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Originally Posted by steve911 View Post
LOL.

Parallel parking is not taught for , nor is it required to pass, the CA driving test. My now-19 year old daughter is just now beginning to parallel park.
She spent her junior and senior years in HS getting to school early in order to get a spot in the lot, so as to not have to park on the street and face parallel parking. She'd come home and tell me that such and such was late for class since they couldn't parallel park.

She still has some friends that can't parallel park. We live outside San Francisco and driving into SF and not being able to parallel park is a big problem...
They removed the requirement a couple of years before I got my license (which was a while ago now). I heard that too many students were damaging the cars as they backed into them. I think that Teen Auto did teach me to parallel park, but I think it was only when we found spots that were wide enough to ensure that cars would not be hit.

I can parallel park on either side of the street.
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