Cause we own the roads and the platforms.
Whatdya mean you wanna walk
Most people aren’t doing terribly here really. It’s not ideal but it’s not horrific, until you get to the light blue/turquoise SUV 3 or 4 cars down. That fucker has clearly mounted the kerb and without the car there this picture looks pretty normal.
Also I don’t think these pictures are of the same line of cars, should be able to see the roof box on both pictures but you can’t.
Every car is over the curb.
Yeah. Not ideal but not horrific, until that turquoise SUV which blocks a full paving slab more than the others.
Aren’t doing terribly? Every one of them is overhanging the pavement.
Yeah not ideal as I said, the picture just looks a lot worse because of one douchbag who has fully mounted the kerb. Most people here have parked badly, one person has parked awfully. Without the one person this picture looks very different.
very suspicious framing
Lots of people are bad at parking. It can be a little difficult to judge distance so people go until they bump something. I think having cameras around the vehicle would help, if people use them, that is.
Last time I used my backup camera, I misjudged the distance and hit someone’s car. Never again.
Cameras should be used in conjunction with your mirrors, not exclusively. It makes more sense to me to learn to use safety features rather than ignore them.
Neither cameras or mirrors give you the depth perception you need.
Which is why you use them together to give you the best shot you can have.
Or you can just look behind you. That seems to work quite well.
Newer backup cameras have lines to warn you of the distance, but you still have to be careful just like with mirrors.
And beepers, and distance measurements, and a thing that lights up and says ‘STOP’.
Well, few have all 3 but in general you’ll get 1 or 2.
It’s a lot easier to park than it was 10 years ago, but you wouldn’t know it seeing pictures like this .
Yeah cos fuck pedestrians, that’s why. /s
Fucking piece of shit drivers.
As a wheelchair user I absolutely hate when people do this! I ended up forced to go around the back of the car which is way less safe.
Yeah I’m fairly sure parking like this would earn you tickets where I live…
I hate this weird behavior, just as much as when I crossing at a intersection and all the cars have their tires right up on the white line. FYI you should see the white line at an intersection on your dash when looking through the windshield.
Maybe if there was a wall there instead of a sidewalk they would all just crash into the wall 😂
That’s why some parking lots put a cement curb a few feet away from the sidewalk, where the tires should stop.
Wheel chair with ground up spark plugs on the tyres
Anyone else questioning whether there are the same location? Might be, and I know people park like that, it’s just… weird angle and easy to throw together as rage bait.
The bike racks are in both photos, too.
Different times though as the cars are different?
Clearly it’s the other end of the parking lot. There are different cars on that end.
Solution: cover your hands with jelly and make a big scene of climbing over the cars to use the sidewalk, leaving jelly handprints everywhere.
If confronted about the jelly prints, just say you were eating a really big donut.
Cover your feet in dog shit and walk over the hoods of the cars
Good opportunity to practice your parkour
Really they should just have some concrete parking blocks in that lot. Not sure if I can really blame the drivers here… it’s just a bad setup.
Yeah, this is more of a design failure than people being assholes.
The design failure is only failing to anticipate that people are going to be assholes. The two are not mutually exclusive.
No one is “being an asshole” they are just trying to “park all the way in”. A block is specifically there to communicate AND enforce that
To try to park all the way in is an asshole move.
A normally zoned, and properly provisioned parking spot has a stop, and would never be designed where cars would block pedestrian access.
It is normal to pull in and expect a stop point.
Depending on size or design of car you may be accustomed to not hitting the stop block (low car, small car, etc), but you would, as the driver, assume you are not inappropriately “too in” if you HAVEN’T touched the (in this case inexistent) stop block.
All of these drivers subconsciously believe they are comfortably in the spot, without sticking out front or back. Because of this none of them have any suspicion they need to look to double check.
One of the core principles of car and pedestrian cohabitation is to use barriers and information to keep cars and pedestrians separated, without relying on the “common sense” of the driver.
Drivers do not have “common sense” of a heavy machine, and must be separated from impinging on pedestrians.
I think this stop is something very American. In Europe it’s very rare to see a stop for the cars. You just learn to drive correctly. American drivers are just worse at driving than European ones, because your streets and parking spaces and literally anything else car related is just huge. And same with parking spaces. You are used to having a stop, so you only learn how to park correctly if there is a stop.
There are some parkings with stop blocks in Europe, but they’re more of an exception rather than a norm. What I think is a better solution, is to have a wider sidewalk with some trees, shrubs, lamp posts, etc. right next to the curb, that act as a natural limit for how far people will park their car.
Much as the dutch have mastered the design of new roads to separate them from pedestrian and cycling paths, stop blocks are simply a good feature.
Many buildings in Europe aren’t even handicapped accessible (such as old buildings, cramped buildings) and that doesn’t mean European disabled folks are “better” wheelchair operators, it just means antiquated spaces aren’t always designed with modern best practices.
Stop blocks keep people safe, and ensure access for those like the disabled.
It’s not that Europeans are “better drivers” ,(evidence: this picture), it’s that it isn’t a law there, and isn’t part of the design of the spaces these parking spots are in.
It’s always some other’s fault, isn’t it? No, it’s not. They’re the drivers.
They drive a heavy machine, like you said, so they should act like it. Be responsible. Always double check. Be respectful and prudent.
Stop blocks are good things, sure, but their existence is not an excuse to park recklessly.
Stop blocks are like stop signs. They’re part of a proper system. They aren’t optional
Jesus Christ. Touch grass man. It’s not that serious
Try to walk on this this kind of sidewalk with a stroller and a walking child and you’ll understand why it is serious. Or try to pass it in a wheelchair.
Then complain to the property owner instead of complaining about drivers on the internet. The drivers are doing nothing wrong here.
Does it really make someone an “asshole” for just pulling up until their tire hits something? Feel like this is something 95% of people would do without realizing it until they got out and saw the sidewalk.
Like do you guys really think these people are intentionally blocking the path or something?
The point is that they don’t care.
Personally, I try and have a modicum of spatial awareness that allows me to know my surroundings enough that I don’t have to collide with something to know I’ve gone far enough.
Does it really make someone an “asshole” for just pulling up until their tire hits something?
Yes, it absolutely does.
intentionally
Doesn’t matter if it’s intentional or not, it’s still causing a problem…
The design failure is not following parking lot design best practices and installing parking stoppers or bollards on spaces that are directly next a walkway. People are going to pull forward to the only point of reference they have which, because there are no lines or stoppers, is the sidewalk curb.
The teal car clearly all the way up on the sidewalk is definitely an asshole though.
They have the reference of spatial awareness and not just drive until you bump into something as well. That’s how you end up with fucked up body panels.
so if you park your car you just drive forward until you hit a concrete block or the curb?
Isn’t that why cars have “bumpers”? To “bump” into things?.. /s
Idk about you, but I don’t instinctively know how much room is left behind my car when I pull into a parking space
That’s why I get out of my car, look if I’m getting in someone’s way, and adjust as needed.
Takes no more than a minute to be civil and nice to other people, especially to those with special needs.
I get that basically locked in within a couple weeks of driving the same car. Do you not know approximately how long your car is while in the driver’s seat? Does it not get better over time??
I don’t instinctively know, but I do put the barest amount of thought into it as I know the approximate length of my car and I have the super basic ability of depth perception. So I can do a pretty damn good job of judging just how deep my car is in a space.
And If I’m off enough that it proves to be a nuisance to those who might use the walking space in front of it? I act like a decent fucking human being and move my car. Cause I’m not a complete narcissistic prick.
Shouldn’t the driver be able to know where their car ends without a concrete barrier?
In the front, yes - but knowing how much your rear might be sticking out is another story. That’s tough to judge with rear-view and side-view mirrors only.
Maybe it’s different elsewhere but at least in the Midwest US we have a range of different length parking spots, from very short to long, so it’s habit to pull as far forward as possible to ensure you aren’t sticking out into the aisle.
The courteous folks hop back in and reposition if they’re parked funky, but those types can be far and between.
Sometimes I’m badly parked, and I understand it only when I leave my car. It’s normal, you’re right.
But you know what’s not normal? To stay badly parked. It doesn’t cost much time to start the car again to move it backward a little…
How do you not hit stuff when reversing? I agree that it’s tough to judge with mirrors only but it’s definitely possible if you’ve been driving for more than two weeks.
Drivers simply don’t give a shit, everything else is just excuses.
There’s a curb. That idiot just pulled up onto it.
People have very tiny brains
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.
Considering that this picture wasn’t taken in the USA, I’d say that’s a success on the Americans’ part to anticipate stupidity.
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So, the Americans came up with a solution to a problem that clearly occurs in Europe as well?
Cool story. You’ll note that both the plates on the cars and the signage in the image show that this isn’t the US in the picture.
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.
Hahaha so funny
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.
Fuck cars.
That’s when you get your key out and write them a love letter with it
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.
Those are called a “tire stop” in english (american). Many US cities require them to avoid this very problem…
America right?
No, you can see from the license plates that this is not in the USA.
Oh okay, didn’t focus on the plates thanks.
This is the least American picture of a roadway possible.
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
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
You ever been to America? Besides the license plates what looks so un American?
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.
Well I live on an island where that wouldn’t be fancy at all, and it looked like USA to me, shoot me for thinking that
Oh yeah that’s so obvious
Looks like Germany to me.
Maybe it is, I just wanted to bash USA, now I’m disappointed😂