Welcome to Driving School WA tutorials. According to the candidates who come to West Perth to do
their driving assessment this is the worst car park in the area. You can access it from
Pangbourne Street in Wembley and also from Jersey Street which I'm going to show you in a minute. So
on this side, it's too way, it's pretty narrow and once you get inside you've got to understand that
there's one way so you can follow the arrows. Clearly, you can see the arrow,
it's a bit faded this one here but as you get deeper painted arrows are obviously more visible.
Just make sure that you don't turn the wrong way and always give way to incoming traffic.
Every exit and entrance to and from the shops has priority over the traffic that's inside the
car park. Treat this spot here as a stop sign because there's an unbroken white solid line.
Despite the fact that this is private property and we arguably shouldn't have traffic signs,
and your examiner will take every opportunity to assess your knowledge of road rules. Now,
I'm going to show you the second entrance to this car park. We're at the intersection of Cambridge
Street and Jersey Street, make sure you give way because at these traffic lights we don't
have the luxury of waiting for the green arrow because there's no green arrow at all. Now that
it's changed to green light, if there's nobody in front of you can commit into the middle and
then if it's clear to proceed we proceed. Shortly after there's an entrance to the same car park.
Make sure you line up into the additional lane that way you're not going to hold up any traffic
behind you. Once you enter the car park off Jersey Street it is so obvious that it's one way because
you can't miss these white solid clearly painted white arrows. At the end of this section clearly,
you can go left or right in this instance we're going to go left. It's pretty narrow and
sometimes you might wait a little bit to let the cars come through. So be patient, listen carefully
to the instructions that the assessor is giving you and if you're not sure just politely ask them
to repeat because a lot of times they ask you to reverse park on the right-hand side. This section
of the car park where there's no exit it's two-way so you can clearly see that there are no arrows
painted down here, which is probably the reason that some assessors bring candidates here and
ask them to do reverse parking on the right-hand side because there's less cars on this side and
you shouldn't panic. Reverse parking on the right-hand side is not more difficult than
reverse parking on the left. As long as you're reversing posture is correct you shouldn't have
a problem observing properly. Check out our video on reversing posture. If you need to make minor
corrections that's not a problem. Don't wish that things were easier wish you were better.
Talking about easier and better, you might need to do the reverse parallel parking just
outside of this car park here. So if you hope that they're not going to ask you to do
reverse parallel parking it's probably not a good strategy. So my suggestion is that you
practice and you know, just make sure that you can do it at least 9 out of 10 times properly,
that way you're not going to have a problem with it. Once again you're reversing posture and the
way you observe will have major impact on how well you reverse. Overshoot the vehicle slightly,
make sure there's no cars coming from behind, if there are you would wait until they overtake you
before you proceed with your reverse parallel parking. That is number one mistake that people
do, not only here but everywhere. You can use your reverse camera if your car is equipped
with it but don't overuse it. Don't fixate your eyes only on a reverse camera because the reverse
camera does not cover your peripheral vision. You can use your side little mirrors
particularly if you've got the little round magnifying mirrors. If you don't have them,
you can purchase them through the links in the description of this video, or if you live in Perth
we can deliver them to and install them and they usually outlast your car. And more importantly,
they will make your reverse parking a lot easier especially if you use them correctly. Please feel
free to ask any questions in the comments section. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you next time.