I'm Richard Porter and this is Smith and Sniff a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.

This ain't Texas. There isn't Texas. There isn't any hole. Lay your cards down, down, down.

Simply park your Lexus and throw your keys up. Now I think this is a terrible idea Richard.

Which beers? I think throw, I've got no problem about parking Alexis.

I mean to be honest most of them have got that self-parking thing which

a function that nobody ever uses. In fact I think Alexis was the first car I ever

tested which had that thing, yeah parking assist where you drive past a gap and it says, yeah, you're big enough, you can go in there.

Yeah, me too. And then the steering wheeled, starts ship's wheeling its way in.

But no bastard ever uses one on a daily basis like does anybody use the function

anybody in the world and I remember trying it out on that L.S and one of the things that

immediately is striking about it is that it's really slow. Yes. It errs on the

side of caution to the point of being too slow and on a real city street you'd just be getting in people's way.

Oh, you'd have a face full of wheel brace from a white van man.

Yeah. Within, within seconds, you'd be sat there and the car would be wheeling itself away very slowly he'd come up and pull you out the car and give you a good hiding.

I do remember that the first time I tried it out on a real street it was at night and between the reversing lights and then I suppose the

brake lights were on and maybe just the taillights and the exhaust vapor.

I was looking at the camera, you know, the screen in the middle showing the camera, which

at that point also they were a bit of a novelty still and this you know sort of

it looked like dry ice floating across different colored lights and it looked a little bit

like a scene from 1980s top of the pop.

Oh, Blade Runner.

Which I quite liked and I had plenty of time to admire it because it took forever to get into

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