Probably because people are bad at parking and it’s easy to pull forward till you feel your tires bump against the curb. Only problem is that with increasing safety standards usually resulting in longer hoods and bigger engine compartments for crumple zones, you get this.
It’s not bad parking, lots of places use parking stops and you’re told/taught to pull up to them or the curb to park.
Where I am, if you don’t have parking stops, your curb must be 3m wide, to account for hood overhang and leaving the required space for handi egress.
That’s just because driver’s ed in the US if fucking horrible, and teaches the bare minimum to not kill other people while behind the wheel of a ton and a half of steel and aluminum. It doesn’t teach you to be a good driver, just not completely incompetent.
Most people still forget most of the shit they learn there, though.
Funny, not from the US.
It’s good design regardless of the “competence” of the drivers. Oh, we also have snow, so sometimes you can’t see the curb or anything under the snow, so you stop when you hit the parking stop.
Shocking concept that conditions are different elsewhere than you….
In the US, half those vehicles would have trailer hitches waiting to bruise your shins.
I’d be willing to be that at least one out of ten people who park this way would say it’s because walking outdoors is only for poor people and if they wanted to walk somewhere they’ll get on their $4000 Peloton treadmill at home, and that sidewalks are no longer relevant. Maybe I’m just getting jaded though
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.
The design failure is only failing to anticipate that people are going to be assholes. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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.
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?
Idk about you, but I don’t instinctively know how much room is left behind my car when I pull into a parking space
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
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.
Time to put some not too visible bricks right onto the curb.
