Austin's first parallel parking competition is happening from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, at Canopy Austin.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I can parallel park almost anywhere. Tight spots, busy streets, with people watching and waiting—it doesn't rattle me. And I've ...

Watching people fail at parallel parking is part of the quintessential roadside cafe experience, especially if it’s in a city. They come, they try, they fail, and somebody else comes along and ...

Parallel parking is a skill—an art, even—that’s slowly becoming extinct in today’s drivers. More and more, our cities are designed in ways that parallel parking just isn’t necessary, and as a result, ...

Everyone has aspects of “adulting” that they struggle with. Some skills just come more naturally than others. One often-complained-about skill is parallel parking. Many people do not like to parallel ...

Only in Austin can parallel parking turn into a spectator sport and a fundraiser.Over the weekend, dozens of drivers gathered ...

For some, the dreaded parallel park — squeezing into a 19- by 9-foot parking space with traffic waiting behind you — can make you sweat bullets. But now, you'll need that skill to pass the D.C.

When I was a kid growing up in lower Manhattan, my father would always tell us, “The parking gods are on our side.” Circling the blocks around our apartment after running an errand, he never failed to ...

Admit it, you’ve embarrassed yourself at some point trying to parallel park. It’s like they say about drivers at Indianapolis: There are those who have hit the wall, and those who will. The same ...

A little bit forward, a little bit back, pivot to the right, back to the left and forward again, repeat until you decide the parking spot is too small, and take another loop around the block looking ...