Some people drive waaayyy to slow for this tactic to even work. I routinely see mergers who will be going 20mph slower than traffic and several cars in the merging lane have to slow down to let the putz in.
Oh, also; if you’ve got someone on your ass and you’re in the left lane? Kindly move over at your earliest to let them pass you. Even if you think you’re already speeding. Thankyou.
I know exactly what you mean. However, when I’m driving in the middle lane I am not sure that the person making the tighty righty is going to turn into the rightmost lane. I always check up because I see too many people make the sweeping two or three lane turns and I assume the person will do the same because they didn’t see me.
Please notice, read, comprehend, and obey the sign reading “KEEP MOVING.” It’s always there. It’s unambiguous. It always means the same thing. It applies to everyone. Yes, including you.
For you “emergency flashers or backup lights when parallel parking” folks, let me explain the situation a little better:
This is a 25 mph street with one lane going each way. Because of pedestrians and side street traffic, cars are typically moving even slower than that. If you pull past the empty parking place and then put on your backup lights and emergency flashers, it’s too late. I’m already partially blocking your spot, there’s probably someone behind me so I can’t back up, and we’re all going to have to sit there until there’s no oncoming traffic in the other lane.
You need to put on your turn signal before you reach the parking space. Then stop directly next to it so that I know for sure you’re parking. Then pull forward and back into the spot.
I have a crew-cab long-bed pickup truck that’s probably ten feet longer than your average compact car, and I can perfectly safely make a right turn without swinging to the left first. Unless you’re driving a delivery truck or pulling a trailer, there’s simply no need to make those “buttonhook” turns.
Roads (and alleys) are for driving. When you stop to talk to somebody, you’re NOT driving. Especially if it’s two cars with the drivers talking through the windows. Listen, fucktards, I just want to get where I’m going, so how about you park your asses somewhere else and stop blocking the way!
I agree. I never have had a problem figuring out what someone was doing when they put their right blinker on in the middle of the street when approaching a parking space. I expect them to go past the space and back up. On the other hand, when someone puts hazard lights on, I expect them to stop.
The problem around here is that a car heading for you in the middle lane without signaling is not at all guaranteed to not suddenly pull into the right lane just as you are trying to upon turning right. Especially if you are near strip mall entrances. I’ve been almost nailed by this often enough that I am now perhaps overly cautious. If they hit you, it is your fault since you are supposed to turn right on red only when it is safe.
Don’t stop your car on the busy highway and get out to look at the neighbors garage sale. Two feet between your car and the yellow line is not going to be acceptable. The same for the UPS driver. It’s a highway with semis and cars going fast. pull into their driveway. Pulling into my lane head on is not how you deal with bicycles. You wait for the oncoming traffic to clear and pass the bike.
Point 1: I was taught that it’s inappropriate to attempt to parallel park when a stream of traffic is behind you. Point 2: I was taught that you should not attempt a parallel park manouevere with traffic passing in the adjacent lane, because of the front of your car swinging out that way while your attention will likely be elsewhere. Point 3: I was taught that the first thing you do, as soon as you come to rest, is go straight into reverse (this is in a manual). Point 4: you seriously recommend your convoluted signal-stop-shuffle-reverse alternative?
Seems like you’re arguing just to argue… You don’t want people to signal in any way other than using their reverse lights? That’s retarded. If you use your reverse lights as your only source of signaling, the OP (and me) is going to stop too close to allow you to back up into your spot (which is the whole purpose of the OP… am I missing something?).
Yes, the first sentence of what you quoted. :dubious:
Originally by me (Post #19):
“Yes, the reverse lights mean one particular thing, but the hazards indicate to look out for something like that (or the other things I listed) once the abnormal has occurred – you’re about to get outside of the normal ebb and flow of traffic. Easy peasy. I turn my hazards and [start] slowing down about twenty feet from when I’m about to start looking for parking. Only a few times has the driver behind me failed to take note that I’m about to leave the ebb and flow of traffic and not left room to pull around me when I’ve stopped[.]”
I thought stopping by the desired spot was implied in my post saying I don’t stop suddenly when I see a spot. In New York City, you’d better be stopping by the spot you want or it will be taken by the next driver looking for parking.
Also, most NYC residential streets tend to be one-way but, other than that, my method works better in the same traffic conditions – for me. Foolishly or not, a lot of drivers will just assume you’re a slow driver who’s left his signal light on and will tailgate or try to pass. The way I’ve chosen to do, very few times has someone continued to tailgate or ended up on my bumper once I stop.
Then on busy days, nobody could park on the street.
Then on busy days, nobody could park on the street.
I agree. As soon as you’re in position to back into the spot, go straight to reverse.
Convoluted? Shuffle? Maybe you didn’t quite get this: Put on turn signal. Stop (or slow way down) next to parking space. Continue to where you’ll start parking. Back into spot. It’s very easy.
What I’m struggling to understand is how I’ve never seen anybody go to the efforts you describe to indicate their intentions of reverse parking, yet have never seen the terrible snarl-ups which apparently will otherwise occur, even when people have been reverse parking on busy days.
Come here, you.
See these lines in the parking lot? They’re parking spaces. You park in them. They’re not there so you can roar through the middle of the aisle at 30 mph without pausing to see if there’s traffic and nearly run down the people walking to the store that you might have seen if you’d been in a, oh I don’t know, designated driving lane. I’m sure once you get into a fender bender everyone will be really impressed that you managed to save a few seconds by cutting through the parking lot. stupid assholes.
And how about the ones who sit there waiting for the close-in spaces AT THE FITNESS CENTER!!!
WTF!! You came to exercise, didn’t you? Start doing it by walking an extra 50 feet or so!!
The lady in the OP must have family in Sydney.
These people try to reverse park, and some of them even signal, but they have a trick up their sleeve…
I am patiently waiting behind them (a car length back) waiting for them to finally move. Then I realise they’ve had a long meeting and decided the park was too small, or they’re just double parked or something while somebody runs into a shop. That’s arseholery enough, but…
I’m there waiting for a gap in the oncoming traffic so I can overtake. After an eternity, one comes. It’s not very generous, but it’s enough of one, so I floor it. At the same time, the Arsehole decides it’s time to leave and floors it too. Now I’m on the wrong side of the road, bearing down on oncoming traffic, and people are looking at me, thinking “What an arsehole!”
Oh, you were taught never to parallel park. Got it.
There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world to respond adequately to that.
If they’re not even going to park up in a bay, why bother blocking an empty one?
I didn’t dispute that point. I just wondered how their actions reduce the overall number of parking spaces available?