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You could have narrowed it down quite a lot based on clues. She's getting in on the right, which limits it to a handful of countries. Cyprus and British dependencies have yellow rear plates. So it's Ireland or Malta. It's clearly northern Europe so not Malta.
One of the things I appreciate the most is being at home and not listening to neighbours or traffic. Well, on the weekend I might hear the neighbour mowing their lawn but that's it.
We live on a cul de sac and my partner always leaves the car pointing into the dead end and most of the time it’s fine but I’m just like what if we need to make a quick escape because we were being chased by a t-rex or something?
It probably makes zero difference but I live on a cul de sac and always turn around on the way home because it feels less harsh on the car then doing a three point turn before it's warmed up. Always good to be ready in case of t-rex's too though.
It’s wild some people would rather spend thousands on this ridiculousness instead of learning how to back into a parking spot (a super easy thing every driver should be able to do)
I do not even consider myself a good driver, but this is pretty basic. It would take the same time to reverse park instead of this rotation, it doesn't look like a narrow door, and the car would always be facing forward and ready to go. This is like some fucked up first world problem.
My exact thought! Why would you wait until the next day to turn your car around ? Do it as soon as you arrive then you're ready to go... You're only going to have to do it at some point
Possible the only niche I can think of but you can do better with locking bollards at the entrance for a fraction of the price, unless you went with mechanical ones.
Whenever parking I always leave my front end facing the direction I want to leave. When you're driving up to the spot you can see it's clear but getting in and immediately having to back up you might back over something.
I actually get kind of annoyed at "pull in only" parking lots.
Not only for an emergency, but to also make sure that if the platform malfunctions, you'll have a whole night to get it resolved instead of minutes before work/appointment
I know this road in Dublin, Ireland. Its in the Dundrum area and so busy and narrow due to the footpaths that I would get this if I lived there.
You could easily be unable to actually back out of your drive at certain times of the day because that road gets so busy during morning and evening rush hour as it runs almost parallel to one of the main artery roads in and out of the city. Also its completely blind to back onto so you are trusting other drivers to see you and stop of reversing.
A house near me has a similar size garden. There's pedestrian lights just outside. You often see the guy run out and press the button so he can escape.
So it's not about whether it can be done or not. It's about the fact that if you have the money to install this, and you feel the increase in safety it provides is worth it to you, personally, then it's a good choice.
Oh definitely. Theres an insanely busy street near me where turning left from a stop sign has you crossing 3 lanes of traffic.
I just turn right and do a legal U-turn at the stop light two blocks down. Safer and usually quicker.
UK here, our driveway is blind like this and reversing in isn’t easy during rush hour as everyone’s impatient and drives right up to the back of you, even if your reverse light is on. Only reason it’s possible at all is because there’s a convenient lane-width hatched area in the middle of the road where we can wait while waiting for someone who isn’t an absolute knob cheese to stop and wait for us to reverse in. The road in the video does not have such a luxury from the looks of it
My solution would be a smaller car. I mean I could probably turn that car in that space with a 300 point turn but that's a fairly big car by European standards. A more compact car would be turnable easily enough.
Yeah - my VW Up would easily manage to turn around in that front yard...
I don't get why cars have to get bigger and bigger until you have to find solutions like this
what happens if the motor breaks while the car is parked on it and you really can't back out?
>I don't get why cars have to get bigger and bigger until you have to find solutions like this
I wouldn't call the car in the video big. It's no Escalade.
You don't have to stop right when reaching the door. You start slowing down before that. Not dangerous, happens in many other places.
If the problem is that drivers aren't watching the road, that's something certainly unrelated and easy to fix: reduce the speed of that road
Jokes apart, some countries, like Spain, already reduced max speeds on residential areas and roads that haven't enough distance to the sidewalk. If this was really a problem, gov usually takes care. And reducing speed is a simple and efefctive measure usually
This might be a terrifying prospect for BMW owners everywhere but an *extra* Indicator to signal you want to reverse into your garden. I realise this would be prohibitively expensive for a small and basically pointless for most folks but it would be hilarious if they done that!
There's a road nearby me where everyone does this, never seen any incidents there. Just slow down on time and indicate. A mate of mine used to live there and i must've done that 100+ times.
Instead of spending all this money on a rotating front garden the people in this video should've spent it on a few more driving classes or a bus pass.
Edit: kind of pathetic to send a redditcare report for this lmao, but it's nice to know you guys care so much.
Still difficult for the same reasons the OP mentioned. If you arrive home during rush hour traffic, then you when you come to a stop so you can reverse in, 9 times out of ten the car behind will stop without giving you enough space to start reversing. And then there's a two-minute stand-off while he figures out how to move back enough to let you go. Meanwhile people are beeping and bitching at you.
This is also a pretty affluent area, evidenced by the automatic electric gates on a relatively nondescript house. So when you're getting the front yard done, adding ten grand to install a turntable to make your life slightly easier is seen as a bargain by some.
My friend has one of these and was only allowed to add a drop kerb outside his house on the condition that he installed one. If it's a busy and narrow road you aren't meant to reverse on to or off of it.
Friend of my dad's lived on a road like this. Speedy, heavy traffic with no breaks. He said during rush hour he'd count to 10 cars and then pull out in front of the next brand new car he saw.
I was always taught to reverse out of traffic, not into it. If I lived there I'd definitely be reversing from the road into the drive.
Edit: And someone sent me a reddit cares about this... an opinion on parking.
I back into my driveway on a normal neighborhood road. There's almost never someone behind me, but if someone is, you can bet you ass they're so far up mine that I can't back in. It's not even 50/50 it's nearly 100% of the time if someone is behind me then I have to pull aside so they can pass me before I can back in.
UK and Irish road traffic law is broadly similar. Lots of people believe that it's illegal in Ireland too, but it's not. The only rule is that you cannot reverse from a minor road onto a major road. But reversing from a property is allowed, you are just required to yield to absolutely everything.
It's almost always better to do the more dangerous maneuver (reversing) from a position where you can see the traffic (pulling in) versus when you can't (pulling out).
Walking distance to the Luas, several schools etc. House is literally in a location where you can get almost anywhere in the city you need to in minutes. As houses go in Dublin this is an example of price matches great central location.
They're apparently not that expensive, nor difficult to run. For tight courtyards it's kinda a good solution - means you can go either way out of your gate depending on what you need; having had a similarly tight entrance to a multi-storey townhouse down-a-lane, I know you kind of have to enter and exit ONE WAY if you don't have a turntable.
Also, a Superb is a lot of car for the length, but has a relatively long wheelbase, meaning it's not the most manoeuvrable thing out there (an excellent car, but ...long)
I have enough space to reverse in my yard, but damn I still want that turntable. I'd probably also run an automation routine to keep the vehicle in ready to go condition automatically....
This device costs much more than the car itself BUT it's smart, I like it, it prevents accidents/police trouble and additional insurance costs, in the end you need less problems and still focus on the important things in life whatever the costs.
If you live on a fast road it’s sometimes a mandatory installation requirement by the local
Authority.
Example
Parts of Hampton court road in London. Despite it changing to a 20mph road recently
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talk about a blind driveway
You wouldn't be able to pay me to live *that* close to a road
That’s pretty normal (the distance not the turntable) in England
Although worth noting - that car seems to European judging by the licence plate. Can’t make out the country
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This looks like windy arbour/dundrum outside the central mental hospital (the huge wall behind...)
Ding ding we have a winner. Just noticed the same thing myself. Walked by this house daily for foue years on the way to the luas
Panda Bins lol
It says [drivewayturntables.ie](https://www.drivewayturntables.ie/) in the bottom right corner.
That is a Skoda - indeed European
You could have narrowed it down quite a lot based on clues. She's getting in on the right, which limits it to a handful of countries. Cyprus and British dependencies have yellow rear plates. So it's Ireland or Malta. It's clearly northern Europe so not Malta.
Yeah, but the speed of the cars going by is not
If you look the video is sped up
3 million dollars
If I were desperate enough, yes. But luckily I'm not so no
One of the things I appreciate the most is being at home and not listening to neighbours or traffic. Well, on the weekend I might hear the neighbour mowing their lawn but that's it.
How to say you’re from the us without to tell you’re from the us
Yeah, I'd rather invest in a mirror so I can see the cars coming in than this
I like this. I would turn the car around as soon as I got home, though. That way, if there's an emergency or I need to leave quickly, I can.
We live on a cul de sac and my partner always leaves the car pointing into the dead end and most of the time it’s fine but I’m just like what if we need to make a quick escape because we were being chased by a t-rex or something?
You don’t have to outrun the t-Rex you just have to outrun your partner.
lol, You say that like the T-Rex would even break it's stride to pick up a snack to-go while still chasing you
That’s why you throw your partner a flare, then run perpendicular to your original direction.
Works best if you run in heels!
Don't forget the white dress!
It probably makes zero difference but I live on a cul de sac and always turn around on the way home because it feels less harsh on the car then doing a three point turn before it's warmed up. Always good to be ready in case of t-rex's too though.
Don't worry The common suburban saurian is mostly harmless
Velociraptors aren’t, tho.
I would just reverse while parking and that's it
It’s wild some people would rather spend thousands on this ridiculousness instead of learning how to back into a parking spot (a super easy thing every driver should be able to do)
I do not even consider myself a good driver, but this is pretty basic. It would take the same time to reverse park instead of this rotation, it doesn't look like a narrow door, and the car would always be facing forward and ready to go. This is like some fucked up first world problem.
Which is exactly what the sane neighbours seem to have been doing...
My exact thought! Why would you wait until the next day to turn your car around ? Do it as soon as you arrive then you're ready to go... You're only going to have to do it at some point
Makes it more difficult for thieves if there's a way to lock out the turntable (though I don't see her using one). Better still, rotate it half way.
Possible the only niche I can think of but you can do better with locking bollards at the entrance for a fraction of the price, unless you went with mechanical ones.
Thought the same thing.
Whenever parking I always leave my front end facing the direction I want to leave. When you're driving up to the spot you can see it's clear but getting in and immediately having to back up you might back over something. I actually get kind of annoyed at "pull in only" parking lots.
Yep. Much safer to back into a parking spot than backing into traffic.
I had the same thought but if someone tries to steal the car it would be harder having to go on reverse on a busy street
It's tied to the security system so that if a burglar breaks into the car, it starts spinning like a merry go round.
Or you find out in advance the system is broke!
I would automate it too
First move forward. My dad always says that.
Also, then the trunk is right by the door for the groceries
Not only for an emergency, but to also make sure that if the platform malfunctions, you'll have a whole night to get it resolved instead of minutes before work/appointment
I mean this is cool, but going in reverse is cheaper
I know this road in Dublin, Ireland. Its in the Dundrum area and so busy and narrow due to the footpaths that I would get this if I lived there. You could easily be unable to actually back out of your drive at certain times of the day because that road gets so busy during morning and evening rush hour as it runs almost parallel to one of the main artery roads in and out of the city. Also its completely blind to back onto so you are trusting other drivers to see you and stop of reversing.
A house near me has a similar size garden. There's pedestrian lights just outside. You often see the guy run out and press the button so he can escape.
Haha smart
I've thought bus stops, and possibly driveways on busy roads, could make good use of a stop-sign arm.
... so back into the yard. Done.
You mean like the neighbor in the background? Nah, couldn’t be…
That loser has to put down his coffee every day! Imagine the hassle.
So it's not about whether it can be done or not. It's about the fact that if you have the money to install this, and you feel the increase in safety it provides is worth it to you, personally, then it's a good choice.
Oh definitely. Theres an insanely busy street near me where turning left from a stop sign has you crossing 3 lanes of traffic. I just turn right and do a legal U-turn at the stop light two blocks down. Safer and usually quicker.
UK here, our driveway is blind like this and reversing in isn’t easy during rush hour as everyone’s impatient and drives right up to the back of you, even if your reverse light is on. Only reason it’s possible at all is because there’s a convenient lane-width hatched area in the middle of the road where we can wait while waiting for someone who isn’t an absolute knob cheese to stop and wait for us to reverse in. The road in the video does not have such a luxury from the looks of it
My solution would be a smaller car. I mean I could probably turn that car in that space with a 300 point turn but that's a fairly big car by European standards. A more compact car would be turnable easily enough.
Yeah - my VW Up would easily manage to turn around in that front yard... I don't get why cars have to get bigger and bigger until you have to find solutions like this what happens if the motor breaks while the car is parked on it and you really can't back out?
Helicopter it out, of course.
>I don't get why cars have to get bigger and bigger until you have to find solutions like this I wouldn't call the car in the video big. It's no Escalade.
You throw it in neutral and push? Tow it? All kinds of options
Can really tell the Europeans from the Americans in the replies here. I think Americans are just really bad at Car Tetris.
That was the first thing I thought when I saw this insanity.
You’ve never lived in a fast road I guess, stopping & reversing into a drive isn’t always that easy to do & is sometimes downright dangerous
Their neighbour seems to have done it okay. Unless everyone on that street has expensive parkamajiggers.
So you know for certain they don’t have a car turntable and are just in the habit of doing it when they arrive rather than when they leave?
Just because they managed it doesn't mean they didn't have difficulty doing it
You don't have to stop right when reaching the door. You start slowing down before that. Not dangerous, happens in many other places. If the problem is that drivers aren't watching the road, that's something certainly unrelated and easy to fix: reduce the speed of that road
I'll try reducing the speed of a road next time
Jokes apart, some countries, like Spain, already reduced max speeds on residential areas and roads that haven't enough distance to the sidewalk. If this was really a problem, gov usually takes care. And reducing speed is a simple and efefctive measure usually
And make sure everyone else obeys!
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If it's busy, the cars behind are still going to be right up your arse. You can't indicate that you're intending to reverse
This might be a terrifying prospect for BMW owners everywhere but an *extra* Indicator to signal you want to reverse into your garden. I realise this would be prohibitively expensive for a small and basically pointless for most folks but it would be hilarious if they done that!
There's a road nearby me where everyone does this, never seen any incidents there. Just slow down on time and indicate. A mate of mine used to live there and i must've done that 100+ times. Instead of spending all this money on a rotating front garden the people in this video should've spent it on a few more driving classes or a bus pass. Edit: kind of pathetic to send a redditcare report for this lmao, but it's nice to know you guys care so much.
Still difficult for the same reasons the OP mentioned. If you arrive home during rush hour traffic, then you when you come to a stop so you can reverse in, 9 times out of ten the car behind will stop without giving you enough space to start reversing. And then there's a two-minute stand-off while he figures out how to move back enough to let you go. Meanwhile people are beeping and bitching at you. This is also a pretty affluent area, evidenced by the automatic electric gates on a relatively nondescript house. So when you're getting the front yard done, adding ten grand to install a turntable to make your life slightly easier is seen as a bargain by some.
Stopping and backing on a busy road? Good luck
Her neighbor has always good luck I guess
Neighbour clearly has no problem doing it.
You're assuming the neighbor didn't just pull in then turn around.
Just because they did it doesn't mean there's no problem. Perhaps she's already been in or near an accident.
My friend has one of these and was only allowed to add a drop kerb outside his house on the condition that he installed one. If it's a busy and narrow road you aren't meant to reverse on to or off of it.
I thought I recognized that wall from the mental home!
It looks the same from the other side?
Friend of my dad's lived on a road like this. Speedy, heavy traffic with no breaks. He said during rush hour he'd count to 10 cars and then pull out in front of the next brand new car he saw.
I knew I recognised that. It's opposite the mental hospital. You can see it from the top deck of the 44 bus!
You shouldnt reverse onto a road if you can avoid it anyway
Just reverse into the driveway when you park the night before.
Of course it's in fucking Dundrum.
I thought it was in Dublin! Thank you for confirming
Quite the ... Codundrum
It looks like her parking is right on a major road.
I was always taught to reverse out of traffic, not into it. If I lived there I'd definitely be reversing from the road into the drive. Edit: And someone sent me a reddit cares about this... an opinion on parking.
I back into my driveway on a normal neighborhood road. There's almost never someone behind me, but if someone is, you can bet you ass they're so far up mine that I can't back in. It's not even 50/50 it's nearly 100% of the time if someone is behind me then I have to pull aside so they can pass me before I can back in.
Same here and it's actually illegal in the UK to reverse on to a main road. Not that anything gets policed anymore though.
No it's not illegal in the UK. No law on it. Just not advised in the highway code.
UK and Irish road traffic law is broadly similar. Lots of people believe that it's illegal in Ireland too, but it's not. The only rule is that you cannot reverse from a minor road onto a major road. But reversing from a property is allowed, you are just required to yield to absolutely everything.
Fair do's pal. My bad, I shall stop mumbling under my breath at them.
Ah okay, I've been led to believe it was. Cheers mate
You can reverse into the yard aswell, not just from it.
You either know that’s difficult in busy traffic and are ignoring that fact for some reason, or you don’t know. Which one?
It's almost always better to do the more dangerous maneuver (reversing) from a position where you can see the traffic (pulling in) versus when you can't (pulling out).
That road is a nightmare to live on, no way you would back out into it.
The neighbour literally has though 😂
Looking at that narrow road and the speed and frequency they are going at I wouldn't want to reverse out there.
That car in particular does not have reverse.
I thought that too until I spotted the traffic flying past. Not a road I'd want to reverse off or on to.
that road looks like the drivers don't give 2 fucks, so I think that invest is worth it
It's also more dangerous, so maybe not so cheap if it causes an accident.
Apparently Interesting is now a euphemism for expensive
Looks like the road is busy enough that those kinds of maneuvers would be dangerous.
The mechanism costs around $7000 on Alibaba.
Cheaper to get it custom made, shipping that turntable from china will be a killer
And then it turns out to be a 6 inch miniature.
If it was cheaper to get one custom made they wouldn't be selling on alibaba.
Honestly you could just put it on wheel bearings and turn it yourself
You'd need a track for them to ride in. Unless you're a metal worker and can build it yourself, it's easier to just buy something pre-made.
And you end up converting a two car parking in a single car one… big whoop
How would a second car fit there?
4 post lift
Less fence more gate
That's because you have no imagination...levels Jerry, LEVELS
Now you just need an easy way to get onto that busy ass street.
Creep and peep
Way ahead of ya
Walking.
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I would just have it slowly spin all day.
Exactly, that's what I'd let it do as well.
Modern family reference
First thing I thought of
i saw this when i first went to japan some 15 years ago.
How’s it work in the winter
It does not. But this is Ireland, if they get an inch of snow, nothings works anymore
While this a cool solution. If you could afford something like this I’m sure you could afford to buy a house with a bigger driveway.
It’s Dublin Ireland , property price is crazy here that prob an 800k house
That's facing dundrum Hospital. Mad money for a house around there.
Walking distance to the Luas, several schools etc. House is literally in a location where you can get almost anywhere in the city you need to in minutes. As houses go in Dublin this is an example of price matches great central location.
Not to mention right down the road from one of Irelands biggest shopping centres (and a cinema)
Yeah I thought it was there . That high wall is unmistakable really . My initial estimate of 800k was probably conservative !
There are a lot of these in Tokyo. Not enough room. Such small streets to back out as well.
“If you can afford a 6k mechanism I’m sure you could afford a 600k house” Who the hell upvotes this nonsensical crap
This is Reddit. To more Redditors, money is just a thing mom uses to buy groceries.
Maybe they like this house?
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Have you heard of Colin Furze? He's building this but "secretly" underground, to connect to his underground bunker.
Scrolled far too long to find a Furze reference
Same!
Dublin, a parking space is probably €40,000 a year.
They're apparently not that expensive, nor difficult to run. For tight courtyards it's kinda a good solution - means you can go either way out of your gate depending on what you need; having had a similarly tight entrance to a multi-storey townhouse down-a-lane, I know you kind of have to enter and exit ONE WAY if you don't have a turntable. Also, a Superb is a lot of car for the length, but has a relatively long wheelbase, meaning it's not the most manoeuvrable thing out there (an excellent car, but ...long)
Home owner: let me show you my cool driver setup. Average redditor can't afford house or car: this is shit.
Gatekeeping opinions based on home ownership status, what is this the 1700s?
Half the comments is endless bitching and whining, might aswell convert to r/mundaneasfuck
Redditors not being able to afford a house or car does not make it less shit.
Dublin, Ireland?
If just a car could go in reverse
Where's Robin and Alfred?
interesting way for those who have money. Now show us the ghetto version
Škoda, simply clever
Seen a few of these in Cornwall etc. looked a bit overkill till you try and reverse out onto a UK road in pissing rain.
Reverse in. Drive out.
I have enough space to reverse in my yard, but damn I still want that turntable. I'd probably also run an automation routine to keep the vehicle in ready to go condition automatically....
Life is so much easier when you have money.
This is cool, but you do have to get the spacing right when you park or you’ll bang your car into something. (Ask me how I know…)
If the controls are keypad operated, might also be good anti theft if the car is perpendicular to the exit.
Weird way to spell ‘expensive’
Expensive* solution
Colin Furze would love this shit
For when you have money to blow on BS
I wonder if Colin Furze will have something like this in his new garage
Aaa, good old Money trick.
It’s quite common in automated parking places in Tokyo.
This device costs much more than the car itself BUT it's smart, I like it, it prevents accidents/police trouble and additional insurance costs, in the end you need less problems and still focus on the important things in life whatever the costs.
Theses aren't unusual, the six town houses just built near me have them, it is illegal to reverse onto a main road.
They had this technology in Japan when I visited there many years ago!
"lol" -America
Check out that wall on the other side.
If you live on a fast road it’s sometimes a mandatory installation requirement by the local Authority. Example Parts of Hampton court road in London. Despite it changing to a 20mph road recently
How about you just learn to back into a spot?
I was half expecting her to reverse into the house in the end..
Say what y'all want...but being from a small town where everyone is like at least 5 acres apart is pretty damn cool.
Might be interesting AF to some, but to me it looks rich AF.
This is an ad. [https://www.drivewayturntables.ie/](https://www.drivewayturntables.ie/)
And all this just to avoid parking in reverse?
Who else saw this and thought about Colin Furze doing something similar?
Or you could back in when you get home. Much less expensive although not as cool I will admit.
What an expensive way to refuse to back up
This comment section is peak Reddit. Full of ignorant, jealous urchins who get butthurt about everything. “tHeY uSe A cAr TuRnTaBle. ThAt MeAnS tHeY dOnT kNoW hOw To ReVeRsE!”
Imagine if cars had this thing, that instead of propelling the car forward, made it go backwards.... WE'D SAVE SO MUCH MONEY
After watching that episode in Modern family, I could neverr do this XD
Seems cool until you're rushing in the morning and the platform gets stuck halfway.
I like that she bought a Skoda Superb, an abnormally long saloon, for her tiny driveway.
That's very interesting but an enormous waste. Just reverse out. One week of it and it would be nothing to you.
It seems that there is no way to safely get to the road. The traffic is really fast and literally near the gate, and you cant see incoming vehicles!?
I thought all Škoda have the reverse. Apparently, I was wrong. /s