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Reverse Parking Made Easy
dsmalle writes "Dr. Rebecca Hoyle from Surrey University in England has derived a formula for reverse parking your car. A lot of insurance companies would welcome an initiative to automate parking using this formula I guess. I'm sure somebody must have tried to do this before, so why don't we see this in cars?" New York drivers know that a space that's the length of your car plus six inches is plenty of room. :)
Well, journalists need a few opening parentheses, so we can understand the formula.
Lars T.
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Hell, in Cambridge/Boston (and I presume any crowded city), you will see cars all the time that show the signs of not needing a space that is longer than the length of your car.
It can even be a few inches shorter.
There were multiple times I've come out to see someone squeezed up against my car and another car on the other side of them.
So presumably, as long as your car has modern plastic/springy bumpers, and you don't care about it (specifically the transmission I would guess), then just cram it in to the spot and enjoy your parking spot.
Granted this will bend your license plate, crack your bumpers, perhaps ding your fenders, and likely lose you some paint... but hey, it is worth it to park.
Usually you see this technique on Honda Civics and other cars of that size and price range.
The big BMW/Mercedes/etc seem to like their cars too much.
Although you also tend to see a lot of Jeeps doing it - they are higher up, so it usually does less damage to them and more damage to others.
Ahh, the joys of parallel parking.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Personally, I think if you can't spell anywhere, at anytime, then you shouldn't be typing. United States hand out keyboards too easily. The spelling test should be a rigorous test of skill. Only extremely skilled spellers should be allowed to get behind the keyboard A system like that would have numerous obvious positive effects. One of them would be that reading would be a lot more fun. Mainly because you have confidence in your own ability as well as the ability of others. You wouldn't have to be constantly watching out for what every other word is, but instead be able to have fun worrying about your own spelling.