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Car parallel parks ITSELF!
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Exactly, and if it makes the roads a bit more safe, then I say this is an OK invention.
And if you're so keen on complaining about lazy drivers and such, stop using calculators and spell-checkers. There's nothing worse than a lazy brain.
Heck, I don't need no fancy-schmancy electro-gizmos to do the "parallel park once for driver's test and never again" thing! Just no need for it around here....
--Eric
You gotta wonder if that second to last one was done on purpose or if it just by "accident".
But on the second one, probably not the best thing to spin your tires like that everytime you want to park like that.
It's not like the good ol' days when cars had rubber bumpers, is it? You could hit other cars when parallel parking and not do any damage!apples and oranges....
it is a sad thing when people don't know how to park their car and lose any sense of direction from relying on their gps.
If it makes the road more safe yes. But I think it will make more unsafe lazy drivers. More time to talk on the cell, or eat or whatever people do.
apples and oranges....
it is a sad thing when people don't know how to park their car and lose any sense of direction from relying on their gps.
Hey, prior to the GPS, there were a lot of people who didn't have any sense of direction. Some people don't even know right from left. However, if you don't know how to drive or even operate your car, you should let it park itself and walk away until a designated driver can be located.
It's not like the good ol' days when cars had rubber bumpers, is it? You could hit other cars when parallel parking and not do any damage!
Anyone know why they replaced those rubber bumpers?
apples and oranges....
it is a sad thing when people don't know how to park their car and lose any sense of direction from relying on their gps.
Here's your chair, your porch, and your lawn.
Now follow these steps:
#1 Put chair on porch.
#2 Sit in chair.
#3 Yell, "Hey you kids! Get offa my lawn!!"
No idea, but the bumper on my parents' 1992 Volvo 940 (great car, btw) was rubber. I think there was a time they went from rubber in the old days, to metallic, and then because of some weird legislation that passed in Ontario (or maybe all of Canada......not sure), all cars needed a rubber bumper for awhile.
I think they should get the rubber bumpers again. If you bumped into something lightly, or someone bumped into you lightly, it wouldn't completely ruin the bumper. Nowadays, with the metal bumpers, they're so incredibly fragile, and yet so expensive to replace (what....like US $1500+ depending on brand?)
I just got my drivers license in the wonderful state of florida. Oddly enough I was never made to parallel park or park at all for that matter. Appearently the modern driving test consists of one lane change, two stop signs and a pat on the back.
That's Floriduh. I didn't even have to take a skills or written test when I moved here. It's just a good thing you didn't have to take a test up north. Pennsylvania has test courses and is quite quick to fail a person.
Oh, by the way, please let the t.v. news know when you'll be out on the road.
Bumpers are usually plastic with a metal beam a few inches underneath. The bumper is supposed to protect from more expensive damage to the trunk/tailgate in low speed (under 15mph) collisions (say, with a pole in a parking lot.) The beam comes into play with higher forces.
Wow, I wish I could do that.
Ive always wondered why they would replace something that was working well, and was easy to replace. Nowadays bumpers totally fall apart even in small crashes. I had a small accident in my car and the whole bumper was thrashed. It cost me around 500 bucks to replace the bumper. You wouldnt get that with those sturdy rubber bumpers
Haha that could be the reason but back to topic a rubber bumper would make parallel parking a lot easier. I mean you wouldnt have to worry about damaging much if you were to bump slightly against another parked car, but i guess technology would have to do that for us now...
Words cannot describe how shocked I am.
That's inexcusable that any authority can still get away with that and not come under fire for putting their entire population at risk.
I mean some bad drivers manage to get through the net here in the UK (despite a theory test with 35 questions where you can only get 5 wrong before you fail, and a not-really-that-easy-driving-test), but that's just taking the piss.
How anyone could defend that too, is completely beyond me. Putting someone behind the wheel of a car without being very careful to make sure they know exactly what they're doing with produces things like this.
I know that's an old guy, but the number of news stories I read, and the amount of friends in the US I hear from, telling me about all these accidents, doesn't inspire confidence about ever driving over there again. Or, for that matter, going anywhere a car can possibly reach me.
Sorry for the bump. Look at what these guys found out. Quite hilarious.
http://www.evilchili.com/mediaview/6966/Lexus_LS460_Autoparking__Mayhem
http://www.evilchili.com/mediaview/6966/Lexus_LS460_Autoparking__Mayhem
i agree (although I don't have a driver's liscense myself...)
BTW, quagmire, that video is hilarious!!!