[HOW TO EASILY PARALLEL PARK BETWEEN 2 CARS :: STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS]
Hi there smart drivers, Rick with Smart Drive Test.
I had a comment from Tes Tesfe who wanted
to know how to parallel park between two
vehicles in a car. And she was talking
about a downtown urban area. 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. Now some of the
information that I'm going to give you
today comes from other driving schools:
Frontier Driving Academy - Joe over there
talked to me a little bit about parallel
parking. We had a discussion about that and why
new students struggle with that.
Parallel parking, unfortunately, is not a
static event and things change and
there's some variables involved in terms
of parallel parking. And because of those
variables,
unfortunately oftentimes, there are many
videos here on YouTube that are
promising the "holy grail" of parallel
parking. And it doesn't work like! As
well, some of the reference points that I'm
going to point out today, Conduite Facile,
great video and I'll put both his
information and Joe's information for
Frontier Driving Academy down in the
description box here. You can have a look
at their videos. But today, what we're
going to do - we're going to show you how
to parallel park between two vehicles. I'll
give you a couple of different reference
points for parallel parking between two
vehicles if you're trying to do that
downtown in an urban area. We'll be right back
with that information -
stick around.
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Hi there smart drivers, Rick with Smart
Drive Test, welcome back. Today we're
talking about parallel parking between
two vehicles and parallel parking
between two vehicles is not likely
something that you're going to have to
do for the purposes of a road test. But
today we'll show you how to do that and
give you some different reference points
from the original video. And I'll put a card
up in the right-hand corner for you -
check that out.
The first thing you want to do as we
said in the first video is pull up
beside the vehicle approximately three
feet from the other vehicle, as you can
see here in the video. Line the rear bumpers
by looking through the rear passenger
window and seeing the taillight. And as a
secondary check, check to see if the
mirrors are lined up or you're close
with the mirror. You want to pick out
your 45° degree angle, which in this video
is the light standard on the other side.
And you turn your wheels all the way to
the right and back up until you're
directly facing that 45° degree marker. As well, in your
drivers mirror, you should be able to see
the front of the vehicle behind you
centered in the mirror or the inside
headlight depending on how wide that
vehicle is. Then you can back up straight
after you get your 45° degree angle until
the center of the rear license plate of
the front vehicle is in line with the
center of your door. It will be a little
bit of variable back or fourth, but
for the most part you want the center of
the license plate lined up with the centre of your passenger's door.
That's another way you can tell how far
back you need to back up before you turn
your wheels all the way to the left and
back into the space until the vehicle is
straight. Once you get straight in the
space, then you pull forward until you
can see the top of the bumper of the
vehicle in front of you. Stop and secure
the vehicle by applying the parking
brake, putting the vehicle into "Park", if
you're driving an automatic or into a
low first year if you're driving a manual transmission. And you tell the examiner
that you're done and the examiner will
open the door
and look to see if you are parked
approximately 6-9" inches from the
curb or approximately 20 centimeters.
Parallel parking between two vehicles is
not something a new driver should be
starting out with. If you're just
learning how to drive and you're just
learning how to parallel park
you should go into a residential area,
find one vehicle and get practicing off
of that. And as we said, in a license test--
most of the time--they're not going to
make you park between two vehicles,
unless it's a busy urban area where they
just don't have the luxury of finding
one vehicle, they might make you
park between two vehicles. But for the
most part, they're going to make you park
off one vehicle or they're going to make
you park between posts as they do in a
lot of jurisdictions. So parking between
two vehicles as you saw today, you had a
couple of different reference points to
line up: the rear bumpers - you could also
check the mirrors, but the mirrors is a
little bit variable because if you get
into a different vehicle or a different
size vehicle--longer vehicle those types
of things--the mirrors aren't going to
line up exactly. So I still advocate the
back passenger window - that the rear of
the vehicle, the taillight is in the back
corner of the passenger window. However
for the 45° degree, when you're backing in
between two vehicles you can use the
inside headlight of the vehicle behind
you to judge your 45° degree angle. And
make sure that your close or near to
that, but again also check your 45° degree
marker that you picked out before you
started to reverse. And then finally, when
you come around--when you've got the
steering wheel all the way to the right
and you're going to bring the steering
wheel back to straight--the vehicle in
the front, its license plate on the rear--
the center of that license plate--will be
somewhere around the center of the
passenger's door on your side of the
vehicle. So that gives you a couple of
different reference points to parallel
park in between two vehicles if you're
trying to parallel park in between two
vehicles.
Unfortunately if you're doing that on a
road test, it is going to be a little bit
tougher, but there are some different
reference points that will help you to
parallel park. Question for my smart
drivers: what reference points do you use
to parallel park?
Leave a comment down in the comment
section there - all that helps out the
new drivers who are undertaking the
challenging task of parallel parking.
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remember pick the best answer not
necessarily the right answer.
Have a great day. Bye now.
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