A: A reader recently described her ideal driving test. Today, a few more. Q: I grew up in San Francisco and learned to drive on a manual transmission car there. My dad wouldn’t let me get my license ...

Parallel parking can be a challenging endeavor even for the most skillful of drivers, especially if there’s little room for maneuver. Anyone looking for a more efficient way to get the job done could ...

Chances are, parallel parking has never come easy for you. Sure, after years on the road, the maneuver has gotten much easier, but when you were a beginner? It was a complete nightmare. Unlike pulling ...

Pretty soon you’ll be able to call it a “lost art.” It was once a prerequisite for getting your driver’s license. It was the litmus test; it separated the wannabes from the real deals. If you couldn’t ...

Philadelphia recently held its first-ever Parallel Parking Association Championship. Hundreds of people came out to see drivers compete for speed, accuracy and even flair. Have you ever struggled to ...

Other than the initial novelty, self-parking does not appeal to me. I prefer to park the old-fashioned way, subscribing to the adage: Use it or lose it. But I accept that along with a slew of modern ...

You’re driving slowly along a street, looking for a place to park. You come across a long stretch of parallel parking. But to your frustration, the spaces left by other people’s parking efforts are ...

If you've been driving for long enough, and particularly if you've had the same car for a long time, you develop a keen instinct for which parking spots will be too much of a squeeze. Parallel parking ...