Talk:Parallel parking

Could we slow that animation down a little? jeez! 69.109.175.231 04:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I Am A Parallel Parking Machine. Boo-Yah. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.189.145.86 (talk) 19:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

the animated parallel parker does a little power slide right at the end.--75.65.105.90 (talk) 06:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

In-line citation
We need inline citation if we are to make it a good article. --KushalClick me! write to me 16:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Left / Right
Perhaps around a third of the world drive on the left and so parallel park on the left. Perhaps the language of this article could be altered to not use the words 'left' or 'right' and instead use 'kerbside' and 'roadside' or similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.17.230.21 (talk) 15:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll add a note suggesting that the "right" and "left" directions be switched for those reading in Britain/Japan, etc. Given that the animation shows right-side parking, though, I think the article should follow suit in its description. Major Danby (talk) 19:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Either I'm daft or...
Half the article was written by someone from Britain/Japan/etc. and seemlessly integrated with right-side-of-the-road directions to become VERY confusing. How in the nine hells could a right-sider bump his rear LEFT wheel on the curb?! Yet all of the neighbouring directions seem to be for right-siders... Admittedly, I couldn't parallel park anything bigger than a BMW 3-series if my life depended on it, but I'm pretty sure that someone accidentally or maliciously intermixed directions for right- and left-side roads. 128.195.186.43 (talk) 05:53, 25 February 2008 (UTC)Adieu


 * You're not daft, or at least this post doesn't suggest it. That transposition of left and right at one (solitary) point in the entry was an error that I have now corrected.  Thanks for alerting me to it and regrets to the many people who may have been killed trying to get their left rear wheel near to the curb while parallel parking on the right side.  Major Danby (talk) 19:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

"single empty space not much longer than the car"
for what it's worth, it's possible to quantify this exactly, situationally. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122880263&ps=cprs

the cited paper http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhah/058/perfect_parking.pdf

worthwhile to incorporate any of this? Mrchhre (talk) 02:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Why parallel?
Why is this called parallel parking, when it is, in fact, serial? I always thought, that cars parked like this |||||| is parallel parking, whereas this - is serial parking... Well, perhaps the person, who named it, was neither electician nor computer scientist :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.112.72.204 (talk) 21:11, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * In case the anonymous person who posted that query ever sees this....I've always understood the term to mean you are parked parallel to the lane of traffic. 1995hoo (talk) 21:03, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

The gif defies the laws of physics, slightly
Parallel parking usually benefits with starting close to the front car in terms of the sides, yet it starts from a far. However it ends up nicely, but to do so one can notice it does some gliding during the process that defies regular situations. It might be best to use a more accurate one. -- f s  20:11, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

What exactly is parallel parking?
Does it require other parked vehicles to be present as the article strongly implies, or is it anytime one parks parallel to a curb or edge of a road or street as the article also claims? The two definitions don't quite line up. --Traal (talk) 14:00, 10 October 2015 (UTC)