Cars parking themselves?

[VGMasterShadow]

The idea is just plain looney. This could cause god-knows-what-kind-of-calamity on the road. Hate to see these in cars that are driven by bad drivers.

[IMDWalrus]

Just what we need...another way to distract rivers.

To be honest, though, you haven't seen bad drivers until you've been in Michigan. It's the only place I've seen where the speed limit is the minimum speed that most people drive at. (Then again, I haven't traveled very far and I'm a stupid teenager. What do I know?)

For the most part, anything that can take a person's eyes or focus off of the road shouldn't be allowed in cars. I understand using things like the radio or cupholders, but...TV? Websites? Karaoke? Those just sound like recipes for disaster.

For what it's worth, though, Michigan has a very structured driver's ed program. It includes two segments of classroom education, six hours of driving with a licensed instructor, and an hour-long road test that includes freeway driving. You also have to hold the permit for each level of the instruction for a set period of time before you can move on to the next stage. The program is only in effect for people under 18, but it's a start...We just need more states to adopt programs like this one. What do we have to lose?

[tkwetzel]

Originally Posted by IMDWalrus

To be honest, though, you haven't seen bad drivers until you've been in Michigan. I'm almost positive that we're the only state where the speed limit is the MINIMUM speed that most people drive at.

Sorry...but I do believe most people in every state drive using the speed limit as a minimum, at least in most places where I've been. And high speed does not mean that a driver is bad or good. Most of the people that I know and consider to drive poorly drive slower than I do.

[suneel112]

Does the car have crab drive or does it use the axle. Both would be great ways to parallel park, but a crab system would be the best to park under any circumstance.
Speed limit is the minimum:
Not really. During a trip, my family was driving through Virginia, going only 81 mph (limit was 70, methinks), and we got a really hefty (somewhere between $80 and $200, its too long back).
They also had a portable radometer that said "School zone...you are going:" It read 36 on it when I was a few blocks away, and I slowed down before it, but just as I passed by it, I slammed the accelerator, but it didn't tell me my speed. I should have gone 60 before it and run over some people ...or not.

[Wetzel]

As a complement to that, here is a hypothesized evolution of a transition to an automated highway system.

Personally, I think that the ability for the car to parallel park itself is a useful and cool feature. More useful would be teaching it in drivers ed.


Wetzel

[Squirrelrock]

Originally Posted by suneel112

Speed limit is the minimum:
Not really. During a trip, my family was driving through Virginia, going only 81 mph (limit was 70, methinks), and we got a really hefty (somewhere between $80 and $200, its too long back).
They also had a portable radometer that said "School zone...you are going:" It read 36 on it when I was a few blocks away, and I slowed down before it, but just as I passed by it, I slammed the accelerator, but it didn't tell me my speed. I should have gone 60 before it and run over some people ...or not.

i live in VA, and the max speed limit (the highest the signs will say) is 65mph, i belive.

and on those porta schoolzone signs, I have hit 25 going past one on a bike, according to it, so they probably get your speed and add 5 to 10 mph to it. (Actually, it could have been correct, I was going downhill very fast )