A lot of people don't know how large their car is. You see lots of people in 4x4s and estates struggling with parking spaces, or driving slightly in the cycle lane.
In fairness though most parking spaces now are only big enough for ethically sourced bicycles and politically correct supermini's. Cars are getting bigger yet planners make parking facilities smaller.Most people who drive Estates and MPV's do so because they have to, not because they want to so therefore are busy and slightly bitter people who couldnt care less about something as trivial as parking. Plenty of modern cars are like driving a postbox and you dont really know where you've parked it until you get out. As for the cycle lane thing, plenty of them are put in on roads which simply arent wide enough, probably to qualify for some sort of eco friendly grant but the fact remains you used to have to use that section of the road in certain places before they painted a cycle lane and you still have to use it now. My instructor always told me to use it (providing its broken line, not solid of course) if required, to blindly plough on going 'my cars in the middle of the lane' while ignoring the parked bus and the overtaking lorry on the other side of the road is stupid.
Also, a lot of people don't use their side mirrors properly.
I find a lot of people dont have them properly adjusted, this is most common in shared cars when the two drivers are of different heights, neither bothers to change them to suit them.
Oi. As the only regular XX-chromosomed poster and a scientist to boot, I must point out that I have never bumped or scraped a car, passed my test first go and manage fine driving a large-ish vehicle :-P
Ive crashed a car into a tree, passed on my third attempt and drive a rather large vehicle which has prompted me to impliment a 'dont care about anybody' policy and i drive/park/leave/abandon it wherever i damn well please.
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