How "road safety" makes us less safe

[katwalk]

Originally Posted by MacGuffin

When I was doing my driving test, it was 1984 and I was in a Golf Mk I So parallel parking was easy, because you could see very well the ends of the car.

It was also easy with my first 4 cars, which were 70's and 80's models that weren't styled only in a wind tunnel.

With my Golf IV, though, and most other modern cars, parallel parking is more like a guessing game, because the bonnets are sloped and the rear view is obscured. It's a thing our biggest motor club, the ADAC, is always critizing when testing cars but I guess it won't ever help. The biggest trouble I ever had with parallel parking, was with a current 5-series. A nightmare. Better buy the estate versions, because that really helps.

Thank God for parking sensors and electric side mirrors that can be pointed downwards

yeah that's my issue too

[prizrak]

Originally Posted by MacGuffin

When I was doing my driving test, it was 1984 and I was in a Golf Mk I So parallel parking was easy, because you could see very well the ends of the car.

It was also easy with my first 4 cars, which were 70's and 80's models that weren't styled only in a wind tunnel.

With my Golf IV, though, and most other modern cars, parallel parking is more like a guessing game, because the bonnets are sloped and the rear view is obscured. It's a thing our biggest motor club, the ADAC, is always critizing when testing cars but I guess it won't ever help. The biggest trouble I ever had with parallel parking, was with a current 5-series. A nightmare. Better buy the estate versions, because that really helps.

Thank God for parking sensors and electric side mirrors that can be pointed downwards

The A4 is a pain as well. I basically have to do it as if it was a video game, as in I learned where the car ends and pretty much have to guess. I end up being overly cautious but at least the bumper isn't fucked up