Woman takes 30 mins to park...
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That's gone super viral
what's special about this?
That's gone super viral
what's special about this?
I sometimes wonder about these vids - have they been set up?
I've seen/watched people who cannot park to save their lives & really, I've yet to see someone try to get it right as long as this driver - they got it fairly close a number of times, but carried on. A number of people stopped, if they could tell there was a problem, why not simply direct them.
With all those blokes screaming & shouting from the window, the driver must've known she was being watched & laughed at - I'd have driven off.
It's almost as though this person has never, ever parked their car like this before!
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Yeah...its as though THAT spot is like the holy god of parking spaces. Why not move on and park in one she can get in?
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she was on the news - or should i say the students were for the recording of it
It was a huge space - if she couldnt get it into that space, then she shouldnt drive
Clearly no spacial awareness - not co-ordinated
2 big factors you need when driving!
Ziggy
It was a huge space - if she couldnt get it into that space, then she shouldnt drive
Clearly no spacial awareness - not co-ordinated
2 big factors you need when driving!
Ziggy
I think I am a pretty good parallel parker, but Mrs Codger, in her own car (hatchback) is a ninja!
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There is only 2 ways to park into a parrelle space
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After 2 minutes and 14 seconds I had to turn it off. Being unable to multi-task, I couldn't watch the video and find a sharp knife at the same time.
Alas I've seen this kind of things a hundred times or more when I was an Instructor, and sadly, it seems to affect women (far) more than men. I've heard countless attempts at explaining it, ranging from "It's a throw back to men being Hunters and women being gatherers" based on the rather shaky premise that men used to kill their prey using a bow and arrow or spear and therefore developed better spatial awareness and the ability to predict where a moving object will be in a given time frame; to "Women are useless at doing things backwards."
I'm assure you that that's rubbish. I used to know a girl, and let me tell you, what Lesley coudn't do back.....wards. Ahem, yes, now then. It's rubbish anyway.
But whatever it is, women do seem to have more difficulty than men when it comes to reversing cars. Sitting in the left hand seat I've seen female pupils reverse into a space, to the left, steer left and then be almost totally unable to steer back the other way. At times it's almost as if the wheel was locked or there was some sort of Dr. Who? force field preventing the wheel from turning the other way.
In many females they understand that the wheel has to turn to the right (in this case) to get into the space but are aware of what is virtually an optical illusion as they see out of the corner of their eye, or when they look forward to check position, that the car needs to go left but is appearing to go to the right instead. So they steer the other way, in other words, left.
I think you probably had to be there. A lot.
Alas I've seen this kind of things a hundred times or more when I was an Instructor, and sadly, it seems to affect women (far) more than men. I've heard countless attempts at explaining it, ranging from "It's a throw back to men being Hunters and women being gatherers" based on the rather shaky premise that men used to kill their prey using a bow and arrow or spear and therefore developed better spatial awareness and the ability to predict where a moving object will be in a given time frame; to "Women are useless at doing things backwards."
I'm assure you that that's rubbish. I used to know a girl, and let me tell you, what Lesley coudn't do back.....wards. Ahem, yes, now then. It's rubbish anyway.
But whatever it is, women do seem to have more difficulty than men when it comes to reversing cars. Sitting in the left hand seat I've seen female pupils reverse into a space, to the left, steer left and then be almost totally unable to steer back the other way. At times it's almost as if the wheel was locked or there was some sort of Dr. Who? force field preventing the wheel from turning the other way.
In many females they understand that the wheel has to turn to the right (in this case) to get into the space but are aware of what is virtually an optical illusion as they see out of the corner of their eye, or when they look forward to check position, that the car needs to go left but is appearing to go to the right instead. So they steer the other way, in other words, left.
I think you probably had to be there. A lot.
She must scare the living crap out of Stockport's parking attendants when she leaps out of her car dressed all in black.....and then impales them on her Samurai sword.
No need for the outfit. She just fixes them with her "teacher's glare" !
Not all women drivers are bad!
I know, she tried to park it on the banking at Brooklands and she couldn't get the handbrake up far enough?!
Then when Alex told her to try putting it in gear to see if it'll stay she did, then said it wouldn't hold. Nope, cos she didn't turn the engine off!
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Couldn't agree more. Mrs. Beard is a first rate motorway driver, but then I did train her.....however, her once pristine 156 now has a shattered nearside door mirror, a scuff on the front bumper, a dent on the driver's door, a gouge on the lower nearside rear door/wheelarch and somehow managed to slice the bumper insert on the left hand side as if she'd used a sharp knife.
There's a bit of a trend here. It's quite possible that the dent on the driver's door was down to a supermarket trolley, but the rest of the marks are on one side and caused at low speed.
Spatial awareness? Quite possible, but don't tell her I said so. After all, I will have to sleep.....some time.
I've been driving three years, not a scratch, bump or scrape in that time, never stalled (not even in lessons), never bumped the curb. Yet the Mr has been driving 6 years, crashed into a roundabout and a pole (one with a sign of a car swerving) and scratched someone else's car with his wing mirror trying to park. Yet he's the better driver!! (Apparently)
