In case you haven't noticed, there are LAREADY people too stupid to
drive out ont he roads today, with licenses in hands. And my beloved
Pontiac's been dented way too many times by morons who don't know how to
parallel park (and naturally, none have left notes fessing up).
Um, not only did I notice but I even said so.
You stripped this line out of my original message:
"If anything, that learning curve isn't steep ENOUGH."
Personally, I'd love to see these idiots not drive. But since that's
not going to happen, I'd rather there be a car that can do a better job
of parking itself than the owner can. At least maybe then I won't find
new dings on my car every damn week.
It only parallel parks. It doesn't slot park. Do you get
dings from people parallel parking near you or from parking
next to you and hitting you with the doors? Mine are mostly
the latter, although I do have one big scratch on my front bumper,
probably from a rear-mounted spare tire or hitch or bike rack or something.
Parking is a fairly small worry to me beause when people do it badly it
doesn't result in nearly as many deaths as collisions at higher speeds.
The part that scares me is that killing someone with a car is
rarely a very serious offense if the person wasn't drinking. It's
a misdemeanor in many places! If these people can't maneuver a
car at low speed surrounded by stationary objects, I shudder to
think how they manage on the road.
-DanD
