Parallel parking

Yesterday, I was picking up my daughter from kindergarten. My daughter's kindergarten is located on the main street, and since there is no parking space, I am forced to parallel park. However, it is difficult to park when there are many pick-up cars parked there, so I try to stagger the time and go to the end of the line as much as possible, but I still can't avoid parallel parking.

Parallel parking in a vehicle as large as a Panamera isIt is quite challenging.

There is coin parking nearby, but it costs 200 yen for 30 minutes, so if I parked every day, it would cost about 5,000 yen a month, or 60,000 yen a year, and I don't want to spend that much to pick up my child from kindergarten, so I have no choice but to parallel park.

When I picked up the car yesterday, there was only room for one car, and when I looked behind me, no cars were coming, so I backed up at a pretty good angle and was able to stop the car in one shot.

Oh good... eps.

When I got out of the car, I was relieved to see the teachers at the top of the entrance stairs, smiling and applauding and saying to me, "I'm so happy to see you here.

I was like, "That's great that you parallel parked now! It's amazing how they can pull up just in time with such a big car!"

Eh... Seriously, Polish Polish!

I was so pleased that I couldn't hide my joy, and I was so uncomfortably smitten that I said, "No, not really. I was a little curious about parallel parking, so I decided to write about it here.Parallel parking tips."I looked online about the "Mere Old Man" and found many articles that were somewhat disconcerting.

Parallel parking procedure

This is what the article I researched said.

Check to see if there is enough space for parallel parking (about 1.5 times the space of your car), stop your car slightly in front of the car next to you, with a space of 1 m to the side, stop your car when the rear bumper is in the same position as the car next to you, and while stopped, turn the steering wheel to the full left...

...No, no, no, though you'll be rear-ended by a following car.

If you are parallel parking to pass a driving school test, that's fine, and if you are on a country road with few cars, you can parallel park slowly, saying, "Well, first make sure it's 1.5 meters long... and then...".(You can probably park all you want in such a place, so you don't have to think about that, though.)

The only scene that requires parallel parking is whenThere are many cars on the street, and often parking spaces are tight.If you stop suddenly and take your time on such a road, you will either be rear-ended by a car following you or honked at impossibly loudly. And if you were in such a hurry that you mistook the steering wheel, you would end up scraping your car.

More than anything else, the main reason I felt uncomfortable with the articles was that many of them made me memorize only the whole procedure.

It is just like studying for an entrance exam and memorizing the whole thing but not being able to deal with the application questions, such as "If you see the driver's seat on the side, turn the steering wheel to the left as far as you can," or "What to do if you check the edge in the side mirror? The size of the car you are driving also makes a difference, and the size of the available space also affects the situation.

While the basics are important.I don't think it makes sense to just memorize the whole procedure andOn the contrary, it is dangerous.

So I thought about parallel parking in my own way.

Three points to consider when parallel parking

1 Avoid parallel parking as much as possible in the first place.

This is the most important thing. It is best to avoid parking in an awkward parking lot that might cause a rear-end collision or rubbing.

2 Once temporarily parked

If I want to stop the car in one shot, I am in a hurry because there is a car following me. Since the left side of the car may be wide open, I pull over a little, put on my hazard, and stop once. The car behind me will not be able to see us.Pull in closer!"You may think, "I'm sorry," but I'll be honest there and say, "I'm sorry.(inaudible)First, the car would be temporarily parked.

3 Pull over slowly after the following cars have disappeared.

If you let the car following you go for a while, the line of cars following you may break off at the signal. Check in the rearview mirror to make sure nothing is coming 200 meters ahead, then move the car forward and park it again at an angle. If there are no cars following you, there is relatively more room, so you can re-position your car according to the "Basics of Parallel Parking" on the website.

This is my own opinion....

More than anything else, parallel parking should be avoided whenever possible.