Just got back from the dealership where Lisa got a demo on how her automatic parallel parking works.
Amazing technology - but also pretty weird to see the steering wheel turning by itself. (If you touch the wheel it shuts off the automatic parking.) Kind of like the first time I went SCUBA diving. That very first breath underwater was somewhat hard to take as my brain was telling me not to breathe because I was underwater!
I had a fantastic parallel parking instructor when I took Driver's Ed in high school, so parallel parking was never an issue for me. I just follow the steps he showed me and it's no big deal. And that reminds me of a parking story...
I also had my college graduation car for my last quarter at college, where there was very limited parking on the street outside the dorm. One day I got the very last spot on the end, and (not wanting to stick out) pulled up within a couple of inches of the car in front of me. However, when I came out the next day there was a VW Bug parked (illegally) behind me, with less than an inch of space between us. Sigh. It took me at least 5 minutes of inching forward and backward to escape the spot. When I returned an hour later, 'my' spot - with the same two cars flanking it - was still there. I knew my camero would fit, and figured I'd at least give it a try. So I lined myself up with the car in front of me, and breezed right in on my first try! Found out later that a friend just happened to be watching the entire thing from her dorm room, and of course she was flabbergasted (she didn't know that I knew the car would fit.)
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