Which one of you Toyota drivers is this?!?

Part of it is the bare minimum parking lot dimensions these days. Can you imagine it a bunch of full-size cars descended on it at the same time? Mmm, they'd probably all be cops, do fine.

But yeah: combine tight quarters with someone not clear on steering wheel direction: perfect storm.

 

the music was good.

 

i'm frustrated just watching. turn the wheel the other way!!!

 

corolla hatch? in the u.s.?

 

Corolla Auris!

 

foreign?

 

Japan, UK, Europe, etc....

 

thanks, i think it would be popular here, especially as a hybrid!

 

Not in the U.S., but at Werribee Plaza shopping centre, Werribee, Victoria, Australia. Note the right hand driver position, and video annotated with metric units, 24 hour clock, and non-U.S.-style date format.

 

About that date format.....it seems odd to me that we don't treat the date as a number, and write the digits in the proper numerical order. YYYY MM DD fits together perfectly with HH MM SS, just like numbers on an odometer. As if we were counting something....

 

Some places do write it that way, or least the reverse; DD MM YYYY. There is an instrument or two at work that use that format.

 

Reverse is not an improvement. It's like mixing up the thousands, hundreds, and ones columns in a number, and then insisting it's OK, because, well...they're labelled. Or, because people should just know that's what the local convention is.

Call me arrogant if you insist, but there's only one correct way to write the date.

 

YYYY MM DD has a number of advantages, not the least being that it sorts correctly in a text or file listing. The four digit year is both unmistakeable and alerts you to the sequence year/month/day. OTOH, if you have a date like:

09 04 06

good luck, lol.

Off topic, if you want to know when your tires were made, there's a four digit number on the side wall: the first two digits are the week of the year, and the last two digits are the year. As an example:

0509

means the tires were manufactured in the 5th week of 2009.

 

Some products, like pet food, will use the day of the year in a manufacture date.

 

If I recall, the Gimli Glider was a Canadian plane.

 

On some dysfunctional level I kind of admire the driver for NOT giving up. Even as I watch the futility and say over and over...please god, give up before metal gets bent.

I'd say the driver needs to think about getting a vehicle they can handle and would be easier to park. But THAT IS a smaller vehicle that should be easy to handle and park.

So my recommendation would be always carry post it notes to leave on the vehicle you damage windshield, and keep your insurance paid up.

 

Yes, that 'glider incident' did happen in Canada. Over conversion confusion, so I'd say that's a point in favour of using one world wide standard system of measurement, not one against it.

More experience makes for more parking skills, right? No doubt that person is already a better driver...and likely an ashamed one, after they see the video.