This ain’t your teenage driving test… It’s better! If you’re a frequenter of downtown Austin and you brave street parking, ...

Watching people fail at parallel parking is part of the quintessential roadside cafe experience, especially if it’s in a city. They come, they try, they fail, and somebody else comes along and ...

Parallel parking looks intimidating for one reason: you are trying to place a large object into a space that feels too small, while other humans watch and pretend they have never struggled with ...

Everyone has aspects of “adulting” that they struggle with. Some skills just come more naturally than others. One often-complained-about skill is parallel parking. Many people do not like to parallel ...

Parallel parking is a skill—an art, even—that’s slowly becoming extinct in today’s drivers. More and more, our cities are designed in ways that parallel parking just isn’t necessary, and as a result, ...

When I was a kid growing up in lower Manhattan, my father would always tell us, “The parking gods are on our side.” Circling the blocks around our apartment after running an errand, he never failed to ...

A little bit forward, a little bit back, pivot to the right, back to the left and forward again, repeat until you decide the parking spot is too small, and take another loop around the block looking ...

Austin's first parallel parking competition is happening from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, at Canopy Austin.