How do you park your car?

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Null voted (i miss that option, a lot.) as I don't drive but do not hug trees either.

[Iormlund]

I park backwards in order to have better visibility when I exit the spot, unless conditions (traffic, layout ...) do not allow or make unnecessary such approach.

[DGuller]

I've never tried to back into the spot, and I can't imagine how it can possibly work.  How do you not crash into the cars next to you, or know how to stop before smashing the rear of your car into a brick wall at the end of the spot?  I find reversing to be hard enough when going straight.

[Iormlund]

Over here in Yurop we have some tiny mirrors attached to several bits of the car.
Many current models have rear cameras or ultrasound sensors as well.

[garbon]

I didn't have to do this when I took my test.  Princesca did, and she failed the first time because of it.

Neither did I. I had to go around a rotary/traffic circle and then make two 3-point turns.

[KRonn]

On a driver's test the applicant has to demostrate they can parallel park.

I didn't have to do this when I took my test.  Princesca did, and she failed the first time because of it.

I had to parallel park too. I did it ok, passed the test.

Also took a motorcycle test a few years later. Passed that one too, though no parallel parking.      Though I did have to go through some low speed maneuvers to make sure I could handle the machine.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

In southern Florida, backing in is illegal in most municipal lots.

Lots of places have that law if the herringbone parking is one-direction.  It has to do with exiting into the flow of cars...

Every municipal lot I know of in my home city is perpendicular with two-way traffic, not herringbone.

[Lucidor]

Drive in, although if there is room in the next space I tend to drive so that my car is facing outwards.