My daughter the petroleum engineer says they were taught that when on a rig site, to always park for a quick exit, in case things went south (fire, gas leak, etc). She always parks this way now.
That is the policy with a lot of industrial sites...in cases of emergency, people need to leaving in an orderly fashion.
A second reason at least for me is that when parking at home, there are always a lot of kids playing about. Driving past and then backing into my driveway is a lot safer because I can already see before starting to back up that there are no kids in the way.... whereas backing out on to the street (if I drove in) always carries the risk that some kid on a bike will swerve around a car and make it far more difficult to see him/her fast enough.
In my parking lot at work, one of my co-workers parked nose in in and then when backing out to leave, he nailed a car that was travelling past... the car was way closer than normal because the driver was trying to read the numbers on the building units. Where there is a choice of backing in or driving in, I always back in.
I’ve heard it called “parking commando”
although when my kids were hitting their teens
they were too grossed out by that term.
I park that way at Church because the
one hour for Mass requirement
includes entering and exiting the parking lot ;-)
backing into the flow of exiting parishioners
seems far more risky than watching for a break and
slowly pulling forward when its clear.
most other places I look for the pull through or
pull in if there is a wide enough space but
backing the Yukon XL into a tight space
does seem much easier.
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