auto.howstuffworks.com — Parallel parking is an ordeal for many drivers, but with parking space limited in big cities, squeezing your car into a tiny space is a vital skill. It's seldom an easy task, and it can lead to traffic tie-ups, frazzled nerves and bent fenders. Fortunately, technology has an answer ? cars that park themselves. Here's how they work.
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v1ncentAug 18, 2006
Please make a car that will drive itself; has to be much safer than most of the people on the road today even if it uses Windows and crashes every hour...
mtnsoccerguyAug 18, 2006
I'm curious. The article says that a car that can parallel park by itself could fit into smaller spaces, right? Isn't that going to make it harder for anyone who doesn't have a self-parking car to get out?
gbeirneAug 18, 2006
This has just reminded me of a headline the BBC ran a couple of years ago.<a class="user" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3198619.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3198619.stm</a>Now, think about it ... surely that's someone at their newsdesk trying to be funny.
adentAug 18, 2006
The new Lexus LS460 has this feature.Here is one review: <a class="user" href="http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=116509">http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=116509</a>
digitaldividerAug 18, 2006
bollocks. if you can't parallel park you don't deserve to have a license. ffs. it's not THAT hard.
miskingAug 18, 2006
I'm one of them. I prefer the combination of the middle finger and running someone off the road. Oh yea, and I've parallel parked twice my whole life.
darkspartanAug 23, 2006
I can only imagine an injury sustained by an auto-park victim who just happened to be in the car's way...Lazy, but nifty.