A lot of driving test candidates fail for improper posture when they're reversing
so you got to understand that you've got to extend your body so your field of view is the best
possible okay. Depending on your height and obviously the position of your seat.
So you should never sink in your seat and be limited in what you see and obviously, you've
got to make an extra effort to see everything that's within your immediate surroundings. So
you know basically you should stretch up as much as you possibly can, change your field of view,
the rearview mirror, the side mirrors. Also, the window at the back. If you have a reverse camera
you can use it but don't overuse it, so don't only focus on your reverse camera because there
are certain angles that the camera does not cover. So you can also hug the seat if you want to
just to be able to cover more angles okay. So never sink into the seat so basically once you've
done that you know you got to change the field of view. You can't really tell if it's every
two seconds or three seconds really as is needed okay depending on what's moving around you okay.
So you can see everything if your body is in the position that you can observe behind you on your
side you know the blind spot if necessary and clearly the rear view mirror including the side
mirrors okay. I'm going to reverse park on my left hand side okay so we'll do the three-line rule you
can check other videos on reverse parking. So once I've done that I don't necessarily have to keep
both hands on the steering wheel because sometimes if you want to sort of stretch up you can do this
so that's there's no problem about it at all. So you know you don't necessarily need to keep both
hands on it all the time if that compromises your viewing angle. The frequency of you know how often
you change your field of view will depend on the place where you are, time of the day because a
lot of times if you're reversing at night and you are 100 certain there's no pedestrians or
you know, cyclists you you shouldn't really pay attention too much to, to things that may not
be necessary at that particular time of the day. However, if you're in the middle of the car park
in the middle of the sort of peak shopping sort of time of course there's there's more possibility
that there's going to be kids you know uh, trolleys around and all of that so you know it is
definitely different. So talking about the driving test so I would certainly recommend that you
firstly that your posture is correct okay. So don't sink into the seat like that. So this
would be the wrong way to do it you know because you can't really see much okay. So and a lot of
people fail for this type of thing you've got to look between the seats through the window okay.
Get your back off the seat, stretch up okay, stretch up, make sure you check everything that concerns
you and that way you're not gonna miss anything you're not gonna let anything slip your eye.
When you perform reverse parking or reverse parallel parking they will put you under a microscope
they will check more thoroughly how you do it and how safe you are. So do not let anything slip your
eye. Like I said combine the view from the rear view mirror, side mirrors, all the windows and
if you have a reverse camera obviously you can check a reverse camera but like I said
don't overuse it. Somebody called me yesterday who says that you know the assessor failed them
because they overused or you know looked too much into a reverse camera and they were about to miss
something on the side whether it was a pedestrian or a trolley uh you know, the assessor had to intervene.
So just ensure that you don't sink into the seat and that you don't forget to look frequently. How
frequently? It's difficult to tell you know, is it every second or every two or three seconds.
Once again it's going to depend on the situation. With practice you're going to be more confident
you know you can judge things better and and clearly you're going to acquire better habits. Make
sure you adjusted your seed correctly, I'm going to have a video soon on that topic as well. So if
you need to hug the seat for a moment that's okay too and make sure you do it right. Practice parking,
practice reversing as much as you can. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video