Smart Car

[milleplod]

I saw a Smart car thing today.....with rear parking sensors. I did wonder......WHY????!!!!...considering its bodywork stops at the back of the driver's head! Then I realised it was more a reflection of driving standards today than anything else. My brother's car can park itself - he doesn't let it though as he has some pride! :D

Pete

[steve2006]

Surely you wouldn't expect someone to reverse park one of them into a space outside a school without them would you, probably has a reversing camera and lane keep assist as optional extras :)

I keep one of them in the boot of my LS400 for parking in multistorey car parks :)

[milleplod]

Sounds about right that! :D

At the other end of the scale, I was at my wife's shop earlier today....one parking space outside, between two other cars. A lady well into her 70s in a newish VW Transporter minibus drew alongside the front car and started to reverse into the space. 'Never in a million years' I think to myself. B****r me, she did it in one, and it was absolutely parallel to the kerb. I wanted to go outside and clap, but I think it would've been wrong on many levels....!

Pete

[baxlin]

Sounds about right that! :D

At the other end of the scale, I was at my wife's shop earlier today....one parking space outside, between two other cars. A lady well into her 70s in a newish VW Transporter minibus drew alongside the front car and started to reverse into the space. 'Never in a million years' I think to myself. B****r me, she did it in one, and it was absolutely parallel to the kerb. I wanted to go outside and clap, but I think it would've been wrong on many levels....!

Pete

Read this out to Mrs Baxlin (45+ years driving). Her reply??

"And your point is?"

[milleplod]

Sounds about right that! :D

At the other end of the scale, I was at my wife's shop earlier today....one parking space outside, between two other cars. A lady well into her 70s in a newish VW Transporter minibus drew alongside the front car and started to reverse into the space. 'Never in a million years' I think to myself. B****r me, she did it in one, and it was absolutely parallel to the kerb. I wanted to go outside and clap, but I think it would've been wrong on many levels....!

Pete

Read this out to Mrs Baxlin (45+ years driving). Her reply??

"And your point is?"

Its not difficult. Big car.....smallish gap.....'it'll never fit'....it did.....ergo more than likely older, more experienced drivers don't need newfangled 'driver aids'.

But I bet your Mrs worked out what I meant without me explaining it! :D

Pete

[two tractors]

if you have ever driven a van you would know they are a lot easier to park,due to large mirrors that show the whole side of van including the rear wheel.i would much rather parallel park my jumbo transit than a standard car

[steve2006]

I had to reverse a large company Vauxhall van into a narrow driveway last week, one of the linesmen said I'll watch you back but as the reversing commenced I couldn't see him in either mirror. Stopping to find out why he than said I'm right behind you can't you see me on the reversing camera screen in the cab.

Reversing camera screen,what's that, arr that's what that thing is then so not a sat nav :)