China shopping centre builds 'car park for women'

[ccharles000]

A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers.

The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes.

Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance".

The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.

The Wanxiang-Tiancheng shopping centre had also "installed signs and security monitoring equipment that corresponded more to women's needs", he said.

The Global Times website says female parking attendants have been trained to help guide women drivers into their parking spaces. The bays also have extra lighting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8432887.stm

[marmar]

1. C'est bizarre.....

nt

[LisaM]

2. I thought maybe it was for safety reasons

which would make sense, but wider spots? What kind of female drivers do they have over there?

[itsrobert]

3. New scientific study says women don't park as good as men

Don't blame me, blame science.

[LisaM]

6. If that's true, does it have to do with the cars themselves?

I would wager that most cars are designed for male drivers, who are generally taller than female drivers. I had a car where the headrests were a bit too high, I just added a seat cushion and everything was fine.

I drove a friend's Ford Probe back in the 90's on a trip. It was supposedly designed more for a woman driver and that seemed to be true. The visibility at the points was far better.

Some of the current new models have bad rear visibility. I know a friend has a fairly new Matrix, and the sits in that can actually be raised, which would help a lot.

[Karenina]

8. Maybe the kind who regularly schlep kids and packages...

[im1013]

4. I guess you need a penis to know how to drive...

:wtf:

[Rage for Order]

15. Well, you don't have to have a penis...

But it does help if you want to be good at driving!

:rofl:



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[Darth_Kitten]

5. Do they give out free gift certificates for pedicures as well?

:eyes:

[PDJane]

7. Truthfully, women are not as good at spatial relationships,

UNLESS they have been involved in athletic activities, and that includes gymnastics, dance, or skating, along with the standard games-based stuff.

*shrug* It just is.

[LisaM]

9. And since Title IX, a lot more of them have been.

I still think it's the cars - they are designed for men to drive.

[PDJane]

10. I'll agree with that, too.........

it's also a general difference in aggressiveness, although that's not a given.

[LisaM]

11. Of course, having just spent four days with my family for the holidays

and observing my father parking the car crookedly every time, I got a personal laugh over this!!!!

[PDJane]

12. Well, it's a generalization........

sedentary males have been known to have no grasp of spatial relationships either.......

[XemaSab]

13. I am totally unathletic

and I have excellent spatial skills. :P

[PDJane]

14. There's one in every crowd!!!