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What is the shortest space a parked car can get out of? Or a parking car can get into? (continued)
Grant Hutchison
Dundee, UK
Previous answers to this question have neglected the usefulness of entering a parking space while executing a handbrake turn, in which the driver uses the emergency brake to lock the car’s rear wheels. This allows the car to be drifted into a space only a few centimetres longer than itself.
The current record is a space just longer than a Fiat 500 driven by Alastair Moffatt in 2015.
Mark Inwood
Reigate, Surrey, UK
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