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Sorry but i find this stuff extremely sad, far too many people buy cars which are simply too big for them, and never think to check turning circle before they order, hence why its so painful to watch the rep types in motorway service areas trying to drive into spaces, in one shunt, in Audi A6's, Mondeos and Insignias, each with turning circles of supertanker proportions....you see them in some service areas all in a herringbone pattern where they've driven straight in at and angle across two bays and the clones have followed suit.
What happened to the simple as can be reverse park, anyone who can't manage that shouldn't be on the road at all, its a doddle by mirrors alone if need be.
A parallel park should be simple enough, yet i see enough people drive into a parallel park and spend the next 10 shunts edging the vehicle over to where it would have been in one move had they reversed in.
Again some people don't actually buy cars practical for them, if you buy an Insignia with the most utterly useless door mirrors ever fitted, then you'd better be pretty good at ESP or expect scrapes especially of kerbed wheels, which its impossible to see through the mirrors.
If you bought an early Audi TT rolling coffin, you needed a periscope to see out the horizontal arrow slits laughingly called windows, but these makes and models are not alone in fashion first design.
The most sensible value for money fitment are parking sensors, rear mainly but useful both ends on high or longer vehicles, the correct use of these enabling the maxiumum use of for and aft space available.
Then a bit of practice and the good sense to keep windows and mirrors clean make the world of difference, we really don't need all this electronic control tat just to park a car.
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