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The other day, I drove into a narrow lane off a main road. I didn't want to reverse back out onto the busy street, so I had to do a billion-point turn (or that's what…

Being able to reverse and parallel park without using a camera is not required for the VicRoads driving test. This says something interesting about our society. We've reached a stage of technology where it's understood…

Parallel parking is hard. I know, this might sound obvious to some, and false to others. But the truth is, unless you have a lot of practice - and sometimes even then - it'll often…

People might object to getting a reverse camera kit on the grounds that they don't technically need one. And, at least in some circumstances, I suppose that's true. But while necessity might be the mother…

Reversing should be easy. Driving should be easy. Life should be easy. Alright, maybe life shouldn't be too easy. Many of us wouldn't want to say goodbye to all the challenges in life. But apart…

Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize-winning theory of relativity all started with a thought experiment about a train, a mirror, and a beam of light. It ends up going to some pretty complicated places, all because of…

It has been said that an army marches on its stomach. Even if you're not a military sort of person, it's important to be well-provisioned if you're travelling anywhere. There's nothing that can make people…

Last Saturday, some friends and I drove into the Dandenong Ranges for a bushwalk. On our way, we accidentally took a wrong turn and went down what turned out to be a driveway. A very…

For beginner drivers, parallel parking can be really difficult. Getting everything just right, handing all of the tricky alignments and positioning - it can be thoroughly exasperating. Every parallel park is slightly different - all…

Vampires and cars do not have much in common. This is generally considered to be fortunate. Unlike vampires, cars do not require blood to function. They also can transport garlic and wooden stakes without difficulty,…

The periscope is a brilliant invention. The device - which many may associate primarily with submarines, is essentially a way of extending your line of sight around corners - or, in the case of the…

In everyday speech, backwards is bad. Metaphorically, the word gets used to mean wrong, or perverted, or made nonsensical. But in reality, people and things are moving and turning backwards all the time. If you…