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How to Reverse Park - PERFECT REVERSE PARKING EVERY TIME!! - YouTube
Channel: ILUKA Driving School
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One of the aspects of driving that a
lot of people have trouble with
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is parking, so today we're going to
demonstrate
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reverse parking in a car park
next to a car on the left, or on the
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right -
and then we're going to demonstrate
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forward parking next to a car.
With all of these exercises the idea is
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to learn how to do them
and then just keep on practicing until
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you get good at them.
Our friends at 21CC Broadcast
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Productions have been kind enough to
provide a drone
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to allow us to show some overhead
footage, and that will help to illustrate
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exactly what's going on when you're
doing forward and reverse parking.
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The 3 line method requires you
to drive in a straight line up towards
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your chosen parking bay with your
indicator on
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and then proceed a further three lines.
You stop when the white line
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reaches a specific point on the
passenger door - and that's specific to
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you
and your car, Now in this case we're
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parking on the near side of the car as
we approach.
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We keep checking ahead regularly while
we're counting the three lines and we
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stop when we see that third line
on the designated point on the door. We
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then put the car into reverse gear.
Optionally you can turn the indicator
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off, and then you have a good look over
your right shoulder,
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in your central mirror, and over your
left shoulder. Then you start to move,
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turning the wheel sharply to full lock
as you start moving.
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When you determine that the car is almost
straight you very quickly turn the
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steering wheel one and a half turns
and stop the car in the middle of the
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parking bay.
Some people have trouble trying to
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work out where to start counting from, so
the easiest thing to do is just to
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remember that line 0 and line 1
are the lines that surround your chosen
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bay. Then just proceed up to line 3
stopping in the usual spot. Put the car
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into reverse
and turn the indicator off.
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NOTE: in some jurisdictions you may need to leave the indicator on so you
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need to check that depending on where you are in the world.
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If you have stick-on parking mirrors
on your side mirrors it will make life a
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lot easier for you because you'll be
able to see the white lines next to you
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as you reverse in.
Then get yourself straight and
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continue into the bay until you feel
that you're central.
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You can do that either by looking at
your camera or just by general
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observation.
if you're not good with numbers you can
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always use the alphabet so instead of
1, 2 and 3 it's A, B and C and
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everything else
is the same. Drive up to line C. When
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you get to that line everything else is
the same.
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Put the car into reverse have a good look
around and when you start moving,
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turn to full lock. You'll get pretty
close to that other car
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as you come in, and you'll cut across the
white line just a little bit if you're
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on the normal path,
That's OK. When you get straight
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just straighten your front wheels up and
continue into the bay.
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You can use your camera at this
point to work out whether you're far
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enough in - otherwise just use your
general observation.
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Because the reverse park requires
you to turn exactly 90 degrees it's very
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important that on your approach
you keep a straight path. In this case
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we're going to park on the far side of
the parked car
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but everything is still the same. You just
choose your bay and then count forward
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3 lines. Of course you would be
looking in all directions when you're
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reversing, but in this particular case
you'll need to pay particular attention
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to the car that's already there next to
you. You'll need to look
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over your shoulder at that car as you
get to about that point -
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just to make sure you're not going to
hit it - and then everything else is the
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same.
If you've got reversing sensors they'll
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probably be going off when you get close
to that car -
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and stop in the usual spot. How
does the three line method work?
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It requires the bays to be the same
width
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and in this case they're 2.4 meters or 8
feet apart.
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If your local parking areas don't
have bays of 2.4 meters
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width then it's not a problem. Just
adjust your turning point
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to accommodate the width of your parking spaces.
It's only a problem if they're an
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inconsistent width
but hopefully you won't have that on your
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driving test.
We alluded to it earlier but how do
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you know when to stop when you're
reversing
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into the parking bay? Well the easy way
is to glance at your camera -
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or you could line up on the car next
to you if it was facing the same way.
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Or you can glance out sideways and just
stop when your shoulder reaches the
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halfway point
of the white lines. You should then
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be positioned centrally in the
parking bay.
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OK, what about reverse parking on the
other side?
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It's a little bit different but you're
still driving up while indicating,
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and you drive past the bay and
count three lines.
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The difference is that this time you're
looking directly out your driver's window
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so in this particular car you'll be
stopping the car when your steering
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wheel is roughly in line with the 3rd
line. But because you're sitting a bit
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further back
it's a little bit difficult to tell - but
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you just need to practice and use your
best judgment.
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If you've got those small circular
parking mirrors or a reversing camera
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then you can see what's going on very
early in the manoeuvre
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and you'll be able to make any
adjustments as you reverse
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into the bay. Work out when to stop by
either using the camera or just
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stopping when your shoulder gets halfway along the bay.
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The trick with forward parking is to
give yourself a nice wide angle of
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approach.
This will help to ensure that you're as
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straight as possible as you start to
enter the bay.
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It's very difficult to keep the
front corner of your car in the bay
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completely when you're driving in and
that's compounded by the fact that you
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can't really see where the corner of
your car is.
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So taking the widest and sharpest
approach possible is important.
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Here is another example of that
forward parking manoeuvre, this time
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showing you what might happen
if there was a car parked on both sides.
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We need to have
the widest approach possible coming in.
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This approach might not be quite wide
enough and the front of the car
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is poking out of the bay slightly. You
would have a problem there if there was
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a car
on that side. So unless you can get a
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really wide angle of approach, don't
try and park between two cars. In this
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case we're
parking forwards with the car on the far
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side, but nothing
on the near side. With practice you'll
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know when to turn. It's generally when
your shoulder is halfway
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between those two white lines on the
previous bay.
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But as you can see it's pretty tight
getting in there - and then we have to
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sort of track along that white line and
then straighten up to get ourselves
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central in the bay. Just look sideways and you'll see when you're halfway along
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the line and then stop.
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this video helps you
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