I’m not sure if it’s a biology question, but how do people just know they’re going to hit something if they don’t veer a little to the left or the right without actually seeing it? Like not hitting a curb you can’t see but you park close to it.
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Intuition formed by practice.
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Get in a car you have no experience in and you use your visual queues formed from any experience you have.
This usually leads to you NOT hitting anything, but a large safety margin.
Time spent with the car, getting used to what your perceived boundaries and what the actual boundaries are (formed by actually getting out when you think you’re close and realizing you can park a jumbo jet in the gap, vs actually being close) from the time you spend between your physically and mental world.
Parking sensors help, too. But people like me who can only afford cars from 20 years ago and no parking sensors just need to rely on screaming kids instead.
Either way. You learn by doing.
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