^ I tend to agree with you, I was actually going to post something similar.

However, around here for ex., I never (and I mean never) have to parallel park. It will never be necessary. There are rare opportunities to parallel park that I choose to pass on mainly b/c I'm really anal about extra clutch wear (130k miles, and previous owner managed to glaze it ), for fear of it giving up the ghost.

I also don't like the idea of that system being used primarily on large, poor-visibility barges that would be almost impossible to parallel park without the system. edit: b/c it might encourage designers to continue in that direction (large, bad rearward visibility)