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Tight parking skills

By Rain Noe - March 21, 2008

in Object Culture

The first two times your American correspondent witnessed folding side-view mirrors in use was in Japan and Italy, where drivers actually had to pilot their cars through spaces with insanely tiny tolerances. And the most boastful parking job witnessed was in San Francisco--parallel parking a stickshift on a steep uphill incline. But this one's got to take the cake--do you think you could park your car backwards in a space with only a one-centimeter tolerance? In Japan, of course, such an act would become a televised competition:

Japanese Parking Gameshow
by vidyokanal

via tv in japan

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