The National Parking Association (NPA) is a very serious organization, like its annual congress and the Parking Magazine, which she publishes every month. In 1972, the NPA established the Parking Council (PCC). He’s regouping “architects, engineers and parking management consultants” responsible in particular for analyzing data on car sales in the United States. Using this data, the CCP “calculate the size of the 85e percentile, the average car size, which is larger than 85% of cars sold but smaller than the remaining 15%,” describes the American magazine Vice in a long article.
It is on this statistic, a typical car, that the parking sector relies to establish standards – non-binding – and “to make sure that the seats are suitable for the vast majority of American cars, while leaving about 50 centimeters so that people can open their doors and pass on both sides” of the vehicle. But this method has its limits.
For twenty years, the vast majority of the most popular car models in the United States have been winning
