PEOPLE are only just realising a very basic fact about their car wheels – and how parallel parking works.
England rugby star Joe Marler was baffled when motors expert Aman Sanghera explained the basic fact on his podcast.
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When Joe asked why you can only parallel park in reverse, Aman explained that it’s because only your front tires can turn – something which Joe didn’t previously know.
She said: “Your front tires are doing the turning, so if you’ve got the same space and you go front in, your tail’s still out.”
Joe said: “What? My back wheels don’t turn?”
Aman said: “They don’t turn, they just roll. Only the front wheels tilt.”
The rugby player was stunned by his discovery that the back wheels of a car don’t turn – his disbelief matched only by Aman’s astonishment at his lack of knowledge.
Joe’s fans were quick to tease him about his cluelessness.
Emmy said: “Poor guy needs to get on a bike to work this one out.”
Don said: “Has he been driving monster trucks all his life?”
Skye said: “Where’s your backseat steering wheel?”
But Joe is far from the only person not to understand how parallel parking works.
Justin said: “I’m perfectly capable of doing it but I still don’t understand how parallel parking works.”
Roe said: “I almost got hit by a fire engine because I don’t know how parallel parking works.”
Jack said: “Nobody really knows how parallel parking works. It just sometimes does and sometimes doesn’t.”
Heather said: “I am often surprised how decent I am at parallel parking.”
The reason it’s best to reverse into a space when parallel parking is that it gets the rear of your car, which is harder to manoeuvre, into the space first.
You can then use your front tires to get the front of the car lined up perfectly in the space.
By comparison, if you drive head-on into the space, it is much harder to line up the rear of the car within its narrow confines.
It comes after a motoring expert revealed that you’ve been using your wing mirrors all wrong – and that the right way makes parking a breeze.
A mum left a note slamming a roofer’s parking – but people are divided over her own driving.
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