In China, they have special, extra-wide parking spaces for their women drivers.
These are needed because Chinese women are, for whatever reason, really crappy drivers and parkers. I know this from personal experience with them.
The latest was a month or so back, when I came out of a grocery store to find a Chinese woman parked - not next to the space my car was in - but in the space. I looked unbelievingly at her, and she just waved her hands in the air.
This was the second time it's happened; both involved Chinese women, perhaps 50 years old, who evidently don't understand what those parallel white lines are for, and don't speak English. The first one, a few years back, ended up being a call for police due to the fact that she'd managed to trash most of the side of my car and knocked off the rear-view mirror. That one took a lot of time because they had to call in an interpreter.
The last one wasn't so bad; there was some minor greasing of the right quarter-panel - irritating because the car's only two years old, but it's not glaringly obvious, so there was no point in getting cops and insurance involved. And to her credit, she was afraid to try to back up and try again. So I backed out, but I had to retract the passenger-side rear-view mirror to make that happen, and it took several minutes to get out of the space. I find it amazing that they give these folks a license to drive in the state.
“The bigger parking spaces are for women drivers whose driving skills are not superb,” Pan Tietong, the service area’s manager, told the newspaper. He said he had encountered female drivers who were unskilled at backing up into spots, and sometimes asked security guards to help them park.
The spots “are especially designed for women drivers,” he said. “It’s a humane measure.”
According to a survey on Weibo, 63.7% of 1,700 respondents called that the provision of women-only parking spots a good idea.
I'm not sure they should be allowed to drive in the first place, but if it's going to be allowed, give them extra space. Auto body shops may disagree.
