Good advice for a bike but extremely bad advice for the Elio.
I got $2200 worth of damage done to my '04 Stang by someone coming forward out of a parking spot.
I was also backed in beside them and they were in a big crew cab. They obviously cut the corner too close.
Like my car wasn't even there. They picked the front end of the Stang completely off of the ground.
They didn't stop until the truck ground to a halt and couldn't drag the car any further.
They stopped, backed up off of my car, and then they drove off (ran) in the other direction.
They caught the guy two weeks later and I got to fix the Stang myself and pocketed the $2200.
My point is that people seem to cut corners more all the time. On the street and in the lots.
All you're doing by placing those low fenders in the area where they're going to be turning out of the spot...
Is asking to get them hit. I can hear it now... "I didn't see your fenders at all. Why the heck would you back in?"
With the Elio, you're setting yourself up for the very thing you want to avoid.