Ask any 16-year-old what the worst part of the driver's licensing test is and the answer will probably be parallel parking. Gizmodo has a video of a car (Lexus LS 460 L) that will park itself. Now, even if a teenager (or his/her parents) can afford the $70k+ price of the car, I doubt this feature could be used during the test but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a standard feature of many cars by the time this generation of teenagers has children old enough to drive. Eventually the idea of not using an automatic parking feature would make as much sense as using hand signals instead of the turn indicators now.
Posted by marybeth at August 27, 2006 12:45 PM Shiny Things