A distraction for sure, doesn’t excuse for the inconvenience of course, but if you ask why is then is because:
People are buying increasingly stupid ass huge cars
The ability of the average driver to actually drive well is decreasing as much more automation/aiding systems are injected into the driving experience
It follows that then people will often graze the cars parked just aside theirs, when manoeuvring into or out from a parking slot, especially on the corners of the bumpers
Any owner will then try to avoid this by moving his car outside of the possible trajectory of the driver who parked/will park the car just aside theirs and who most likely can’t park a car, while yet choosing to buy a stupid huge ass car, and they do this by moving the farthest away from the rear parking line.
Of course they could have bought a small car instead and avoid invading the walkway, a small car surely also would have paired well with the smallness of their brains and/or appendages, but the lack of taste is since long time well past endemicity levels.
My whole neighborhood looks like this and I fucking hate it. Sometimes I fantasize about having a giant Flex and cut every car where the sidewalk begins
Here on the UK you occasionally come across someone with a ‘yank tank’. Massive impractical things… they take up more than one parking space and still poke out into the road. How in hell they get in and out of car parks is beyond me.
Luckily it’s rare probably because of the sheer impracticality of them. I can barely get down my street with my large buy not stupid car… one of those they’d have to get out and walk…
This is why parking spaces tend to have those horizontal blocks. It’s to stop dumbass drivers like those depicted in the picture from blocking the sidewalk.
Unfortunately, with the rise in insecurity compensators (“sports” utility vehicles and light duty trucks). Those measures are quickly defeated.
I live in the southern states of America and the amount of dOdGe RaM 1500 hD/f150s and “luxury” SUVs just blatantly blocking the sidewalks in urban settings (downtown) is too fucking high. If you are visually impaired expect to run into many of these idiot’s cars/trucks.
I’m sorry to say that I’m often one of those dumbass drivers (though I drive a little Civic). I need to do a better job of not pulling so far. Pedestrians and bicyclists deserve a sidewalk free of obstacles, and It’s not good for the car either.
It’s often because people line up their car according to the car next to them. If one person does a lousy job and the next person copies them it begins to spread like a virus.
A good rule of thumb is to look just below the side mirrors. The average height person seated correctly will see the stop line appear just below the side mirrors when the front bumper is at the line.
Easy way to know with yourself in your own car is to park right at the line, then sit in the drivers seat and compare where the line is in relation to the mirrors when seated normally.
Yeah this is probably it. Would explain why people with small cars always pull in waaaaaay to the front. Everytime I think I see a space I’m bamboozled by small cars.
Hahaha I wouldn’t know, looks like a parking lot anywhere pretty much to me. A parking lot not a roadway and what’s the big deal? I just asked if it was America
Yeah I looked at it again and apart from staring at the license plates i don’t see anything that would tell me personally what country it is… I knew it wasn’t my country lol
Most sidewalks in the US are a poured concrete slab, and 99.9% of all parking lots are asphalt (tarmac for the Brits). I wouldn’t even know where to obtain those large concrete paver blocks shown in the photo.
This would be considered a very fancy parking lot in the US.
Idiots that can’t drive properly maybe drive until their wheels touch the kerb? I very rarely see this in the UK, that’s madness.
Fun fact, when I visited the USA I was very confused by these weird concrete slabs they had in their car parks along each parking space.
Turns out, enough of their drivers are incompetent enough at driving that they’re put there for them to bump up against as they’re parking, because they aren’t able to figure out how to park properly by themselves xD amazing.
The US doesn’t have compulsory drivers education to obtain a drivers license, so most people have a broad set of bad practices while driving. No one teaches people in the US how to drive safely and with etiquette.
