tisktisk

fwiw, I’ve parked trailers for a living for 10+years–I do it out of habit and a work ethic of ‘put the work in on the front end so I can backslide on the tail end’ Tho I can see a practicality/safer attempt to having a better view upon departing the parked position. Obviously if you’d like to get into the geometry of it, backing in gives you a much wider range of flexibility to work with in the positioning phases of the maneuver.

Not sure if it’s true. but I was also told that changing gears on a transmission that’s been running for a bit is easier on the mechanical parts/bits involved (as opposed to swapping gears on a cold startup)

tldr because there’s tons of good reasons to do so, and very nearly 0 good reasons not to do so. Leave the rest to the mathematicians and statisticians

So you’re saying I’ve got a shot?

I hate that this meme never explains what application meant ‘back then’
I get that it’s a problem now, but if it had a clear enough definition back then, maybe this couldn’t have occurred the way it did?