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Not really. An F150 is 8' wide to the mirror, and most people like to open the door. And they are 17.5' long, and nobody likes to touch the wall with their no
by michael1999 3y ago
Not really. An F150 is 8' wide to the mirror, and most people like to open the door. And they are 17.5' long, and nobody likes to touch the wall with their nose. If anything that's an understatement of the space used. Unless you have valets/robots packing the cars into solid blocks, every single parking space needs a full driveway beside to enter/exit, and that driveway needs to be wide enough to accommodate the turning radius during parking. For the F150, that's another 150sqft or so.
- eropple 3y ago"Most people like to open the door" is a beautiful line.
- iso1631 3y agoSome don't. Look at the iconic reveal of the Delorian in Back to the Future.
- loloquwowndueo 3y ago*DeLorean
- josephcsible 3y agoI agree with you that 9'x18' is smaller than ideal. I just meant it's on the large side of what we actually have today.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoMoreover, that's assuming that every car is a Ford F150. But what happens in practice is that the F150 gets parked next to a Toyota Corolla which is less than 6' wide and thereby has room to open the doors by extending them into the adjacent space.
- michael1999 3y agoNot really if you include the driveway too. A parking spot without access in/out is useless. When an aisle has parking both sides, this space is shared, so only 50% allocated to each space. But if you ever see an aisle with parking on only one side, you might be surprised how much more room cars need to get in/out. Even with shared aisles, it is ~100sqft. 300sqft for a parking spot really is a bare minimum. And that's before you start adding up common spaces like ramps, etc.
- michael1999 3y agoJust checked a city lot I use. The spots are small, and trucks don't really fit. But even these tiny spots use 510sqft for each pair of parking spots on an aisle, so ~250sqft each (without accounting for ramps, and other shared spaces).