XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.law-enforcement   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 2 Aug 2023 08:41:05 -0700, The Real Bev   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 8/2/23 6:38 AM, Ed P wrote:   
   >> On 8/2/2023 7:45 AM, badgolferman wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> We also had to parallel park between two cones to pass the test.  These   
   >>> days parallel parking is not required, at least in Virginia.  When we   
   >>> arrived at the testing station after the road test, the test instructor   
   >>> told me to pull over rather than park between the cones.  He said   
   >>> there's no way he could parallel park that monster and he didn't want   
   >>> to fail me for that!   
   >>   
   >> When I first started driving (1961) I lived in Philadelphia.  You had to   
   >> be able to parallel park or you'd just drive around forever.  I could   
   >> get into some rather tight spots others would pass up.   
   >   
   >I could do that really well when I drove big cars.  I just KNEW where   
   >the edges were from decades of experience.  The Corolla is very   
   >different.  Even though it's much smaller I have no idea about the edges   
   >and always guess wrong.   
   >   
   >What REALLY drives me nuts about the 2013 Corolla:  too many blind   
   >spots.  Headrests.  Pillars.  Can't raise seat high enough to compensate   
   >for the decreased glass at the lower edge of the windows.  When I   
   >contemplate a lane change or turn I do multiple head swivels, especially   
   >in parking lots where I KNOW drivers are only looking for empty spaces   
   >and pedestrians are only looking at their phones.   
   >   
   >It never occurred to me that modern cars have much less seeability (!)   
   >than older ones;  if I'd thought about it I might have chosen a   
   >different car. Probably not, though -- they ALL seem to look like that   
   >and I chose the Corolla for reliability.   
      
   I was reading two Car and Driver reviews last week and it mentioned that   
   one of the cars had bad visibility. At first I didn't know what they   
   meant... Doesn't it depend on what color the car is?  But they meant   
   what you mean. It might have been between a Mustang and a Camaro, but I   
   forget which one had bad visibility.   
   >   
   >> I don't recall the last time I did it.  Five years at least, maybe 10 or   
   >> 15.  Not sure how well I'd do since out of practice.   
   >   
   >I should practice for a while;  it's shameful losing a skill.   
      
   I have angle or drive-in parking where I live and almost every place I   
   go, and eve where it's parallel, at the curb, there's no one else   
   parking so I just drive in and drive out in Forward.    But I'm still   
   pretty good at parallel.  You don't have to follow all the instructions   
   if you make it so your front right corner just misses the left rear   
   corner of the car in front, and you're at the right angle.  I think that   
   is it.   
      
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