# Parallel parking aid **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 12, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959 "2009-08-12T18:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/1 "2009-08-12T18:43:23Z")
3 wheel steering: [http://www…1249797076](http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b32_1249797076) ---
**Author:** ![twotone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@twotone](https://community.cartalk.com/u/twotone)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/2 "2009-08-12T21:06:13Z")
What ever happened to those cool “fender feelers” of the 1960’s? Twotone ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/3 "2009-08-13T00:34:46Z")
Those were cool? That’s new to me. ---
**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/4 "2009-08-13T00:47:31Z")
They were ‘curb feelers’, and were cool only if you were a wanna-be pimp with an Eldorodo. You can still buy them. ---
**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/5 "2009-08-13T12:45:55Z")
That’s a lot of work to go through just to avoid learning how to parallel park. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunnr43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@roadrunnr43](https://community.cartalk.com/u/roadrunnr43)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/6 "2009-08-13T13:34:55Z")
they were made in the '50s older people who didnt want to mess up their whitewalls. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunnr43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@roadrunnr43](https://community.cartalk.com/u/roadrunnr43)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/7 "2009-08-13T13:36:14Z")
but you need several feet between your car, and the curb. then you have bigger problems, like parking in the middle of the street. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/parallel-parking-aid/34959/8 "2009-08-13T13:37:04Z")
I thought the same thing at first, but after watching closely, I realized that even perfect parallel parking technique would not have let him park in those spaces. The spaces were too small to park in without this device or one like it.