Wessex wrote:Reversing out of a gap is always easier than reversing into one.
But not usually as safe because the vehicle is reversing out of a 'dead' area into a 'live' area
Wessex wrote:Reversing out of a gap is always easier than reversing into one.
brianhaddon wrote:lyndon wrote:There are a number of places where I prefer to drive forwards into a parking spot. One is at the supermarket, another is when I go walking with a crowd and I know there will be a lot of access to the boot.
chriskay wrote:Re. supermarkets. At my local Tesco the arrangement is a pedestrian footpath with parking on both sides. With this arrangement, the logical thing to do is to reverse in so that the boot is adjacent to the path. Despite this, 90%+ of drivers go nose in. This means that when loading the boot, they are in the traffic stream. They then have to reverse into the traffic. Can't they understand how much easier it would be if they reversed in.
Tr1angle wrote:Parking is actually one of the issues I have yet to master... it's quite annoying as I've been driving for 3 years now but I still haven't quite gotten the hang of parallel parking. Reverse parking and going nose-in I've pretty much perfected, but I haven't really practiced parallel parking all that much...
Slink_Pink wrote:Tr1angle wrote:Parking is actually one of the issues I have yet to master... it's quite annoying as I've been driving for 3 years now but I still haven't quite gotten the hang of parallel parking. Reverse parking and going nose-in I've pretty much perfected, but I haven't really practiced parallel parking all that much...
I was fortunate in that I had a job delivering from a 3.5 tonne van around all areas of London, Essex, Herts & Bucks, often at peak traffic times. This did wonders to improve my parking skills in even the tightest of spaces - I had to take the first space available in most cases. The added pressure of traffic queuing and tight delivery schedules forced me to improve. Without such an opportunity I would advise to practice on every possible occasion, choosing, when appropriate, more challenging spaces.
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