Backing in to parking spaces: only for the smart, good looking, nose breathers?

[holyjohnson]

i don't care how far we have to walk i will park in the pull through spot and feel like i have accomplished something of genius.

 

 

[Mrs.Cicero]

My back up camera in the truck is broken.  It doesn't matter. The truck still goes where I tell it to go.  And I learned to parallel park in a '75 Ford LTD.  If you learn in that, you can parallel park anywhere in anything.

[gwalchmai]

I learned to parallel park in a 53 Ford sedan with three on the tree. Braille parking, because those bumpers were for real.

[janice6]

23 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

I back up until I hear glass breaking and people yelling.

So, you utilize the "wife method".

[janice6]

The worst vehicle I ever owned to park was a Dodge Dakota 4x4 pickup.  I have never had a vehicle with a larger turn radius.  My Ram Charger was significantly better with a much tighter turning radius.

It was so bad that I had to be very careful in downtown parking lots.  Once I could get parked, but I couldn't get out.  Very wide turn radius needed lots of room behind to back out of commercial parking lots and I had to turn down many.

I liked the ability to go anywhere in all kinds of weather, but it was the worst thing to park I ever owned.

My new cars are all wheel drive but can turn around in a residential street without backing up.

[KWalrad]

10 hours ago, railfancwb said:

Have read about ordinary appearing automobiles which in fact have four wheel steering. Wonder how they drive and park.


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[tous]

I would just like to mention that the Harrier and the AV-8B Harrier II and helicopters can back into parking spaces.

I didn't get my nap today.

Don't judge me.

[TX OMFS]

The worst vehicle I ever owned to park was a Dodge Dakota 4x4 pickup.  I have never had a vehicle with a larger turn radius.  My Ram Charger was significantly better with a much tighter turning radius.
It was so bad that I had to be very careful in downtown parking lots.  Once I could get parked, but I couldn't get out.  Very wide turn radius needed lots of room behind to back out of commercial parking lots and I had to turn down many.
I liked the ability to go anywhere in all kinds of weather, but it was the worst thing to park I ever owned.
My new cars are all wheel drive but can turn around in a residential street without backing up.

F350 4 door long bed. Makes that Dakota seen like a sports car.

[TX OMFS]

I'm gonna get a handicap tag and back my ass right up to the front door. 

Here. Use this.

[Walt Longmire]

1 hour ago, tous said:

I would just like to mention that the Harrier and the AV-8B Harrier II and helicopters can back into parking spaces.

I didn't get my nap today.

Don't judge me.

DE Haviland Turbo Otter can back up also.

[tadbart]

19 hours ago, willie-pete said:

UCF in Orlando has recently made it illegal to back in to parking spots on campus.

They have tag readers on the campus police cars and they are useless if people back in.

I'd pull in, and put a piece of paper over my plate. Kinda glad they didn't offer the grad school degree I wanted. F those guys.

[NPTim]

I back into spaces to piss off the other drivers, I park like I’m driving miss daisy.

[.264 magnum]

On 7/14/2019 at 8:14 AM, F14Scott said:

Backing in pros:

1. Safer parking.
   1. You see the whole space and surrounding area on the way in, while pulling past the spot.
   2. The "wagging" part of the car is outside the spot, keeping your nose away from the neighboring cars.
   3. More precision in narrow spaces (that's why forklifts steer with their rear wheels)
2. Faster, safer departure.
   1. You look only forward only instead of having to toggle back and forth forward and back.
   2. The wagging parts of the car are immediately out in the open.
3. Your backup camera and sensors enable great accuracy.
4. No potential to scrape the front air dam on the chock.
5. The transmission appreciates not having to clunk into reverse when cold.

Nosing in pros:

1. It's faster on the way in.
2. Trunk/bed access, if you're loading/unloading
3. Women and children seem to prefer it.

Good post. 

I generally back into parking spaces the exception being when grocery shopping etc. 

Rear facing camera makes it a snap. 

Edited July 16, 2019 by .264 magnum

[railfancwb]

People, for whatever reason, have shunned parallel parking to the point that cars are taught to do it!
Don't operate a machine that's smarter than you!

F-250 with full four doors, duallies, and 8 foot bed - or equivalent in other brands - don’t do parallel parking very well. In fact they don’t to pull in or back in parking very well either.


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[Walt Longmire]

I drive a Kenworth T800 with an 8 1/2' wide Nahanni dump box on the back. I probably have 50,000 miles in reverse driving that rig with no backup camera. 

[railfancwb]

I would just like to mention that the Harrier and the AV-8B Harrier II and helicopters can back into parking spaces.
I didn't get my nap today.
Don't judge me.

Any F-35s do back in parking?


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[Wyzz Kydd]

On 7/14/2019 at 10:43 AM, gwalchmai said:

Backup cameras are the single greatest automotive advancement in 50 years. Second only to AC.

I like them too, but the HUD in my Camaro means more to me than the back up camera.

[Paul53]

You can improve things only so much. For example, Boeing meant to increase safety but instead designed planes that crash automatically. Anybody got jobs for out of work aeronautical engineers?

[tous]

5 hours ago, railfancwb said:

Any F-35s do back in parking?


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Perhaps the B variant can.

I;'m not sure so I won't confirm or deny, but being a Lockheed product I assume everything works backwards.

Edited July 16, 2019 by tous

[janice6]

1 hour ago, tous said:

Perhaps the B variant can.

I;'m not sure so I won't confirm or deny, but being Lockheed product I assume everything works backwards.

J-35 is Lockheed's answer to Carrier landings without  The proper carrier landing gear.

[tous]

The only reason the F-35, any variant, even flies is because Grumman is the main subcontractor.

They have slide rules.

[Mrs.Cicero]

My daughter took her driver's test in my pickup truck last year.  The tester drove it around the parking lot first... and his comment was "Worst turn radius ever."  She parallel parked it just fine (in MI you aren't allowed to make any adjustments; you get one go at pulling it in and if it isn't completely in the space without changing direction, you fail).  The one point she lost was not pulling close enough to the front of the REGULAR parking test.  That cracked me up, everyone thinks the front end of that truck is bigger than it is...  anyway, she passed, and now I have to teach youngest daughter how to do it...

 

[janice6]

6 minutes ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

My daughter took her driver's test in my pickup truck last year.  The tester drove it around the parking lot first... and his comment was "Worst turn radius ever."  She parallel parked it just fine (in MI you aren't allowed to make any adjustments; you get one go at pulling it in and if it isn't completely in the space without changing direction, you fail).  The one point she lost was not pulling close enough to the front of the REGULAR parking test.  That cracked me up, everyone thinks the front end of that truck is bigger than it is...  anyway, she passed, and now I have to teach youngest daughter how to do it...

 

Congratulations!  Teaching another to drive is a real life exercise in faith and belief in another person.  Some can't.

[Mrs.Cicero]

5 hours ago, janice6 said:

Congratulations!  Teaching another to drive is a real life exercise in faith and belief in another person.  Some can't.

Ha.  My oldest daughter rolled her eyes at me today when I told her what to do while she was driving.  I told her to get over it 'cause I was back in "instructional mode" for her younger sister, and it wouldn't end til that one gets her license.  She was "like, OMG, NO, Mom!"

[janice6]

Just now, Mrs.Cicero said:

Ha.  My oldest daughter rolled her eyes at me today when I told her what to do while she was driving.  I told her to get over it 'cause I was back in "instructional mode" for her younger sister, and it wouldn't end til that one gets her license.  She was "like, OMG, NO, Mom!"

My wife doesn't like to drive with me in the car.  She says it's unnerving to see me start to tense up so often when she's driving.

I tried to explain to her that it isn't her driving that's getting to me, it's that she doesn't drive like I do.  Therefore, I'm in the suicide seat not knowing what she will do next. 

She has only had one accident and that was before we go married (I took the blame for that one since it was my father's car and for liability purposes), my father's name and mine are the same, so it appeared that I owned the car and they wouldn't sue him, if it came to that.

I have been proactive in trying to keep up with the statistical accident rate for my age group.