Parking in Europe is Intimidating...

[@nocturne7371]

I got the best advise from my father when I was learning to park. "Go slow and if you're uncertain, stop get out and look at the situation from the outside"

[@AlainnCorcaigh]

Nah just keep going till you hear a big bang

[@icoborg]

good luck with three cars waiting behind you

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

@@icoborg Right THERE is where the dog is burried! FÅK those 3 cars - especially if they are male and you're not 😆😆 Take your time - easy, easy. We're nudging here! If they havent got the time to wait, they should have left home 2 minuttes earlier - or gone via an other route. Calm down - both of you 😉😉 Did they start honking at you??? You pull the hand break, get out, go to that car and kindly offer to hold his horn, while he parks your car..... No scratches mind you! Or simply tell him that the more he stresses you, the longer it's going to take. But you're lucky: You've got all the time in the world... how much honking time has he got??? This is EXACTLY why women can't parallel park: When a man screams "you're in my way" Honk-Honk, most women go "oh, I'm ever so sorry", scoots off - and HE scores the space 🤬 Peace, love and happy parking 🥰

[@lexywackess]

Mine said "when you hear boum, you went too close"

[@arthur_p_dent]

@@lexywackess i heard "Wenn's knallt noch'n Meter" - "when you hear boom, go one more meter"

[@LordM3me]

The person in the Ferrari made it look harder than it needed to be.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

Didn't know the size of the car

[@Bob10009]

You don’t risk dinging a Ferrari…..

[@saad-t7k]

Not only him, all drivers did huge mistakes while parking. 🤷‍♀ For me, this is video is more like "how to not to park like this" kzbin.infoWYfFuqaFfoM this is what I've been taught in school and you can believe me, it is necessary to know when you need to park in Prague's city center.

[@LordM3me]

@@Ikkeligeglad Yeah clearly

[@LordM3me]

@@Bob10009 Sure I get that, but did you miss how wide the spot was? Just back up a bit, turn out and leave.

[@zefyrisd69]

That one from France at 15:00 is a Paris special. In France, that parking style by pushing the other cars is called "to park your car Paris-style" ("se garer à la Parisienne") for a reason. The rest of France don't like to do it.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Paris is a special country... France is alright tho.

[@ZafWitness]

Of course it would help, if every french car had 8 (eight) parking spaces, like they have in USA - more land is used for parking, than for people to live on.🤣

[@archloy]

In some cities, there is a lot of people from Paris you know... ;)

[@xlumino4372]

Were are all the black paintless bumpers gone?!

[@Safi_JC]

We use that parking style in Italy too sometimes 😂 but I love the term “Paris special”, can I borrow it for the next time? 😂👍👍

[@valije]

The sound in the first clip is not from contact with another car, but someone closing a garbage bin in the street.

[@Eugene-y5f]

bro in my country driving test involves side parking (like the first clip) where you can only change gear 2 times. meaning - you have to park basically in 3 moves. you cant just go back and forth forever :D

[@alexanderkupke920]

But to be honest, usually not in such tight spaces. Also, kind of as a courtesy, in most places people try to leave at least something between 50 and 80 cm in front and back between cars, so all cars have plenty of space to leave their space as well. Well, in some places it doesn´t work. That parking in Brighton, that must have followed a desperate search for a parking spot. Most people would rarely try to get into such a tight spot. Would have been fine for an even smaller car like a Smart though. For parking in France it was jokingly said in the past, never apply your parking brakes, otherwise it causes more damage when the other cars push vehcles around when parking.

[@Eugene-y5f]

@@alexanderkupke920 ​ow yea I agree. parking test gives you normal space to park. and I assume these clips were people who trying the last desperate spot in the area

[@gabibavaria]

Sorry but the ferrari driver has no and I mean really no experience with parking. That parkingspot would be big enough for a VW Bus to get out. Going in is another thing.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

In and out it's the same (I told her that yesterday)

[@ChrisJones-km7tp]

Okay but it doesn't help that the camera guy's like don't help, just stand in the sight lines and film...

[@mihk3l]

@@ChrisJones-km7tp Sure, while I do agree with your point but traffic almost never happens in a vacuum, someone is almost always watching you.

[@Chuulip]

Totally agree. Gets himself (assuming their gender, sorry) a big boy car and then drives like he learned it yesterday.

[@MrHades37]

Woman, soo what you expect xD

[@SkaffaS]

the Ferrari driver did not utilize the space he had very well, if he had gone back a bit further he could have done that in 1 or 2 go's

[@DameMitHermelin]

In 1 go. That's a huge space.

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Scared of damaging the rental Ferrari.

[@Niki91-HR]

The Ferrari one was painful to watch. There was enough space to drive out smootly.

[@McGhinch]

Ferrari driver doesn't know the dimensions. Enough money to afford such a car but not enough skill to operate it.

[@PaulinaHagath]

And that's why I'm roaming the streets in Kia Picanto. I can park this bad girl in a half-spot left by a delivery truck parked over the line.

[@ankhayratv]

13:13 "That is the smallest Chevy I've ever seen" It's a Chevrolet-badged Daewoo.

[@antoniogonzalezperez8757]

I've had a Chevrolet Matiz (not only badged, GM bought Daewoo almost 20 years ago) for 15 years, and I'm used to park wherever. Not only it's small, it has an amazing turn angle. It was FWF, so not much older than the one in the video, with a G plate. The car had a rent-a car label, so I guess the driver isn't used to it, and released the brake before completely turning the wheel. I got a new car just 3 months ago, and I do miss my old Matiz. 28 hours after getting the car, I scratched it against a column in my parking, and now I have to come from another entrance, because this one can't turn properly at the one I used before, it's too tight. It's a Corsa, in no way a big car, but after 15 years driving a Matiz..........

[@yesemitesam333]

A long time ago I drove my motorhome into a car park in France. I thought no more about it until a couple of hours later I looked down on the car park from the city walls and realised there was a height barrier at the exit. Crazy, but no escaping the reality; I wasn't going to get out. In the end I had to get help to stop any more traffic getting in whilst I reversed out, all the while bringing the city centre to a standstill with queueing cars and crowds of bystanders watching what I was doing. I did get a round of applause once I got out though.

[@DanDanDoe]

Only a height barrier at the exit? That just sounds like bad planning of the parking lot owner. 😅

[@thekitchenchikens]

@@DanDanDoeit sounds plain evil😂

[@jantimmerby]

The lady in Den BMW can't use age as an excuse, in my opinion. If you're too old to handle parking, it's time to hand in your driver's license.

[@Slartifartblast]

You are correct, the first car was a Seat. That was just an average every day parking space for us in the UK... 😭

[@leohickey4953]

Yes. The chequerboard pavement suggested Portugal to me, but I'm guessing.

[@rolflin]

​@@leohickey4953that's mostly everywhere not only portugal

[@countk1]

I guess in the most of Europe.

[@jur4x]

Seat Leon, actually

[@yamuis]

That's why shield bumpers were invented. First on the very original Renault 5, I think, in the seventies...And I was told in cities like Paris they used to park without handbrake and not in gear so cars could be shifted easily while parking.

[@basstrammel1322]

I was sure they put it in 1. or 2., so it kept where it stopped.

[@jojo80275]

Well tell the same in Brussels ;)

[@Skelterbane69]

@@basstrammel1322 We do that here in Sweden, since the parking brake can freeze otherwise

[@paolo9326]

Who, try to parking, pull other cars, is only a dog of shit ! Usually, they have, old shit car, and don,t care. Then, if you meet illegal parking attendant, and you don't pay, you Will find, a surprise, on your body car. Usa, foward, light years. Europe, third world.

[@selenityshiroiYT]

That second one has to be deliberate and out of spite! I have absolutely done something similar in my street where the parking is extremely limited and people try and park to take up two spaces so they can move up and let their partner park when they get home. So I've deliberately parked in spaces like that as passive aggressive 'you thought' (except without bumpering the cars). Sometimes that petty 100 point parking manoeuver can be super satisfying.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Yeah the Ferrari driver not the brightest tool in the box

[@walkir2662]

I failed my practical tests often enough that I accepted trying more is a waste of money and the streets are safer with me in a train.. but I don't see what is so hard about leaving that parking spot.

[@Searover749]

never the brightest who drive this...

[@niklo322]

@@Searover749how do you know?

[@sandert8901]

well to be honest, you dont wanna ding a ferrari, those are hella expensive to fix

[@niklo322]

He could have just reverse close to the car in the back and then pulled out in one go. I think the person doesn't drive this Ferrari ofthen

[@xurok]

You could park a truck where that ferrari was

[@stevemcgowen]

Yeah, if you can park a motorcycle in the front or back it’s not a tight spot.

[@Sergio-by1pc]

The first one is a SEAT Leon, the second one is a Toyota Yaris and the Chevrolet is a Matiz (Daewoo)

[@brodude0799]

the Chevrolet could be a Spark too, but they are the same

[@morbvsclz]

This habit of just pushing other cars seems to be, or at least have been, pretty common in Paris. Here in Germany the first slight touch, even without damage would already be a traffic violation. And if you did that and the car owner sees you, that is very likely going to end up as a fight.

[@strunz5787]

Based on the first example of parking a 'Seat' in reverse: position yourself at a half-meter distance from the vehicle in front; reverse until your rear axle is aligned with the rear of the adjacent vehicle- you can tell this because the rear axle is at the level of the backrest of the rear seat; now turn the steering wheel fully towards the direction you want to park; drive the rear of your vehicle into the parking space until your rearview mirror, extended, aligns with the rear of the vehicle in front; now turn the steering wheel fully in the opposite direction to complete the reverse parking maneuver. Best regards.

[@gabrielaribeiro6155]

This is very similar to how I was taught to parallel park during driving classes is Portugal! Works like a charm

[@joni7fi]

Jeez Ian. This is good example of when you say "europe". In the north like Finland and Scandinavia, people actually care about their cars and would never ever hit other peoples bumbers. Dont scuff my Volvo please I want it to stay pretty!

[@E38Bimmer35]

Same in Germany. That doesn't compare to that behavior at all usually

[@vinniamsterdam700]

No pushing and shoving in the Netherlands.

[@Bob10009]

A pretty Volvo has yet to be built 😂😂

[@KingKayn-kh8qi]

7:20 hows that a tight place. The dude jst clearly doesnt have spatial awarness. If u are nervoua jst hop off the car geez

[@KalleKilponen]

​@@Bob10009 The P1800 might want to have a word.

[@Madpegasusmax]

It depends of the country and the driver , but in Paris it is considered normal to touch and push other parked cars, and this is the main reason that older french cars had rubber blocks (also called bananas) on the bumpers , to allow bumper car mode , and even tolerated to park in the wrong direction on the opposite lane (very dangerous because of the lower driver visibility)

[@noefillon1749]

I keep hearing this as a French and I don't know itf it's true or not, but I've never seen anyone bumping another car purposely. If feels very much wrong to me. Are people in Paris that different ??

[@claudiakarl7888]

@@noefillon1749It happens. I sat in a cafe in Paris with a nice view onto the street. A car tried to park, touched the one behind, drove forward and touched the one in front. Drove back and made it. The trick seems to be to not pull your hand brake.

[@loicrose9916]

In Paris it's considered normal to touch the bumper of others car, or even push them a little

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

It's mandatory. Parking space is 95% of the car's length.

[@basstrammel1322]

Hell yes, it is! Portugal, Spain, Italy as well. It's a way to get most cars into a street with residuental block around. Put it in 1.and place the hand/emergency brake off! So can everyone slightly scoot the car in front of back of you, leaving you with good room for leaving. Not everyone is obsessed with dings and scratches as me, I think it's more of a cultural thing.

[@jesuschrist2287]

@@basstrammel1322what if someone breaks your transmission by pushing the car. What to do?

[@KarlOlofsson]

how much can you push them in gear and with the parking brake anyway?

[@basstrammel1322]

@@jesuschrist2287 Then It's over for you, that's it, finito for your ride. Noo, smal hatbatch's can take a foots push.

[@fetzie23]

The second clip is a classic case of “Austin Powersing it in”.

[@dutchbachelor]

That space the Ferrari is in is actually relatively spacious... More than what I usually got to work with if I have to park here on the street.

[@pppetra]

If only it reversed 40 cm..

[@module79l28]

Old school driver here. I was taught how to drive in a car with no power steering, a heavy clutch and bad brakes but I never failed parking at first attempt (it helped that I had the best instructor in the school). Every car that I drove in the last 36 years didn't have parking sensors. If they had, I would drive them crazy with the way I park. Now that I think about it, I'd probably rip them off or cut the wires so that I wouldn't have to hear them whine about how close I was to the other cars when I'm manoeuvering to park. 🙂

[@afiiik1]

I'm glad I have the sensors because I park near a kindergarten and I can't see behind my bumper very well when the kid is very short.

[@module79l28]

@@afiiik1 - Then maybe you shouldn't be driving a vehicle that has bumpers higher than kindergarten kids' height. 😉

[@afiiik1]

@module79l28 I'm driving a Škoda Octavia. The kids are tiny.

[@countk1]

I feel ya. My instructor and my dad were very aprticular about it. My dad instructed me to turn the wheel and don't move it any more until the next step. That learned me how the steering wheel to front wheel movement worked. He made me do 8's in ever increasing speed to get this right. Now that I have parking sensors, I get into trouble when driving a car without sensors from work sometimes. And yes, my sensors go crazy, certainly with the two different pitches for front and back going simultanuously sometimes. You can turn them off though.

[@maxbassful]

This is child's play. Try underground and multilevel European car parks. That's on another level. Pun intended

[@lm4122]

in some EU countries one has to park 100% like this at 1st to get a driving license :) its like Jedi test.

[@huskytail]

In which EU countries you can take your drivers license without parallel parking?

[@rolflin]

​None 😂 ​@@huskytail

[@Muck006]

#3 ISNT a tight spot ... but it is "made tight" by the fact that someone doesnt want to scratch their Ferrari. The numberplate is "Göttingen", which is an old university town in middle-northern Germany. Quite nice and they have a great café with awesome cakes there in the pedestrian zone.

[@walkir2662]

That driver probably paid for the 666 plate.

[@t0zu]

i'm pretty sure it was in Hannover in front of the Opera in the "Georgsstraße", but his license plate is in fact Göttingen.

[@yvonnejanssen9570]

On holiday we once got a hotelroom with a balcony overlooking a very busy parking lot with tiny parking spaces. At first we where disapointed, But it was one of the most entertaining views we ever had. We just sat on our balcony watching all the drama unfold.

[@suicidalbanananana]

It's gotten much better in the past 10-15 years but lots of people used to just "make space" for their car in France 😂

[@Yolanda8419]

Even though I can get into the smallest available parking spot because I had a good teacher who taught me so well, I even taught my husband to do it more efficiently, I wouldn’t have tried to park in the second spot. It’s incredibly disrespectful to the cars around her, to know that she bumped into them and also they may not have space to remove their vehicles. For reference, I am Greek and live in Athens which is hell to park. But, yeah if you can’t park in Athens, you will not park in Athens.

[@UncleHo5]

The Ferrari...plenty room. And the old lady with the bmw...just terrible. My father at 75 yo sold his car just to avoid this situation. She shouldn't be driving.

[@McGhinch]

Ferrari driver doesn't know the dimensions. Enough money to afford such a car but not enough skill to operate it.

[@ChrisGBusby]

I used to drive a Mercedes S Class LWB and used to get it into spaces many people in smaller cars gave up on. The biggest problem in UK car parks was length. Lots of forward thinking :)

[@McGhinch]

My parking sensor was broken because someone rear-ended me, and it took a while for them to get replacement parts. So I had to learn parallel parking without the sensors. But I confirm that many drivers of smaller cars didn't use parking spots for my car because they were to small. 🙂 My W140 was 5.21 meters long. So, parking spots longer than 5.6 meters were o.k., tight but o.k. Anything longer than 5.75 was comfortable. But, with a car like that driving anywhere in European cities and villages is tight, not to forget car parks.

[@arnodobler1096]

No, it's because the (US) trucks make no sense! Where do you drive them apart from North America? Almost nowhere.

[@Searover749]

nonsense also in US...

[@W4rM4chine82]

Not everyone lives in a city

[@arnodobler1096]

@@W4rM4chine82 80% US ppl doo

[@jennyh4025]

@@W4rM4chine82I know a lot of people, who do not live in cities and still drive normal cars (sedans, station/estate wagons, even small cars like a Mini Cooper).

[@iamthearmul]

I lived in 70s era apartment building in Finland for 10+ years and parking spots were made for Datsun 100A sized cars. You really learn to park when in winter you try to squeeze in your parking spot.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

Ahh loved my Datsun 100A, my first car

[@necro970]

That´s why cars come from factury with bumpers ... to do just that, if needed give a small bump, they are not design to crashes but to help in those hairy situations without damage either cars .... in Lisbon (Portugal) we also need to give small bumps with very low speed to facilitate parking

[@kalasanty433]

From what I've heard, it used to be a rule in Paris, that you parked your car in neutral, so it was easier for people to push and park. Might be harder with more cars being auto nowadays

[@Bob10009]

In Paris, you generally see two types of cars - chauffeur driven limos that never park anywhere and shitty old bangers with ratty, scraped, dented bodywork. Parisians drive and park by Braille. Check out the Arc de Triomphe roundabout - an accident on every circuit 😂😂

[@itsmebatman]

Parking in countries like France and Spain kinda has it's own etiquette. I was once told you are not supposed to use the handbreak after you parked your car in Paris. the reason is that other people trying to park can't push your car back or forward if they want to park in the next spot. So the general idea is, that everyone expects to to just force their way into too small parking spots like that. I saw people parking like that in Spain too. In Germany that is unthinkable though.

[@aitorugartevega3681]

I've never seen that way of parking in Spain to be honest.

[@rolflin]

Yeah some places people.know each other and do that😂 not bad thing we are kind and civilised

[@rolflin]

​@@aitorugartevega3681i have seen that at some barrios at Madrid or Granada 😂 Típica plaza que es pequeña y en las esquinas te dejan el.coche atrapado con otro delante Empujar sales y lo vuelves a dejar donde estaba y además los paisanos del bar te ayudan 😂😂😂

[@aitorugartevega3681]

@@rolflin Pues en el norte nunca lo he visto la verdad jajaja.

[@Vincelebourrin]

@@aitorugartevega3681 never seen that in Paris, and i've been living here for 35 years, it's a urban legend

[@yadiracamacho499]

I've seen cars parking like that little hatchback in Spain. The most shoking parking I've seen was in Rome. It was a Lamborghini and a Maserati side by side in front of a hotel that was at rhe end of a narrow alley that I could've sworn was pedestrian only. I still don't understand how they got there.

[@mricsoke4096]

those brands have speacial features on the roads :))

[@UtamagUta]

Yeah, weirdest parking I've ever encountered was also in Italy, Sicily specific: 1) casually parked cars on the inner part of a _roundabout_ ; 2) 2 out of 3 lanes of the stroad was dedicated to parking and still packed to a brim, not to mention the traffic jam for the last lane in Palermo; 3) tiny town alleys, we called as a "donkey path),- not wider than a 1,5 meters across. So pretty much all town houses had these cute little garages so we see an old beater of a car driving up to one. The dude casually steps out, and old geezer, probably 80 or 90 years old, sat in and parked that car like a pro. Not a single stop and reposition - went straight like an arrow, bendy arrow.

[@aphextwin5712]

The street in front of my house in Switzerland is exactly 5 m (16’ 5”) wide, with a retaining wall on one side and a fence with concrete pillars and base on the other. There are cars parked on one side, with the white line indicating the parking area outlining an exactly 2 m wide parking space. You essentially have to park with maybe an inch (2.54 cm) of space between the wall and your mirror.

[@sidewalkere]

To be clear, all that bumping is NOT an European thing, it's a douchebag thing. If the owners of any of the other cars showed up at that moment, there would be fireworks. Yes, we do squeeze our cars in what in america would no doubt be considered very tight spaces. But we do not force them in. If it can't be done within reasonable effort and time and without touching other cars, normal people just go on to some other spot.

[@Morris1000100]

In Germany it's mandatory to park your car backwards on the side of the road if you wanna get your licence.

[@stewrmo]

I hope you and your family gets better as soon as possible! One love from Scotland. 💙 🦄 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@wykydytron]

All were terrible. Driver licence test should have that mandatory because parallel parking is pure science not skill. You have to put car in correct position and start turning at right moment. It's hard to explain comments but there is one correct way to do it and if car can fit it will fit in one go without maneuvering for days.

[@TheAquarius1978]

Yea, parallel parking is easy just find the " mirror to mirror " ( for same size cars ) technique and the rest is easy, but i think the dude in the Leon at the start of the video never heard of such things lol....

[@helenroberts1107]

I live in North Wales and often you have to remember to push your wing mirror in or it will be gone when you get back

[@aglandorf75]

Parked my car in Amsterdam last week, parking fee for 2 days at the hotel parking lot 64€

[@Dragon9Nexus]

2:21 that's a normal spot, not too tight. The one parking it does it wrong, at the very beginning, even if not shown in it's entirety, the driver began the stearin waaaay too late, it resulting in a difficult parking and done in tripple/quadruple the maneuvers..

[@Vincelebourrin]

i agree, there is 20 cm on both ends, it was the requirement of space for assisted parking systems 10 years ago, to work with that available space ...

[@101steel4]

If you can't park, you shouldn't drive 😁

[@Muck006]

"If you are an american ... you shouldnt own / drive a vehicle." [After watching loads of "fail" videos.]

[@Skelterbane69]

@@Muck006 Just alter it to "you have to pass the driving test in a manual" and 95% of americans wouldn't have a license

[@fablb9006]

There is no « european way ». The cultural difference between France and Germany in regards to car, as well as many things…

[@Vincelebourrin]

in france, we consider there is a reason why it's called "a bumper" at both ends of the car

[@HellDuke-]

That first clip, I would not even attempt unless there was no other option. This is something I would suggest you consider as too tight a spot since you also need to be sure that the other cars can leave

[@jur4x]

I haven't driven that generation of Seat Leon, but if it has same crappy mirrors as my Seat Altea (from about the same era) has, I wouldn't attempt to park there either

[@snafufubar]

It isn't just parking it's getting out as well. That and not stopping the cars in front or behind from getting out.

[@r.k.6872]

Ferrari didn't drive further back which would've made her exit smoother. Some drivers just park stupidly (Renault and UK).

[@McGhinch]

Ferrari driver doesn't know the dimensions. Enough money to afford such a car but not enough skill to operate it.

[@iro-huncarguy8367]

First video you watch, I'm here screaming that there is SO MUCH ROOM to fit into that spot with that car. People just don't know how to park properly

[@afiiik1]

Yeah, the angle was all wrong

[@selenityshiroiYT]

yeah, the angle was so wrong and it looks like it would have parking sensors, too, so they seemed to be relying on them

[@owbeer]

i had a colleague who could parralel park his van in the tightest spot with ease, i am so jealous of that skill.

[@mihk3l]

Not a skill issue, if you do it constantly, also known as practice, you'll develop a natural knack at it.

[@stevemcgowen]

I get prime spots here in Prague due to having a EV. Some streets are pretty tight and my proximity alarms go off the whole time- and I have a small eGolf.

[@cyberfunk3793]

I have scratched a car something like 2 times in 30 years of driving, but it took me only a few hours to scratch my Honda in Valencia. Very tight streets with some bollards on the corner of parking space you have to turn very tightly to make it! I actually saw the bollard but my mistake was that I thought it was something plastic that wound bend slightly if I touched it. It turns out it was steel, didn't move a millimeter and ended up scratching the door of my car 😂 My car is almost 20yo so not that big of a deal though.

[@AngelinaJolie734]

2:04 Seat Leon 4:11 Toyota Yaris 6:27 Something similar to the Ferrari F430 Spider 9:43 BMW Série 3 Touring E91 11:55 Daewoo Matiz (they were rebranded Chevrolet in the years around 2005) 13:54 Renault Safrane phase 2

[@axelk4921]

Fun fact: In Paris, people park very closely. This means that you drive into the bumper of the car in front of you and push each other back and forth, more or less gently. For this reason, it is better not to use the handbrake when parking.

[@whatsgoingon71]

Holy shit. Grey BMW lady killed it. And the commentary around 12:00 had me in stitches. 😂 Red Chevy Matiz definitely was not from around there. That was no German plate.

[@Jeni10]

Isn’t, these would be illegal parking in Australia, because you need at least two feet in front and two feet in back after you’ve parked, otherwise you’ll have a ticket when you return.

[@Raghnaid]

I once parked in a car park in Vézelay outside Paris without realising it was paid parking. I came back to find a very polite note on my windscreen explaining how and where to pay the fee with an envelope for the money. Very impressed. And yes, I paid!

[@TheAquarius1978]

Well you're luckier than i, i once parked my car, and when i went back the car was gone allready... to this day i have no idea how the hell did the police towed it, it was parallel parked, and the police tow trucks here dont have those " purdy " forklift systems.

[@inescosta2671]

Portuguese here I was just starting my driving lesson today when both me and my instructor saw an accident happen: there's a small roundabout right by my driving school with 5 exits. Somehow, a black car that was going on the left lane crashed on to an eletric scooter and my teacher believes the scooter was circulating on the right lane...needless to say that our driving lessons are great to experience the jungle, even if we are not intervening😂

[@stevemcgowen]

Gas here in Prague is about $7/gallon equivalent and the registration tax on a huge truck for personal use would be around $10k per year. It would also not be allowed to park on most streets in the center as it would be too wide and wouldn’t fit in parking garages.

[@iallso1]

3:09 When I started driving in the 80s, in a car from the 70s, we had to get into those tight spaces, but without power steering.

[@whatsgoingon71]

Video no. 1 reminded me of driving school. We peacticed this so often, that parking in tight spaces was the one thing that i was most confident in after i got my licence and was allowed to drive on my own. Mind you, that was before parking sensors. We just had the mirrors and technique. Of course we were not taught to bump into anything. 😂

[@vikingdragon2764]

I was taught how to parallel park in the Netherlands, first one should have started closer to car in front 😂. As for the one in Brighton, she definitely was determined to get it in there. Good luck getting out though if neither car moves. I have seen French park in 1989, and they basically used other cars to tell them when to stop... hitting car in front and one in back a heck of a lot harder than just a tap. That German one trying into the garage ouch! My mom asked me to park her Capture in the garage and close to the side... I had told her I was pretty darn close, but she said I could move a little closer... usually she can pull out of the garage in one go, that time it took her 6 times😂

[@IkerBCN]

Not really, its pretty easy. Just some practice

[@hypatian9093]

And the first video shows several station wagons - we love them in Europe! Even though I never had a car and did everything with bike + public transport (first in my small 20k hometown, after that in Berlin and now again in a small town) they're the all-purpose car :)

[@CatsLilaSalem]

We were once in Belgium, my mother set her car tight to the car in front of her but that car had good space in front of it. Later we came back, and another car was even tigher in the rear, while that place had enough space to not do that. So my mother very carefully pushed the other car back, since we could literally not move otherwise In the Netherlands it can also be tight, but there is space for movement in general. But sometimes you see people with bigger imported American cars, those are cool, but do not fit in lots of spaces. But there are still plenty of spaces with just enough room where most bigger cars can just fit

[@katarzynaxx563]

So she damaged the car in the back, because she parked too close to the car in front of her? Very nice.

[@CatsLilaSalem]

@@katarzynaxx563 No visible damage, and the car in front did not go far enough into their space

[@wbrenne]

Once in Italy I have seen a driver approaching his tiny Fiat 126, which had about 1 cm of maneuvering space at the front and at the rear. He asked three young men who were walking down the street, and using the power of four men they lifted the car sideways out of the the spot. The driver thanked them and drove off, the three helpers walked their way in the other direction. (edit for typos)

[@kalasanty433]

"look how tight this is" and I'm like "that's a regular parking space" 😅 the driver just doesn't know how to approach it also... France, Italy and Spain figured that bumpers are for bumping

[@dutchman7623]

Paris parking; create a spot where there is none...

[@lorrefl7072]

The one in the parking garage, it doesn't matter that it's on older person. Being older you should have more experience... that was just a shitty driver, age had nothing to do with it. The person in the Ferrari was also a crap parker because that was a big parking spot. That was big enough to get out of there in 2 moves. I have a Renault Modus and I choose to go for a smaller car instead of the longer station wagons that are more common in my street because with my smaller car I can squeeze into the parking spots that are too small for those station wagons.

[@joaomouro4204]

i m from portugal, and i think the second clip shouldn´t be praised, if my car was one of the parqued ones and i noticed some damage i would be pissed, i would never try to park in that spot, don´t want to damage other people cars, i have parked and put my car, and work truck in very tight spots, but never were i can easly damage other cars.

[@dianabialaskahansen2972]

Some of those are poor drivers. And some of those parkings are just bonkers, why not just find another parking space with more room? I am living in Scandinavia and I've never seen anyone park like that.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

We will call the police

[@Crackalacking_Z]

I fell like proximity sensors really took the edge off parking. Back in the early 90s it was a whole different game.

[@jan-peterbrodersen3302]

The first one already wasn't hard to do. The driver just started a bit wrong.

[@vinniamsterdam700]

Parallel parking alongside the canal😊

[@leohickey4953]

Don't you have public information films over there explaining what to do if you drive into a canal?

[@vinniamsterdam700]

@leohickey4953 abandon the vehicle!!!

[@UtamagUta]

The bumper video: it apparently was a Russian speaking tourist filming French parking. He was hyping them. The text is "This is The reason why people hate cars with theft alarm. Only manual transmition.."

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Rule in Paris for parking when on a level street. Do not put in a gear and the handbrake, when parking because other cars will push your car to fit in the spot. It's possible your car will be a few car lengths away from the spot you originally parked. That is the reason why French cars in Paris have special bumpers to cover the lights, so the don't get broken.

[@sebsch1858]

That‘s why I would never get there with my own car 😂

[@niklo322]

This is a true fact. I come from the center of Switzerland and even i can confirm that they do this in france. 😵‍💫

[@joethewolf3750]

That wouldn't even work with my car. For some reason, it just does not want to be parked without the handbrake. Will do the most incessant beeping if I shut off the engine and don't pull the damn thing.

[@Phiyedough]

I think I would get into fights if I lived in Paris!

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@Phiyedough After a night in jail, I guess you would reconsider acting on your feelings, and behave like a grown-up, and not like a temper tantrum toddler.

[@frog382]

Idk if you do this in the US, but in certain residential parking places, people leave their cars in neutral, without a handbrake, so that others can push it if they need. It makes life easier, people block each other, but the other guy can push it in the morning when going to work.

[@speedyjago]

I'd be pissed if someone did this 15:02 to my car...it's okay if it gets a scratch, but don't do that on purpose!

[@Vazlist]

I wouldn't attempt some of these parkings :D Some of them are totally insane, hah.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

I'm way younger than my siblings, but we all grew up in a very old European town, so I spend a good part of my childhood driving round and round and round while the womenfolks were looking for a "drive in" parking spot. When 6-8 years old I SWORE that when I grew up and got a licence, I'd learn to park "like a man" (Sorry Girls, I'm a true old fashioned feminist - we call a spade a spade) I was in my mid 30'es when I felt the need for a driver licence - but I kept my promise to my self. And good for me - as we now lived in the center of the town where I'd spent half of my childhood looking for a parking spaces 🙄 My licence was one week old, when I - with older sister as passenger - "swung" the car in to a "You'll NEVER get the car in there" space in 3 "wrings" Sister was FURIOUS: You little 🤬🤬 I've been driving for 28 year... haven't performed a parallel parking since the test - and YOU😡little🤬🤬 just like that... How did you do it? TEACH ME! Now she throws her car into parking spaces so gracefully, grown men can become impotent for days after seing it 😱😱 And no, I didn't "teach" her! She had passed her test - I just told her some feministic yada-yada psycology, and it worked 🤣🤣🤣 Peace, love and easy parking to y'all

[@stevekenilworth]

seems like most these do not deserve right to drive. uk if you parked up like this you could get towed id be pis*ed i take good care my car. and if the park by bumpers and walk away that hit and run so police issue and expect insurance to rise a lot and even get sued by drivers because any claim even not at fault yours still go up so driver doing damage could also be taken to court after dealing with insurance. when i park i do my best to park away from most like right at back places people tend avoid because extra walk or no option try end of a row so very least if get damage just one side. but my dashcams rec 24/7 as turned off parking mode so they miss nothing

[@FaceTheQwazaar]

The Chevy's we get here in Europe are rebranded Daewoo's which is probably why you don't recognise them. And also yes, when you're parking in Italy, Spain and France using the bumpers is a sign of affection.

[@automation7295]

Only pre-2005 Chevrolet's are branded as Daewoo, but in 2005, Daewoo become Chevrolet. That's why you occasionally see Chevrolet Spark and Cruze in Europe.

[@Zombie_Apocalypse]

Yeah, i had a car. 29 years ago, for about 2 years. Sold it, and never thought about another one again. In the city with a car is an absolute nightmare.

[@francisdeoliveira3414]

I hope u feel better Allready buddy,have a good one.

[@zzdarovas]

13.55 that's renault safrane facelift,I droved 10 years with older one. Great car :D

[@Wabbajack-t7p]

As a european all the streetparks excluding the ferrri are just big NO to me😂 Ferrari driver needs to take some lessons though.

[@CatholicSatan]

Years ago, a friend had a small but powerful British sports car. He parked near a corner, close to a car behind him. When he returned to his car, he found a van driver had parked right up against his front bumper. He didn't bother manoeuvering - he just pushed the van in front forwards out of his way with his car with the van now partly blocking the road to the right. I would have loved to see the van driver's face when he got back!

[@arthur_p_dent]

7:30 actually this Ferrari has more than enough of room to get out of this spot. The problem about this car may be a lack of oversight - you will have a hard time seeing how much space exactly you have, especially behind. This can be a bit of a challenge if you don't have parking sensors. But this is much more of a problem when trying to get INTO a parking space, than when getting out of it. Getting out is easy even with just 20 cm of room in front of you and behind you. Reverse a bit, then advance a bit, then reverse a bit, turning the steering wheel full circle every time, and you well get out of it eventually without hitting anything. Works with every car. Just make sure not to release the clutch too quickly or the Ferrari will make an expensive jump start (or the brake, if the car doesn't have a manual transmission)

[@andrzejkrasnicki]

I am writing from Poland. When I lived in Las Palmas for a few months, having a company car at my disposal, I heard that bumpers are meant to be scratched 😄

[@henrikhaas6980]

Yes, in Paris you need to park with no gear engaged - it's common sense to bump cautiously into the car before/after your spot to make enough room for your car. So it might happen, returning to your parked car after some hours or even days, your car is quite a few meters far away from where you left it :-)

[@tantus79]

2:00 - it's either a SEAT Leon or SEAT Altea (SEAT is a Spanish make that currently is owned by Volkswagen) 3:57 - it's a Toyota Yaris 11:43 - it's a Chevrolet Matiz (actually a re-branded Daewoo Matiz).

[@Skelterbane69]

For anyone hwo has trouble with this, here's how I was taught how to do it and it never fails: 1 stop next to the car infront of the space 2 turn the wheel fully, so that your rear turns towards the spot 3 turn like that until you see both headlights of the car behind you, in your left mirror 4 straighten the wheels and reverse backwards until you're at a good distance from the curb (this is the only step that requires skill) 5 turn the wheel fully, so you swing the nose of the car into the spot 6 profit

[@kevinmurphy4975]

In Germany the first letters on a license plate show you where somebody come from or where the car is registrated. The Ferrarri at 6:17 is from Göttingen in the state of Lower saxony.

[@PedroConejo1939]

I'm so annoyed my current car has a non-removable towbar; it makes tight parking so much more awkward - UK numberplates are made of plastic and crack if you back into them. Bump-parking, which I've experienced many times in Spain and France is just not possible if you've got a piece of metal sticking out of the back of your car. And also, it's a shin-killer.

[@juankock9755]

When parking I always use windows at the shops. Because 9 out of 10 times they reflect. Also the shadow lines in the sun give you an indication of how much space there is between the car behind your car. Once I had parked my extra long van and just came back from the parking meter where I had paid. A pedestrian said to me; you will never get that out! I said to him, I just parked that one there.