Good luck without a backup camera

Good luck without a calculator /s

I don't know if this is more poking fun at Japanese parking or the fact that Americans can't comprehend not owning a car.

Fun fact: In Japan you have to prove that you have parking space for it in order to buy a car, so these are all officially approved parking spaces for these vehicles!

How are they getting out of these after they park them?

Naa, just let it roll back very cautiously until you feel the bump at the end.

Well, now I have a new community subscription.

Ta!

They just open the door and exit on the right side of their vehicle where the wheel is positioned

My car is just old enough to not have a camera, I've driven two friends around that have commented about the struggle of backing up without a camera.

Bro just turn around and look?

That works for the one kei truck but there are other pictures of vehicles that don't seem to have any obvious exit.

The process iirc is as follows:

1. go to the local government office
2. fill in and submit a form and stamp with your certified stamp
3. in a few days a government clerk comes to measure your parking spot
4. sometime later the office issues a certificate for your parking spot
5. you take the certificate to the car dealer...

Seeing that architecture makes me sad the US has so many building rules that are incredibly stupid like zoning laws, standardized home layouts, and setback requirements. It'd be nice to have my home go all the way to the edge of the sidewalk like practically any other sane country.

Exit through trunk

In some cases I would guess they leave it in neutral and push it in.

Since these are private parking spots, wheel stops are probably installed.

Aiming for the hole to backup into seems difficult.

Overall I'm not super happy to live where I do now, but one thing I'm grateful for is that there's ample parking everywhere I go.

how do they keep from damaging the vehicles or buildings?

But rats tho...

As someone having successfully parked a multitude of different vehicles in tiny timber framed barns that were build hundreds of years before the first automobile:
That's where side mirrors and just plainly sticking your head out of the window comes into play!

Meanwhile in America

I've never had one in any of my cars. It's a nice to have but not in any way necessary. The only thing I'd need one is to know how far I'm from the bumper of the car behind me. Usually I drive as close as I dare to and when I go check there's at least a meter wide gap still.

You mean like everyone has done for over 100 years until just a few years ago? Hell, Japan didn't require backup cameras on new models sold in Japan until 2022. Virtually none of these cars in these photos have backup cameras...

Slowly.

Reminder that New York City isn't as population dense as Tokyo

Git gud, scrub!

Makes me question if red fence owner lives in that little hut above the car.

Is there some documentary about small/unusual living places and how they do things like cooking, washing, store clothes n stuff etc?

I've seen various youtube vids about coffin homes/bedspace apartments, and tiny homes are definitely a thing that has a following, so I wouldn't be shocked to hear about a documentary about them, but I don't know any off hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedspace_apartment

They use their eyes to look

When you have infinite-ish land you think to fill them with parking spots. When you have barely any land you want to use as little of it as possible.

But somehow New Yorkers still get offended if you say "the city" to refer to any city that's not New York

A lot of modern cars have such tiny rear windows, which are then additionally obscured by rear seat head rests, you pretty much need a camera to see anything. There's a Polestar model that doesn't have a rear window at all.

Looking at these pictures is giving me anxiety. Imagining having to do this every day sounds so stressful, even with practice. I’d probably just give up and get a moped or something.