It Is Straight Up Bullshit That The State Of Maryland Has Taken Parallel Parking Off The Driver's License Test
WTOP - It’s part of the driving experience dreaded by many drivers, young and old — parallel parking. Trying to fit your car between two other cars, often with only inches to spare, can test the skills and confidence of any driver. Well, drivers applying for their licenses in Maryland can breathe a little easier. Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration has dropped parallel parking from its statewide test. “The MVA consistently evaluates its assessments of both the knowledge and skills tests,” the agency’s Buel Young tells WTOP. Young says the skills demonstrated in other tests including judging space and backing are similar to parallel parking. “In analyzing the skills test, it was determined that the currently used 2-point reverse turn, when combined with the on-road portions of the test, adequately assessed the individual’s ability to operate the vehicle.” Young says parallel parking is still required as part of the curriculum in driver’s education courses, but as of Monday would no longer be used in the behind-the-wheel part of the test. Maryland’s driver’s test includes some testing on a closed course, and some testing in traffic. Until now, parallel parking was tested on a closed course.
Without a doubt the dumbest thing I have ever read, and I have read some of my own blogs. They are saying parallel parking is close enough to making a 2 point turn that they are removing it from the test?? In what world am I living in? Am I on Candid Camera? If there is one skill they should make every mouth breathing idiot 16 year old learn, it’s how to parallel park. You don’t need to know how to do it when you’re 16 driving to the mall and to your stupid girlfriend’s house to get a handy while watching Finding Nemo, but we live in the real world. Where’s things stop being polite. And parallel parking is uber ultra important. Let’s not kid ourselves, it’s not always the easiest thing to do. Nobody nails it the first time every time. And now kids won’t even have to learn to do it to get their license.
It’s insane enough that 16 year olds can drive anyway. At 16 you can barely wipe your own ass. That age is hilarious, you think you know everything and nobody can tell you shit…then you go to college in a few years and you’re like wow what an asshole I was when I was 16. The fact is, if you aren’t a fuckhead screw up, you’ll eventually move to a place, or at least spend time in a place where parallel parking is a necessity.
It shouldn’t only be on the driving test, it should be 50% of the grade on the driving test. And really, it’s for their own good. The kids should want it to be on the test. It’s a skill that exponentially helps you in life. Nothing worse than being with a girl and having to parallel park and not being able to do it. And then you’re holding up traffic, she’s freaking out offering to do it for you, and next thing you know you’re a chump paying 20 bucks at a parking garage and she thinks of you more as her little sister than a guy whose dick she wants in her mouth later.