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Even as an experienced driver, parallel parking can be stressful. You might have to turn off the music, or pause the conversation to be able to properly judge the distance between your vehicle and the…

“Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will be victorious in a thousand battles.” These words of Sun Tzu, from The Art of War, are as true today as they were when they were…

Glare is an extremely dangerous phenomenon when driving. The bright shine of the sun, reflected in a mirror, can catch you by surprise and temporarily blind you. Worse, it can make it impossible to look…

One of the times a reversing camera really shines is in low-visibility conditions. When it’s misty, dark, or raining heavily (especially if your rear windscreen doesn’t have any wipers), or a combination of the above, it can be extremely difficult to see out of your rear windscreen. If you’re relying on a…

No matter how common it is in media and popular culture, the idea that training and experience will always win out over technology is a fallacy. There’s a good reason to never bring a knife…

In life, one often must weigh a desire to be generous against the necessary caution required for personal responsibility. You might want to donate more money to charity, but you need to look after your…

According to the Ancient Greek philosophers, a thing could be good in two ways. Either it could be beautiful, or it could be useful. Photography, as a discipline, straddles this line. On the one hand,…

You shouldn't drive when you're not in peak condition. The problem is, no one's in their peak condition all the time. So you make some hard and fast lines. Don't drive when you're heavily medicated.…

Learning to drive a new car can be a difficult challenge. A lot of driving is about acquired instinct and muscle memory; you become accustomed to the exact vehicle that you own and its particular…

It isn't easy to reverse a vehicle. If you don't have a reversing camera, then you don't have a very good view of where you're going, and the human mind isn't used to manoeuvring such…

Human evolution worked with the idea that eyes are more or less right at the front of your body. Maybe you've got a protruding nose, maybe a stomach, but we gauge distances with the assumption…