Originally posted by: dullard
Simple, going backwards you have less control, things are backwards - you have to turn the wheel the opposite direction, and people are idiots. Put the three together and you'll see accidents (especially due to the latter).Originally posted by: Viper GTS
How is it more dangerous to back into a spot? If anything it's safer.
Viper GTS
Either way you have to leave into heavy traffic - so both exits are dangerous (although yes forward out in many cases is a bit safer than backing out).
Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
i can back into a spot just as fast as i can pull into a spot, though i only back in normally if a spot opens up after ive passed it or if its a tight turn into the spot.
Originally posted by: DeathByAnts
I pull my car through a parking space so I can be facing outwards as long as it isn't angled parking. I drive a long bed truck and I have been in situations where I can't get out of a parking spot because other people have parked so close.
Originally posted by: redly1
you are saving a shift on a cold transmission
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Safer to pull out, if you back in to a parking spot.
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Makes it far easier & safer to leave the spot.
I hate it when people ride my ass in a parking lot, makes it impossible to do that.
If you're halfway decent at it it doesn't take much longer.
Viper GTS
I agree 100%. I have a truck and I do it; no ricemobile here. The past few years, I've noticeda disturbing trend.
Of course, it happened to coincide with the release of the "Fast and Furious" movies.
People HAUL ASS in parking lots! It's usually the >25 crowd, but I've seen the older set do it too in their Crown Vics/Devilles. In a parking lot, if someone backs out in a hurry, you've got MAYBE two seconds to stop to avoid hitting them. How are you supposed to do that if you're doing 30mph?
I do no more than 5mph in a parking lot for a couple of reasons:
1. Gives me more time to react to the idiots around me
2. WHEN it happens AGAIN that some idiot plows into me in said parking lot, I can say with all truth that I was doing 5mph.