To your last question, yes. I’ll take a picture of one next time I’m in a parking lot.
It’s not a case of parking incorrectly. If the government wants to make it illegal to park front first into a space, then we’ll talk. Until then...
Until then it's still the more dangerous way to park.
Your "Until it's illegal" argument is nonsensical- just to cite one example why-
Was it ok to text while driving before states made that illegal and only the new law made it dangerous? Of course not.
And I’ll still say at Costco etc this would never ever work.
We hit Costco at 2-3 times a month (depending how often we need to go).
And not just in the Tesla- our other car is a larger SUV.
It's never a problem.
There are lots of walled areas in front of cars parked face first. If you reversed in (coupled with spaces that are not 19.5 feet deep, it would not be possible to load the car.
I suppose if you had a weird spot that was exactly 15.5 feet with a solid wall behind it, yes that would be an issue.
I can't recall ever seeing such a spot though.
And I don’t want people rolling their shopping carts down the side of my car to load their trunk. If faced - at Costco - between parking next to someone ass-end first or front-end first, which car are you parking next to? Right. Exactly.
You don't have time to park corretly but you have time to check how everyone ELSE parked before picking where you're gonna part?
"right" indeed.
FWIW though if I have choices but have to park next to another car I'll pick the spot where the drivers door of the other car is facing away from me to minimize odds of an open door hitting my car.
Which means if he's backed in I want to park on his passenger side... and if he's pulled in forward I want to park on... his passengers side. I don't really care which way he's facing apart from that.
Same thing at airports. You want to squeeze in between cars with massive luggage? No thanks.
massive luggage?
Ah, so you park wrong
and travel wrong!
I've been to a lot of different states and countries, often for weeks at a time, and never check a bag (other than if I'm coming back with liquids and have no choice- even then it's a carry-on size roller bag being checked).
I wouldn't be leaving my Tesla at the airport anyway though so this isn't super relevant to me.
We can go back and forth all day.
Apparently so, even though you said you were "done" like 5 posts ago
This is just a "let's agree to disagree" situation. No Tesla fanboy will ever admit they made a mistake or a design oversight.
Parking the safer way has nothing to do with Teslas. so this doesn't make much sense.
I was backing into spots long before I ever owned a Tesla- and never felt need for RCTA on those cars either since I'd never have needed the feature simply by parking correctly.
Again though it's not an "oversight"- like they just "forgot" or something...
The car is
designed and intended to pull into spots backward.
You can tell simply by telling the car to park itself. It pulls in backward.