- Does your car look like
this after you back into a parking space? (laughs)
Or, do you have trouble getting out of the car
because you parked too close to the car beside you?
Today we're going to give you tips and strategies
to park perfectly when you back into a parking space.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
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Welcome back, Rick with Smart Drive Test
talking to you today about reverse stall parking,
also called perpendicular parking, bay parking.
It's simply backing into a parking spot
and this is what you want to do as soon as you show up
for your driver's test on road test day.
You want to back into the parking space.
That way you're going to be less nervous
when you get started on your road test
because you'll just drive out and then carry on
and you'll be able to relax a little bit
once you get comfortable with the examiner.
I'll give you a couple of tips here in the studio
and then we'll go out and jump in the car
and we'll show you how to do it in a parking lot.
So the first thing you want to do is angle park.
So when you pull up here, you want to pull up
and say you want to park in this parking space right here.
So you want to be in the center of this parking space here.
You want a 45-degree angle.
It's approximately off the front of your vehicle.
So the space next to the other one,
you want to angle in so you are here
when you start your reverse on an angle.
So you're essentially here.
You're essentially pointed into the space
on the other side next to the one you want to back into
and then you back in here.
The reason that you're having biggest challenges
of reverse stall parking
and getting the vehicle into the space
is because you're dealing with the two biggest blind areas
on the vehicle.
You're dealing with the blind area out the passenger's side
and you're dealing with the blind area
out the back of the vehicle.
Those are your two biggest blind areas
and when you're reverse stall parking,
you're dealing with those two areas at the same time.
The other tip that I give you
is to always try and park off the driver's side
because you're going to have a better line of sight
off the driver's side than you are
if you try and back in on the passenger side.
The next type is perpendicular parking,
where you're setting up
and then you're going to turn around the corner
from perpendiculars.
We're going to park in this space right here
and you pull up until your vehicle is here,
you are sitting here halfway at this position,
and some other instructor's teach it
so that it's three lines.
So it's one, two, three.
The front of the vehicle is here
but it's easier for you to be at the middle of this space.
Put your signal on, 360-degree scan,
check your backup camera if you have one,
check your mirrors, and then back into the space.
You're going to turn your steering wheel
all the way to the left (chuckles)
and then back into the space and go slow.
It's a little bit better that if you're sticking out here
a little bit on the front such as this
than it is to back up and strike this concrete barrier
at the back.
If you strike that concrete barrier,
that's an automatic fail on a driver's test.
So better to lose a couple of demerits
but that's essentially the theory behind it.
We're going to go jump in the car.
First thing you want to do in a reverse stall parking,
go and get some of those 36-inch, one-meter tall pylons.
You can rent them from any industrial rental shop
for about 15 bucks for the day for five or six of them
and practice with those.
That'll give you a good sense
of where the blind area is on the passenger side
and the reverse, because as I said,
that's your biggest challenge.
If you bang into a cone, not a big deal.
Bang into somebody's car, it's a big deal
and then you got to leave one of those fake notes.
You know, so, people are thinkin' you're responsible.
Next thing is
put a piece of tape on the top of your steering wheel.
That will help you to keep track
of where the steering wheel is
and then you can focus on the other things
and you can tell where you're steering wheel is
and when it's straight at a glance.
Approaching the parking space, we're about three feet away.
We're signaling that we're going to park
and we're going to park there.
One, two, three, here into reverse
so people behind you know that you're parking.
360-degree scan, checking my mirrors,
check your backup camera if you have one.
Okay, looking where we want to go
and we're turning the steering wheel
all the way to the left and we simply back in.
And again, checking there, checking our backup camera
and you saw that we paused the vehicle
when we're backing up.
Now, we're straight, we can see forward.
Bring your steering wheel back to straight,
tape's at the top,
and we 360-degree scan, check your mirrors.
It's a bit sunny right here and then back up
so the front of the vehicle is in line
with the back of the vehicle
and that's how you perpendicular park into a parking space.
Now we're going to go and do angle, which is my preference.
I find it a bit easier.
We'll do it off the pickup truck here and again,
about the space before, halfway before right here
and we're going to angle into that car,
the silver car over here
because it's in the space next to us here.
So here we put our signal on,
straighten our wheel back out here, 'kay?
We're behind the pickup truck.
All the way to the left.
Put the car into reverse, not in R for race. (chuckles)
And again, we're looking over this shoulder
'cause we're backing up, 'kay.
We're in line.
We can see the line back there.
And again, we're backing up,
we're looking over here, checking our mirror
'cause there's a car over there.
We're backing in between two cars.
Nice and easy.
We're not straight.
We can see the front of the car is pointed that way
so we're going to bring our steering wheel
to the right a little bit
to bring the front of the vehicle to the left.
Now we're straight.
We're backing up.
We're again bringing the front end over a little bit and now
because this pickup truck was sticking out a little bit
we're backed in just a little bit farther into the space.
You notice that I parked in beside other vehicles.
If you try and park into an empty parking space
you're going to find it really tough.
Try and park off another vehicle.
If you are parking in empty spaces a lot,
go and get some of those little convex mirrors
so that you can see the lines down on the road.
However, you want to keep your vision up,
not down looking at the lines on the pavement.
So try and park beside another vehicle.
You'll just find that so much easier.
Look down in the description there
you can find a link for the convex mirrors over at Amazon.
This will improve your overall driving,
make you a smarter, safer driver
and as well it'll prepare you for your driver's test.
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