Road test tomorrow!

[Joe]

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I pulled a little bit too close to the curb (she said something along the lines of "pull over to the curb up here" so I thought I was parking, not backing up), and in combination with a little bit of play in the steering wheel (or it might have been off a little bit, it didn't take much with how close I was), I moved over a few inches from straight (I backed up a good 10ft before hitting the curb).

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Actually what I had to do was parallel park behind a van. There wasn't a car behind me, since obviously student drivers are liable to hit it and the inspector doesn't want to deal with it, but I didn't crank as hard as I should have and was about 1.5ft further to the left than I should have been. I probably could have gotten in if I kept drive/reverse and getting over little by little, but I figured I'd give up and have the inspector think that I'm bad at parallel parking, before demoting myself to general idiot.

Were these two separate parts of your test? Parking behind a van being one, and then pulling next to a curb and backing up being another?

Yes.

When will get to try again?

7 days later, so Wednesday the 25th.

[rabbit]

Where I live, they put out 4 cones, a good distance apart (I practiced on like half the distance they give). You get three chances, and if you hit a cone or go over the curb, you automatically fail.

NJ is like that.  Except the cones have dowels with orange flags taped to them sticking out of the top of the cones.  They also do parallel parking first, cause most people fail on that, and fucking that up is auto-no-license-test-over-go-home-reject.

[Joe]

Parallel parking should be abolished.

a. It's rarely used anywhere anymore.
b. It takes more space per car than angled parking, not saving much space width-wise.
c. It'd riduculously hard, causing several car accidents.
d. With the addition of angled parking, more cars can fit in one spot, decreasing the need of parking lots.

[rabbit]

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Parallel parking should be abolished.

a. It's rarely used anywhere anymore.
b. It takes more space per car than angled parking, not saving much space width-wise.
c. It'd riduculously hard, causing several car accidents.
d. With the addition of angled parking, more cars can fit in one spot, decreasing the need of parking lots.

a. Go into a city sometime.
b. No.
c. You're just bad.  Go practice.
d. No.

[Newby]

He's just sore he sucks at it. :P

[CrAz3D]

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Parallel parking should be abolished.

a. It's rarely used anywhere anymore.
b. It takes more space per car than angled parking, not saving much space width-wise.
c. It'd riduculously hard, causing several car accidents.
d. With the addition of angled parking, more cars can fit in one spot, decreasing the need of parking lots.

I'm pretty sure that studies have been done that disprove the "more space when angled" theory

[iago]

I think that cars parked on an angle take up exactly as much space as cars parallel to the curb or cars perpendicular to the curb: they take one carsize per car.

And yeah, in the city, I've had the parallel park many times. It's not that hard once you do it a few times.

[CrAz3D]

they ought to take up more because they waste space...there is that slightly angle that doesnt get used

[BigAznDaddy]

I think that cars parked on an angle take up exactly as much space as cars parallel to the curb or cars perpendicular to the curb: they take one carsize per car.

And yeah, in the city, I've had the parallel park many times. It's not that hard once you do it a few times.

how do you go into a parallel park do you go back of car in first or the front?

[trust]

Yeah I agree move to the city, you will parallel park. I've had to do it a lot recently at school because I don't have a first bell so when I get there the parking lot is full. I'm not sure why all of a sudden everybody is driving, it's insane. I used to always be able to get a parking spot.

how do you go into a parallel park do you go back of car in first or the front?

Pull up to beside the front car then back in behind it while turning your wheel, straighten out and you're done.

[Quik]

Yeah I agree move to the city, you will parallel park. I've had to do it a lot recently at school because I don't have a first bell so when I get there the parking lot is full. I'm not sure why all of a sudden everybody is driving, it's insane. I used to always be able to get a parking spot.

how do you go into a parallel park do you go back of car in first or the front?

Pull up to beside the front car then back in behind it while turning your wheel, straighten out and you're done.

That's what happens halfway through senior year when most of the juniors have their license.

[BigAznDaddy]

Yeah I agree move to the city, you will parallel park. I've had to do it a lot recently at school because I don't have a first bell so when I get there the parking lot is full. I'm not sure why all of a sudden everybody is driving, it's insane. I used to always be able to get a parking spot.

how do you go into a parallel park do you go back of car in first or the front?

Pull up to beside the front car then back in behind it while turning your wheel, straighten out and you're done.

That's what happens halfway through senior year when most of the juniors have their license.

... i usually park front in first if there  is a big enough gap.. but i really dont know what you are implying

[rabbit]

I think he called you Mexican.

[trust]

You were asking how to parallel park right?

but the juniors suck because I have to park in BFE everyday. We have this street along our school that generally has spots, but it's not guaranteed...like yesterday there weren't any (it's a long street too). It's just as well because that's the longest walk if you're at the end. Then there's a street on the other side of the parking lot which has a few next to a church on the road, that's where I've been parking a lot lately. Yesterday I had to park in this gravel thing in front of the church though, I don't even know if I'm allowed to park there. A lot of the cars in the parking lot don't even have the parking permit. I'm going to laugh when they decide to tow them all, but they probably won't.