Yesterday I was attempting parallel park behind a parked car. I did the drill of looking in the mirror to see if any car was coming from behind, finding the road to be clear I started backing slowly. I reversed very slowly and I guess paused a while in the middle before backing again when I was suddenly alerted by sharp honks coming from a car behind me or actually at my side!
I realized that it was not enough to check the street behind when one starts to park but that the street behind should be checked constantly during backing up while parking, specially when the parking is done slowly which gives time for new cars to emerge from behind.
Extreme Cornering
Another lesson I learnt also yesterday still related to parking was not to back until the wheels almost touch the sidewalk. While attempting to park parallel in front of my house I went backwards too close the the sidewalk that the wheels skweeked touching the sidewalk. After getting out of the car, I found my i10 extremely close to the sidewalk. The left hind wheel also had some marks on it from its forceful touching of the sidewalk.
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