Lesson 5. How to park correctly
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All drivers, without exception, are faced with parking their car every day. There are easy parking spots, and there are also difficult ones that even experienced drivers do not quite understand how to park correctly. In this lesson, we will try to analyze the most common cases of parking in the city.
Here are both diagrams and video tutorials on parking forward and backward. Many instructors in driving schools use artificial landmarks when teaching parallel parking, but when a novice driver tries to repeat the same thing on a real road in the city, he does not find the usual landmarks and often gets lost without getting into a parking space. In this material, we will give landmarks, consisting of surrounding cars, according to which you can perform competent parallel parking.
How to Reverse Parking Between Cars Diagram
Let's analyze the scheme of how to park in reverse between cars or in a simple way - a parallel parking scheme. What clues can you find?
Many drivers, seeing a free parking space, first drive straight ahead, stop near the car in front and start backing up. Not entirely true, the task for yourself can be simplified.
It will be much easier if you drive your front into a parking space and immediately steer out of it and stop so that your rear wheel is level with the bumper of the car in front (see the diagram in the figure). Parallel parking is much easier from this position.
From this position, you can turn the steering wheel all the way to the right and start reversing until you see the right headlight behind a standing car in the left rear-view mirror.
As soon as we saw it, we stop, align the wheels and continue moving backward until our rear left wheel aligns with the axis of the left headlights, parked cars (see diagram).
Then we stop, turn the steering wheel all the way to the left and continue to move back.
Important! In any case, ALWAYS control how your vehicle is moving in front of you, whether it will touch the fender of the vehicle parked in front. This is the most common mistake drivers make in a collision while parking.
We stop at a safe distance from the rear car and if everything is done correctly, then you have one movement forward to complete the completely parallel parking and put the car straight.
Video lesson: how to park correctly
Exercise garage - execution sequence
There are many ways to do the garage exercise, but here's the simplest and easiest way to learn.
As a rule, you approach a parking space when it is on the right (due to right-hand traffic, the only exception is large parking lots near shopping centers, where you may have to park in the other direction).
- We pass the parking space, pressing against it with the right side and at the moment when the right rear-view mirror is in the middle of the parking space, turn the steering wheel to the left and drive off so that you see a rack in the right mirror (in a real case, a car occupying a nearby parking space) , align the wheels and stop (you can do the opposite, stop, and then put the wheels straight).
- We begin to slowly move back, turning the steering wheel to the right. It is important to move slowly in order to correct the direction of movement in time, in case the steering angle has not been calculated.
- We move back, controlling first of all the distance to the rack in the right rear-view mirror, and secondly - the left mirror. Of course, you can use only the right mirror in this situation, but on the condition that you feel the distance in the mirrors well, and also if you are sure that you will fit in the parking space with a margin (in the case of large parking lots). At the initial stage, it is better to control both mirrors.
- At the moment when the car stands parallel to the racks (or other cars in the parking lot), align the steering wheel and roll to the end of the parking space and stop.
A video lesson will help you visually understand how to act when doing the garage exercise.
