![]() Parallel parking IS on the test and they will judge you more strictly if you do poorly at it. ![]() After a few times over, making adjustments for your car and driving style, you'll have it down. You'll want to practice this move a few times on a low traffic street so as not to get distracted by other moving cars. Here's an easy way to parallel park: - drive alongside the car in front of the space you wish to park in, until you are right across from the parked vehicle's drivers seat, - Put your car into reverse, slowly back up straight until your rear wheel is across from the next car's back bumper, - turn hard with your steering wheel swinging the front wheels out into traffic while looking into your rear view mirror at the the vehicle behind your parking spot, - When you see the curb side headlight of that vehicle in your inside rear view mirror, straighten your steering wheel, continuing to back up, - when your front fender passes by the bumper of the car in front of you, turn your wheel hard to swing the front of your car into the parking spot. ![]() I taught my 50 year old partner how to parallel park a couple years ago she was from the suburbs and dreadfully afraid of parallel parking, but now she does it in town without even thinking about it. ![]() It's a useful life skill, like learning how to use a spoon or open a jar. Parallel parking is part of the Minnesota drivers test or at least it was not too long ago. ![]()
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