not so smart

Any you wonder why their economy is collapsing. They cant even figure how to park this little car.

She is dumb for two reasons. One because she can't parallel park and two for not using the smart car the way you're supposed to. They're designed so you don't have to parallel park. You just drive straight in. They're so short the tail doesn't stick out into the road.

This is like last night with YOUR MOM.

Hahahaha.. oh.

Those people walking past could at least have offered to lift up the car and plonk it in the spot for her.

Hand in your licence, lady. You have no business driving

misleading title alert!!!
i expected something completely different.

how can anyone be that bad at this?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'smart car, park, parralel' to 'smart car, park, parallel, spain' - edited by xxovercastxx

And then she ends up diagonal parking in a space 2 regular sized cars probably could have fit.

Does anyone else's blood pressure rise when watching videos like this?

wouldn't it be easier to just park it Shaolin Soccer style?

This is another clip of her, this time after her morning coffee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCZB_kiN9A

In my driver's ed class in High School, one of the girls assigned to the same car as me was pretty good at general driving, but absolutely terrible at perpendicular or angle parking.

Every time, she would end up with the car straddling the parking lines, pretty much straight down the middle. You'd think that would be an easy thing to adjust for -- if you notice that what you are doing makes you perfectly straddle the line, just do the same thing but aim for the line instead of the space. That didn't seem to work for her; it took her weeks to get it where most of us had it down the first day.

Anyway, after perpendicular and angle parking, the instructor would have us start working on parallel parking. I think learning that just takes some practice, because it isn't really as intuitive as most other things we do in a car. While this girl was still stuck on perpendicular/angle parking, the rest of us had already moved on to parallel parking. We were all speculating that the girl would *never* be able to parallel park considering how long it was taking her to figure out the easier types.

When she finally did get proficient with normal parking, I remember sitting in the back of the car for her first attempt at parallel parking. The instructor got her to pull along the barriers that were standing in for other cars and then talked her through the process for several minutes before she was even allowed to try. Plus she had seen the other students in the car practicing it for a couple of weeks. Anyway, she put it in reverse and cranked the wheel -- and easily got the car into the spot, with no screwups, advice, or warnings from anyone while she was doing it. A few more times proved it wasn't just a fluke, and the instructor had her try with real cars in real situations, spots that were quite tight, parallel parking around a circular curved curb, etc. She did it all with ease.

At the end of the course, she was still by far the best of us at parallel parking -- but occasionally needed a few attempts to get into a perpendicular or angle parking space. Very bizarre, and reinforced the idea that sometimes people are just wired differently.

I think fundamentally, the key to learning ANYTHING is to first learn HOW IT WORKS.

For example, learning to drive a manual transmission, it never really clicked for me until I recognized, and visualized exactly what was happening and how it happened with the transmission. Suddenly, I perfectly understood how to operate the clutch, gear shifter, and accelerator, and suddenly I could drive stick, where before I was constantly killing it.

People who don't know how to parallel park simply do not understand the fundamentals surrounding the physics of the vehicle and how to make the wheels go where they should be going. This person was never taught the BASICS, she was merely given the TASK. You can't truly learn something without first understanding the theory and the mechanics behind it.

Photoshop is best taught by explaining the behind-the-scenes, technical stuff rather than merely following a step-by-step tutorial. Sure, the tutorial might show you how to do that one thing, but it doesn't teach you WHY that works, or how to do something else. It's easier to comprehend the inner workings than it is to memorize steps. Forget one step, and you could screw the whole thing up, and even if you manage to remember them all, it's only a guide for how to do that one thing. Imagine if you understood HOW and WHY it does what it does, then you could create your own things from that and your potential is limitless, whereas the step-by-step guide only teaches you that one thing.

This is why women can't drive for fuck. They haven't evolved the technical mind that males have evolved. Out of necessity, men developed brains better equipped for understanding technical things, whereas women developed brains that work on emotion and nurturing.

Well what do you expect, she's trying to park during what appears to be a massive earthquake

>> ^davidraine:

>> ^ForgedReality:
This is why women can't drive for fuck.

Awww, you were doing so well right up to the end.


Hehe I just threw that in for effect. It was meant to be sarcastic and inflammatory. You should have seen what I almost added after that.

>> ^residue:

Well what do you expect, she's trying to park during what appears to be a massive earthquake


Hahha! Nice.

>> ^ForgedReality:
Hehe I just threw that in for effect. It was meant to be sarcastic and inflammatory. You should have seen what I almost added after that.


I'll make you a deal then. Tick the sarcasm check box next time and in return I'll refrain from downvoting your comment. *smile*

>> ^davidraine:

>> ^ForgedReality:
Hehe I just threw that in for effect. It was meant to be sarcastic and inflammatory. You should have seen what I almost added after that.

I'll make you a deal then. Tick the sarcasm check box next time and in return I'll refrain from downvoting your comment. smile


Most of the comment was not sarcasm though. Damn internets.