Parking Lessons 101: Depth perception when using a Smart Fortwo

Continuing the array of funny parking lessons we bring you another “priceless” video. This time, believe it or not, our central hero is having difficulties fitting a Smart Fortwo in a parking space big enough to fit a Maybach! Via: Autoblog.nl

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Italian Parking Lesson 101: Avoid the wall

Boy, is this old fella crazy or what! Look at him go like 6.000 rpm’s in reverse in his Fiat Seicento. But it gets even better when he tries to park his car in the garage or rather, in the garage wall… Seriously though, how do these people keep their drivers-licenses? I mean, if someone’s capable of destroying his own vehicle during a routine parking imagine what damage he can do on the road. Via: Leblogauto

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NY gets its first Robotic Parking System

New Yorkers are about to get a taste of the future with the opening of the first robotic parking system in Chinatown in February. Given our time constraints and busy schedules, we can’t help but commend this newly introduced idea. We all have places to go and people to see. Taking the time to look for parking is a straight waste of our time.

But it wouldn’t be our “style” to not include some sort of “bad scenario”. What if the robo-parker malfunctions and drops a 10,000$ Hyundai on your 80,000$ Benz. Wait, here’s a better one- The garage system malfunctions and your car gets stuck inside for days (this one actually happened). In addition, just for laughs…what if you neglect to leave the vehicle, you get lowered into the garage but it gets stuck and you’re suspended 50 feet in the air? Via: Jalopnik & Robopark Posted by Dani

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Spanish Parking Lesson 101: Avoid the poles

I’m guessing that the owners of this parking lot in Spain must have been up for a big surprise this morning seeing the blue Mercedes-Benz CLK parked in this near artistic way... From what we made out from the Spanish newspaper who reported the accident today, seems like the owner of the Mercedes-Benz lost control of his car due to the icy roads and ended up climbing half a dozen of poles. Fortunately, no one was injured. Via: Motorpasion & Diariodenavarra

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Cool handbrake parking stunt video from today’s British Motor Show

The 2006 British International Motor Show opened it’s doors to the press today. Besides the global and UK first presentations, it seems that there are a lot of outdoor activities as this cool video of a guy handbrake-parking a Toyota Aygo, proves.

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BMW Self-Parking Car System Video

So what’s the difference between this auto parking system and various others that have been previewed the past few years like the Toyota Prius one? Well, BMW’s doesn’t kneed the driver to be in the car.

Although it comes to a contrast with the Bavarian moto “The Ultimate Driving Machine”, BMW promises that because this system is based on technology already used in the latest 7-Series, it is just a matter of time before they put it in production. Nevertheless, I still can’t find the use of a system that just parks itself in a garage. If you ask, me I prefer the alternative “famine fatal” auto park system in the following video bellow…via: wired

BMW 7-Series Parking System

Alternative BMW Parking System

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