things to do when you're short on depth perception

[waider]

close-quarters parking manouevres (aka blatant self-promotion)

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[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

*applause*

BT, done something very similar, during my stint for that IT firm in Edinburgh. Only:

• It wasn't my car (a Citroen BX estate, which I had driven half a dozen times before then).
  
• The owner was sitting next to me.
  
• The owner was one of the managers.
  
• Nobody took cool photos of my reversing.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

HELLO SIR YOURE STEERING WHEEL IS ON THE WORNG SIDE

HOPE THIS HURFS

Oh No It's Not

[mopti.livejournal.com]

It's on the right side. Doubly so :)

[stoat.livejournal.com]

i am pretty aware of where all the corners on my car are in relation to things around, and am usually pretty aware of the corners of rental cars, but occasionally mishaps happen. and occasionally, every passenger in my car flings themselves toward the center as i gauge correctly, if daringly, how close i can come to something on the passenger side without slowing down very much.

things like this should always be well-documented. good job!

[waider.livejournal.com]

Actually, despite owning the car for four years I'm still not able to correctly gauge where the corners are unless I can actually see them (so for example the wing mirrors were both adjusted to let me watch the back of the car during the linked manouevre). I have any number of scrapes on the front bumper of the car from tapping it off the wall in the same car park (although I have never connected with any other car in the car park, except to tip someone's wing mirror with my own while edging past). I think, basically, in addition to having crap depth perception, I have recalcitrant muscle memory as far as these things go - I find similar problems with e.g. playing pool or bowling; I don't improve over the course of a few games, generally speaking.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

playing pool or bowling; I don't improve over the course of a few games, generally speaking.

This may be due to the beer consumption that probably accompanies the attempts, though.

Anyway, as a fellow depth-perception-challenged person, I applaud the parking lot maneuver. I avoid having to do these things by not driving a car at all.