Why are people so fixated on reversing into bay parking?
Discussion
GT03ROB said:
Why do so many 1st posts involve reawakening vague threads that were dead & buried 5 or more years ago.
Can only think that they find the threads on google while searching for something and are so worked up by it that they sign up just to reply with their point of view..... even though nobody will care.Saw two "Ladies" who had driven in either side of the access road separating the bays reversing out yesterday, fortunately one realised they were reversing into each other and hit the horn, the other hadn't seen her.
The last one I saw in Sainsbury's actually hit each other, I learnt lots of French words that day, some I hadnt heard before.
Take care out there guys.
The last one I saw in Sainsbury's actually hit each other, I learnt lots of French words that day, some I hadnt heard before.
Take care out there guys.
Makes no real sense driving nose first in a busy car park space to me.
Reversing allows you to see in your mirrors the full height of the side of your car and the one next to it (you have many blind areas turning nose in to a space & are way more likely to hit a car)
Also, if you nose in you have to reverse out onto traffic flow or passing pedestrians (running little kids in supermarket car parks) with two vehicles blocking a lot of your view.
It’s simply safer for yours and other people’s cars and safer for pedestrians. It’s easier to see hazards into and out of the space. No brainier for me but some people just can’t grasp the concept of it, I think it’s because they don’t use their mirrors when they reverse when they do try.
Nosing in is the sort of move my GF (not the best driver) will do and I’m usually breathing in as the side of the car passes the front of the parked car. Mind you, if I tell her to reverse in she’ll just look over her shoulder the whole time anyway.
I’d vote nose in Parker’s off the road ;-)
Reversing allows you to see in your mirrors the full height of the side of your car and the one next to it (you have many blind areas turning nose in to a space & are way more likely to hit a car)
Also, if you nose in you have to reverse out onto traffic flow or passing pedestrians (running little kids in supermarket car parks) with two vehicles blocking a lot of your view.
It’s simply safer for yours and other people’s cars and safer for pedestrians. It’s easier to see hazards into and out of the space. No brainier for me but some people just can’t grasp the concept of it, I think it’s because they don’t use their mirrors when they reverse when they do try.
Nosing in is the sort of move my GF (not the best driver) will do and I’m usually breathing in as the side of the car passes the front of the parked car. Mind you, if I tell her to reverse in she’ll just look over her shoulder the whole time anyway.
I’d vote nose in Parker’s off the road ;-)
Kateg28 said:
I think in Florida you have to park nose in and I think it is because a lot of cars only have rear licence plates. It was weird having to park like that all the time although their spaces are much larger.
When on Marco Island in Florida I reversed parked our hire car (4-door saloon with a boot). A passing police car stopped & the policeman told me to move the car & forward park. As I was parked between 2 large SUVs I pointed out that forward parking would require me to reverse 1/2 the car out of the bay before I had any visibility. He said, "I don't care. It's hot today & I'm not getting out of my a/c'd car to check your plate. Park like that again & I'll give you a citation".In the 1970's I worked for a company that insisted we forward parked against a wall otherwise thw exhaust muck stained the bricks.
uncleluck said:
Makes no real sense driving nose first in a busy car park space to me.
Reversing allows you to see in your mirrors the full height of the side of your car and the one next to it (you have many blind areas turning nose in to a space & are way more likely to hit a car)
Also, if you nose in you have to reverse out onto traffic flow or passing pedestrians (running little kids in supermarket car parks) with two vehicles blocking a lot of your view.
It’s simply safer for yours and other people’s cars and safer for pedestrians. It’s easier to see hazards into and out of the space. No brainier for me but some people just can’t grasp the concept of it, I think it’s because they don’t use their mirrors when they reverse when they do try.
Nosing in is the sort of move my GF (not the best driver) will do and I’m usually breathing in as the side of the car passes the front of the parked car. Mind you, if I tell her to reverse in she’ll just look over her shoulder the whole time anyway.
I’d vote nose in Parker’s off the road ;-)
All of the above points, plusReversing allows you to see in your mirrors the full height of the side of your car and the one next to it (you have many blind areas turning nose in to a space & are way more likely to hit a car)
Also, if you nose in you have to reverse out onto traffic flow or passing pedestrians (running little kids in supermarket car parks) with two vehicles blocking a lot of your view.
It’s simply safer for yours and other people’s cars and safer for pedestrians. It’s easier to see hazards into and out of the space. No brainier for me but some people just can’t grasp the concept of it, I think it’s because they don’t use their mirrors when they reverse when they do try.
Nosing in is the sort of move my GF (not the best driver) will do and I’m usually breathing in as the side of the car passes the front of the parked car. Mind you, if I tell her to reverse in she’ll just look over her shoulder the whole time anyway.
I’d vote nose in Parker’s off the road ;-)
The rear will turn in sharper when reversing, than the front of the car will when going in forwards.
Easier to see the white lines of the bay when reversing in.
However, almost impossible to get a trolley to the boot when you have reversed in, except for those supermarkets with a special trolley pathway.
Jimmy Recard said:
When I see someone drive forwards into a parking space, I usually assume that they’re stupid because they don’t think ahead
The exception is in a supermarket or somewhere it would be better to have access to the boot
Ironically I think the same when someone takes 5 times longer to park because they’re reversing in.The exception is in a supermarket or somewhere it would be better to have access to the boot
Everyone is different at the end of the day and have their own preferences.
I started work in 1973. Very shortly afterwards there was a directive that cars must be parked with the engine facing the building.
It was as a result of IRA bombing activities.
The directive was 'policed' right up until the site closed in 2001. The directive was not continued on our new site.
Back in the day quite a few people had Beetles and Imps and they looked quite odd 'parked the wrong way round'.
The car park was quite large so you could choose to drive in or reverse in.
It was as a result of IRA bombing activities.
The directive was 'policed' right up until the site closed in 2001. The directive was not continued on our new site.
Back in the day quite a few people had Beetles and Imps and they looked quite odd 'parked the wrong way round'.
The car park was quite large so you could choose to drive in or reverse in.
ging84 said:
I'm just trying to remember what 2013 was like, was that when you could park in a bay, have time to get out your car before they put a wheel clamp on it?
Probably, what with wheel clamping being effectively banned since 2012https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19782680
velocemitch said:
Most of the big UK construction sites have made it mandatory to reverse into a parking bay as part of the site health and safety plan. You will get a b
king if you Park nose first.
Not just construction sites. More and more offices nationwide have the exact same policy. king if you Park nose first.33q said:
I started work in 1973. Very shortly afterwards there was a directive that cars must be parked with the engine facing the building.
It was as a result of IRA bombing activities.
The directive was 'policed' right up until the site closed in 2001. The directive was not continued on our new site.
Back in the day quite a few people had Beetles and Imps and they looked quite odd 'parked the wrong way round'.
The car park was quite large so you could choose to drive in or reverse in.
Genuine question, what was the rational behind parking with the engine to the building ?It was as a result of IRA bombing activities.
The directive was 'policed' right up until the site closed in 2001. The directive was not continued on our new site.
Back in the day quite a few people had Beetles and Imps and they looked quite odd 'parked the wrong way round'.
The car park was quite large so you could choose to drive in or reverse in.
Boot /Fuel tank further from the building ? Heavy Engine provides some sort of cover ?
I'm definitely a reverse in, drive out person...but where possible I will pull straight into a spot that has a free spot ahead of it and park up in the second spot.
Last thing I want to do is reverse into a child running between cars.
Just come back from Costa Rica, they are also obsessed with reversing into parking spaces, to the point that they employ old codgers to direct you back(the irony being that they then become an obstacle to be avoided!!) iIt seems drivers there are incapable of reversing, I had to shoo them out of the way to park!
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