Car enthusiasts have found countless ways to turn driving into a competition. Drag racing, autocross, drifting, and track days are obvious examples, but apparently there’s now another way to prove ...
Competitions in Portland, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh set out to prove that the most challenging way to park can also be the ...
RAVE to the stranger who acknowledged my proficient parallel parking. I was driving on one of our narrow Seattle streets when I found a space I wanted to park in. The space was on the small side, but ...
Parallel parking is a skill—an art, even—that’s slowly becoming extinct in today’s drivers. More and more, our cities are designed in ways that parallel parking just isn’t necessary, and as a result, ...
A five-block line of vehicles stretched through a Southeast Portland neighborhood Sunday afternoon as drivers waited for a ...
Portland’s famed parallel parking competition is taking another spin around the city’s streets. The event, introduced last summer, started the way all the best (and worst, but mostly best) ideas do — ...
Considering how large cars have gotten and how much worse their outward visibility is, the proliferation of backup cameras is ...
The Portland Parallel Parking Competition brought out over 90 parallel parking contestants and hundreds of spectators.
Rock Lobster? More like Crab Walker. Don't be fooled, though. This baby isn't a Chrysler, it's nowhere near as big as a whale, and sadly, it won't carry 20 of your closest friends to your next beach ...
In the Western world, some automated driving features seem to have fallen out of favor. Not true in China—and the reasons why offer a preview of auto industry changes to come. Parallel parking can ...
There are two words that strike terror in the hearts of those hoping to earn a driver’s license: parallel park. A learner can successfully do every other aspect of ...
If you've been driving for long enough, and particularly if you've had the same car for a long time, you develop a keen instinct for which parking spots will be too much of a squeeze. Parallel parking ...