Why are people so fixated on reversing into bay parking?

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Just wondering if there's a specific reason? I park in a large car park nearly every day, and I see endless amounts of people going miles out of their way (and often struggling), doing multi multi point turns to reverse into spaces. I am quite happy to park forwards into a space and reverse out... am I doing the wrong thing?

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AdeTuono said:

Errr...personal choice, maybe?

I didn't say people weren't allowed, or criticise their 'personal choice', I was just asking why.

The Vambo said:

I would be surprised if a driver with any awareness would have to ask.

I have lots of awareness, and my choice is to drive in forwards. I find it easier to see what I'm doing into a small space; when I'm reversing out, it's into a large space so I don't need to be able to see quite as well.


The reason I was asking was because I've seen on several occasions this week, women of various ages taking 2-3 minutes to reverse park a Yaris-sized car into bays where there were two or more free adjacent bays, and they could have just driven in.