Why? There is enough space on the parking lot
Why? There is enough space on the parking lot
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Really they should just have some concrete parking blocks in that lot. Not sure if I can really blame the drivers here… it’s just a bad setup.
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Shouldn't the driver be able to know where their car ends without a concrete barrier?
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In the front, yes - but knowing how much your rear might be sticking out is another story. That's tough to judge with rear-view and side-view mirrors only.
Maybe it's different elsewhere but at least in the Midwest US we have a range of different length parking spots, from very short to long, so it's habit to pull as far forward as possible to ensure you aren't sticking out into the aisle.
The courteous folks hop back in and reposition if they're parked funky, but those types can be far and between.
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There's a curb. That idiot just pulled up onto it.
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If you park on the lawn there will still be some idiot who finds a way to hit your car.
That is no excuse to park like an asshole.
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They don"t fit in the spot then. Need to find a bigger spot or a smaller car.
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I've been on the middle of a parking lot, in a smaller car then both my neighbors, with my bumper (on front and back) less far out than my neighbors and still got a nice $500 bumper-rub.
Being remotely close to the edge is not in your personal self interest.
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No, they need a car stop bar or whatever that informa the driver when they are safely parked
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Maybe, but depending on where you live, parking like this will get your car scratched up and headlights broken. which is the right thing to do
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Many cars are too long for the road.
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That's clearly a residential area if someone would hit their cars it would happen either way.. you're supposed to drive slowly there.
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This is why parking spaces tend to have those horizontal blocks. It’s to stop dumbass drivers like those depicted in the picture from blocking the sidewalk.
Unfortunately, with the rise in insecurity compensators (“sports” utility vehicles and light duty trucks). Those measures are quickly defeated.
I live in the southern states of America and the amount of dOdGe RaM 1500 hD/f150s and “luxury” SUVs just blatantly blocking the sidewalks in urban settings (downtown) is too fucking high. If you are visually impaired expect to run into many of these idiot’s cars/trucks.
Fuck cars.
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I'm sorry to say that I'm often one of those dumbass drivers (though I drive a little Civic). I need to do a better job of not pulling so far. Pedestrians and bicyclists deserve a sidewalk free of obstacles, and It's not good for the car either.
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Those are called a “tire stop” in english (american). Many US cities require them to avoid this very problem…
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That's when you get your key out and write them a love letter with it
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Probably because people are bad at parking and it’s easy to pull forward till you feel your tires bump against the curb. Only problem is that with increasing safety standards usually resulting in longer hoods and bigger engine compartments for crumple zones, you get this.
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drive till you hit something. helluva strategy.
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Bumpers are supposed to bump into stuff, right? /s
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It’s not bad parking, lots of places use parking stops and you’re told/taught to pull up to them or the curb to park.
Where I am, if you don’t have parking stops, your curb must be 3m wide, to account for hood overhang and leaving the required space for handi egress.
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That's just because driver's ed in the US if fucking horrible, and teaches the bare minimum to not kill other people while behind the wheel of a ton and a half of steel and aluminum. It doesn't teach you to be a good driver, just not completely incompetent.
Most people still forget most of the shit they learn there, though.
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One guy mounted the curb
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Most people aren't doing terribly here really. It's not ideal but it's not horrific, until you get to the light blue/turquoise SUV 3 or 4 cars down. That fucker has clearly mounted the kerb and without the car there this picture looks pretty normal.
Also I don't think these pictures are of the same line of cars, should be able to see the roof box on both pictures but you can't.
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very suspicious framing
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Every car is over the curb.
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Yeah. Not ideal but not horrific, until that turquoise SUV which blocks a full paving slab more than the others.
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Aren't doing terribly? Every one of them is overhanging the pavement.
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Yeah not ideal as I said, the picture just looks a lot worse because of one douchbag who has fully mounted the kerb. Most people here have parked badly, one person has parked awfully. Without the one person this picture looks very different.
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They want their cars scratched, that's why!
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As a small kid i once rode my kickscooter in a similar parked car, cause to be honest I wasn't looking and also wasn't expecting a car to pretrude like one meter into the sidewalk. While I was definitly careless (and also like 5) you should expect accidents happening when you leave stuff in places they don't belong.
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Happy to oblige ! whow about an extra tire knifing ? it's on the house !
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It's often because people line up their car according to the car next to them. If one person does a lousy job and the next person copies them it begins to spread like a virus.
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That's good there. I think that's my mistake when I park. I align with the neighboring car's sideview mirrors.
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Yeah this is probably it. Would explain why people with small cars always pull in waaaaaay to the front. Everytime I think I see a space I'm bamboozled by small cars.
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I do that too, but I also tend to check where the front of that car is...
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A good rule of thumb is to look just below the side mirrors. The average height person seated correctly will see the stop line appear just below the side mirrors when the front bumper is at the line.
Easy way to know with yourself in your own car is to park right at the line, then sit in the drivers seat and compare where the line is in relation to the mirrors when seated normally.
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In the US, half those vehicles would have trailer hitches waiting to bruise your shins.
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And another 30% would have bike racks that are really just there to discourage tailgaters
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As a wheelchair user I absolutely hate when people do this! I ended up forced to go around the back of the car which is way less safe.
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Yeah I'm fairly sure parking like this would earn you tickets where I live...
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This is why parking spaces have the yellow fucking things in the front.
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I know what you meant, but now I am imagining a giant yellow dildo in each space to stop the car.
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My whole neighborhood looks like this and I fucking hate it. Sometimes I fantasize about having a giant Flex and cut every car where the sidewalk begins
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Lots of people are bad at parking. It can be a little difficult to judge distance so people go until they bump something. I think having cameras around the vehicle would help, if people use them, that is.
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Last time I used my backup camera, I misjudged the distance and hit someone's car. Never again.
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I get that this is obnoxious, but I would probably make the same mistake. It's just a habit to pull my car up to the "front" of a parking spot. Most curb parking that I'm familiar with includes spacing for car overhang that is apart from the sidewalk or parking blocks, so this seems like understandably thoughtless parking, but it's also really poor parking/sidewalk design.
It's much easier to pull fully into a spot then it is to try to guess how far back from the front to park to leave enough space for the sidewalk but also not have your ass hanging out in the way of through traffic. The simple solution here is to put down parking blocks a few feet away from the sidewalk, and I have no idea why they haven't done that. The cobblestone parking area even extends directly to the sidewalk, which is also where (and probably why) the most egregious parking is occurring. This is just really poor parking-location design all around.
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But couldn't drivers just, you know, moved back out a little if they realized they overshot it? Doesn't take them that long to get down to check, and get back in to move the car a bit.
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They could. How does that seem to be working out?
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What on earth are parking blocks? Are they like stabilisers for American drivers?
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Basically floating curbs. Think a car-width length of curb that is placed at the front of the parking spot that prevents you from pulling this far forward.
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Cause we own the roads and the platforms.
Whatdya mean you wanna walk
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A distraction for sure, doesn't excuse for the inconvenience of course, but if you ask why is then is because:
- People are buying increasingly stupid ass huge cars
- The ability of the average driver to actually drive well is decreasing as much more automation/aiding systems are injected into the driving experience
- It follows that then people will often graze the cars parked just aside theirs, when manoeuvring into or out from a parking slot, especially on the corners of the bumpers
- Any owner will then try to avoid this by moving his car outside of the possible trajectory of the driver who parked/will park the car just aside theirs and who most likely can't park a car, while yet choosing to buy a stupid huge ass car, and they do this by moving the farthest away from the rear parking line.
Of course they could have bought a small car instead and avoid invading the walkway, a small car surely also would have paired well with the smallness of their brains and/or appendages, but the lack of taste is since long time well past endemicity levels.
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so the proper response is to start scratching the front of a few cars to incentive them to pull back a bit?
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Because some idiots don't feel like they're parked until the front mud flap is scraping and eventually ripped off.
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Most of our parking spaces have terrible indicators for whether or not you're actually close enough without having your rear-end hang out of the lines. So people tend to park with their wheels nudging the concrete just to make sure.
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Why blame the parking space. Do drivers near you just have zero spatial awareness?
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Have you met other drivers?
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Very much so. Around here, people will drive out of a lot and onto a busy stroad without looking, thinking they have right-of-way. Almost got in a crash not to long ago because of that exact situation.
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Solution: cover your hands with jelly and make a big scene of climbing over the cars to use the sidewalk, leaving jelly handprints everywhere.
If confronted about the jelly prints, just say you were eating a really big donut.
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Cover your feet in dog shit and walk over the hoods of the cars
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Good opportunity to practice your parkour
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You just have to take your place with force, jump on the cars to stay in a straight line and the owners will think twice next time! ;)
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Yeah cos fuck pedestrians, that's why. /s
Fucking piece of shit drivers.
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Because fuck people in wheelchairs I guess...
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See that kid on a bike back there? Well FUCK them, you little asshole! Serves them right. Just sayin...
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I have the opposite problem when I park. I totally underestimate the amount of room I have in front of me and end up at the very back of the parking space, almost sticking out into the road/parking lot aisle. I don't stick out completely, but there's often a huge gap between me and the curb or the other space or whatever.
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A lot of places need those metal rods
Complain to the owner of the parking lot. Whoever they are. Public or private.
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Time to put some not too visible bricks right onto the curb.
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I'd be afraid of hitting my front lip if the curb is too high. I usually park further out and too far in.
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That's why some parking lots put a cement curb a few feet away from the sidewalk, where the tires should stop.
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I hate this weird behavior, just as much as when I crossing at a intersection and all the cars have their tires right up on the white line. FYI you should see the white line at an intersection on your dash when looking through the windshield.
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People have very tiny brains
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Time for a janitor to squeeze by with a huge set of keys hanging by his belt
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You don’t need to be a janitor. Just walk past with your keys dangling from your hand and accidentally slide them across the hood. Or the hammer you’re holding in your hand that you just happen to be carrying for a legitimate reason.
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es una simple pero evidente prueba si saben manejar, y que tipo carro están manejando
It is a simple but obvious test if they know how to drive, and what type car they are driving
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Because they can!
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fuckcars
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Wheel chair with ground up spark plugs on the tyres
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american parking are large. SEA parking are so tiny, if American park here, i don't think you guys can get out of the car. lmao
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Here on the UK you occasionally come across someone with a 'yank tank'. Massive impractical things.. they take up more than one parking space and still poke out into the road. How in hell they get in and out of car parks is beyond me.
Luckily it's rare probably because of the sheer impracticality of them. I can barely get down my street with my large buy not stupid car.. one of those they'd have to get out and walk..
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I've seen them once when i was a teen. it was huge. never seen them anymore though.
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I don’t think this is just mildly infuriating
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Especially if you're in a wheelchair!
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Those people are idiots. Glad I don't live there
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Where do you lice?
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Idiots that can't drive properly maybe drive until their wheels touch the kerb? I very rarely see this in the UK, that's madness.
Fun fact, when I visited the USA I was very confused by these weird concrete slabs they had in their car parks along each parking space.
Turns out, enough of their drivers are incompetent enough at driving that they're put there for them to bump up against as they're parking, because they aren't able to figure out how to park properly by themselves xD amazing.
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Considering that this picture wasn't taken in the USA, I'd say that's a success on the Americans' part to anticipate stupidity.
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Cool story. You'll note that both the plates on the cars and the signage in the image show that this isn't the US in the picture.
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So, the Americans came up with a solution to a problem that clearly occurs in Europe as well?
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The US doesn't have compulsory drivers education to obtain a drivers license, so most people have a broad set of bad practices while driving. No one teaches people in the US how to drive safely and with etiquette.
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Bad brakes.
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I'd be willing to be that at least one out of ten people who park this way would say it's because walking outdoors is only for poor people and if they wanted to walk somewhere they'll get on their $4000 Peloton treadmill at home, and that sidewalks are no longer relevant. Maybe I'm just getting jaded though
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No, it sounds like you aren't getting enough oxygen.
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$4000?
looks down his nose
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wut
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I don't think I have ever seen the stereotype this strawman is based on
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Practical answer: because they haven’t installed concrete wheel stops on the ground in that parking lot. If that’s a used walkway, they should.
I know, people are assholes, etc. I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.
I don't know, man, I'm still routing for having a bulldozer drive over random walkways throughout the day.
Bad at parking or got a car that just won't fit into parking lots? → Enjoy a newly shortened car.
Beautifully put. So often there are simple solutions to these problems.
I don't think, in this case, it's due to people being assholes. More like, people are dumb and completely oblivious to their surroundings.
Tomato / tomato
While we can't unasshole everyone we can start ticketing ppl who park outside the lines. In most cities there's traffic wardens anyways, so that should be cheaper than installing bumpers on every parking spot.
Yes, though the other reason to have bumpers is physical safety. This is a walkway. If someone is just a little bit negligent, they could run over someone. Ticketing them doesn’t help at that point. And the cost of that life is more than a million bumpers. So again, as much as I’d like to punish bad parkers too, as emotionally satisfying as that would be for me, the practical solution that will just work is to add the bumpers.
I have never seen these things in my life. Apparently they are not a thing where I live. But it's sad that we need something like that so that idiots learn to park.
We also use them to stop ppl getting run over.
Ive started to see these more and more, and imo they are a good thing! They really prevent this b/s from happening!
Though sometimes i feel they are placed a bit much too the front for my hatchback, but i understand this is so family cars dont go too far either
I have poor spatial awareness and learning to drive later in life - plus still getting to know my car. With a long, low nose, these bumpers are so handy, particularly the lower ones and/or made of rubber, so I don't scrape my car's poor snout!
Not with that attitude. Just need enough superglue and some determination...