I once heard “to keep your tailgate from being stolen” but that seems like it’d be a rare case.

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    The parking space is ideally a controlled area, i.e. you can readily assume it is free of other vehicular traffic. The same cannot be said for backing out of a space into the travel lanes through the parking lot.

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      I’m forever telling my children to pay attention in car parks because they are full of moving cars.