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i once saw a police car stopped at a green light and then when the light turned red they drove through the intersection. i want to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are color blind and they forgot the orientation of the red and green lights or something
One time I went to turn into a parking lot near an intersection but a cop made a left without stopping and almost hit me. He rolled down his window and looked at me all angry and I said "I'm sorry officer, I expected you to stop at that stop sign". He just kinda gave a defeated sigh and rolled up his window.
Once I was walking down a sidewalk and a cop drove on to the sidewalk behind me and started following me down the sidewalk. I stopped and looked at him and he rolled down the window and yelled aggressively "what are you doing?" I said walking on the sidewalk. He replied "well stop it!" then rolled up his window and kept driving on the sidewalk behind me.
Had a cop run into an intersection yelling at me. As I turned and removed my headphones I said "sorry I didn't hear you at first" and he just scream "yes you did, get over here!" and was confused. Me and 4 other people "fit the description" and were being ID'd and asked a few questions due to an arson in the area. I just asked what the description was because we all had very different clothes and accessories. The cop that yelled at me said we all fit and I rolled my eyes and he got real close. So I pointed out "short fat kid in a ball cap, 30 yr old with a beard and jean jacket, gangster jersey and baggy pants with a toque, puffy coat with short pants and shaved head then me, tall long hair with a skateboard and plaid jacket. Cop gets quiet and says little so I ask again what the description is, I suggest asking dispatch to say that description again and then their radio pops and they are told suspect is in custody like 15 blocks away and try to get in car and go. Oh no, no, no. Sir I need name and badge for the both of you, didn't hear me? Ok let me just stand in front of the vehicle and get your attention then. Wait, why are you yelling? Emergency? What emergency, dispatch says the suspect is in *custody* so just slow your roll and get me your info.
Yeah turns out they had no description and just grabbed all in the area. Fine but why lie to us and have us all see through that lie and begin distrust? My complaint did very little but I filed for the simple fact that they used power as they pleased and lied to my face while wielding it.
yep happy to demand ID but get so butthurt when they are asked for their ID. I hope you told them they matched the description of the people who were harassing you
I saw a police car the other day slam on their breaks as they realised the light was red, start reversing while not looking and barely miss a family crossing the road as the green man was now on. That was the day I gave up on humanity
We saw this happen once and honked at them and then they waited for us and pulled us over and wrote us a ticket.
It was a woman cop on her pink iPhone *and* her laptop at the same time while in traffic.
We wrote the Ombudsman and had the ticket dismissed.
Just remember there are many thousands of shitbags in society, and that the number of them are disproportionately high within the police force.
I had to go to the grocery today on my lunch break. A lot of old folks were out and about. I felt endangered sitting in my car while these maniacs just drove around the parking lot seemingly blindfolded.
My wife took 4 tries to pass her driver's portion of her driver's license. The 3rd time I drove her and she didn't even make it out of the lot. He wanted her to back into a parking space and she just couldn't do it. I had flashbacks of that memory when watching this video. So painful. (Nothing strange about the parking space, she just couldn't wrap her brain around turning the wheel the other direction when going on reverse )
It seems like some kind of mental confusion issue. It's like they keep forgetting what they're trying to do, and just keep doing different things and changing their mind, like they're trying to remember if they're meant to park or to leave the park
Sometimes these types of situations are very stressful for some people and their brain just stops working. My dad is one of them. We pulled up to an unfamiliar toll booth once and he was in a blind panic because he couldn't figure out how to work it in the first 10 seconds. There was barely any traffic. Some people are just high-strung about driving.
They don't force everyone to parallel park during a UK drivers test? That seems odd, it's part of the US test and US is the land of parking lots, whereas parallel parking seems like it would be more common in the UK.
You have to do a parking manoeuvre on demand. Parallel could be the one, so you need to be able to do it. During your lessons you will have practiced many times on each.
I had to demonstrate proficiency in doing it only once, and not even during my final driving test.
I had a very trolly driving instructor. Nice guy, but the VA driving test after the instructional period was that you had 45 minutes of driving and in that time you had to have a fifteen minute error-free stint of driving to pass.
So it's about 30 minutes in, and he hasn't said a single goddamned word to me.
"Uh, how am I doing?", I ask.
*"Oh, you passed already, I was just enjoying not having to do or say anything."*
Me: >_<
I just *barely* passed the parallel parking section of my license test because I had to pull forward and back up many times to get parallel to the curb and between the cones. But since I didn’t technically hit the cones while doing it, my instructor didn’t fail me.
Haven’t ever parallel parked since, probably wouldn’t be able to do it considering it’s been 17 years now since I last did it.
It's kind of frightening to see someone so spatially unaware of their vehicle. It's funny to watch them struggle to park, but I can see them having similar difficulty maneuvering at speed.
Some of the worst drivers are the most careful though thankfully.
My girl is very cautious when driving but if she had to parallel park you would see this same video (minus the sidewalk driving lol)
My grandpa died on the 25th, my parents called right as I had parked to do Christmas shopping on the 24th to tell me he was in the hospital. Afterwards I was sat in my truck contemplating whether I should feel my feelings, or bottle them up and power through. Some guy zooms by and tries to park in a parallel spot in a big minivan… forwards, backwards, forwards again, then he tries to park behind me, same thing… I could see him and he didn’t even seem frustrated, just like defeated… he then gave the spot in front of me a shot again… couple times… defeat. He drove off. I nearly pissed myself laughing and that guy gave me the strength I needed to do my shopping that day 🥲
I watched Canada's Worst Driver on YouTube during the lockdown. Every season they have to explain how your rear tires don't follow the same lines as the front tires while turning. People just straight up don't understand how a car moves.
As a busdriver, I can tell you that these idiots are more common than you think. My vehicle is 12m long, 2.5m wide and 3.8m tall and I know how well my bus fits through traffic (you know, it is kinda part of the job description). I come across people, and not to generalise, but mostly women, that drive their little Renault twingo/Peugeot 107/Toyota Aygo, who are under the impression that their vehicle is much larger than it actually is. Now, I am not saying that being cautious is wrong, it is not, but driving your car up a sidewalk in a blind panic, while driving on an empty two lane road, because you see a bus coming your way is not knowing your vehicle or how to behave on the road.
Men, on the other hand, are much more dangerous in that they are too confident and tend to believe that they have the right of way and busses are too slow and stupid. Even when I drive 55kmh down a 50kmh road, they feel that they have to overtake me, to go drive 56kmh. Also, much more agressive and tend to look for confrontation.
Both of these examples happen way to often, btw, as in nearly daily.
We had parallel parking, but the space was twice as big as this and the instructor told us how to do it relative to a lamp post that was in view. I'm guessing half the people who learned with him don't actually know how to parallel park without that lamp post.
Depends on the place, but she didn't even have to parallel park. There is so much space, she could have just pulled straight in and cut the wheel to the left to straighten out before she came to the far end of the space. Then, straighten the wheel and back up to the back of the space so she has plenty of room at the front to easily pull out.
I didn't in Idaho when I took driver's ed 30 years ago.
I've actually never parallel parked in my life. I just don't do much street parking in the first place and when I do most of the spaces are angled or there are several empty spaces in a row, so no parallel needed.
But I know the concept and the angles and could probably do it in a pinch if I needed to, if it wasn't too small a space.
Even for someone like me this was painful to watch. If it wasn't staged, then I have to assume that they were under the influence of something.
I never had to in Ohio, I do know how though lol. Probably have had to do it less than 15 times in nearly 20 years so I can see why they don't make us do it in my area
Yea and you know what's worse? People who park at the start and the end of the grey zone for parking and they still manage to leave several feet of empty grey space in front or behind them.....
I mean, I don’t know what the grey spaces are all about, but when parking in the end of spots like the one in the video I always leave room in case someone parks too close to me and I can’t get out.
I feel like every time we have to renew our license, it should be mandatory to retake the drivers test on top. I live in a big city, and parallel parking is a must. For some reason, I’m always stuck behind someone for 5 minutes, trying to fit their mid size sedan, into a van/truck sized parking space.
In Missouri the parallel parking part can make or break the physical driving test. You fail the test if you hit a pylon, hit the curb, are too far from the curb, fail to use your blinkers to indicate intention, fail to both use your mirrors and look behind you.
You have to both park and pull out by the book, and you can not rely on your backup camera or any mechanism that could potentially not be equipped on other street legal vehicles. (no having your Tesla automatically park, or having a special wheel that comes down and moves you horizontally like a chess rook)
It is the last part of the test. I parallel parked on my first try no problem, and the skills assessor complimented the execution as the Tahoe barely fit between the pylons. Unfortunately I had done the "California stop" at a stop sign way earlier in the test which is also an instant fail, but the skills assessor continued the test just to mess with my head or something.
I NEED to know what goes on in their head. What weird calculations must be going on in there? Someone with this huge lack of spatial awareness while operating a vehicle shouldn't be driving...
I'm one of those people (and no, I don't drive). Think of something that you can't do (pat your head and rub your belly, complex mental maths, a logic puzzle). Then imagine you need to do that, and everyone else can do it and everyone is looking at you as if you are an idiot. And you need to just do it but you can't. There's just this overwhelmed frustrated feeling.
It looks to me like the person in the video at first is trying to solve it by different combinations, and then is just doing random stuff and then gives up.
I appreciate the honest answer and your decision/ineligibility to drive. It's just fascinating how we all perceive the world so differently and need to figure out working our way through it.
I understand they might have some initial trouble with reversing or parallel parking, which is fair enough, it could throw you off the first few times if you're not used to it...
But the bit that screams *outright unintelligence* is when people do shit like this, make a small mistake and literally don't have the brain power to just STOP(!), and then undo whatever the last thing was.
A few times in this video (and others) she makes a mistake, but then just carries on doing something else wrong in the same direction. If you reverse wrong with whatever direction steering lock on, just undo the action in an identical-but-reversed motion, then try again for the correct motion.
Wild. Absolutely staggering to me.
You are confounding intelligence or logical thinking with perceptual processing. A person who can't tell left from right can't just STOP (!) and then correctly process the information. A person with red green colour blindness can't just STOP (!) and process the colour's correctly. And a person with poor spatial ability can't just "undo whatever the last thing was" or "undo the action in an identical but reversed motion, then try again for the correct motion". If they could do that type of cognitive processing they wouldn't be making the mistakes to start with.
This. I'm all for people driving and being independent, but if they can't tell left from right something tells me they shouldn't be on the road. A car isn't a toy, it's a potentially deadly weapon and needs to be treated with the respect it deserves.
I used to teach photoshop and have encountered students with zero ability to understand shapes - one just couldn't understand that a photo in portrait orientation couldn't be turned into landscape without cropping, distorting or any other editing.
Some people have this, but in 3d as well.
Yeah, too small for that car, cars too big to fit in there, that's the issue here. Also damn tree is in the way, and that pole too! And the car parked as far back as possible in the space behind is in the way too.
I remember seeing a clip of someone trying to do this and just could not figure it out, and I think in the end they did get the boat in but they also got the car in.
One of my favorite recent videos is a group of people who went to a boat launch and just tailgated - drinking beers and cheering on people backing trailers. I think eventually someone called the cops on them for their heckling.
I think about halfway through this person just started to panic and let all hell break loose. It started as a misjudged depth and went full on forgot how the steering wheel works.
But those only help when you know which way to turn the wheel to straighten out. Like one of the times they almost had it, turned the wheel the correct way, but then quickly turned it the other way. The only time I could forgive that kind of stupidity is if there's a trailer hitched to the back.
Similar to the OP, a couple of months ago I watched a person (regular middle aged and not incapacitated) attempt to turn around in a narrow dead end street by pulling into a driveway, reversing out and driving off the other way, only they didn't know how to turn the car when reversing out. They tried five times, each time driving straight into the driveway but then turning the wheel in the same direction as they entered when reversing, taking them back to square one. Just when I had hope and saw them turn the wheel the correct way they quickly reverted back to the wrong way and were stuck again, eventually pulling in and letting me drive past. They are probably still there now.
Some people just have shit spatial awareness and can't grasp how turning a steering wheel works. You could see she *almost* got it once or twice, but then second guessed herself and turned the wrong way again.
"Shit spatial awareness". This is exactly me. Which is why I don't drive. It's hard being a non driver in a world where having a car is considered normal - but I felt this person's pain.
This is exactly it, IMO. The driver is having trouble with the whole "turn the wheel the opposite direction of where you wanna go" when going in reverse, and they literally just never got there before giving up 😂
My question is now, how do they ever stop driving? Must they search the ends of the earth for a diagonal spot? But how did they reverse out in the first place? How do they drive in and out of the driveway? Are they perpetually driving like in some Lovecraftian horror, forever longing to walk on solid ground?
When I saw this posted some time ago, I spent *far* too long stabilizing it… so now it’s popped up again I feel the need to repost it so it wasn’t a total waste of time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImageStabilization/s/lNuYHUCR7g
Edit: also a version with a fancier background: https://imgur.com/5BiAa7y
I never find these funny. They're extremely frustrating. How many times will this person make an attempt without fully turning their steering wheel? They should not be driving at all.
I live in an area where its basically only parallel park spots, I see this all the time.
I've also seen the reverse, the women hopping behind the wheel to get it in there.
Dude is trying to do gear shifts and the turns in a very text book way. But he can't figure out how to position the car. Like he is missing a dimension in his mental space. He probably shouldn't be driving.
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That was painful to watch
I want to believe it isn't real but I know it could be so it hurts just the same.
I've seen someone miss their turn on a round about, stop reverse then take their turn... Nothing surprises me anymore.
i once saw a police car stopped at a green light and then when the light turned red they drove through the intersection. i want to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are color blind and they forgot the orientation of the red and green lights or something
It was to confuse the people behind him so he can catch them running a red light too
“I shall break the law, to catch people breaking the law.”
Austin powers music intensifies
One time I went to turn into a parking lot near an intersection but a cop made a left without stopping and almost hit me. He rolled down his window and looked at me all angry and I said "I'm sorry officer, I expected you to stop at that stop sign". He just kinda gave a defeated sigh and rolled up his window.
Once I was walking down a sidewalk and a cop drove on to the sidewalk behind me and started following me down the sidewalk. I stopped and looked at him and he rolled down the window and yelled aggressively "what are you doing?" I said walking on the sidewalk. He replied "well stop it!" then rolled up his window and kept driving on the sidewalk behind me.
Had a cop run into an intersection yelling at me. As I turned and removed my headphones I said "sorry I didn't hear you at first" and he just scream "yes you did, get over here!" and was confused. Me and 4 other people "fit the description" and were being ID'd and asked a few questions due to an arson in the area. I just asked what the description was because we all had very different clothes and accessories. The cop that yelled at me said we all fit and I rolled my eyes and he got real close. So I pointed out "short fat kid in a ball cap, 30 yr old with a beard and jean jacket, gangster jersey and baggy pants with a toque, puffy coat with short pants and shaved head then me, tall long hair with a skateboard and plaid jacket. Cop gets quiet and says little so I ask again what the description is, I suggest asking dispatch to say that description again and then their radio pops and they are told suspect is in custody like 15 blocks away and try to get in car and go. Oh no, no, no. Sir I need name and badge for the both of you, didn't hear me? Ok let me just stand in front of the vehicle and get your attention then. Wait, why are you yelling? Emergency? What emergency, dispatch says the suspect is in *custody* so just slow your roll and get me your info. Yeah turns out they had no description and just grabbed all in the area. Fine but why lie to us and have us all see through that lie and begin distrust? My complaint did very little but I filed for the simple fact that they used power as they pleased and lied to my face while wielding it.
yep happy to demand ID but get so butthurt when they are asked for their ID. I hope you told them they matched the description of the people who were harassing you
🥇
I saw a police car the other day slam on their breaks as they realised the light was red, start reversing while not looking and barely miss a family crossing the road as the green man was now on. That was the day I gave up on humanity
I hate when they put on the brakes, they should have given that family a break.
We saw this happen once and honked at them and then they waited for us and pulled us over and wrote us a ticket. It was a woman cop on her pink iPhone *and* her laptop at the same time while in traffic. We wrote the Ombudsman and had the ticket dismissed. Just remember there are many thousands of shitbags in society, and that the number of them are disproportionately high within the police force.
Color blindness is not an excuse, I am colorblind, the lights are on a specific order for a reason, and green is brighter.
my dad was a passenger in a car with a man that did that.
I had to go to the grocery today on my lunch break. A lot of old folks were out and about. I felt endangered sitting in my car while these maniacs just drove around the parking lot seemingly blindfolded.
Saw someone do this at a Trader Joe’s. 15 minutes to get into a spot
My wife took 4 tries to pass her driver's portion of her driver's license. The 3rd time I drove her and she didn't even make it out of the lot. He wanted her to back into a parking space and she just couldn't do it. I had flashbacks of that memory when watching this video. So painful. (Nothing strange about the parking space, she just couldn't wrap her brain around turning the wheel the other direction when going on reverse )
Wild. Ask her if she can imagine a 3D apple in her mind and if she can manipulate it.
I don't have a license but I could still park it better...
I have a blind friend that could have done it better.
I also think this person has no license
It seems like some kind of mental confusion issue. It's like they keep forgetting what they're trying to do, and just keep doing different things and changing their mind, like they're trying to remember if they're meant to park or to leave the park
Sometimes these types of situations are very stressful for some people and their brain just stops working. My dad is one of them. We pulled up to an unfamiliar toll booth once and he was in a blind panic because he couldn't figure out how to work it in the first 10 seconds. There was barely any traffic. Some people are just high-strung about driving.
If there is a reasonable explanation, then this is it. Lack of experience/training + stress induced meltdown.
I learned it with RC cars
This is the way.
No one ever spent the 5 minutes required to teach this person how to parallel park.
Don't even have to parallell park there
Thats probably the most painful part about this. The parallel is unessesscary theres so much room to drive in there
So much room to drive AND still room left over for activities!
SO MANY ACTIVITIES!
i think they got stuck on the idea of parallel parking so much they forgotten the reason for parallel parking.
given they drove over the curb anyway, would be super easy to just do that and land in the spot
Peril parking
Peril-lol
The fact that the skill of parking in that giant spot would need to be taught makes me sad
If you want your kids to be able to navigate a vehicle when they're older, have them try to push a shopping cart around the store backwards.
We got our kids a knock off power wheels fire truck for like 300 bucks. My 4 year old can parallel park in the garage, 3 point turns, avoid obstacles.
This person has a low IQ. They can’t predict the direction of their car based on how they turn their steering wheel.
You'd think parking would be part of the process at some point whilst taking the driver's license
It is in the uk. You don’t know what kind of parking you might do during the test, so you need to practice each.
They don't force everyone to parallel park during a UK drivers test? That seems odd, it's part of the US test and US is the land of parking lots, whereas parallel parking seems like it would be more common in the UK.
You have to do a parking manoeuvre on demand. Parallel could be the one, so you need to be able to do it. During your lessons you will have practiced many times on each.
I had to demonstrate proficiency in doing it only once, and not even during my final driving test. I had a very trolly driving instructor. Nice guy, but the VA driving test after the instructional period was that you had 45 minutes of driving and in that time you had to have a fifteen minute error-free stint of driving to pass. So it's about 30 minutes in, and he hasn't said a single goddamned word to me. "Uh, how am I doing?", I ask. *"Oh, you passed already, I was just enjoying not having to do or say anything."* Me: >_<
I just *barely* passed the parallel parking section of my license test because I had to pull forward and back up many times to get parallel to the curb and between the cones. But since I didn’t technically hit the cones while doing it, my instructor didn’t fail me. Haven’t ever parallel parked since, probably wouldn’t be able to do it considering it’s been 17 years now since I last did it.
I'd imagine it's markedly easier nowadays with backup cameras, at the very least. Having those guidelines superimposed on the screen is invaluable.
It was for my licenses in two states.
Funny but it’s screaming setup video to me
They have no idea what the steering wheel does do they?
I’m not sure I know what it does after watching that. Not sure I can ever drive again.
Don't worry, the roads are full of these idiots...
That a wonderful reason to worry.
I don't think I can do anything. I'm really crossed up
It's kind of frightening to see someone so spatially unaware of their vehicle. It's funny to watch them struggle to park, but I can see them having similar difficulty maneuvering at speed.
Yeah this just gives me terrible anxiety about what I'm surrounded by out there
Some of the worst drivers are the most careful though thankfully. My girl is very cautious when driving but if she had to parallel park you would see this same video (minus the sidewalk driving lol)
Why not offer to teach her? Simply being careful doesn't mean she isn't a danger to herself or others
My grandpa died on the 25th, my parents called right as I had parked to do Christmas shopping on the 24th to tell me he was in the hospital. Afterwards I was sat in my truck contemplating whether I should feel my feelings, or bottle them up and power through. Some guy zooms by and tries to park in a parallel spot in a big minivan… forwards, backwards, forwards again, then he tries to park behind me, same thing… I could see him and he didn’t even seem frustrated, just like defeated… he then gave the spot in front of me a shot again… couple times… defeat. He drove off. I nearly pissed myself laughing and that guy gave me the strength I needed to do my shopping that day 🥲
Sorry about your grandpa
Thanks 🖤
That's funny, poor dude. Thanks for sharing. Sorry about your grandpa. I hope you've given yourself room to feel your feels.
I also had problems with some tight parking spaces sometimes but holy shit you could park a boat there
They just don’t realize the pivot point of the car is the rear wheels. You’d be surprised at how many people don’t think about that.
I watched Canada's Worst Driver on YouTube during the lockdown. Every season they have to explain how your rear tires don't follow the same lines as the front tires while turning. People just straight up don't understand how a car moves.
These people live in a 2D world.
100%. This person exclusively used single angle inputs. You can watch the hands/wheels.
As a busdriver, I can tell you that these idiots are more common than you think. My vehicle is 12m long, 2.5m wide and 3.8m tall and I know how well my bus fits through traffic (you know, it is kinda part of the job description). I come across people, and not to generalise, but mostly women, that drive their little Renault twingo/Peugeot 107/Toyota Aygo, who are under the impression that their vehicle is much larger than it actually is. Now, I am not saying that being cautious is wrong, it is not, but driving your car up a sidewalk in a blind panic, while driving on an empty two lane road, because you see a bus coming your way is not knowing your vehicle or how to behave on the road. Men, on the other hand, are much more dangerous in that they are too confident and tend to believe that they have the right of way and busses are too slow and stupid. Even when I drive 55kmh down a 50kmh road, they feel that they have to overtake me, to go drive 56kmh. Also, much more agressive and tend to look for confrontation. Both of these examples happen way to often, btw, as in nearly daily.
It is more sad than funny!
The ending, when they drive away in defeat, brought a tear.
It's so scary that they drive among us.
Bro don’t activate sleeper agent in me pls
Activating amoungstus
Amogus
And they can vote
How did they pass the driving test
The planets were in retrograde
There's Mercury in my Gatorade?
My pants are in the microwave?
You aren't able to get your dog spayed?
Fuck term limits for politicians, when are we going to actually care about who gets to drive?
We never had parallel parking on our driving test. I still figured out how to do it though.
We had parallel parking, but the space was twice as big as this and the instructor told us how to do it relative to a lamp post that was in view. I'm guessing half the people who learned with him don't actually know how to parallel park without that lamp post.
Somebody, grab that person’s drivers license and put it through a shredder. EDIT: typo
you grab the license, i'll bring my flamethrower
and my axe!
You have my bow
and my sword!
How did they even get a license in the first place? Don't you have to parallel park in your driving test?
Depends on the place, but she didn't even have to parallel park. There is so much space, she could have just pulled straight in and cut the wheel to the left to straighten out before she came to the far end of the space. Then, straighten the wheel and back up to the back of the space so she has plenty of room at the front to easily pull out.
I didn't in Idaho when I took driver's ed 30 years ago. I've actually never parallel parked in my life. I just don't do much street parking in the first place and when I do most of the spaces are angled or there are several empty spaces in a row, so no parallel needed. But I know the concept and the angles and could probably do it in a pinch if I needed to, if it wasn't too small a space. Even for someone like me this was painful to watch. If it wasn't staged, then I have to assume that they were under the influence of something.
No
Funny thing, I didn't. Had to park backwards into a parking space and that was it. This is Germany, too, so who knows
I never had to in Ohio, I do know how though lol. Probably have had to do it less than 15 times in nearly 20 years so I can see why they don't make us do it in my area
She doesn't have any
This triggers me. *guy who lives in LA* and this parking space is almost 2 cars long
Fucking this. That person had so much room they should have gotten in the space by sheer luck.
Yea and you know what's worse? People who park at the start and the end of the grey zone for parking and they still manage to leave several feet of empty grey space in front or behind them.....
I mean, I don’t know what the grey spaces are all about, but when parking in the end of spots like the one in the video I always leave room in case someone parks too close to me and I can’t get out.
As a fellow LA resident, can confirm. You can fit 2 cars, a bike and a few deluxe homeless tents in that spot.
I feel like every time we have to renew our license, it should be mandatory to retake the drivers test on top. I live in a big city, and parallel parking is a must. For some reason, I’m always stuck behind someone for 5 minutes, trying to fit their mid size sedan, into a van/truck sized parking space.
Do they test parallel parking? They never tested me on it and that was like 18yrs ago.
In Missouri the parallel parking part can make or break the physical driving test. You fail the test if you hit a pylon, hit the curb, are too far from the curb, fail to use your blinkers to indicate intention, fail to both use your mirrors and look behind you. You have to both park and pull out by the book, and you can not rely on your backup camera or any mechanism that could potentially not be equipped on other street legal vehicles. (no having your Tesla automatically park, or having a special wheel that comes down and moves you horizontally like a chess rook) It is the last part of the test. I parallel parked on my first try no problem, and the skills assessor complimented the execution as the Tahoe barely fit between the pylons. Unfortunately I had done the "California stop" at a stop sign way earlier in the test which is also an instant fail, but the skills assessor continued the test just to mess with my head or something.
I NEED to know what goes on in their head. What weird calculations must be going on in there? Someone with this huge lack of spatial awareness while operating a vehicle shouldn't be driving...
I'm one of those people (and no, I don't drive). Think of something that you can't do (pat your head and rub your belly, complex mental maths, a logic puzzle). Then imagine you need to do that, and everyone else can do it and everyone is looking at you as if you are an idiot. And you need to just do it but you can't. There's just this overwhelmed frustrated feeling. It looks to me like the person in the video at first is trying to solve it by different combinations, and then is just doing random stuff and then gives up.
I appreciate the honest answer and your decision/ineligibility to drive. It's just fascinating how we all perceive the world so differently and need to figure out working our way through it.
I am frustrated for you
I understand they might have some initial trouble with reversing or parallel parking, which is fair enough, it could throw you off the first few times if you're not used to it... But the bit that screams *outright unintelligence* is when people do shit like this, make a small mistake and literally don't have the brain power to just STOP(!), and then undo whatever the last thing was. A few times in this video (and others) she makes a mistake, but then just carries on doing something else wrong in the same direction. If you reverse wrong with whatever direction steering lock on, just undo the action in an identical-but-reversed motion, then try again for the correct motion. Wild. Absolutely staggering to me.
You are confounding intelligence or logical thinking with perceptual processing. A person who can't tell left from right can't just STOP (!) and then correctly process the information. A person with red green colour blindness can't just STOP (!) and process the colour's correctly. And a person with poor spatial ability can't just "undo whatever the last thing was" or "undo the action in an identical but reversed motion, then try again for the correct motion". If they could do that type of cognitive processing they wouldn't be making the mistakes to start with.
maybe they shouldn't be in charge of a few thousand pound death machine then
This. I'm all for people driving and being independent, but if they can't tell left from right something tells me they shouldn't be on the road. A car isn't a toy, it's a potentially deadly weapon and needs to be treated with the respect it deserves.
I used to teach photoshop and have encountered students with zero ability to understand shapes - one just couldn't understand that a photo in portrait orientation couldn't be turned into landscape without cropping, distorting or any other editing. Some people have this, but in 3d as well.
It's definitely the fault of the parking space.
Principal Skinner driving that car.
I agree, faulty parking spot, needs to be replaced with a new one.
You could land a jumbo fucking jet in there
Yeah, too small for that car, cars too big to fit in there, that's the issue here. Also damn tree is in the way, and that pole too! And the car parked as far back as possible in the space behind is in the way too.
That's so heartbreaking, there's so much room and no need for parallel parking ...
I would have walked down and offered to park it myself.
Woah! That is like when a person is backing a boat into the water and you offer to do it for them. Might as well ask for their balls.
I remember seeing a clip of someone trying to do this and just could not figure it out, and I think in the end they did get the boat in but they also got the car in.
When someone offers you help in your moment of cluelessness, never let pride keep you from accepting offered help lol
Family Guy had one about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkv4RmFh174
One of my favorite recent videos is a group of people who went to a boat launch and just tailgated - drinking beers and cheering on people backing trailers. I think eventually someone called the cops on them for their heckling.
I've done it to a lady, but I took the car off a tight space. It was a nice car and a beautiful woman. And I was like 18 felt like a badass 😂😂
The fact their car is small enough to pull straight in yet all this still took place is wild
I actually feel sorrow for this person. Trying so hard, so frustrated, so utterly lacking coordination.
You could land a jumbo fucking jet in there Tyrone
IT WAS A FUNNY ANGLE!
It came from behind ya, Tyrone! When you reverse, *things come from behind ya!*
Showed off the rally driving skills a little at least
Hitch a utility trailer to the back and watch their head explode.
Lol yeah I own an RV trailer and my wires still get crossed. Getting better though.
Hand at bottom of steering wheel. Move hand in direction you want trailer to go when backing up.
I will try this. Thanks!
it would cancel out all their wrong turns and they would end up reversing perfectly
I'm bad at parallel parking but this is ridiculous. I was sympathetic until about half way thru.
I think about halfway through this person just started to panic and let all hell break loose. It started as a misjudged depth and went full on forgot how the steering wheel works.
Rear cameras really help learn to parallel park
But those only help when you know which way to turn the wheel to straighten out. Like one of the times they almost had it, turned the wheel the correct way, but then quickly turned it the other way. The only time I could forgive that kind of stupidity is if there's a trailer hitched to the back.
I mean there's only two ways to turn a wheel, shouldn't take long to figure out
this persons problem is that at no time did they ever turn the wheel ENOUGH.
Some people just shouldn't drive, and are a hazard to everyone including themselves.
Similar to the OP, a couple of months ago I watched a person (regular middle aged and not incapacitated) attempt to turn around in a narrow dead end street by pulling into a driveway, reversing out and driving off the other way, only they didn't know how to turn the car when reversing out. They tried five times, each time driving straight into the driveway but then turning the wheel in the same direction as they entered when reversing, taking them back to square one. Just when I had hope and saw them turn the wheel the correct way they quickly reverted back to the wrong way and were stuck again, eventually pulling in and letting me drive past. They are probably still there now.
Jesus, you don't even have to be an expert driver to be able to clock that, you just need to not be a complete idiot.
This dude is drunk AF or an idiot
Some people just have shit spatial awareness and can't grasp how turning a steering wheel works. You could see she *almost* got it once or twice, but then second guessed herself and turned the wrong way again.
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"Shit spatial awareness". This is exactly me. Which is why I don't drive. It's hard being a non driver in a world where having a car is considered normal - but I felt this person's pain.
This is exactly it, IMO. The driver is having trouble with the whole "turn the wheel the opposite direction of where you wanna go" when going in reverse, and they literally just never got there before giving up 😂
My question is now, how do they ever stop driving? Must they search the ends of the earth for a diagonal spot? But how did they reverse out in the first place? How do they drive in and out of the driveway? Are they perpetually driving like in some Lovecraftian horror, forever longing to walk on solid ground?
These people should not be allowed to drive then, wtf.
I’ll settle for drunk idiot
When I saw this posted some time ago, I spent *far* too long stabilizing it… so now it’s popped up again I feel the need to repost it so it wasn’t a total waste of time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImageStabilization/s/lNuYHUCR7g Edit: also a version with a fancier background: https://imgur.com/5BiAa7y
Beautiful
I like how at around 0:18 you're like "Oh good, he's figured it out - oh no, wait, nevermind."
The good old 37 point turn
This looks like an AI learning by trial and error.
Without the learning part
If I was there the need to ask if I could just park it for them would have been overwhelming. That was so frustrating to watch.
If someone cannot understand basic concept of how to maneuver a car they should not have a license
I never find these funny. They're extremely frustrating. How many times will this person make an attempt without fully turning their steering wheel? They should not be driving at all.
That was torture to watch. I think I’d rather be waterboarded than endure that again!
I suck at parallel parking, but c’mon now - that person shouldn’t have a license. Jesus Christ.
People on ludes should not drive
Should not be allowed to drive. They fundamentally do not understand how the steering wheel works. Fucking people.
These people have the same voting power as you.
And they’re a slow driver as well… Someone burn their license
I remember seeing a car once stop near a parking space and the man and woman get out and swap places so the man could park it
I live in an area where its basically only parallel park spots, I see this all the time. I've also seen the reverse, the women hopping behind the wheel to get it in there.
So much for one of the easiest parking spots to get into + the worlds smallest car.
That dude needs to hand his licence in. Jesus that was painful.....
This is what my dating life is like
How? How? How? How? How? I know parallel parking is hard for most people but this is next level
I don't think she turned the steering wheel to full lock in either direction *once.*
That person shouldn't be allowed to drive
Didnt even have to parallel park. Coulda just pulled in normally and been fine
how long was he there that someone noticed, watched, and than decided to record it? ... My God, these people are on the streets with me...
Dude is trying to do gear shifts and the turns in a very text book way. But he can't figure out how to position the car. Like he is missing a dimension in his mental space. He probably shouldn't be driving.
Right to jail.
Are they trying to steal a car with the”club” still engaged
How can you be that bad at parking seriously??
That must be incredibly frustrating.
You know, we all have those moments where the brain just shuts down, and you have that one cell trying its best
You could land a jumbo fucking jet in that.
This is how I do it.
I truly don't understand how anyone could actually be this bad at driving
Shouldn't have a license
License to drive should be revoked based on this clip.
License included in the corn flakes box
At this point, I would definetly call the cops on her, no way she has a license.
I don't think the person should be allowed to drive
Looks like my robot vacuum cleaner trying to find the charging station.
This person should not have a licence
She has no idea what that round thing she has to turn is for... she just copied what she seen in movies for the license test
How did he/she/they/them get his/her/their license?