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Fewer folks are able to parallel park these days, and it isn't required on most driving tests.
Do you think it's important for people to be able to parallel park, or is it just something cool to learn if you have the time?
I don't really care if others can't parallel park - it just means I have a better chance at finding a parking spot.
Seems folks don't know enough about their vehicles. Backup cameras exaggerate the problem. Being able to sandwich a car between two others teaches drivers where the corners of the vehicle are, making parking and u turns easier safer and quicker. Please don' make drivers tests just teach how to go straight ahead. And don't make drivers tests any easier than they already are. We all have to deal with unqualified drivers and their dangerous mistakes.
Lol on the last line of your post.
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Only if you want to park parallel and don;t have one of the newest cars that does it for you. I suppose you can park father away and walk a bit for some exercise, but even among those cars where self-parking is available, few go for that option.
I would say it is a problem. People who are forced to do it for the first time are going to hold up a lot of cars while they go back and forth 20 times trying to park.
Parallel parking sucks, because other people have shown to use my bumpers to guide them into a spot.....In SF, all the cars have bolt head marks on their bumpers from "touch" parking and jamming the license plate bolt heads into their own bumpers...
I dunno...kind of like a pilot, don't you think? Do you think it's important for a pilot to know how to taxi at Hartsfield when they are stacked 20 long for departure?
Do you think it's important for a truck driver to know how to back a 53' trailer to a dock to prevent damage to the goods within?
Think it's important to know how to steer through a skid?
How to park in a parking deck with only economy spaces left?
for an ambulance driver to know how to navigate through traffic in order to save a life, even yours?
A handgun owner to know how to hit a target 15 yards away and not you across the parking lot?
A dog owner to leash their 60lb pit bull when infants are around?
Safety seats for toddlers or, should we just not strap them in and cross fingers?
Seatbelts?
Airbags?
Yeah, I think if you are going to own and operate a 3,000-4,000 lb vehicle that can crush a human even at idle, it's probably important that you know how to drive, park, turn on, off and navigate it at all levels....even blondes.
I had to parallel park for my driving test and passed with flying colors. But now I can't do it properly if my life depended on it. I always back in to the curb and need several attempts to get it right.
I do not live in the city. The business district of my town is one block long and has parallel parking on just one side of that block. I did know how to parallel park for the test but it has been so long since I' ve had to use that skill that I have forgotten how to do it!��
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