I actually really like the self park in the Pacifica. Works real quick, better than Mercedes IMO

I only use it for parallel parking.

 

Where do you actually parallel-park? You have a driveway at home, don't you, and, unless one regularly drives into downtown D.C. (which never has any open parking spaces to start with LOL), most of the places we typically frequent around here have mall/garage-type perpendicular or angular-spaces.

 

We only have a one car garage at home, so the Pacifica gets parked on the street so we don’t have to constantly move cars around.

I actually parallel park pretty often in DC, Bethesda, I park on the street when showing houses, etc.

 

You must bribe the meter-maids LOL. D.C. is famous for ultra-difficult street-parking and over-zealous enforcement. Once, when I was still at work, they ticketed a Federal staff-car I was driving, even though I was told to leave it where it was by the building's Security-Guards/Federal police. I had to take time to go downtown to the Traffic-Adjucation building (my boss gave me official leave time for it) to get the Magistrate there to nullify the ticket. (and parking there, at the TA building, wasn't easy, either LOL).

BTW, somewhat off-topic, but some of the Chevy Celebrity wagon staff-cars my agency had at that time were part of the references (and driving-experience) I used for the (requested) Celebrity write-up I did.

 

Oh, I've gotten plenty of tickets lol