Self-driving cars, I tell you theyāll never be able to match human performance.
Not to mention the time-honoured tradition of making typos (parralel?)when criticizing othersā performanceā¦
That goofy UK tradition of parking on the wrong side of the street always bemuses me. Why is it allowed?
It isnāt, at night (not that I think thatās ever really enforced - along with the one about leaving parking lights on if parked on roads with speed limits > 30mph).
Donāt try it in Blackpool - Iām told by an ex-CPS lawyer that a long-serving police officer has trained multiple generations of new colleagues that prosecuting this offence is an easy way to boost results. Similarly, not many people are fully aware that thereās a legal requirement for motorbike exhausts to show a ākitemarkā - but this officer apparently makes a point of looking.
I got a ticket for that once, on the yank side of the pond.
Thereās actually a name for that. Itās called āMuphryās Lawā. Iām a fan.
why do the bad parkers always double down in these videos and floor it? if you canāt do it slow, you canāt do it really really fast either.
What always gets me is when you see people trying to parallel park and they donāt even crane their neck/body around to look at the space between their car and the other car. Maybe itās because most Americans are too large to do so.
Iām going to take a shot in the dark and say the driver is drunk (and therefore incompetent) rather than just run of the mill incompetent.
Either way, that driver is part of the ~30% of currently licensed individuals who probably shouldnāt be.
Well, that escalated quickly
And things were going reasonably well (if painfully slowly and cautiously) up until that point.
My browser doesnāt like the video - could someone provide the youtube link?
No true Scotsman would park like that.
Donāt they typically park like this?
I donāt know why, but watching people struggle to parallel park is viscerally satisfying.
But here, Iāll give the benefit of the doubt and suggest that our driverās foot possibly slipped off the brake and onto the gas.
I might park like that too if I had stolen the car and just wanted somewhere to leave it and then I didnāt like any of the other cars there because they were in my way. Maybe I stole the other cars too and parked them there, all week I was stealing cars and parking them there because I wanted things to fit together in a very special way for a very special lady but then I got there with the last car, the crowning glory, and I was overexcited, and it was difficult to get it to fit exactly in, so I got mad. Itās really a problem of mine, to blame the inanimate objects to not being perfectly suited to my grand plans and aspirations, but then again it was probably a stupid plan to steal all those cars and line them up like that. Jeez, what was I thinking. Then I sped off in a rage, also because the object of my affections for whom I was building this great display walked by me with her irritating dog and didnāt even give me the time of day. People, cars, I hate them all.
It may have one of the utterly useless & jerky semi auto gearboxes. Fiat were fond of those.
