Generational Driving: Passing Down Skills and Memories

Fears of parallel parking

When our granddaughter came to stay with us in August, she was a little nervous about taking the driver’s test for her license when she returned home. Michigan still required new drivers pass a parallel parking test.

So we loaded up my Buick Acadia with makeshift cones made from pails and pool noodles and drove to an empty parking lot near us. I hoped my Arcadia’s cameras might help her with turning and positioning. After a dozen or more tries, she began to un...