Baby, You Can Park My Car

[billroper]

Calvin Trillin apparently has passions other than food. One of them is the quest for the perfect parking space. But when the perfect parking space can't be found, perhaps a self-parking car will do? Apparently not, since it won't park itself in any space that might exist in nature in Manhattan.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Parking space in Manhattan?

Right, that's how you know it's science fiction, not reality!

[singlemaltsilk.livejournal.com]

geez... *I* can park in a space 6-1/2 feet longer than my car, and I parallel park maybe 3 or 4 times a year!

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

That's just silly. It looks like even once you got used to it, by the time that thing was done parking, I'd already have parked and walked a block. I don't understand what the problem with parking is. All I can figure is that people are intimidated and don't think they can do it, and don't practice it. It's just not hard to do.

[bschilli.livejournal.com]

Where does one parallel park these days? Around here it's only the on street parking. Anywhere else it's angle parking.

Ben