Practical answer: because they haven’t installed concrete wheel stops on the ground in that parking lot. If that’s a used walkway, they should.

I know, people are assholes, etc. I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.

Really they should just have some concrete parking blocks in that lot. Not sure if I can really blame the drivers here… it’s just a bad setup.

Because if you park too far out, there'll be an idiot that will hit your car.

Edit: not excusing their behavior, just providing their reasoning.

This is why parking spaces tend to have those horizontal blocks. It’s to stop dumbass drivers like those depicted in the picture from blocking the sidewalk.

Unfortunately, with the rise in insecurity compensators (“sports” utility vehicles and light duty trucks). Those measures are quickly defeated.

I live in the southern states of America and the amount of dOdGe RaM 1500 hD/f150s and “luxury” SUVs just blatantly blocking the sidewalks in urban settings (downtown) is too fucking high. If you are visually impaired expect to run into many of these idiot’s cars/trucks.

Fuck cars.

Probably because people are bad at parking and it’s easy to pull forward till you feel your tires bump against the curb. Only problem is that with increasing safety standards usually resulting in longer hoods and bigger engine compartments for crumple zones, you get this.

Most people aren't doing terribly here really. It's not ideal but it's not horrific, until you get to the light blue/turquoise SUV 3 or 4 cars down. That fucker has clearly mounted the kerb and without the car there this picture looks pretty normal.

Also I don't think these pictures are of the same line of cars, should be able to see the roof box on both pictures but you can't.

They want their cars scratched, that's why!

It's often because people line up their car according to the car next to them. If one person does a lousy job and the next person copies them it begins to spread like a virus.

In the US, half those vehicles would have trailer hitches waiting to bruise your shins.

As a wheelchair user I absolutely hate when people do this! I ended up forced to go around the back of the car which is way less safe.

This is why parking spaces have the yellow fucking things in the front.

My whole neighborhood looks like this and I fucking hate it. Sometimes I fantasize about having a giant Flex and cut every car where the sidewalk begins

Anyone else questioning whether there are the same location? Might be, and I know people park like that, it’s just… weird angle and easy to throw together as rage bait.

I get that this is obnoxious, but I would probably make the same mistake. It's just a habit to pull my car up to the "front" of a parking spot. Most curb parking that I'm familiar with includes spacing for car overhang that is apart from the sidewalk or parking blocks, so this seems like understandably thoughtless parking, but it's also really poor parking/sidewalk design.

It's much easier to pull fully into a spot then it is to try to guess how far back from the front to park to leave enough space for the sidewalk but also not have your ass hanging out in the way of through traffic. The simple solution here is to put down parking blocks a few feet away from the sidewalk, and I have no idea why they haven't done that. The cobblestone parking area even extends directly to the sidewalk, which is also where (and probably why) the most egregious parking is occurring. This is just really poor parking-location design all around.

Lots of people are bad at parking. It can be a little difficult to judge distance so people go until they bump something. I think having cameras around the vehicle would help, if people use them, that is.

Cause we own the roads and the platforms.

Whatdya mean you wanna walk

A distraction for sure, doesn't excuse for the inconvenience of course, but if you ask why is then is because:

1. People are buying increasingly stupid ass huge cars
2. The ability of the average driver to actually drive well is decreasing as much more automation/aiding systems are injected into the driving experience
3. It follows that then people will often graze the cars parked just aside theirs, when manoeuvring into or out from a parking slot, especially on the corners of the bumpers
4. Any owner will then try to avoid this by moving his car outside of the possible trajectory of the driver who parked/will park the car just aside theirs and who most likely can't park a car, while yet choosing to buy a stupid huge ass car, and they do this by moving the farthest away from the rear parking line.

Of course they could have bought a small car instead and avoid invading the walkway, a small car surely also would have paired well with the smallness of their brains and/or appendages, but the lack of taste is since long time well past endemicity levels.

Solution: cover your hands with jelly and make a big scene of climbing over the cars to use the sidewalk, leaving jelly handprints everywhere.

If confronted about the jelly prints, just say you were eating a really big donut.

Most of our parking spaces have terrible indicators for whether or not you're actually close enough without having your rear-end hang out of the lines. So people tend to park with their wheels nudging the concrete just to make sure.

Because some idiots don't feel like they're parked until the front mud flap is scraping and eventually ripped off.

Yeah cos fuck pedestrians, that's why. /s

Fucking piece of shit drivers.

Because fuck people in wheelchairs I guess...

You just have to take your place with force, jump on the cars to stay in a straight line and the owners will think twice next time! ;)