I don’t really understand why we will willingly watch things that frustrate us to the degree that your blood pressure gets so high all it makes your blood filler cap pop off. This video of a person trying to parallel park a Honda Accord into a generously-sized space is one of those things.
The previous world record for reverse parallel parking has been shattered. Before this week, the record stood at a combined 35 centimeters between the car and the vehicles front and behind, a yawning chasm large enough to sail the entire Nimitz-class aircraft carrier fleet, ten cruise ships, and, of course, YO MOMMA…
Handbrake-sliding a classic Mini into a parking spot just five inches longer than the car itself is a little absurd, but it is impressive.
That parking spot is just big enough for a Fiat Citroen VTS, and to actually make it work is that much more challenging in front of a helpful group like this.
German Ronny "C-Rock" Wechselberger made parallel parking history earlier this year when he flipped his Volkswagen Polo into a spot approximately 26 centimeters (10.24 inches) longer than his car without crashing. It beat the old record by just one centimeter.
If you think parallel parking is bad now, imagine it in the 1950s. With archaic power steering (if any) and massive cars trying to parallel park must have been even more irritating. With this in mind one clever inventor dreamed up the "Park-kar" (?), a trunk mounted, drive shaft driven fifth wheel to maneuver…
This mule doesn't mess around with radar proximity sensors or advanced trigonometric algorithms. He just parks with his heart and makes anyone who uses assisted parking feel like an ass.
Stanford University's Computer Science Department's autonomous VW Passat Wagon has learned a fun new trick: using vehicle and real-world models to accurately J-turn its way into a parallel parking space. At least our future masters have skills.
Striking a blow for feminist equality, this little girl demonstrates the kind of parallel parking skill more often associated with gristly movie stunt drivers. Don't try this at home, unless you're also impossibly cute.
1. Pull up just alongside the car in front, leaving 2 feet of space, until your rear bumpers are even.
The formula for the perfect parallel parking job was recently worked out by mathematician Simon Blackburn. It is: Minimum space needed=length of car + √[(r²-I²)+(I+k)²-(√(r²-I²)-w)²]-I-k Easy, right? Full solution below.
These parents are obviously doing something right, as their son not only drives a Power Wheels Mustang, but can drift it into a parallel parking space like a parking challenge champ. Someday we want our kids to drive this well.
Twenty-one (by our generous count) very sad attempts at parallel parking yield a very half-assed result which still has the car hanging out in the driveway. We're still flabbergasted to see it's possible to turn yourself around 180 degrees while attempting to parallel park. The Benny Hill music and accelerated speed…
Ford announced its new Active Park Assist system before the Detroit Auto Show, but here, in one of McCormick Place's many labyrinthine parking garages, is the first time we've tested it.
Ford's Active Park Assist looks to be much more controlled than the system Lexus debuted on the LS460 and will be available as an option on the 2010 Lincoln MKS and the upcoming 2010 Lincoln MKT crossover that will debut at the Detroit Auto Show next month.
Ford's one-upping Lexus with an ultrasonic parallel-parking system it claims is easier to use, more versatile and requires less driver input than camera-based rivals. Amazingly, the whole Ford lineup may get it by 2012.
You know what makes parking easier? People yelling at you in Italian and someone taping it. The video goes on for three minutes and at no point does the young woman in it get anywhere near parking her car correctly. This is what parallel parking looks like when done by someone who was never taught how to parallel…