re: Backing into a parking spot is the best way to park in a parking lot

I hate when people need to use a 30 point turn while everyone else has to wait

For larger vehicles it’s optimal especially if the lot is tight. For smalls not necessary at all..

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My company requires everyone to back into parking spaces. It is safer.

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My boss, who apparently is also the parking lot police, will not allow anyone to back into a parking space. I have tried explaining to him that in an emergency, it would be safer and faster for people to just drive their vehicles out and exit rather than everyone trying to backup and waiting, avoiding collisions.

We had a couple new people hired recently who backed in. He had the guard put a note on their vehicles explaining the parking policy.

What's more time consuming and difficult?

1. Backing into your spot, ik everyone will claim they fly in backwards first try everytime.

2. Backing out of your spot, which actually is a one try everytime, and a 0 effort one at that.

I'm going to do the one that causes me the least effort and time. I think people somehow take pride in their decision and it causes stubbornness.

Edit after reading some of the thread. If you're all leaving at the same time, it's valid to back into your spot so the mass exodus isn't as much of a mess. If I'm not leaving at the same time as everyone else then I disagree.

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Backing into parking spots is remarkably gay.

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Here’s a person who has never owned a long wheelbase vehicle. I can only turn into many spot going backwards. It has to do with which end of the vehicle has the turny wheels.

If my rear wheels turned (instead of the front), I wouldn’t have to back in.



Dumbass.

if you can do it in the same time it takes you to pull in normally, sure, if not, GFY.

Generally speaking, OP is correct.

I have been a certified Smith Systems Driver Safety instructor for my company since 2006. If you don’t know what that is google it. Should be mandatory training for all drivers.

Lots of correct answers so far. Yes, parking farther out in lot where there is fewer cars and greater chance to create space around your vehicle is best. And if you can pull all the way thru a spot then you definitely do that. Backing up is the most dangerous thing you do in a vehicle. But if you can’t pull thru park then backing in first is safer than backing out later. When you first pull into a parking lot you have a current up to date picture of where everything is. You pick a spot between smaller vehicles and back in. If you pull into first then once you come back to vehicle later everything has changed now maybe instead of smaller vehicles, that have left and larger ones have pulled in which decrease your visibility backing out. If you back in first you don’t have that problem.

so is the zipper merge, but that wont happen

Pull through is the Best
And away from other cars if possible. (If you don’t mind walking)

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do not exist.

They also give no indication that they want to back in so I usully just take the parking spot from them. They then piss and moan about taking their spot. How the hell am I to know that was "their" spot. They passed it up.

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If you can't figure this out then you're probably not capable of comprehending it.