How to back out of a parking spot Reddit

1. How do people reverse out of their parking space without the fear of somebody speeding in the parking lot. I always have that fear that they might hit me or I might hit them.

2. I drive a huge minivan, and I can hardly see on the right side, so I can’t tell if I’m going to scrape a car on my right when I turn my wheels.

3. If the vehicles next to me are huge, and I can barely see through the windows of the cars. How do I go about this. I won’t be able to see any pedestrians or vehicles that will come from the side.

If you guys have any tips to help solve each of these problems, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

impossible for tyres to be straight and wheel not be straight and sometimes not.

It's literally a mechanical linkage between the two.

Basically the back of the car will always go in the direction the car is pointing no matter what..
Put the front of the car to the left a bit if you want the back of the car to go right, Simple as that.

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Basically, I taught myself to drive when i was a teenager and going to point A to B was no issue. Since the places I needed to go (grocery, walmart, fast food places) usually had a lot of parking, It was easy to pull into 2 spots, reverse, and straighten into one (though I'm always a little crooked). Later Today I need to go to my doctors appointment (at a hospital) so I drove there 7 in the morning to park to make sure I don't find myself in a situation where there's only single parking spots available. Even this early there were only single spots available and I had to go back home since I couldn't park between 2 cars.

All the videos on Youtube either show a compact car (which I rented to get my DL) or go too fast. I drive a 2002 Avalon (balance between nice and cheap and reliable) but it's a bigger than normal sedan.

I tried the old orange cone training but since I don't know where to start correctly, I could never do it.

Can someone record themselves parking between 2 cars, while breaking down all the steps, and send it to me? I also have trouble backing out of parking lots when there are cars near me/behind me.

If not, does anyone know a good guide online I can follow (text or video; either or)? If such a guide doesn't exist, can someone breakdown the steps in the comments?

Thanks for any and all help :)

First off, let me clearly define what I'm going to be talking about. I'm referring to parking spots in a car park, NOT parallel parking on streets. Backing in = reversing into the spot. Pulling in = driving head on into the spot. Backing out = reversing out of the spot when you're leaving the premises.

When parking in a car park, you have two options:

1. Back into the spot when you're entering the carpark. Drive straight out when you're leaving .

2. Pull straight into the spot when you're entering the carpark. Back out of the spot when you're leaving.

In my personal driving experience (little under 4 years so not that much), I have found backing into parking spots to be infinitely easier than backing out. Unless someone is a dick and is tailgating you when you're trying to back into the spot, you generally have unobstructed vision as you reverse. If you are skilled, and know how to use your side mirrors (!), then backing into the spot can be generally done in 2 quick moves without needing any further adjustments to straighten the car.

On the other hand, backing out of spots is problematic as you need to make sure that there are no oncoming cars, and your vision to check this is obstructed by the car parked adjacent to you. More often than not, you will need to inch your car slowly backwards as you make sure no cars are oncoming. And god forbid if you're unlucky enough to have a 4WD parked next to you.

Furthermore, I've found pulling straight into a spot to be more difficult than one would seem. Maybe it's because I drive a SUV and my mirrors are inadequately placed, since I can barely see the lines on the ground when I'm driving straight on. But I can very visibly see the lines when I'm reversing.

So, the issue here is that when parking in a carpark, either the entry or exit is easy peasy, while the other is "difficult". Maybe in an alternate universe, someone can invent a carpark layout such that both entry and exit of a spot are trivial. But right now, it seems that the "backing in" option is easier at both the "easy" and "difficult" maneuvers. It's easier to pull out than to pull in, and it's easier to back in than to back out. If everyone started to "back in" when they're at carparks, then it would be more efficient as a whole.

Now I personally see 2 issues with my conclusion (trying to be as unbiased as I can here!):

• Firstly, in this example here and if you look at the red car, you can see that he/she has pulled into the spot. However, as there is no car in the spot "in front" of the red car, the red car can simply pull out of the spot when he/she chooses to leave. Hence in this case, there is no difficult driving maneuver required. But my counter to this would be that you cannot bank on this happening oftenly, unless the carpark you are visting is not a very busy one.

• Secondly, for the less skilled drivers, both backing in and out would be difficult and time consuming. However, depending on the customs of whatever country you're in, oncoming drivers may be accustomed to having right of way when someone is backing out of a spot. Hence the lack of skill of some drivers would not be a detriment to others. On the other hand, if a less skillful driver is trying to back into a spot, oncoming drivers will have to wait for the parking driver to finish before they can go on their way.

Despite these two points I just discussed, I still think that the backing in option is much more efficient than pulling in. The world would be a much better place if everyone backed into parking spots. Please CMV.

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