Did I have enough space to reverse

Do you not have to reverse to parallel park?

Also, you've marked 3 red dots, which space was you in?

If those markings are standard road markings in car parks you had waaaaay more than enough room!!! Unless you are expecting to reverse directly out without having to pull forward and turn.....this situation is dependant on size of your car.

It's not 'uppity'. In most cases it's safer.

ime it's best to assume everyone is actively trying to kill you and has never even heard of the highway code.

My driving instructor's car had assisted parking with beeps.
I didn't get asked to reverse park in my driving test though.

It also had push button start and automatic headlights.
My car is a 16yr old Fiesta so no automatic or assisted anything! It took a lot of getting used to after learning in a fancy new car and I wanted to give up in the first few weeks when I kept stalling it, I felt like absolute shit and my confidence was zero. Maybe everyone should learn to drive in an old banger, it might help develop better driving skills 😆

I love my car now though.

I always reverse park as much as possible as there are less likely to be as many hazards reversing in to a space than reversing out of a space. But yes plenty of room kn the picture to reverse out.

I'm surprised there's so many people being
smug keen to reverse park on a parenting forum. You've obviously all forgotten the ball ache of dragging a pushchair out of the boot while being screamed at by a grumpy baby!

I hope you're joking.

There's no reason not to reverse into the parking spaces in your original photograph.

Some spaces and situations lend themselves to reverse park, others don’t. The van was in a space not marked out as a parking spot for a reason and it looks to me like it would have been tricky though not impossible to get
out.

I think people are quick to get uppity nowadays. If I see a car reversing out on a car park, I simply let them… if the manoeuvre was already in progress as I approached I don’t know why I wouldn’t?

You're definitely not. It scares the living daylights out of me that people like this are in charge of a vehicle. I tell my son to assume that everyone else on the road doesn't have a clue what they're doing.

Definitely not the only one!

This thread is certainly proving the need for repeated driving tests at certain intervals!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TLru7jPEBl8

This video helps.

You should always reverse into a parking space and drive out if you can. It's much safer as you have more visibility. Safer for pedestrians too. Why does reversing into a parking space 'cause issues' as well?

Both. When you have driven into a space, your starting point for getting out is that you have almost a whole car length before your wing mirrors or your windscreen will show you what is perpendicular to you. Until that point, your wing mirrors really only show you what is immediately to your left and right (the other car doors, usually) and possibly anything that walks into and out of the corner of your car. You can't see things approaching from a distance because the adjacent cars block your vision. So you edge out, keeping an eye on your rear view mirror. Then, as you get half a car's length back, you start to be able to use the rear passenger windows. Finally, as you get 3/4 of a car's length back, you start to be able to use the front windows, then the windscreen.

When you reverse in, you start from the position of being on the main 'road' of the car park. You have all-around visibility. You can reverse cautiously, and position carefully. Your nose of the car is the bit that swings the most when you steer, and that is the last bit that goes into the space, which is the tightest part of the manoeuvre because it's the part where you are restricted by the presence of other cars. If you need to make fine adjustment you can, because your nose is free with space around it. On the way out, you can use your windscreen to see the main 'road' of the car park, creeping out if necessary. Your nose is the first thing that's free, and your steering wheels are at the front of the car. Where your nose goes, your rear will follow.

Yup

JFC.

I nearly got hit by a couple in a car. The driver was relying on her sensors instead of looking at where the car was going.

If your car is dirty, the sensors might not work.

fucking terrifying isn't it?!

Because you have passed your test, read the Highway Code and remember rules 200, 201, 202 and 203 ?

The space you are going into.

Image shows red (my car with me in it), blue (other cars and people)

I need to have started to pull out before I can see in my mirrors or by looking that it is clear to do so.

How the hell do you not know this stuff?

(My driving is much better than my artistic talents)

Wot?
You indicate and stop and that stops traffic.

You check traffic is stopped and move off again to swing into a space.

If other traffic tailgating is a problem you have a due care and attention problem.

That appears to be a two lane road so plenty of room to reverse - or do you normally mount the pavement opposite when reversing?