Counterpoint: Japanese Kit Kats. Expensive as the dickens(?) to get ahold of, but MontanaJordanSampras-esque winning percentage.

This. This is enough. Kudos, good Sir.

With R top left and 1st bottom left, I would constantly be afraid of money-shifting every time I drove. Which isn’t a concern as I will never have that kind of worry to deal with, but nevertheless.

Those are both statements and they carry no weight of fact, which is what you seem to be implying though you did not say.

Neither link is a study about how backing in is safer. They are news articles with various links (which I followed) which discuss the idea. If you really think that is a valid source upon which to base an opinion, that’s great. I don’t. The news reports all sorts of stuff, doesn’t make it true.

The link you provided was to an organization supported by insurance companies and companies that use big trucks (oil companies, UPS, Coke, etc). And they stated (with no links, no support for the claim) that the IIHS (another insurance supported group) did a study and found backing in to be safer. That is a lot of…

1. I may have less visibility in reverse in general, granted. However if I am in a parking spot, I can turn my head to the sides. The longer hood means I spend more time next to cars and can only see forward for both a longer period of time and a longer distance. With my mirror I can see directly behind me and I have…

I didn’t see the post with the link as Kinja didn’t tell me it existed. My apologies. And I have done research and found nothing that indicates that your claim is the case.

And your reasoning works for your preference, that’s great (not sarcasm). But if someone was more comfortable the other way around, why would that be an issue? The differences between the two are not drastic in most cases.

And that’s fair enough. But they should rattle off opinions as opinions and not as facts, that’s all.

I appreciate the layout you’ve provided, though you see the length it took for anyone to actually say anything approaching this rather than just saying “it’s safer,” as if it were a fact. However, this still isn’t objective. And again, I’m not asking for objectivity, I’m saying that it’s not objectively safer, it is…

Maybe 1/4 of it had anything to do with gender. And as the OP included that in her post, I didn’t find it out of line. Especially considering there have been a number of posts on Jalopnik about being more inclusive in car culture. But fine, I could have left it out.

No, on both counts. But charming sentiment and grammar.

It would. Because my actual point was that people are making safety claims as if they are truth and then just supporting them with, “I back in because..” And that’s great. But that is called an anecdote. And I’m sure backing in works for some people in some circumstances in some vehicles, as does pulling forward. At…

Again, these claims are just spurious. Safer, how? In either case you have to back in once and pull forward once. Both can be accomplished quite safely, to quote you, “unless you suck at driving.” I can back in just fine, I simply prefer not to. Others prefer to back in, that’s great, but then just say that.

Actually, I find people who must back into spots super annoying, so I agreed with the OP. And I didn’t make spurious claims of “safety” to try and support my opinion. If that fits your meme, go right ahead.

You’re right that I could have left gender out of it. I included it as the OP did, but fair point.

Nope. nice try. She stated her opinion and then the long list jumped in stating that “it is safer!!” One even said “objectively safer.” No citation. No “I think,” or “I prefer.” Had it been opinion vs. opinion, fine. But to claim this moral safety highground is ridiculous.

My favorite part of this subthread is that when a woman who is into cars (the stereotypical unicorn according to so many posts around here) shares her opinion about something annoying that “car guys” do, a whole bunch of them get all huffy and try to explain why her opinion is wrong. Her opinion. Way to go guys.

Valets have to park the car backwards ... to avoid unseen collisions of the idiots who speed down the parking lot.