COMMENT | 'It would be easier if reverse parking was banned altogether,' says GoodWeekendMag's Modern Guru, Danny Katz,
Q: For some unexplained reason, people with cars have decided that they either can’t or won’t drive straight into a car spot. Now everyone has decided that they must reverse into a car spot. Why is this happening and how can it be stopped?I’m with you on this, but only because I can’t actually reverse park. I can never get my angles right, and can’t get my timing right.
That’s why I’m a committed straight-in parker: there could be a parking spot right in front of where I want to go, and if I can’t drive straight in, I’ll keep driving and driving until I find somewhere I can, even if it’s several kilometres away, out of town, in an empty rural paddock. Then I’ll catch public transport back to where I was going, and if anyone asks where I parked, I’ll say, “Ohhh … just around the corner.
Reverse parking should be banned altogether. It slows down traffic, it holds up buses and trams, it aggravates the queue of cars waiting behind you, everyone cursing while you attempt your 13th go, backing into a spot in one-centimetre increments. Even those self-parking cars are too slow: someone needs to invent a multi-directional car that can just slide sideways into any spot, like a giant Roomba vacuum cleaner with seats and a cup holder.
So until I can drive around in a Roomba car, I will continue to front park only, because I want to be considerate of other drivers. And also because it might be illegal to reverse park using bumper-to-bumper touch alone.
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