• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Wish I hadn’t read this headline, it validates the anxiety I’ve had before about being confronted for turning around in a stranger’s driveway.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Dude, people get unreasonably pissy about that. I don’t know why. For instance, there are several houses around here with big “No U Turns In Driveway!” or similar signage to the same effect, which all have like 4 foot long driveways in locations where I can’t imagine anyone would be looking for a spot to turn around anyway.

      Motherfuckers must be paranoid. It’s got to be exhausting, being so spooked all the time.

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        9 months ago

        There is some legitimate reasons for it, but not likely to ever be the case. Larger vehicles may damage their driveway if it’s older or not as well built. So it works for their sedan, but an f-150 or a EV could irreparably damage it. People wouldn’t ever think of that, it’s like driving on their grass basically. Who does that?

        It’s their private property, they do have a right to protect from damage from people entering it, but not to death.

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          9 months ago

          Protect as in “put up a sign”, sure. But I can’t justify any amount of force to protect someone’s driveway.

          If your driveway is damaged by using it as a driveway, then it’s already too late and you need a new one. You have no control over what delivery people are driving, or any number or legitimate public service workers who might need to stop at your house.

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            9 months ago

            No delivery driver pulls up on driveways anywhere I have been, and you can request them not too as well. Lots will damage driveways due their weight (see below), so policy is to avoid for liability reasons.

            And same as above for public service workers as well, you can request stuff too.

            And that’s actually not true, lots of driveways aren’t able to handle EV weight, the standard 3.5-4” isn’t strong enough. It’ll damage very quickly. It’s not brought up enough to be honest.