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This is one of those things my dad taught me that stuck with me! The UK's highway code has a specific rule about this on normal roads: "Do not reverse from a si

This is one of those things my dad taught me that stuck with me! The UK's highway code has a specific rule about this on normal roads: "Do not reverse from a side road into a main road. When using a driveway, reverse in and drive out if you can." Backing out is so much more stressful and more dangerous – I get to experience both as my spouse is a 'drive in' so if I ever take their car, I have to reverse out ;-) It did make me chuckle that the person defending the 'driving straight in' approach in the article is wearing a face mask incorrectly, but my spouse shares their 'easier to load stuff into the trunk' argument which I concede has some merit..

quinnirill 4y ago
This reminded me of one of those things that will probably bother me forever: while I was getting my license, I was taught to always reverse into parking spots, and one time we were practising parking in a mall parking lot, in my overconfidence over my newly-found knowledge, I rhetorically asked my instructor why all the people are parking forward. She asked me ”yeah, why is that”. Only months later after getting my license, while parking at a supermarket lot, I realized her question wasn’t rhetoric, and she was expecting me to think about it and answer. In any case, I always reverse into parking spots, except when going shopping.