Finally got to try letting the car parallel park itself

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C(-)ris wrote:
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Well, first it will only detects spots on the right side of the street. That's a little dumb since people park on both sides of the street. Anyway, I got it into position, put it in reverse and:

People park facing the wrong way on your street? I wouldn't expect it to be able to auto park facing the wrong way/on the left. The only time that would come into play would be on a one way street.

It probably needs a wider street not necessarily an open spot. Most streets are wide enough for 2 lanes of traffic plus the cars parking on on each side(4 car widths wide). It sounds like your street should either be a one way with a single lane OR not allow parking on one side.
In this city, parking facing the wrong way is okay on streets like this. There are place where they are one-way, but for the most part they're two-way. If two cars are heading at each other, one will either need to find a spot to pull off, or back up.

Considering that one-way streets are pretty common across the planet, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the parallel parking to work on the left side as well.

Since humans clearly are capable of parallel parking on both sides of the street, even if it's narrow, I expect an automated system to be able to perform at least as well as humans. I guess that expectation is too high.