This year’s contest will feature prizes sponsored by the Portland Bureau of Transportation — plus a panel of commentators made up of some potentially familiar faces.

Competitions in Portland, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh set out to prove that the most challenging way to park can also be the ...

Car enthusiasts have found countless ways to turn driving into a competition. Drag racing, autocross, drifting, and track days are obvious examples, but apparently there’s now another way to prove ...

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, ...

Rock Lobster? More like Crab Walker. Don't be fooled, though. This baby isn't a Chrysler, it's nowhere near as big as a whale, and sadly, it won't carry 20 of your closest friends to your next beach ...

No one can say for sure whether this will lead to an uptick in dented car bumpers and curb-gouged tires. But Maryland has announced that demonstrating an ability to parallel park — an impossible skill ...

The BMW i3 backs into the parking spot, dealing with steering and braking on its own.Wayne Cunningham/CNET LAS VEGAS — BMW tends to do things its own way, which is the case with the new automated ...

Do you suffer from parallelophobia? If you deal with an irrational fear of parallel parking, you're not alone. Nearly half of all Americans suffer from this condition, and in Britain, many would ...

In the Western world, some automated driving features seem to have fallen out of favor. Not true in China—and the reasons why offer a preview of auto industry changes to come. Parallel parking can ...

If you've been driving for long enough, and particularly if you've had the same car for a long time, you develop a keen instinct for which parking spots will be too much of a squeeze. Parallel parking ...

That Formula One title is still eluding me, and I haven’t done 500 km/h at Bonneville yet. But that’s okay – a few days ago, I parallel parked our old family car between two SUVs with less than half a ...