Why do people not back into their driveways?

[kristen821]

It is illegal to drive through parking spaces that is why there is a solid yellow line and not a dotted line. Of course you have to be caught for anything to happen and even then I doubt you'd get a ticket unless the officer was having a real bad day.

 

[Michelina]

It is illegal to drive through parking spaces that is why there is a solid yellow line and not a dotted line. Of course you have to be caught for anything to happen and even then I doubt you'd get a ticket unless the officer was having a real bad day.

Someone asked if this was true in a "Ask the Traffic Cop" article in my AAA magazine. She said that there are no laws regarding driving through lines in a parking lot. They aren't the same as lines on a road. You can basically drive any which way you want through the parking spaces. The lines are just a way to keep cars neatly parked. I don't know if that's true for just PA or everywhere.

 

[cruisnfamily]

I'm backing up impaired. I would crash into the garage, dh car or just tear up the grass. I can back out just fine.

I always pull into my driveway because I park my cars in the garage, and am not comfortable backing them into the stalls.

 

[Aidensmom]

How about simply looking behind you and going slowly whenever you are backing up.

Problem solved, how hard is that?

That was my thought.

I drive in/back out of my driveway. When I get home from work, my son is often playing out in the yard. I'd be a heck of a lot more likely to hit him if I backed in, I can see him when I drive in. Well, I'd be more likely to hit him if I never taught him that HE needs to watch for cars. He's never ran in front of mine. I go slow and watch what I am doing no matter if I am pulling in or backing out.

 

[disykat]

The only times I back in are for unloading or if traffic will be an issue when I'm leaving. For example at events where the parking lot may not be busy at the moment but you know everyone will be leaving at the same time so you back in for a safer exit.

 

[sweet angel]

The only times I back in are for unloading or if traffic will be an issue when I'm leaving. For example at events where the parking lot may not be busy at the moment but you know everyone will be leaving at the same time so you back in for a safer exit.

Not to mention that it's much easier to nose the front of your vehicle into that huge rush to get out than it is to get someone nice enough to let you back out!

 

[wheeler1]

My driveway is 500 feet long. I drive in, park the car and drive right on out.

I do not pull through in parking spaces if I intend on loading up the back of my vehicle. It seems perfectly logical to me and I really have no problem using the reverse feature my vehicle came with. I keep my eyes open while my car is in both reverse and drive and I make sure my head is pointed in the same direction my car is traveling in.

Now the kids that are allowed to run gleefully through parking lots ahead of mom and dad....that I have no control over....

 

[soccerfreak_08]

Our driveway is too long and L-shaped to back into but I back into the garage...

 

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

We never do. For one thing, it's a lot easier. For another, when you live on a busy street, accidents would be way too common. And, if you didn't get hurt that way, you'll surely get injured from the annoyed people stopped waiting for you.

 

[lillygator]

I would never back into my driveway unless I had something large to unload...would never think twice about either...and at work - we have a parking garage and I am usually stuck behind several fantaics that have to back in and get their car just right into the space.

 

[Beth76]

I never back into a parking space be it in my garage or a lot. There's no way I could back into my garage. We have way too much stuff and our cars barely fit. Something would surely get damaged.

 

[RadioNate]

I hate it when I am about to pull through to park and some idiot comes barrelling into the spot I was going to park in. It works both ways, you see.

Um no...you could just stay on your side

 

[NCDisneyMom]

I'm in the minority, I see, but I always back into my driveway. It's what my parents always did, and the way I've always done it. No real reason...just what I learned to do. Come to think of it, both the husband and wife across the street back in, the husband next door, and another husband across the street also back in....their wives pull in forward, though.

In parking lots, I will sometimes pull through, but not often. One time I did that, came out with my cart of items, and someone had pulled in so close behind me that I was afraid to open the back of my van, for fear of hitting their car (OK, not logical, and probably wouldn't have happened, but I wasn't taking the chance. ). Even if I had, there would have been no room for me to stand there and unload.

 

[CrazyChik]

my dad and my mum bAack in both cars coz it's easier to then just drive off
nearly everyone backs in where i live(wales,UK)

 

[DISUNC]

I dont back into my driveway for the same reason I dont back into my house when I walk in!

 

[Andy B]

I have never heard of doing this.

On a related note, all you people that backwards park in parking garages/parking lots, I pretty much want to blow up your cars.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Why?

 

[PlainJane]

Even if you back into your driveway a child could still be there. I fail to understand your logic. I always park on the street so it's not really an issue for me.

 

[Claire L]

Both DH and I always back in it is so much easier and safer to drive out than have to back out It is so dangerous round here when people back out of riveways onto busy roads with very little vision until they are nearly out, one of DH's pet hates! Although I think the reason most people drive in is laziness or the inability to back in properly.

Claire

 

[MareQ]

I park in my garage - I am the last house on a dead end street - I have a very long and very wide driveway with a built in "turnaround" - so I back out at an angle towards the turnarond - then drive forward down the driveway.

I do not pull through to a parking spot in front of me if I am at the supermarket as it's too inconvenient to try and get the door open and a cart back there to load groceries. If I am anywhere else I will pull forward.

 

[jrmasm]

Why?

Because 80% of people suck at this and it holds up traffic. And usually they need another car to line up with so even if there are no other cars around, they end up parking next to me which holds me up again since I have wait to either exit my car or get my stuff from the passenger side.