WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Reverse angle parking unveiled

(Thanks to Carroll Stewart)

Comments

[MikeyVA]

It only works if you hold your mouth a certain way and say certain words that would get your mouth washed out with soap.

Or own a Mercedes.

[Coconuts]

Actually, I saw this for the first time yesterday in Elk Rapids, MI. It makes more sense than parallel parking, and I am pretty good at that. Mr. Coconuts, not so much...

[Jeff Meyerson]

Reverse Angle Parking? I saw them open for (wait for it) Traffic.

*ducks*

[padraig]

My home town just on the right side of the Wisconsin/Illinois border is still an angle-parking holdout. In the summer (with 20,000 FIB's in town, each driving an Escalade) angle spots on the main drag are at a premium, to say the least. The Illinois drivers invented a move where you see a spot on the opposite side of the street and do a 135-degree semi-U-turn across traffic to grab it. We always called it the "flatlander turn."

We silly locals, of course, would take one of the free side street spots and plod nearly half a block to the main drag.

[Betsy]

should improve traffic safety once drivers become acclimated

In the meantime, I'm with padraig. And those side streets even have trees...

[funny man]

REVERSE PARKING TESTS could become part of the Drivers
License Renewal tests if this "idea" spreads like wildfire!

I reverse park in my own garage as it saves time. I only hit the garage door sides frame a few times.

[Loudmouth]

Funny took some of mine.

Problem #4 scraping your Hummer down the side of the puny cars on either side.

[oldfatguy]

Actually this would be a good idea if it was not for the assumption that most driver's have brains. those that do lock them in the trunk before getting behind the wheel.

[nursecindy]

A friend of mine just bought a new car that has a camera. The camera image appears in your rear view mirror when you are backing up. She's already knocked down a mailbox and run over both of her trash cans which her husband stupidly left at the curb for the garbage men. I'll tell her Wisconsin is closed, padraig.

[Wingnut]

Insurance guys are just going to love this.

[eil]

Mr. Woody is NOT backing up to ME! But his idea isn't too bad for those of us with skills.

[Wizkid54]

First thing they have to learn, is how to use a turn signal!

[oneblankspace]

Key quote from the flame war comments:

I did go to a public school and I will say your right on this one.. My mistake.. Bet you could never admit it when your wrong..

your or you're ?

In other parts of Missouri, they have freeway interchanges where traffic on the secondary road drives on the left over the highway.

[telecomdropout]

Nursecindy, Mr. Telecom got a new car with the handy camera on the rear view mirror. He was parallel parking once, and wanted to see how far he was from the curb - so he *adjusted* the rear view mirror, trying to get the right angle. Meanwhile, I am laughing so hard, I can't even speak. Finally, I had to tell him the camera was in the back of the car and not on his mirror !! LOL LOL LOL !!!

[Suzy Q (the original)]

*aims the low spark of my high-heeled shoe at Jeff*

[sandy]

so this 'rear-entry' method, even tho it may be a tight squeeze, ultimately facilitates an easier pull-out?

[sandy]

^...NTTAWWT...

[Ralph]

We have another method of parallel parking in New hampshire.

[nursecindy]

Good one Telecom! I would probably do the same thing.

[Cheesewiz]

Another bad idea.

[Steve]

We're doomed. Every accident my wife ever had, she backed into something.
It's a family thing. They all back into whatever is available.

[Big Otis]

This will probably work as I've seen so many attempts at parallel parking in which the car ends up diagonal anyway.