Most new cars come with reversing sensors now, and many come with sensors on the front bumpers and sides. Eventually a passing pedestrian (with the patience of a saint) helps. The driver turns too late, comes in at too much angle and generally makes a real mess of it. If you think you are bad, you can’t be any worse than this – quite possibly the worst attempt at parallel parking ever, fresh from Ireland. This video from the UK is one of the better ones at explaining how to parallel park. This is recommend if you are facing downhill because if the handbrake fails the car won’t run down the hill. You can see that the driver of the Mini has pointed their wheels towards the kerb. There’s a risk that you will get too close to the kerb and damage your alloy wheels, but parallel parking is quite easy once you know when to turn the wheel. Parallel parking is where you park your car parallel to the wall or kerb. Here’s a fairly self-explanatory video from America (imagine the steering wheel is on the other side).Īlso, bear in mind that the parking spaces in America are huge, and he doesn’t do a great job of positioning the car, but the technique behind the imaginary line is sound. It’s most effective to reverse into a perpendicular parking space as you can get a slightly tighter manoeuvring angle, and it’s safer when exiting the parking space.
They are more difficult to manoeuvre into, and need to be slightly wider, therefore take up more space than angle parking. Perpendicular parking is where the parking spaces are at 90 degrees to the wall or kerb. You can see that this BMW’s front splitter is lower than the kerb. The length of your vehicle will influence this.īe careful when angle parking if you have a front splitter, body kit or bumper that is lower than the kerb otherwise you may damage the corner of it. In this video from America, it shows roughly at what point you should start turning. For this reason, cyclists pay special attention to vehicles when they are cycling past angle parks. The reversing part is dangerous because the view up the road is obscured by the rear pillar. In almost all cases you drive in forwards and reverse out. Angle parkingĪngle parking is parking spaces that are at an acute angle to the kerb or wall.
But until almost all vehicles are able to safely manoeuvre your vehicle into a narrow, tight space, you will need to know how to perform the three different types of parking in a car.
Eventually we won’t need to be able to park because our vehicles will do it for us – in some cases, they already do. Technology is gradually eroding our ability to perform certain tasks, and parking is one of them.
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