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Reverse Parking

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 15 November 2014 - 22:44
Nomad, great way to spot your car now that made me smile:) x
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 15 November 2014 - 22:11
When we lived in Japan everyone reversed parked, I asked a friend why, she said so they could leave quickly and efficiently. I loved it as being the only car in a vast car park that was parked front first it was so easy to find. Personally it doesn't bother me either way, just please park IN the lined space so I can get my door open and get out .:cool: Eta love the new smileys admin. <em>edited by Nomad on 15/11/2014</em>
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 15 November 2014 - 22:01
I'm actually very surprise some people have strong options on reverse parking or more apt 'reverse parking driver'. I don't think people choose to be one or the other, does it not depend on the parking space! I have a large 4x4 and sometimes I reverse park and sometimes I don't..and to add somedays well most days I'm an excellent efficient nifty parker (either way) and some day I'm completely useless and couldn't park straight in 20 moves..let give eachother a break here and next time we see (especially a fellow women) having trouble park, back off and give her the minute she needs.. We never know what people go through we all have those days, happy parking, either way:) x <em>edited by belle979 on 15/11/2014</em>
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 15 November 2014 - 17:16
A lot of car parks in Europe have implemented a rule of "back in, head out" parking for safety reasons. Carefully reversing into a space makes you far less likely to hit another vehicle than backing into oncoming traffic, or worse into a car park with pedestrians wondering around. Because you steer by controlling the front wheels of the car, not the back, it actually makes it easier to park the car in tight spaces going backwards. In M o E it doesn't seem to matter if the car is reversing or moving forwards, the pedestrians still suffer. But I always think to myself....'they were pedestrians too before they got into their cars' It's a very strange thought process here.
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EW OLDHAND
Latest post on 15 November 2014 - 16:54
I guess it is one of the classic arguments, like "before or after breakfast tooth brushing" or "front or rear side toilet roll placement". I park to a 90 degree spot front first. I have a high wheel base 4x4 so curbs are not an issue for me. I only reverse park if I must load something from the back. Very rarely. I never get frustrated when others reverse park, even if with big 4x4s or even if they make 10 maneuvers to do it. I just think they are beginners and I was also a beginner once. Mind you, when there is enough space, I drive through, and do not wait until they are perfectly parked. I very rarely get frustrated on other people's driving skills. It is just not worth. I have more important issues in life, and bigger worries. I really have no extra brain cells to be frustrated on tiny things like their parking skills. I do not use the emergency lights in fog but do use them when at an accident we suddenly decrese the speed and the car behind me would not expect it. Drive safe.
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 15 November 2014 - 14:54
If you reverse park because the space is tight,how the heck do you get out of your car without bashing the one beside??….I know how wide my car is and if the space looks tight I move on until I find one where I know I can slither out of my car without bashing the one next to me :) just asking :)
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 15 November 2014 - 11:46
Okay before I give my two pence worth, don't shout if I didn't exactly get everyone's point, I did try and follow the tread. It all depends on the parking space, sometimes I reverse park (probably more so as my husband always harped on about easy exit etc so I got into the habit of reverse parking. Some spots are impossible to reverse park and some are impossible to forward park.. As a qualified driver you need to master both. In the Uk nobody well almost nobody would beep you or drive around you when you are parking it is the unsaid code of driving...this unsaid code I miss so much because it doesn't cost anyone to wait a minute but by beeping etc it causes stress and may end up causing an accident..there and then or later that day. people need more patients on the road, for me I also need more patients on the roads when it comes to rude, narrow minded drivers who don't see or choose to ignore everyone else. Just to add.. It can't be easy to reverse park if your car is blacked out, TIP roll down your windows so you can see the mirrors. I have a friend who can't reverse park for this very reason but there is no telling her:) x
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 12 November 2014 - 22:35
For once, I'm with Madge on this one...not that I go around studying it but I don't know that I've ever seen anyone reverse parked in those spaces where you face the pavement..as I drive past them I often see cars backing out..I've never reversed into those spaces myself because until I read this thread it never occurred to me to do so !! I don't think it can be an ability thing - pretty simple to do as opposed to parallel parking which many people do find a challenge..That's what I thought this debate was about as it can be a pain to watch someone who isn't used to driving the size of cars we have here, shuffle backwards and forwards making absolutely no progress !! lol Also, if we are supposed to reverse into them why are so many angled to favour going in forwards ?
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 12 November 2014 - 20:05
I reverse park too!!! I was always taught by my father to do this as you never know when you have to make a quick exit. If you ever go to a military barrack in the UK 99% of cars will be facing forward for exactly the same reason. I have to admit though, it does make me cross when people can't do it. that's hilarious--my father taught me the same thing! He also taught me never to pull up closely to someone at a stoplight, to give myself enough room to go around. I still do the latter if I feel I am in a shifty neighborhood, although no fears of being carjacked in Dubai :)
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EW GURU
Latest post on 12 November 2014 - 19:56
Never go to any oil or gas related offices, so that probably explains why I've never seen a car park where you *have* to reverse-park in 15 years. Just out of interest, I made a special effort to look at how people were parked in all the car parks I visited today. In all of them, by far the majority of people were parked nose-in, with reverse parkers being very much the minority. I really don't get this bizarre idea that "most people" in Dubai reverse-park. The evidence, which you can see with your own eyes everywhere, is that they don't.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 12 November 2014 - 08:47
Really I disagree, I think most people here in Dubai do reverse park So why don't I see it? Everywhere I go, way more people drive forwards into parking spaces than reverse into them. I can't remember the last time I had to wait while somebody reverse-parked, but pretty much every day I have to wait while somebody reverses *out* of a parking space. Looking out of the window at the parking at work and at home, by far the majority of people have parked nose-in, only a few cars are ever reverse-parked. Many shopping mall parking spaces are angled too, which is done specifically to *prevent* reverse parking. And to pick up on something somebody else said, where are all the car parks that *require* people to reverse park? In 15 years of living in Dubai, I've never ever encountered one. edited by Madge_Gustard on 11/11/2014 If you park in the car park of any oil and gas related office you will be required to reverse park. We require our staff to reverse park at my work but we share a car park so its not as effective.
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 12 November 2014 - 07:07
Really I disagree, I think most people here in Dubai do reverse park So why don't I see it? Everywhere I go, way more people drive forwards into parking spaces than reverse into them. I can't remember the last time I had to wait while somebody reverse-parked, but pretty much every day I have to wait while somebody reverses *out* of a parking space. Looking out of the window at the parking at work and at home, by far the majority of people have parked nose-in, only a few cars are ever reverse-parked. Many shopping mall parking spaces are angled too, which is done specifically to *prevent* reverse parking. And to pick up on something somebody else said, where are all the car parks that *require* people to reverse park? In 15 years of living in Dubai, I've never ever encountered one. edited by Madge_Gustard on 11/11/2014 I said many places of work........
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EW GURU
Latest post on 11 November 2014 - 17:54
Really I disagree, I think most people here in Dubai do reverse park So why don't I see it? Everywhere I go, way more people drive forwards into parking spaces than reverse into them. I can't remember the last time I had to wait while somebody reverse-parked, but pretty much every day I have to wait while somebody reverses *out* of a parking space. Looking out of the window at the parking at work and at home, by far the majority of people have parked nose-in, only a few cars are ever reverse-parked. Many shopping mall parking spaces are angled too, which is done specifically to *prevent* reverse parking. And to pick up on something somebody else said, where are all the car parks that *require* people to reverse park? In 15 years of living in Dubai, I've never ever encountered one. <em>edited by Madge_Gustard on 11/11/2014</em>
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 11 November 2014 - 16:35
That 7 Days letter is a tad odd, since I would never say that "most" people in Dubai reverse into parking spaces. Quite the opposite, in fact. Really I disagree, I think most people here in Dubai do reverse park
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 11 November 2014 - 15:20
In many places of work it is mandatory that you reverse park.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 11 November 2014 - 00:03
I used to work in oil and gas industry and my then company is very strict with HSE. It is mandatory for us to reverse park for safety reasons (I.e. vacating the premises very quickly). I always find it easier to reverse park in very tight spaces. Obviously, this doesn't apply to angled spaces that actually go with the flow of traffic.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 20:29
A staunch reverse parking driver here. It helps that I have a tidy little car and not some of the monsters driven by those with few skills to control such a huge vehicle. Cue huge 4WD taking up the entire breadth of the parking lane and moving forwards and backwards an inch at a time while the long line waiting has to witness this most exciting spectacle. I read somewhere that reversing into a spot to park when the car has been running a while is easier to do and better for the car than starting a cold engine and then making it back out of its spot. I am grateful to my dad - he spent a huge amount of time the year I obtained my license painstakingly teaching me reverse and parallel parking manouvers.... To this day, every time I use two moves to reverse into a parking bay, I silently thank him.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 15:26
Reversing out of a space is seriously dangerous here due to the lack of basic common sense, courtesy and patience demonstrated by the vast majority of drivers in this country. If people actually stopped to let people reverse out of spaces, much less of us would reverse into them. But until that miracle happens I'll continue doing it the safest possible way for me and my family.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:41
i always reverse park, and i don't take ages in doing it. if you don't like it then or can't reverse park then don't do it, it's that simple. it's the ones who stick to my @ss that i hate. whatever happened to the safety distance?
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EW GURU
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:40
That 7 Days letter is a tad odd, since I would never say that "most" people in Dubai reverse into parking spaces. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:30
I agree with Mannikat on this one. It is a common way to alert other drivers that you are going to reverse park. I think most if not all drivers pop their hazards on to do this You usually have to, because the person behind you doesn't look any further than their bonnet and ends up sitting in your boot! Hazards simply means 'I've stopped, am maneuvering, go around me'. If people paid more attention to what was going around them, stopped being so impatient and were more courteous - that would be great. Wishful thinking FD, when I stop, indicate left to go into our undercar park some fool always tries to overtake me as I am turning. The amount of near misses now has me going to the end of the road and u turning as its safer to turn right into the carpark that way. Too many idiots here People do that to me when I indicate to go left - they then take over on my left! - as I am turning! WTF I nearly wiped out a delivery guy on a bike the other week because he did that. I indicated, stopped, started to make my turn and he cut inside of me! People just have no common sense.
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:28
I agree with Mannikat on this one. It is a common way to alert other drivers that you are going to reverse park. I think most if not all drivers pop their hazards on to do this You usually have to, because the person behind you doesn't look any further than their bonnet and ends up sitting in your boot! Hazards simply means 'I've stopped, am maneuvering, go around me'. If people paid more attention to what was going around them, stopped being so impatient and were more courteous - that would be great. Wishful thinking FD, when I stop, indicate left to go into our undercar park some fool always tries to overtake me as I am turning. The amount of near misses now has me going to the end of the road and u turning as its safer to turn right into the carpark that way. Too many idiots here People do that to me when I indicate to go left - they then take over on my left! - as I am turning! WTF
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:25
I agree with Mannikat on this one. It is a common way to alert other drivers that you are going to reverse park. I think most if not all drivers pop their hazards on to do this You usually have to, because the person behind you doesn't look any further than their bonnet and ends up sitting in your boot! Hazards simply means 'I've stopped, am maneuvering, go around me'. If people paid more attention to what was going around them, stopped being so impatient and were more courteous - that would be great. Wishful thinking FD, when I stop, indicate left to go into our undercar park some fool always tries to overtake me as I am turning. The amount of near misses now has me going to the end of the road and u turning as its safer to turn right into the carpark that way. Too many idiots here
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:16
I agree with Mannikat on this one. It is a common way to alert other drivers that you are going to reverse park. I think most if not all drivers pop their hazards on to do this You usually have to, because the person behind you doesn't look any further than their bonnet and ends up sitting in your boot! Hazards simply means 'I've stopped, am maneuvering, go around me'. If people paid more attention to what was going around them, stopped being so impatient and were more courteous - that would be great.
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:13
Some car parks here state - ONLY reverse parking allowed! No frontwards parking
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EW GURU
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:11
What is the most annoying part of it is that you **pass** the parking space so that people think you aren't going to stop for it. Then, you want to reverse backwards into it. That's why the "morons" are behind you because there is no possible way for you to indicate that you are going to reverse into the spot. It ought to be illegal. erm no - that's what the little lever beside the steering wheel is for - you INDICATE you are going to move into that spot - I usually flick on my hazards that I'm stopping then indicate to show I'm going to reverse. If people are too dumb to realise what that means, they shouldn't have a license. They aren't dumb. If you indicate, I would think you are turning right, possibly into a parking space further on. If you flick on your hazards, I would assume there is some sort of hazard. I bet you put your hazards on in the fog too. Sorry but that is so ridiculous, I have never once thought 'that person that drove past that open spot and is now indicating and pulled in on the side of the open spot is going for another spot up ahead that i magically can't see.' Seriously not once I have not understood what the person is clearly doing. Agreed. It's generally pretty obvious. I just indicate and slow down, drive past the space and back straight in, but I've seen various ways of making it clear you're going for the space, and it's a lot more sensible a use for hazard lights than most in Dubai.
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:10
What is it with Marina Mall???? I hit a trolley there and dented my car door......then again thinking about it I think the trolley hit me..... I pulled into a space and didn't realize the skirt on the bottom of my car had gone over the separater thing on the floor. When I reversed it made the worst noise ever and I had pulled the bumper almost clean off :-( That is EXACTLY what happened to me!!! ARGHHHHH So Angry me too as it cost a fortune to pop it back on :-(
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:09
What is it with Marina Mall???? I hit a trolley there and dented my car door......then again thinking about it I think the trolley hit me..... I pulled into a space and didn't realize the skirt on the bottom of my car had gone over the separater thing on the floor. When I reversed it made the worst noise ever and I had pulled the bumper almost clean off :-( That is EXACTLY what happened to me!!! ARGHHHHH So Angry
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:08
I agree with Mannikat on this one. It is a common way to alert other drivers that you are going to reverse park. I think most if not all drivers pop their hazards on to do this
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 10 November 2014 - 14:07
From what I saw the other day, I don't think reversing is taught here when getting your drivers licence, I hope not anyway. I was at a petrol station watching the atrocious attempts at reversing parallel to the pump from a driving school car in front of me. I was fondly remembering learning to drive myself when the driver got out......it was an instructor, in uniform :thinking:
 
 

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