantasm wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get what you are saying, but I find parkers who do this to be selfish or at least unaware of how their actions affect others. In my experience, it takes more time to fancy park, and much less to unpark. Whereas with normal parking, it’s much faster to park then unpark. So, in a busy parking lot (classically a grocery store lot on Saturday) fancy parkers make others wait on them while they park. Normal parkers have…

The time you lose while parking you gain when leaving. It's a zero sum game.

I don’t get my time waiting for you to fancy park back. When I’m backing out, I have to wait until it’s clear to go. Fancy parkers parking get a mutex on their part of the row.

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by Jenk »

kypro wrote: post #9

Have 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…

This site (fancyparking) is old. Before font support was implemented well in webrowsers.. hell before HTML was implemented well in browsers.

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by devilbunny »

ghaff wrote: post #12
jonasdegendt wrote: post #8

I 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.

I'm not sure I've ever in my life heard of that. Though there are a fair number of states that don't require front license plates. (That said I'm not sure how many of those states don't issue two plates when someone is getting new ones.)

I live in a rear-plate-only state. You get one and only one.

If they only require one, why would they pay the expense for providing two? Especially as "two different cars driving around with the same license plate" is one of the things you have plates to prevent. If it were only about taxes, you'd have a prominent tax sticker and be done with it.

Re: Fancy Parking

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Post by TrueGeek »

motogpjimbo wrote: post #34
kypro wrote: post #9

Have 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…

> performance Ironically, this website loads significantly faster than most modern websites, even under HN-induced load. > I'm going to support users with accessibility needs I'm not sure visually-impaired individuals are the intended beneficiaries of this site...

> I'm not sure visually-impaired individuals are the intended beneficiaries of this site...

I’m know you’re making a joke but I want to point out that only a small percentage of blind people have 0% vision and it’s important that we address accessibility on our sites for multiple types of users.

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