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Should female drivers get their own car parking spaces?

Can gender really determine our ability to manoeuvre a vehicle into a parking space? City planners i...
TodayFM
TodayFM

7:01 PM - 18 Aug 2015



Should female drivers get thei...

Lunchtime

Should female drivers get their own car parking spaces?

TodayFM
TodayFM

7:01 PM - 18 Aug 2015



Can gender really determine our ability to manoeuvre a vehicle into a parking space?

City planners in Germany, China and Korea seem to think so, as the trend toward pink parking spaces seems to be catching on.

In China there are car parks that are colour coded in pink to cater for female drivers who are deemed to have trouble parking, while in a move to make Seoul in South Korea more female-friendly, 'she-spots', have been created that are wider and longer than regular spaces and are easily identified by the outline of a skirt-wearing pink figure.

However, Geraldine Herbert feels bigger and safer car parking spaces should be available to nervous and vulnerable drivers of both sexes.

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