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Nowadays automated parallel parking is a relatively commonplace thing ("it's got smaht pahk!"[1]) and we have come full circle. Hardware complexity superseded b

• NoahKAndrews 5y ago
  That's such an awful thing to allow in that context
  • blamazon 5y ago
    Symptom of a car dependent society I guess. Driving is a prerequisite for being an autonomous adult here (a state in the northeastern United States) so licensing requirements are mind bogglingly relaxed, and once you've passed the test once you can renew your license infinitely until you die. This approach really shows when you use our public roads. People largely either do not know all the rules and best practices, or don't care to follow them.
    • pandaman 5y ago
      Watching Russian dashcam videos you'd think people found their licenses in a cereal box yet it requires a stern test with theoretical questions of the form "Here is an intersection, one street has a rail line, there are an ambulance, a fire truck, a military column and a bus on each side, who has the right of way?" (and the answer is that it's a bus because even though the fire truck would have a right of way normally it loses it because it would need to cross the rail line as specified in the Chapter 8.19.75 of the Federal Rules of the Road). And the driving part involves driving a manual transmission vehicle without power anything through an obstacle course. So I would not correlate the driving test difficulty with the behavior on the roads.
      • syrrim 5y ago
        I'm assuming everyone just bribes their way through the test?
        • pandaman 5y ago
          Most definitely, which would be the same if something like that had been enforced in the US. We'd have some "Driving Schools", which would "guarantee" your license or something like that. Though people would have likely voted the government out first, but looking at the building codes I am not 100% confident.
          • kuschku 5y ago
            Quality depends heavily on how corrupt your government is — in Germany, these strict tests are actually that strict and work well. But obviously not everyone can get a license due to this. (e.g., I opted not to spend the 2000€ that a license would cost).
            • pandaman 5y ago
              Is it the license fee or a "driving school" tuition?
              • namibj 5y ago
                More the latter. There are mandatory hours of training in specific conditions before being allowed to take the actual exam. Driving hours with the instructor aren't cheap.
        • dsego 5y ago
          Don't know about russia, but in my country plenty of people driving without a license or with a suspended one. Also, no limit on how many times you can take the written exam, so someone maybe had to take it ten times, got lucky with the questions or memorised all intersections and passed. The more academic folk ace the written exam, but then struggle with the driving part. And when you fail the driving part, you don't need to revisit the quiz portion, just the driving. Someone who passed their driving test after 5-6 attempts rarely tends to be a good driver.
• onionisafruit 5y ago
  BMW has automated parallel parking, but I never use it because it is so slow. I love gadgets and automation so I tried, but I can’t in good conscience make everybody behind me wait while my car backs in at 2mph.
  • gambiting 5y ago
    So I think it just depends. I had a 2016 Mercedes with it, and it was the slowest thing in the world - I would parallel park myself twice in the time it took to do it once. But now I have a 2020 Volvo XC60 and it's very fast and reliable, I have no issues using it even in heavy traffic , it doesn't feel like I'm holding up people while parking.
  • kwhitefoot 5y ago
    Get a Tesla, my 2015 Model S is easily faster then me, especially if the space is only just big enough. The first time I tried it I was so surprised by how quick it was that I stamped on the brake!