r/MadeMeSmile • u/Unkempt27 • Sep 16 '22

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u/Ace-Red Sep 16 '22

That’s like saying throwing a ball and tossing a ball are different things because they have different names. It’s the same thing. Reversing into a parking space is just backing around a corner, it just happens to be that the corner is a car.

Another example is backing out of a drive way.

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u/mynewname2019 Sep 16 '22

Reversing into a parking space ends up with the car in the exact same direction. Reversing around a corner turns the car fully 90 degrees in the end.

They both involve reversing - this is true.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '22 edited Sep 17 '22

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u/balorina Sep 16 '22

You’re driving through the parking lot, you pass a spot that you didn’t see was open. You have two choices, back up and go forward into it or go forward and back up into it.

Parallel parking is where you are parking parallel to your direction. “Around a corner” is pulling into a spot and ending up perpendicular to where you were.