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The Geometry for Perfect Parking
- bad_alloc 17y agoI'll have to discuss this with my teachers at drving school, maybe they'll train us in geometry too afterwards. I see just one problem: Does this approach incorporate tolerances too? Having to touch the car behind you may not be appreciated.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoIn Paris it's common to nestle mostly into the space, gently (and sometimes not so gently) nudging the bumpers of the cars in front and back to widen the space. When parking in Paris, leave your handbrake off and the car out of gear to avoid damage.
- jws 17y agoThis only tells you the minimum space required to park your given car behind a car of a given width. The actual doing is left as an exercise to the reader.
- russell 17y agoRuss Swift does it without geometry and uses much less space. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpXf0cmJ64 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpXf0cmJ64 (Sorry I couldnt find it in English.) The new world record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Eqn_BiQus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Eqn_BiQus (Watch it with the sound off to avoid the screaming commentator.)
- lneves 17y agoI want to see it get out :-)
- furyg3 17y agoOT: Why must the Japanese TV always have a little box in the corner showing the reactions of random people (presumably random famous people)? Would your average Japanese person not realize that parallel parking a car at 30mph is amazing, without seeing someone else's shocked face? Is this the logical extension of the laugh-track? Something I've been wondering for a while...
- jongraehl 17y agoI think it's fair to say it's works for the same reason the laugh-track works. Clearly we enjoy performances more when we're in the company of others visibly/audibly enjoying them. My sometimes negative reaction to synthetic or real crowd approval combines two judgments: the material is awful, and the crowd is despicable in their approval of it (people sometimes viscerally hate laugh tracks). If I like the performance, I won't be disgusted by the laugh track.
- smokey_the_bear 17y agoMy high school carpool was in a Ford Fiesta. The driver couldn't parallel park to save his life. But four of us could pick it up and nudge it over.
- rdtsc 17y agoHehe. We picked up the car of our gym teacher and "nudged" it over between two trees, such that there was no way of getting it out except for picking it up and moving again;-) Ah the good old days...