Can you back park?

[Imp]

Key is to be 1.75 spaces ahead looking straight out your side windows and about a car width or more away from the line of cars.

I can't front in cause I have no idea where the front of my car is, and I'm short, so can't see shit.

 

[Lithium381]

wtf is back park?

do you mean park a car while backing up?

if you can't... you don't have a licence.. cuz that's on the driving test.

basically this


it's not hard, there are LINES

 

[thescreensavers]

I cant drive

fixed

 

[TecHNooB]

everyone who voted no, let's go to boomerd's house and practice

 

[BoomerD]

everyone who voted no, let's go to boomerd's house and practice

Come on down...but bring lots of cash. I'll teach you...but it won't be cheap.

 

[CRXican]

I don't like doing it but have to. My job requires me to drive an ambulance and we back in all the time.

I just think about the truck drivers mentioned above and STFU and do it.

 

[sdifox]

I don't like doing it but have to. My job requires me to drive an ambulance and we back in all the time.

I just think about the truck drivers mentioned above and STFU and do it.

you have to back in an ambulance or you would never get out again


Those suckers have big turning radius.


op is probably talking about a Fit.

 

[BoomerD]

One of my neighbors bought a small travel trailer a couple of years ago. He had been using a small "tent trailer" for camping...and when he'd get home, he disconnected the trailer in the street and pushed it into his garage...the travel trailer was too big to do that...so he asked me to teach him how to back it up.
Apparently he'd tried to back the tent trailer into a couple of campsites without any success...so he either parked it in pull-through sites, or disconnected it and pushed it into the space.

Took me a weekend to teach him how to do it properly...but now, he pulls up in the street and backs it into his driveway...almost perfectly every time.

 

[olds]

My back is parked in a chair as we speak.

 

[rasczak]

Easy as cherry pie.

 

[TecHNooB]

Easy as cherry pie.

a cherry pie is pretty tough. i woulda said ramen.

 

[BoomerD]

a cherry pie is pretty tough. i woulda said ramen.

If you'e even consider ramen...then this is the cherry pie for you:

 

[sdifox]

If you'e even consider ramen...then this is the cherry pie for you:

ramen <> instant noodles. But considering it's the op, he probably meant instant noodles.

 

[Ns1]

a cherry pie is pretty tough. i woulda said ramen.

making ramen is like a 10 hour affair

 

[lxskllr]

If you'e even consider ramen...then this is the cherry pie for you:

I bet that's still delicious. I'll eat all the frozen cherry pie you give me.

 

[BoomerD]

I bet that's still delicious. I'll eat all the frozen cherry pie you give me.

I can't remember the last time we had such an abomination in our house...

 

[QuantumPion]

My new car has a backup camera and it shows lines on the screen indicating bumper position, makes parallel and reverse parking super easy.

 

[Baked]

Yes, up to a 40' bus.

 

[sadffffff]

are you talking about corner backing, parallel parking or something else?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I park in "Park" ... I use reverse only for when I am driving backwards.

 

[olds]

 

[TallBill]

We had to back in as MP's to be ready to pull out as fast as possible. Probably why I haven't gotten anyone pregnant yet.

 

[Mark R]

I'll continue the OP's strange nomenclature for clarity's sake.

"back parking" is the recommended way to park into that type of space.

"front parking" is more dangerous because when exiting the parking space into the road, your visibility is restricted. In particular, small children and other obstacles could be missed - especially in busy lots like supermarkets, etc.

By "back parking" you only drive with restricted visibility the short distance from teh road into an empty bay (which you have already verified to be empty and free of obstructions by driving past it). As the bay is not a road, it is less likely to acquire an obstruction (such as a child or shopping cart) in the time it takes you to reverse in.

There may be other restrictions which require you to "back park". E.g. it is illegal to reverse a car out of a driveway and onto a public road in some areas. Unless you have space in the driveway to turn the car around, the only legal option is to "back park".

 

[TecHNooB]

ramen <> instant noodles. But considering it's the op, he probably meant instant noodles.

what a stickler :| even asians think instant noodles when they hear ramen.

 

[Raduque]

I had to parallel park for my driver's license but never had to reverse park. Did you?

I didn't have to back into a parking spot to pass my license test. I did have to parallel park.

I can back my truck into a spot better than most people can forward park. I don't do it much, cause I can't really account for my trailer hitch - I'd pull it, but I don't have the key for the lock, and the lock is rusted to hell and back anyway so I'll have to cut it.