Why Parking Sensors are Necessary

When I first tested a car with parking sensors, I thought they were a great way to allow someone to inch into a perfect parking space. You could rely on the sensors to warn you before you scratched another car or an object out of view. Obviously, the driver of this previous-generation Mercedes-Benz CLK could’ve used a sensor to tell them they were in Drive rather than Reverse.

Cars.com’s Matt Raskin passed this scene off Lake Shore Drive in Chicago over the weekend and captured it on his iPhone. The second we saw it, we knew we just had to share. Click on the image for a larger view.