May 30 2008Self Parking Car (No, Not That New Lexus)
This is a self-parallel parking car that engineering students at the University of Toledo built. It's pretty clever. I mean it's so simple that even women could conceivably parallel park. But I'm pretty sure my wife would still find a way to smash up every car around her, drive up on the curb, and back over someone's cat. And the best part? She'd have no idea.
UPDATE: Joking ladies, you know I love you all and think you're wonderful drivers. Truthfully, my wife has never damaged her car but I've driven it poles (telephone and yield sign) on two separate occasions. And the best part? I lied and told her someone must have backed into it in the grocery store parking lot.
Thanks Mike, now lets go play buck-a-curb
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Reader Comments
1. Uncle Eccoli - May 30, 2008 3:48 PM
Women can't drive for shit. Don't give me that garbage about insurance premiums, either. Women can't drive for shit.
2. iota1 - May 30, 2008 4:22 PM
So OLD! I mean decades
3. Angel Mass - May 30, 2008 4:43 PM
Oh gosh this is the top of the laziness!
4. Mocha - May 30, 2008 6:04 PM
nice i want
5. EnochWright - May 30, 2008 9:23 PM
Ok, so those are not anything new. About 5 years ago, when Ripley's believe it or not was still on they aired a video of a car doing that exact same motion from the 50's or 60's. The only difference was the one on Ripley's only had one wheel in the back. Plus the hydraulics in that are also nothing new, same thing that railroad inspectors trucks have underneath so they can ride the rails then drive on the roads. I'm to lazy to find links, google it.
6. gooch - May 31, 2008 12:11 AM
A bunch of engineering students couldn't turn on the wind cancelling switch on the camera?
7. guate6 - May 31, 2008 12:34 AM
#6: hahaha
Who cares if it's old, yes that's a second generation Toyota, but I hadn't seen it.
The one shown in Ripley's is completely different, that one had all four wheels turning (sort of like the bubble-looking car that had an R2 unit posted on the site a while back ago).
You have to remember folks, sometimes people (students included) do things "because they can." If you can do better, do it and stop talking smack. Asshats.
8. Compufreak - May 31, 2008 5:33 AM
Well this is lame considering what Volkswagen just has done with some of their cars in Germany.
Their cars are acutally able to recognize how big the parking spot is and then park in this spot automaticly.
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMt3ueep1Q
this is an acutall video of the thing and not a fake. It works.
9. Your Mom - May 31, 2008 7:23 PM
I need this car. I can't parallel park.
10. guate6 - May 31, 2008 7:37 PM
Yes, the Lexus LS 460L was the first car to have the sensor-based self-parking mechanisms...I'm sure everyone knows this. Again, these guys did it "because they could," or because they were students, and wanted to, or were obligated to. Man, so many asshats.
11. hojo - June 1, 2008 10:19 PM
I don't support this, or the Lexus. If you can't parallel park, you shouldn't be driving. That's why they make you do it in the driving test in some states. I think we should hand out less drivers licenses as it is.
12. poop - June 1, 2008 11:31 PM
i like it. i could use this shit. give me one!
13. Kaj - June 2, 2008 11:31 AM
Yes, there was a car from the 40s or so on Ripley's believe it or not that had the "Spare" tire drop down and wheel the car around in the exact same manner as this car. This idea is SO old...
14. pinkwerewolf - June 23, 2008 9:14 PM
Heh, funny... women can't drive for shit huh? Race me then? I NEVER have been beaten. I'll take on ANY man! Oh yeah, I guess none of you have ever heard of Shirley Muldowney? She'll stomp any guys driving wanna-be nuts into the ground ^^
http://www.muldowney.com/