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Don't Fail Your Road Test…buy course!Ī course for new drivers working towards their first license. So today I thought I would give you some more reference-some different reference points, because good instructors are always able to adapt to their students and give them different reference points, and tailor their teaching to the students own experience to try and get them to better grasp the concepts of parallel parking. And she was talking about a downtown urban area. I had a comment from Tes Tesfe who wanted to know how to parallel park between two vehicles in a car. Hi there smart drivers, Rick with Smart Drive Test. How to Parallel Park between 2 Cars | Pass a Driving Test Continue backing up at this angle until your right front bumper just clears the left rear bumper of the front car.Parallel parking between 2 cars is more challenging. When your car gets to a 45 degree angle in relation to the car in front of you, turn the steering wheel one revolution to the left to straighten the tires. Continue slowly rolling in reverse. Aim the rear of your car towards the right rear corner of your space.Ĥ. When you reach this point, turn the steering wheel all the way to the right. Put the car in reverse and slowly drive backwards until your rear bumper passes the rear bumper of the car in front of your space.ģ. Signal a right turn and drive up next to the car in front of your parking space so that you’re evenly lined up with that car, with 2-4 feet between the cars.Ģ. Note: The steps below are for parking on the right side of the street. So I pinged my former driver’s ed teacher, Scott Merkley at Merkley’s Driving School to give me a quick refresher. Whenever I head downtown I usually need to parallel park and my lack of practice is quickly made apparent.Īfter a cringe-worthy attempt at parallel parking the other day, I decided it was time I brush up on this essential driving skill.

Parallel park license#

I didn’t even have to do it in order to get my license when I was 16–the Oklahoma DMV removed it as a requirement before I took the test (it was recently brought back).īut it’s quite a useful skill in a pinch. I just don’t need to do it here in the Tulsa suburbs.

Either way, he and Judy will be late for the show. Attempt to parallel park and risk being the guy that holds up traffic for 20 minutes while trying over and over again to back into the spot, consequently embarrassing Judy, or drive around a few more blocks hoping to find a spot that he can handle pulling into. It just isn’t something he has to do out in the suburbs with its vast expanses of near-empty parking lots. Suburbia knows he stinks at parallel parking. “Oh, sweet baby Frank Sinatra on a stick…I’ll have to parallel park,” Mr. Suburbia’s dismay, it’s nestled between two other cars. He drives by the performing arts center desperately scanning for an empty parking space. He spots one next to the curb right in front of the theater. “I hope I can find a parking spot near the theater or else we’ll miss the start of the show,” he thinks to himself. Suburbia is driving downtown to the big city with Judy on a first date to catch a 7PM off-Broadway performance of Guys and Dolls.