Here's a silly little thing I found on internet. See how long it takes you to parallel park this car:

Park the Car


Note: use the arrow keys, not the mouse.

My best score was
52:30 sec/ score=9.65

Uh oh, I could be addicted to this thing. Best time: 00:00:14:50/score: 34.47...after I did it like 20 times LOL. If only we could all parallel park and not worry about the effects of ramming into the surrounding cars...One can hope and dream...

Jen

Oh gosh, I am horrible! I played for 5 minutes, and I didn't even get close to the parking space. Guess I am as bad at online parallel parking as I am in a real car.

- Laura (the infamously bad parallel parker . . . really, ask any of my friends, I passed the driving test by 1 point when I was 16, and i have never gotten any better :rolleyes: )

I don't know, I'm a pretty bad myself. I had to beg and plead during my driver's test, and she finally gave me one more try...to back up straight. Hey, it's the Deep South. The extent of our driver's test is backing up straight, and taking a quick spin around the neighborhood.


JD

Oh my gosh, your drivers' test was that easy? The Ohio test is really hard. Actually, I am really lucky that I took the test really early in the morning, that I drove a small car (a Ford Probe), and that my exam guy was REALLY big -- fat enough that he couldn't fit in my car and had to put the seat all the way back. He could barely see out the front window, and he wasn't fully awake because it was so early in the morning. I ran over 3 cones in my manuverability part of the test, and stopped twice to straighten myself out, yet I passed (granted, I missed 24 points, and you fail if you miss 25).

Here is the manuverability part of the test.



It's like parallel parking . . . from hell. I had so much trouble with it. Even when I tried to help my sister when she was practicing for the test, I STILL couldn't do it! I bet if you put my out in a parking lot today with those stupid cones, I'd still run them over!

- Laura

I rocked when I took my test. Then again it was like a video game. I had a bet with my driving instructor that I'd get perfect. Ack. I lost. I got one thing wrong! I was "hesitant"... I was turning onto a major street. My first turn (left)! I had a sneeze coming and there was a loaded semi coming. I think it was alright for me to pause a bit!!!! I was 15 and 1/3. Then I didn't drive for 6 years. The next six years, or so, I drove maybe once a year. Now I have a big fear of driving!!!! I think I should take some driving lessons so I can back into things.

The game was fun! I did bad!

Aaaaaaargh!

This is horrible!

The first time, I had to take a long time just to learn the controls (which are horrible!). I keep forgetting which key is front, or wheels left, or...!

I actually bumped twice and took 52.64s the second time, with a total score of...


-6.48

Negative!

Geez, it's not like I've never driven before, or never parallel parked before, it's these damn controls! They drive me crazy! (no pun intended )

malu

EDIT: I take it back everything I said above. After practicing a few more times (OK, OK, I would say actually "after practicing A LOT" :rolleyes: ), I got a score of 90.93 with a time of 5:50 seconds - I'm not kidding! WOOHOOO!

I've always said I don't want to learn how to drive a car. I've always been afraid I'll ride the sidewalk at the first turn.

I can only say, if this test is any indication as to how I'm gonna do in RL driving... well, I've tried three times so far, countless bumps and no parking.

AnnaBtG. (who'll keep trying... just out of curiosity about what she's gonna score)

Fun, Vicki!!

Best score:

Time: 24.06; Score: 20.78

Edit: New best score:
Time: 15.43 Score: 32.39

Edit: New best:
Time: 10.56 Score: 47.35


Wendy

Lol! This is funny.

Finally! After countless times of trying and getting scores like -23, I now have a score of 21.75 with a time of 23 seconds.

I guess there's a chance I learn how to do this with my own car one day too. <g>

Saskia

15.48 in 30 sec. I actually finished it this time!!! My seventh try.