Yes. You can drive it all the way up to the side of the ride vehicles. There's a triangle-ish shaped area on the floor that you park it in so it's not in the way.
Yeah, I took mine in. I parked it just beyond the actual ride holding area, and cheekily asked whether we could go in the front row. They said yes, and we had a fantastic dangling-feet-free view (albeit we could see the top of the screen instead).