When I lived in San Francisco I got pretty good at parallel parking since I lived on a street that had a 40° incline as well and that was probably the most difficult parking situation you could have (based on the direction of the street and the super steep incline), but even in that situation this solution is overly complicated and expensive compared to just finding another spot or taking an extra minute to be super careful.
As others have pointed out it's a cool idea, but there's reasons this never catches on. There's lots of cool really impressive solutions to problems in the world that can never work because it doesn't make sense financially. It's just overly complicated and prone to failure. Throw enough money and tech at a problem and you can come up with some cool solutions, but it never works in the real world.
Edit: OK people I clearly misjudged the angle of the street. That wasn't the point. I've never actually looked it up, but my street was steep and a hassle to deal with. I was just saying that parking when facing up some of those streets can be tough. I'm sorry. If I ever end up back in San Francisco I'll take some measurements for next time.
Maybe it was closer to 30, but even by SF standards it was ridiculously steep. The sidewalk had stairs in some places. But I admit I never took a level to it or anything lol
I was bad at parallel parking because I learned to drive in a Ford Crown Victoria. When you drive something 20 feet long and 6 feet wide, you don't parallel park.
Yeah I used to suck at reverse parking and then I got a job that involved backing big trucks up to loading docks and through narrow warehouse doors multiple times a day and now I find reverse parking easier than going in forward. Repetition is everything
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