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[Me as a Northern Canadian trying to parallel park](https://youtu.be/ApUZZtrL0Lk)
Impressive
Ridiculously impressive
Like a glove
How do you even know the dimensions of your car that well?
That throttling sound from the vespas after 00:14 sounds [very dramatic.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN6MqsBombA&t=0m14s)
Like most major cities with limited parking. Bumpers be for bumping bro.
[Turns out the Brits knew it all along](https://youtu.be/x44reNb0GDg?t=81)
Wheels should just turn 90 degrees. Common, 21st century man!
More like Parisian than French probably
I mean at 1:09 he gently touched the front car.
Driving is a contact sport in Paris
Not the hardest way to do it even if its tight but the guy was purely motivate to park there
We called it parking by braille when I was in Europe.
While watching this I was thinking that there was no way that car was going to fit. Kudos to the driver.
Yep, walk around Paris and every car is scuffed and scraped from parking. Parisian drivers treat the car like a domestic appliance.
I blame the silver car parked in the front space. That person could have parked their car a good 2 feet more forward.
I honestly thought there was no fucking way they were going to fit lol!
Best watched at 2x speed.
Common throughout Europe, you better get really good at parallel parking if you want to live there. I remember the fights, and occasionally tears, not to mention a few dents and scrapes, as my Mum learned how to parallel park on our ridiculously narrow street which was built long before cars were even a thing. She became an expert at it in the end.
I visited Istanbul once when I was in high school. I watched a bus driver do this sort of thing with a tour bus. I still can’t believe what they managed to do with those things in that city.
In Bordeaux (france), we call that “la poussette bordelaise”, which is the “Bordeaux nudge / love tap” (slightly bumping the car in the front and back to make room)
Don’t park your nice car on the street or it will get chipped
Fits like a glove, a very small one.
honestly, I’m all for society considering a bumper to be a wear item like it should be. Like just make them out of unpainted plastic and use them as proper ‘bumpers’ when parking like this case
but then again you’ve got a whole sect of society that treat their normal ass running shoes like it’s a collectors item.
At that point I would just buy a motorcycle
I’m from France and can confirm that this is normal in France.
Once when I was a much younger I parked this way for a quick 15min stop, and when I came back I thought one of the other cars had blocked me in by parking too close to me.
I was waiting around for at least 5min hoping one of the other two car owners would come back to let me out.
Then I realized the two cars were the same as when I first parked there. So I realized I could get out the same way I got in.
I still think about that sometimes…
This is one of the reasons why Europeans prefer smaller cars.
In France the proximity sensor is the pliable plastic bumper.
I’ve parked with 4 inches on each side. In my case I put it in neutral and steered and pushed through the window so I could see better though.
Would have been perfect if after they parked, the car in the front drives off
This clip from Austin Powers is al I could think about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULRhgG_Az8&ab_channel=BooCutWebsite
After years of driving in New York, I became that girl. So much so that pretty often one of my friends will be driving, see a spot, ask if I can get into it, and then pull up to let me park the car.
Honestly I’d rather just kill myself than spend the time trying to squeeze into that space.
I have tremendous respect for this as someone who tries to avoid parallel parking when possible.
I’ve seen the grand tour, I’m pretty sure they normally just smash into the car in front and behind to make room
The safety features on my car would have my dash flashing red and beeping while my chair vibrates the entire time making already significantly difficult parking job neigh impossible.
One thing I noticed in France is Driving School is a lot more intense than it is here. When I was there at least, some students had to actually drive in simulators, in addition to real-world driving and of course all the legal and academic stuff. I always remember a friend telling me French driving school was 1 level down from F1 training lol
In Lyon, they’d be just like “Fuck it I’ll park in the middle of the road as long as all the other traffic can inch by my car.:
This are some amazing and patient parking skills right here.
“Oui have no time! Get in ze Citroen! Time to get ze cigarette and baguette!
I’m impressed!
Hey, that’s how I manage to parallel park!
I have totally abandoned parking attempts out of frustration. I was cheering on the driver in the video for sticking with it!
That is sick
As an American… I’d have trouble fitting my compact hatchback in that spot.
San Francisco, California parking is the same.
Impressive as hell. From this angle though it looks like the second car hit the car in the front multiple times lol
fuck me
I was hoping the car in front of him would turn on and drive off as soon as they finished parking.