Backing into the place you park is almost always safer. There's no through traffic to watch out for in the parking spot.
(Of course, the ideal way to park is to drive through a double empty spot. No backing up involved at all coming or going.)
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what you mean here. The two bolded sentences seem to contradict each other to me.
Aside from that, if someone wants to back into a spot, fine...but don't make me wait to get by while it takes you 8 attempts to get it right. (Not you personally, GuitarStv.)
I thought he meant...when someone is facing forward in a parking space (parked normally), when they exit the space they will need to back out semi-blindly into a thru-traffic lane where there are potential hazards such as moving vehicles (also pedestrians/shopping carts). But if that person instead backs into the space, when he backs into that stall, the stall itself has no traffic he needs to be concerned with (hence, "
There's no through traffic to watch out for in the parking spot.")
Ideally, rather than having to back into a parking space, it is far easier if you can simply pull forward into that space from the space that is normally accessed from the next lane over (hence,
"double-empty spot"). If that's still not clear, imagine pulling forward into a parking space normally, but then you notice the one immediately in front of you is also empty, so you simply pull forward another 20ft or so into that space instead, so now you are facing forward such that when you exit, you can pull out forward instead of backward.