in france and mostly paris, cars park bumper to bumper when parallel parked, people would shove parked cars with their bumpers to make space to park and to get out.
how would american and canadian car culture change if this practice became acceptable overnight? would it mean less people would be motivated to buy nice cars because they can get damaged? would more people install things like bumper protectors and bash bars to give their car an edge? would people start driving even bigger and tougher truck/suv’s, or smaller and cheaper cars? would it mean the cost of the car hobby would go up, since you had to spend more money and effort to be more protective of your enthusiast car? would the public respect that we enthusiasts want to keep our cars nice and free from damage?
and finally, in this new world, what type of car would you be daily driving and would you be modifying it to suit these new circumstances?
While this might be okay in cities, I wouldn’t recommend trying this in rural areas.
I can guarantee that the first time you go bumping against Farmer John’s going to town truck or Billy-Joe Bob’s F450 compensator truck, you are either going to get sued into smoking ashes or drug out of your car and beaten until the cops get there.
Assuming you get away before they take notice, you will start a war of escalation that you have neither the money or ingenuity to win. Billy-Joe Bob is either going to put a new winch bumper on his truck that weighs 300 pounds or is going to go to his oilfield friend and get a bumper made out of oil field pipe that could hit a moose at 60 mph and not even scratch the paint.
Farmer John is going to get a piece of railroad iron that has been on his junk pile since the 50’s and bolt that on the front of his truck, then park in the exact same spot in the hopes that you do it again.
I wouldn’t even worry about the back of those vehicles, since trying to push against a trailer hitch is going to turn out poorly for your radiator.