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  Yes, Germany, where there’s a regulation for everything
context: I don't mind at all as long as they stay on the pavement and don't hit my light or bushes. >
  
  And the driver should dim their headlights during the maneuver too. Nobody needs a high beam at their dinner table. >
  
  You should be using dipped beams if you're near a house anyway. >
  
  You shouldn’t have your high beams on in any residential area, hell it’s illegal in my entire province to use your high beams in any township or city with working streetlights >
  
  Does anyone even need high beams if they're not in the remote woods with no street lights? >
  
  You’d be surprised how many people don’t even turn on their lights let alone think to check the brightness >
  
  I ve always had it on auto. So I ll surely forget if I don’t have a auto setting in a car >
  
  A lot of modern cars have the option for off, auto, parking, on. My 2014 doesn’t have auto lights 
  Even in a modern 2020 vehicle I don’t understand how people can have the dash lights that bright after dark >
  
  If by “U-turn” you mean pull part way into the driveway and then back out, yeah that’s cool. >
  
  This is what I mean. Not sure if there's a better more accurate word. >
  
  It's called a "3-point turn". >
  
  This, or a K turn >
  
  K has 4 points no? >
  
  The k one includes your starting and ending points. How I imagine in is start at the top right, pull to bottom right, back up to the bottom left then pull away to the top right (I think that makes sense) >
  
  I think that does. 
  Good job! >
  
  As long as you aren't doing it with your highbeam lights on at 2am there's absolutely no issue with it.
  It's a legitimate method of turning around in narrow streets where a 3-point turn would be difficult.
  Whether google maps would ever have it as a feature, I doubt it. Just use your best judgement as to where and when it's safe to do it. >
  
  I've never understood why people get mad. If there's no car parked there, what's the harm in another car using that area for 10 seconds to turn around and leave your life forever? >
  
  We have a gravel drive way in a rural area. Big trucks, delivery trucks, and everyone else will often use our driveway to pull a quick turn around. 
  They are not as kind to the ground as the 4 home owners who share the driveway. 
  I feel like a nosy old lady sometimes, but I will hear a car drive in, swing around fast, grind their tires around to make their super fast and messy 3 point turn, and then peel out very fast to make it back on the road. 
  Like, I wouldn't mind if they just rolled in smooth and slow, and turned around at a driveway speed, then headed back out- but they don't. 
  We have had to refill the first 40 feet of the drive twice this year. The damage large trucks, and other high strung idiots do, effects drainage during the winter months by grinding out the gravel and soil. 
  If people where just doing a polite pull around, I wouldn't mind- but they peel out like assholes and grind the gravel into a weird groove/gully and it's a pain. >
  
  This is why we installed a gate. Then sit in your window and look at them when they realize they have to find a different way. Bonus points it the next person is more direct and calls them out. >
  
  Yeah, it's definitely in next year's plans. It's just a bit of a pain as there are 4 people to get payment from for a project like that. I'd install it and pay for it myself- but it's always a bit political with the neighbors. >
  
  I've seen a sign someone posted in their driveway saying "do not turn around here" or something similar. Getting one probably wouldn't prevent the situation but maybe it could deter some folks in the meantime while you plan for a fence >
  
  All a sign like that will do is ensure anyone that does use it; uses it extra hard. >
  
  They could get sued for this if you hit someone or something. I am not adverse to doing it but we all have brains that have veto power over our navigation apps. And should be able to do this while taking on all of the liability. >
  
  It doesn't bother me and it's funny because they bottom out their back bumper every damn time (we live on a very steep hill - you gotta come out at an angle). I feel bad for them but it's still funny. >
  
  Put up a sign haha >
  
  Idk why you’re getting downvoted. I feel like a sign that says “be careful, steep drive way, don’t scratch the bottom of your car” would be extremely helpful and thoughtful >
  
  Signs are ugly and distracting, it's not a requirement to put one on your property, anyone driving on it does so at their own risk. >
  
  Oh yes booo the human who thinks of helping other people bc “the sign is ugly and distracting.”  
  🤷‍♀️ >
  
  I don’t think Google maps should include it because a) it has no way of determining whether the driveway is occupied or not, and b) if you go ahead and do a Uey on a driveway and get back on route, then Google maps will automatically detect that you’re back on the OG route. I don’t need a machine to hold my hand for every little thing. >
  
  This.. imagine how annoying it would get when maps asks you to do a u turn when you drive past every driveway in a dense suburb. 
  Much easier to expect drivers to have common sense than to try idiot-proofing google maps >
  
  “In 20 feet, do a U tu——“
  “In 15 feet, do a——“
  “In 23 feet, do a U turn——“
  “In 20 feet, do a U tu——“ >
  
  Is this a thing you're not supposed to do? I used to do this constantly back when I was delivering pizzas. Never got so much as a nasty look, and I was delivering in the suburbs. You'd think if anyone would be uptight about it, it'd be homeowners >
  
  I've had customers who ordered pizza give me shit for parking in the drive to deliver the bastard.
  Only rarely though and maybe I skidded ip the drive at pizza boy speed or something but I don't think so. Baffling they didn't want reimburse for wear and tear on the doorbell. >
  
  I got sent down some crazy lane the other day and my option was either reverse all the way back or turn on someone's drive and go back forward facing. No way am I gonna reverse all that way mate... >
  
  
  but Google Maps should list it as an option
  
  Imagine how frequently the Maps UI would have to update and reroute, everytime you passed a driveway it'd say "make a" "make a" "make a" 
  That shit already happens way too much when rerouting via side streets and now you want it on steroids with driveways?? That's poor UI design buddy
  Better just to stick with common sense vs trying to idiot-proof google maps >
  
  My TomTom says "Make a U-turn where possible." unless it finds a quicker route. >
  
  Not really. If you want to take a U-turn on someone driveway then do it, google maps doesn’t need to tell you that. >
  
  Oh look! Someone is here! Which kind soul has come to lift my spirits with a visit! I better get out the good glasses-ohhh it's just a U-turn... back to my crippling loneliness and despair. >
  
  Just imagine the directions each time you miss the turn house marker though. Make a... Recalculating... Make a u.... Recalculating. That would be annoying. It wouldn't have any way of knowing which driveways are blocked or in use. >
  
  The only reason I don't like it is I think I'm getting company. >
  
  People put up tire spikes to prevent it near me.
  Wonder how many people just end up taking the spikes. >
  
  Google Maps in the country I live in will take you through walking paths and parking lots to avoid traffic at the roundabout 💀 it registers dirt as roads because everyone goes off-road to avoid traffic so much >
  
  What a bunch of prudes around here jfc >
  
  Legally google maps can’t rout you through private property, even if it is publicly accessible. So maps telling you to turn into someone’s driveway could be legal trouble >
  
  I hadn’t thought of this, but it’s a great idea. >
  
  Just don’t be a douche canoe and pull up all the way to the house or use the driveway to no park while you wait for someone/make a call. And don’t pull into a driveway that kids are obviously playing in, that creepy and dangerous!!!
  Had so many people pull all the way up the driveway beside the house when they had like 4 car lengths to stop in to back up. And so many people idling in our driveway with their lights shining right into our dining room. 
  (What made this all hilarious was there was street parking so pulling out of driveways was always fun, but in the time it took most to do the turn, they could have just driven down about 10 houses close to each other and turned off the street onto another road, our street sections weren’t that long… and it was all pretty much a grid so every side street cut across main roads so there were plenty of route options >
  
  I guess that's American thing. I don't know if that's a common thing in whole Europe but in my country we even train that manouver during our driving lessons. It's called "turning around using infrastructure" >
  
  This is totally an American thing, couldn't believe the hostility in the comments, find it scary a society can get like this. I'm UK, even parking on someone else's driveway (which is very much not on) would be a civil matter. Turning around on someone's driveway would literally be nothing, like no crime, no incident, no shooting, nothing. Just a car facing the right direction. >
  
  In Germany it's illegal to make a U-turn in a driveway thats not yours without permission. Google Maps will never have that "feature", because it's not allowed. I don't if it's the same in other countries