Vauxhall team creates mathematical formula for perfect parking

[Sunny]

REPORT: Vauxhall team creates mathematical formula for perfect parking — Autoblog

To make it work you'll need to know your car's turning radius, wheelbase, the distance from the center of your car's front wheel to the car's front bumper, and the width of the parked car you're trying to fit behind or in front of.

I hate the fact that the automotive industry is spending money and time researching something as useless as this instead of zillion other useful things.

IMO if you cannot figure out how to parallel park a car, you mental aptitude/hand-eye coordination is below the bare minimum required to safely operate a motor vehicle and you don't deserve the privilege of driving a car. And I can a total dick about it, if I see someone struggling to parallel park, especially an easy one, I just watch till they get embarrassed and drive off.

 

[ree]

And it isn't even new…5 years or so ago, there was already professor, who creates such a formula…

http://www.ifam.uni-hannover.de/~herrmann/

 

[coligny]

I'd take a road full of people that can't park over a road full of people who overestimate their driving skills and think speeds limits and redlights don't apply to them anyday. (I'm looking at you BMW drivers...)

Unfortunately... i'm stuck with the laters...

 

[Sunny]

^Frustration of getting stared at while making a hash of a parking job? I guess you don't realize, but knowing how to park and knowing the speed limit are not mutually exclusive skills.