Park assist

Watched a man reverse parallel park a car today with the help of his woman passenger who got out to use hand signals … quite a common scene actually … I do find it interesting that men who are supposed to be great drivers need help to park though, but then again that embarrassment is probably easier to suffer than having the woman drive everywhere. Especially if she can 10-out-of-10 reverse parallel park on either side of the road.

If you do need help from hand signals to park I definitely prefer the hands held in view of the driver or mirrors to indicate decreasing distance to a hittable object far better than the madly flapping come hither type gesture and shouting which doesn’t give you any idea of actually how close you are to the object so you take it slowly despite the  shouting by the hand-waver that you’ve got “heaps of room! Back back back!!!”  No surprise the couple using this technique today got into strife. He was surprised to nudge the car behind and she was defensive shouting “didn’t you hear me?”