The reason – the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration officially removed parallel parking as a required test element on the driver’s license test on a statewide basis starting today.
According to Buel Young, spokesperson for the MVA, the administration determined that completing a two-point turn and backing up are similar enough to parallel parking to eliminate the parking element from the test.
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Another example of dumb it down. I see so many bad drivers around Salisbury that I wonder how they ever passed a drivers test.
There you go kids... another free gift, except this one involves other peoples life and property. Pathetic. Why make them go to school? Give them A's when they're 5, and not waste all that time.
I was lucky I was driving a little VW Rabbit (although the manual steering sucked when parallel parking) for my drivers test many years ago!
Everyone gets a trophy
I hate to parallel park and avoid it whenever possible. That being said when I have to park that way I at least have the lesson of my driver ed class to run in my head while I'm doing it.
And it works.
that's BS!!!
Why so many critics. I haven't parallel park for decades. It's has nothing to do with the ability to drive. Make the driving test harder, show deathly accidents but make it relative.
MVA probably figures that cars of the future will have that "park itself" feature, so they don't need to learn.
Why give them a test at all. I mean the other things in the test might be hard also. Just let them all on the road so we don't hurt their feelings.
I have spent time on their phone tree and never did reach a live person to ask about it. We will see I think if this is true or not.
Why not say that buckling up and starting the engine are close enough to driving the car to get by?
If we dumb this down much more, we will have children driving as soon as they can reach the pedals!!
Most drivers in MD can't parallel park, anyway. The fact that they were successful once when they were 16 has no real world benefit to everybody.
I drive a 3/4T 20ft truck and still find it to be easy to parallel park. I guess some people naturally have an ability to drive and others don't. Heck my mom's been driving for over 50 years and still sucks at it (I love her anyway, lol).
That royally sucks. I have a CDL-A with endorsements including Coach / Transit and they tell me I have to have a Learners Permit to get School Bus endorsement. Had these endorsements forever and will match my driving record with anybody.
We wonder where Drivers get their License now since they have no concept of rules of the road.
" Anonymous said...
Why so many critics. I haven't parallel park for decades. It's has nothing to do with the ability to drive. Make the driving test harder, show deathly accidents but make it relative.
May 20, 2015 at 10:56 AM"
You must not go anywhere then. I have friends in cities like Baltimore, Philly and Wilmington, NY and other places where they have either one off street parking at their home or some none and you have to parallel park.
I travel to Northern Va quite a bit, and the stores up there don't have the expansive parking lots we are accustom to here. I can think of many that have only 6 or less rows of parking and then they add a strip of parallel parking, parallel to the sidewalks because the strip is too narrow for another row of pull in parking. I've been to many parking garages where the only spots left were parallel parking spaces.
If you drive in any city you'd better know how to parallel park and be able to do it to either side of the car.
They did say that you still have to learn it in drivers school to pass the class.
You adapt to tour surrounding. If a person grows up in the city obviously they are gonna learn how to parallel park because that's what they have to do. Learning something and doing it once on a test is two different things. Just because its on the test doesn't mean every person knows how to do it so what does it matter?
Too many kids were failing the parking part of the test. Scheduling retests was causing long waits at the DMV so one way to reduce the number of failures was to eliminate this part of the test. PARCC changes are along the same lines.
"You must not go anywhere then. I have friends in cities like Baltimore, Philly and Wilmington, NY"
If I were given the option to stay home or go to those crap-holes, the decision would be simple. You should understand that your experiences don't necessary parallel everyone else. Often times by choice.
When did this go into effect? My granddaughter took her driving test on the 12th of May and passed the parking test to get her license. By the way, this story was on the other blog, and I made this same comment, but it was never published. I have made a couple more comments on that site that was never published as well. What gives?
1:37-Just because you don't think you may ever use a skill doesn't mean you should try and master it esp one as simple as parallel parking. A prudent person knows this and also knows just because in the present they have a "choice" to not learn this parking technique there may come a time when they don't have a choice.
It's also best to always take my advice. I didn't amass a net worth well into the 10's of millions because I'm stupid.
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