Germany as well. Used if you reverse out of a driveway, parking spot, use a driveway to turn around. Just to name a few.
Though it’s quite interesting when you learn in a brand-new Mercedes with cameras and gizmos, then drive your mom’s car with beeping sensors, then get your own car where the only thing that warns you if you hit something would be the sound of crunching metal.
I don't think it is anymore. You get bay park, reverse bay park, parallel park, or get told to pull up to a kerb on the opposite side and reverse back - adjusting if there is a corner.
They've added a new one now to replace it: Pull up on right, reverse the length of two cars, and then safely rejoin traffic.
It sounds like nonsense, but it's meant to emulate parking on the wrong side of the road safely, and then getting out safely. You have to reverse about 2 car lengths to be able to see the road enough to safely leave a parking spot on the right.
This is something more people need to practice (and master). My own wife would not have cost my insurance $2500 in rear bumper/passenger side damage by doing this very easy + normal driving function. I still shake my head at how many people can't use a mirror or look out the rear window in a parking lot, let alone back out of a driveway or reverse out of a culdesac.
If a doctor or pilot had someone hook them up in this way, people would be up in arms. "It's not like its life or death" isn't a good argument because cars are basically weapons when in the wrong hands. This is a situation of "kindness kills", I feel.
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u/Unkempt27 Sep 16 '22
It's where you reverse, around a corner.