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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by littlecolt@lemm.ee to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

To me, it seems objectively easier to pull into a parking space forward and then back out of the space when you are ready to leave. You don't have to line up with the lines while driving backwards, and it's easier to keep from hitting other cars as well. So why back in? To me, the only advantage I can think of is that you can get out quicker, technically.

Edit: I do not need driving instruction, just wondered why. The reasoning.

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[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 47 points 1 year ago

I genuinely think the bar for a driver's licence should be raised to take 50% or more off the road.

Can't reverse park? Don't know where oil water and air goes on your car? Lack confidence in certain conditions? Here's a free bus pass.

[-] notapantsday@feddit.de 42 points 1 year ago

A lot of people don't even want to drive, but in a lot of places there's just no viable alternative.

[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a big advocate for changing that.

Driving should be a privilege, not a right.

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Before being either a provledge or a right, driving should not be a necessity.

[-] ZombieTheZombieCat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If you look at the state driver's manuals from the dmv it actually says exactly that. It's already considered a privilege. Otherwise you wouldn't have to test into it and pay annually to keep your car on the road.

[-] vanontom@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago

raises hand

I actually like cars. (They're... "cool". I play Forza sometimes, lol.) But the reality is they're fucking expensive to maintain, along with insurance and taxes and fuel. And very much not fun to drive under normal circumstances, next to removeds and idiots. And terrible for the environment, at absurd US numbers at least.

I'd rather save thousands of dollars and have public transit or easily maintained bike. But bikes are not viable when planet is trying to kill us (Texas is 100-110 °F for 2 months straight now).

[-] o_oli@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Where are you from where those things are not part of a driving test?

[-] Zippy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They make you check for water or air on a test or expect you to know? That would be novel in Canada.

[-] o_oli@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, in the UK it's part of the theory test, you have to know how and when to check air and fluid levels in order to get a licence.

[-] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Here in the states you need to know how to press the pedals and you're all set

[-] max@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Those are all things you need to pass to get your driver’s license here in The Netherlands. We still have idiots on the road. Granted, they don’t (or at least, very rarely) slam their vehicles through the fronts of stores and houses, but we still got idiots doing idiot things.

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