I once heard “to keep your tailgate from being stolen” but that seems like it’d be a rare case.

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    10 hours ago

    Safer when pulling out of parking stall. Less blind spots.

    Although I don’t back in. I drive through from one spot to the next in front of me. So I can drive out.

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      6 hours ago

      Oooh la-la, fancy parking.

      Me too, whenever possible, otherwise I back in to show off my superior driving (and parking) skills.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      The old pull-through. Some places insist on putting those damn concrete Toblerone blocks in front of you to prevent that sort of thing.

      Keep a watchful eye when doing so, because I have seen many an argument break out in a parking lot when someone was trying to pull through at the same time someone else who couldn’t see them was trying to pull in to the same space from the outer side. Bonus points if they boop noses in the process. Somehow nobody ever seems to arrive at the simple conclusion, in such cases, of party A just reversing a couple of feet back into the first space to let party B take the second one.

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      The only issue with pulling-through in a parking lot is one-way lanes with angled spots (the majority of parking lots in my area) because then you’re pulling forward against the flow of traffic or have to make an extremely sharp turn upon exiting. It’d be fine with straight spots or two-way lanes, but people still do it in the former circumstance and end up driving the wrong way.

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      8 hours ago

      I knew a girl in high school who was pulling through a spot too fast and got into a head on collision. Now I’m so paranoid about pulling through