It’s not. Over here there are signs everywhere saying “please only park in forwards” because they’re sick of dented and scraped cars and cars that have been parked askew and take up two places.
How is parking between two cars safer than pullong out backwards not between two cars? It’s not as if you’re pulling out onto a main road.
The parking space is ideally a controlled area, i.e. you can readily assume it is free of other vehicular traffic. The same cannot be said for backing out of a space into the travel lanes through the parking lot.
You can see what is in front of you easier than you can see what is behind you. Over all you have left blind spots in front of you than you do behind you.
Easy and safe.
How is it “safe” compared to pulling straight in?
It’s not. Over here there are signs everywhere saying “please only park in forwards” because they’re sick of dented and scraped cars and cars that have been parked askew and take up two places.
How is parking between two cars safer than pullong out backwards not between two cars? It’s not as if you’re pulling out onto a main road.
That sounds like a skill issue. Maybe local drivers ed should be updated instead
The parking space is ideally a controlled area, i.e. you can readily assume it is free of other vehicular traffic. The same cannot be said for backing out of a space into the travel lanes through the parking lot.
I’m forever telling my children to pay attention in car parks because they are full of moving cars.
You can see what is in front of you easier than you can see what is behind you. Over all you have left blind spots in front of you than you do behind you.
Because afterwards you are not back into traffic going backwards with poorer vision
Parking lots aren’t “traffic”.
Anywhere vehicles regularly travel is “traffic”
Not even just vehicles. People are traffic, bicycles are traffic, runaway shopping carts are traffic.