Awesome Parking

Before making this video, the world record for the tightest parallel parking was just 8 cm (3.15 in), and a professional stunt driver did that. Overdrive hosts Will, Callum, and Scott attempted to break the record by squeezing into a smaller and smaller parking space using handbrake turns. Can one of them get it done?

Backup cameras have been a great addition to modern cars, improving rear visibility and reducing fender benders. But they don’t all do a good job telling you how far you are from objects. This guy came up with a clever hack to ensure he always parks just the right distance from the wall in his garage.

Backing into traffic from a driveway or parking pad can be challenging and downright dangerous with fast-moving vehicles. Irish company Driveway Turntables solves this problem with their in-ground turntable system, which can automatically turn a car around, so it’s facing forward on your way out.

With the advent of pay stations and mobile parking apps, meters are becoming a rare sight. But these coin-collecting dinosaurs still have some neat mechanical bits worth exploring inside of them, as Rescue & Restore shows as they down a 1960s Duncan meter and makes it like new again. That shiny red coat is a thing of beauty.

This parking lot may seem relatively spacious to you, but to the lady in the blue car it might as well be a maze. Grab some popcorn and watch as she embarks on the great adventure of pointing her car towards the parking lot’s exit.

Keep a close eye on the white car in front as its driver makes a ballsy move to snag a parking spot on the other side of the street. The soundtrack perfectly underscores the driver’s style and grace.

New website Parkopedia aims to be the Wikipedia of parking spaces. The crowdsourced site currently lists 15 million parking spaces across 14 countries, all searchable for free via a sleek interface.

A driver in downtown Tulsa must have gotten the D and R mixed up on their shift-lever, inadvertently crashing their car through the 7th floor exterior wall of a high-rise parking building. Brilliant.