How to Parallel Park Perfectly Every Time | Lifehacker
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Finding parking is always a hassle, but perfectly parallel parking? That seems almost impossible.
If you street park a car in a large city, you may dread every time you switch on your blinkers and start to back up. So, in order to ease all this pain and frustration, we teamed up with our dear friends at Jalopnik to put together this easy video guide on how to parallel park like a pro.
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i’ll just go find another spot
Yes XD
Same
Not an option in countries like Germany
Yeah until you need to do this for ur driving test to pass 😭😭
@@emily-sv8yk don’t you worry i’ve perfected a skill i will never use for the next 15 year
For me, perfect parallel parking happens when there are no other cars within a one-mile radius of me. I park along the curb in no time flat....perfectly.
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Parking in Kansas
🤣🤣I can so relate to it😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
😅
i’d rather walk a mile than stress about parallel parking in LA traffic
than*
@@1878reddevil i was in the middle of parallel parking when i wrote that my bad
@@ohhail
LoL
@@ohhail lmao
@@ohhail 🤣 leave driving than
Me: looking for a parking space
* parking space between 2 cars *
Me: drives round and round the block waiting for one of the parked cars to come out
Same
I like that in your tutorial you parked between two cars which are close together, not 1.5 the size of your car apart, like other tutorials I've seen. This is closer to a real life situation.
Parallel parking does not scare me, it is people staring as I park that scares me... Don't look at me I have performance issues 😂
Who else going for their drivers test. Best of luck to ya'll!
This the most likes and comments I ever got thanks!!
Mine starts in 8 hours
@@Ace-OVLD good luck
@@canam.kid04 I got mine in a few days homie
@@owendickson3499 awesome bro
Mine is this friday
That was so close. Most drive test instructors will have you redoing the test the next day. Lol
the next day? Here it takes 2 months lol
@@Random-on9pp tell me about it, they want money to get the test fast
@@thebatman68 A lot of people want the license, not enough examinators, plus the covid 19 restrictions. Around 2 months here
here you gotta wait 45 days lol, enough time to forget everything you've learned :))
@@zahrak6878 yea exactly, and they make you buy extra driving lessons. It's all bs
I had made 3 attempts at parallel parking during my driving test (in Italy)...the examiner just said "don't worry, you'll become more confident at doing it with time" and passed me!!!🤣 I swear I didn't bribe her!!
you're so lucky! i possibly have my driver's test tomorrow but it's with a different instructor from my previous one, so she's a complete stranger, and i'm absolutely worried lmao i wish they were as chill as your italian examiner!! but they record the test out here dx (USA-TX)
I wish I had your test assessor!
Who else is grown af and never had to parallel park until now 🤣🤣🤣 the neighbors stare at me from their window and laugh 😂
Thanks yall! I passed my diving test a few months back and one thing that helped me the most out of many videos i watched on different subjects, was this.. Especially the part where yall said, "But we found, the closer the better." It was clear and it worked for me. Parrallel parking was one thing that was most comfortable with; wasn't worried about. Thanks for helping! good shit man
This tip I can tell will help me alot too. I failed horribly my first try because I pulled up too far away from the cones. I didn't know you were supposed to get that close
No! Not close enough to the kerb. Do it again! Also do it within a inner city with lots of drivers behind you giving you lots of hassle when you having a bit if an off day yourself.
Once you are in, you can go forward and make it closer to the curb. And I have parked in inner cities with no trouble. Heck, I have even parallel parked in India where drivers wouldn’t even stop for you while you’re reversing.😂😂😂. Practice makes it perfect.
@@tylerdavidson2400 Often parking spaces are really tight so if you need to be close to the kerb because the street is narrow anyway you can do it from the starting position. Needs to close or risk losing wing mirrors. I'm pretty good vast majority of the time, but big enough to admit I do have the odd moment of misjudgement and have to do it again.
Deadass this shit would not work here in nyc
@@tylerdavidson2400 oh india fucking hell, crazy drivers
@@huskiehuskerson5300 as an Indian, I would've to agree. Roads here are jungle.
Simplest way; overhead view, 45 degrees into pavement back corner, rotate
Do you have a protractor inside your brain? Lol
@@kianadoescod6402 90 degrees is a straight right, half of that is 45
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@@kianadoescod6402 have you never angle parked before?
@@twistieman1078 I don’t have to think when I’m angle parking. I just use the mirrors and right before the door handle and it seems to be working just fine for me. No need to try and fit math in there
This is an impossible task.
Parallel parking is just like on the no. 10 on the list of very easily possible things- Nothing's impossible, but possible can be more or less difficult or easy.
Its all in ur head
@@RawDogTV I know that it will take a lot of time for anyone to learn parallel parking perfectly but it really is possible for anyone on Earth(Who is healthy) to do it.
I'm nonbinary and blind in one eye, if my special self I can do it, so can you
@@DivineLightPaladin I am proud of guys like you who can't be stopped by their disabilities from doing what they want to do.
I'm not a very good driver, I tried to take your advice and my car is now up in a tree.
Liking the video though keep it up
this made me laugh
once i went to Scotland for tourism and was amazed how people park like this effortlessly
Guess I’ll never drive in Scotland.
@@smexy5111 edit: watch this ruclips.net/video/KHt_Ttslcqw/видео.html
the trick is to get the back of your car flush to the rear car and near the curb/kerb first while the front of your car, even at an angle, fits in the space. This gives you a lot of headroom to adjust going forward. Otherwise when you straighten your car, you'll be far removed from the curb/kerb. Once you have it flush you can fit it perfectly with a few moves, first steer right and move forward until your bumper is a few inches from the front car, then steer left back move forwards and voila, even the tightest space is achievable once you understand you have maneuvering room once you're inside the space.
@Lateisha M most channels are good for preparing people for the exams but as an experienced driver, I recently had to teach my girlfriend who has a license but parks like crap, I found out that his videos are most suitable in real world scenarios. It helped my gf visualize her mistakes before going out to practice. The exam teaches you to do it in one swoop but in real life that almost never works because some people park horribly, at an angle or away from the kerb and most of the time the space is quite tight so adjustments are required for parking
In the UK driving test you MUST know how to parrell park due to it being a possible question on the test
Doing it with a manual as well
This explains it so much better than my family has. Can't wait to get good at it for my test, do it once and then never again lmao
Hey it's worth it if you ever drive to the beach
You pass?
@@gixerson8212 Yup! Back in October I passed
@@dahgahz your lucky, great job. I’m still here stressing about it
@Jake I passed March 8th, still hyped about it. How’d you do bro?
Lol once I was too close to behind but I thought I had space! Other times you think you don't have space and other times you actually think you have but don't! Bruh parking is the most difficult especially when cars are behind you
Don't worry about the other cars, they can't hurt you. Take your time but practice a lot so you do it faster. It is really easy once you use your mirrors and technique but not your mind to park.
Following these instructions exactly cleared up my problem! I've had a mental block against parallel parking since having a bad experience with a driving instructor. I parallel parked fine with my first driving instructor who was super chill, but then my second class I had a different instructor who spent most of the 2 hours yelling at me and making me extremely nervous. He would have me do a slow lap around a parking lot...then make me attempt to parallel park, then berate me for not doing it correctly... and then have me do another slow lap with another attempt to parallel park and some more berating. Since then parallel parking has stressed me out so much that I have very rarely tried and very rarely been successful! This was so helpful!
Anatomy Hero, you allowed him to get into your nerves and turned you into a lifetime nervous wreck. You should have told him that he's barking at you was not helpful, or just got out of the car and reported him to the owner of the driving school.
@@samuelkamochu6808 I think calling someone a lifetime nervous wreck because they didn't learn to parallel park at 16 and felt nervous about trying because they hadn't ever been really taught... Might be just a tad of an overly judgemental statement. I don't really live somewhere where parallel parking is a necessary skill. Also, I'm not really sure why you're assuming I didn't complain about the guy!
I was just giving a slightly humorous and hyperbole tinged anecdote...but ok then, let me know if there's anything else I could have done better at 16 😂 (hint: The answer is most things... I could have done most things better at 16)
That sucks. It's good if you can overwrite whatever the douche tried to teach, too. There's plenty of ways one can parallel park a car. Perhaps you have some natural way you were never allowed to try, or perhaps you will find one technique better than the other. The instructor was just trying to teach his way. Personally I found parallel parking laborious and nervy business while in driving school, but after getting to be alone in the car and going about it my way it has always felt good. For example, I rarely even use mirrors. I just watch through the back window, in some tight spots might look through mirrors or even hang my head out of the door. Stuff like that would never go in driving tests, but it's worked great for me for well over a decade.
Driving should be fun, I'm sorry you had a terrible instructor, so did I. Don't let sad people take the joy out of life. Wish him better times and keep going.
sounds like a you problem
I just came back to say I've been using your method to parallel park 3 times after watching this video-I've been parked in 10 seconds top using this method, it's unreal!
To people who might doubt the usefulness of the straight back part of the video (where he straightens the wheel while going in reverse position), that step is crucial because turning the wheel doesn't move the wheel close to the curb, if at all. If you simply turn the wheel then do the other adjustment without first straightening, the wheel close to the curb will stay where it is. Straightening the wheel is how you get that week to actually move close to the curb.
It's a no-brainer when you think of it, but when parking, you might not immediately see the usefulness of that step, and likely end up wondering why your parallel keeps being so wide from the curb
Thanks for coming back to share your experience and tips!
Dude literally nearly hit the car that was behind him....
Cameras
He also had little to no room
No, he didn’t. That’s why he was going so slowly, so as not to hit the car behind him.
Good video. I was a little frustrated because I thought the most critical part of the maneuver is watching the car behind in the rear view get to the perfect position. You seemed to edited that precise moment out. You said we need to be able to see half of it. Do you mean half of the front of the car or half of it's complete image. Because you didn't show that moment I'm unclear. Otherwise, very good video.
Not clear from the video...otherwise the approach is good
It's nice for once for this to be shown on a space you could ntr just drive in going forward like they usually do.
Lol
This made me an expert at parallel parking. As long as my car fits, it gets in the spot in the first try. Been driving for about six years and have always been hit or miss when it came to parallel parking and now I never miss. It’s legitimately amazing how good these tips were. Especially waiting for the car behind you to go across your rear view mirror. That was the big thing I was missing.
Bravo. I am a new driver and I can’t parallel park in a single attempt. Could you please let me know when you do a full left turn (when my headlight is parallel with the taillight of the vehicle in front/when the license plate of the vehicle in front is in the middle of my passenger window or any other reference point)? Thanks!
what about if there is no car behind but your parking in the last spot? these tips are good for parking in between 2 vehicles only.
@@Roadrunnerz45 If its the last spot, why do you even need to parallel park? You can just drive up behind the car in front
Know when to check the side mirrors and the rear mirrors is the key. And don't forget the 45 degree rule which is easier to understand
what i do is park further and walk ,not this
you just failed road test
Now, I would need the follow-up video: "How to leave your parking spot". Seriously, this video makes it look so easy. I have been driving for almost 20 years and still don't know how to parallel park 🙃
Glad to know I am not alone.
What the fk
Don't drive then
Parallel parking is easy asf
ya but its not needed@@sarimveesar4350
So I’ve had my license for three years now and always avoided parallel parking if possible.
Now that I moved to a new place I’ll eventually have to do it, or I’d have to walk for two minutes, wich i am to lazy to do.
This video helped me very much, because it gave me orientation points.
Thanks a lot for the video!
Ty! Needed to learn this im order to park! New skill aquired :D
This is the easiest to understand explanation on the internet. Thanks!
id agree
I attempted to parallel park on a very busy street at city center and couldn't do it because everyone was staring at me. Ruined my day for sure 😊😊😊
when i was still on a student permit i was so good at parallel parking that i flunked my driving test because i forgot how to perpendicular park backwards
here i am 3 years later watching this video because i forgot how to parallel park from not having to parallel park ever lol
It helps 10x more having backup camera in car so you can accurately judge how close you are.
only the blinker is enuf with this method, but the camera can help ofc
@aprofromuk can you explain what you mean regarding the blinker? How does it help you judge distance to the car behind you?
With steering on the right in places like the UK and Australia, I parallel park with ease. In places with steering on the left I struggle big time. Tried multiple times but eventually stopped doing it at all. Enough of other stresses in life. :). Final another parking.
- get as close as possible with car
- Align there mirrors with your mirrors
- turn your wheel to the right (the curb)
- straighten wheel
- turn completely left
I learned to parallel park for the driving test in 1995. Never actually parked that way after that. Relearned to teach my sons for their tests. This vid is as simple as it gets.
Poor explanation...more background noise than instructions!
the dude got so close to the car behind
ikr lmao, he probably had reverse sensors so he knew how close he could get
Or, park somewhere further away with easier parking and walk the extra distance. You save yourself anxiety and toy burn calories 😉
They make you do this on your driver's test, odds are this will be the last time you do it.
yep, once i pass im never doing it again
We got cars that drive themselves but we still gotta do this crap on our own? 🙄
not worth the hassle for me. ill just go find somewhere else even if it's a farther walk. plus in a normal situation you risk being rear-ended depending where you are as well the person behind you scratching you on their way out and finally the person in front of you reversing into you by accident to make more space to get out.
Seeing half the car in the mirror was a very good trick! deffo gonna remember that when doing my practical test
This is a pointless test; driving in reverse is very dangerous!
I'll be honest I'm not claustrophobic but seeing those cars almost touch each other is killing me
Hi I'm still learning how to reverse 🙆 and it's difficult for now 😭
Why does every video on parallel parking take place on the right side, sometimes you may need to park on the left.
Watch uk videos 😊
Only in UK
if you drive on the right, you can only parallel park on the right side, otherwise you're going against the flow of traffic. American RUclipsrs can only show themselves parallel parking on the right side, because it would be illegal in their area to parallel park on the left.
You can still follow this video, just flip it. when he says "right", go left, and vice-versa.
@@mridula16000 that isnt completely true, the city I live in specifically the downtown is filled with one way streets with parking on both sides of the road
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It worked but, start turning when the back off your front door is at the bumper of target car. When front is clear counter turn until in desired location.
If your rear view mirror is not correctly adjusted, you’re dead meat at the exam.
I went to jail for 2 years after trying
i need to parallel park where the space ahead of my car is just steps up to the building. Not having a car shaped thing in front but still barriers makes it pretty hard. Also it being on a hill doesnt make it easier. haha
You
When I was in Dubai I was amazed how people parallel park in narrow road that is very small road and tight spot.
Mumbai ka naam suna h😘
@@mohammednandolia6711 main mumbai main hi pedha hua tha. Ekdam gatiya traffic logonko chalana nahin aata gadi.
@@Maniacguy2777 u r wrong bro jisne mumbai me gaadi chala liya usne sab jagah gaadi chala liya samajh jawo
@@Maniacguy2777 aur mumbai me parking krna road pe bohot bohot bohot hard h bro
Every vehicle is different in length and where windows, mirrors are positioned on the vehicle. This isn't a 100% fool proof guide.
Amazing technique. Do it over time to cement confidence that it works flawlessly every time (it does) and it becomes faster.
someone send this to olivia rodrigo
Great tutorial. Just the music distracts me a lot. :-(
Ohhh my! You made it look so easy!
My mind when parking (sweaty hands and brows and underarms) ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
put 2 cones or a wooden brooms in buckets and use them as cars. Train on your driveway and thats how u learn.
Two words: *Barking Sensors*
Facts you explained that perfectly thank you respect ✊🏼
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Reason # 8,982 why I ride a motorcycle almost everywhere.
does any else have days where they park perfectly without thinking too much about it and days where they’re so paranoid that ur like wth am I doing !!! lol
you need to go back to an better driving school, this is the wrong way to park
My last attempt I hit my rear bumper in someone's car :(
Bro that front Car Rear Bumper seems to have learned this tutorial the Hard way :)
Jokes aside I did that just now, no problem only took me 25 minutes ... fuck.
I parallel park a lot but still feel iffy sometimes when I am stressed or it's super busy and mess up. I did this today in rush hour traffic for my pi day pie and parked in 10 seconds so easily. Pulling up even with the car and watching in the mirror for the car behind to go from one side to the other is the extra info I needed.
You forgot the part where you roll up the windows then scream.
Dude used drone footage to show us parallel parking.
How to park perfect every time :
Bye an automatic car with park assistant.
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It's the worst part of the road test. At least for me it was. Everything else was a breeze. I always recommend people to practice the parallel parking more than anything else. I had to do mine in the snow in NYC. I was a nervous wreck lol.
American problems
None of these videos have 5 impatient cars waiting behind you and giving you performance anxiety
Ikr? Guys with big ass land cruisers/GMCs always yell at me like damn it’s just the grocery store im pretty sure u can wait for a sec big man 💀 (i should put a new driver sticker since their brains don’t realize that)
These parking maneuvers are learned during the driving license course, not through youtube videos.
edit: Reading other comments, it seems like that's not a practice in America... Ha!
Hey it's gerard pique
Im getting ready for my test when im 15, this might help me lmao, wish me luck!
Lol I have to take my test when I’m 16 but being the 14 year old (almost 15) stressed I am, in practicing early.
✨BEST OF LUCK TO YOU✨
ik how to drive and all i’m 15 and in the uk you gotta b 17😭😭 wht country let’s you drive at 15?!!!
@@shobhan847 in europe you gotta b 18
@@limitedgaming9265 yeh basically i drive illegally but what country let’s you drive at 15
@@shobhan847 none.
1:19 we can see that the car in the back is black, how it turned white then? Is it Michael Jackson's car?
He took half a day to get the parallel parking right.
@@StellarJones Funny to find this comment here, because 1 hour ago, I was practicing the prallel parking lol
Its today I’ll either fail or succeed
did you succeed
@@hassanali9542 they died during the test
You’re the reverse flash. You can just run.
I REALLY hope you passed the first time!!
Hey everybody
I did pass the first time 👍
And the driving instructor was a cutie
This REALLY helped, I can now parallel park much better than before! Your video helped.
never knew that gerard pique is also a good driving teacher
This is bad advice. There should only be 3 steps, not including going close to the car in front
Totally not me watching this video trying to parallel park while blocking downtown traffic… 😅
How am I supposed to know when I cleared?!
I've been parallel parking since 2013 why am I watching this?
Now i know where some of my students got this crazy idea to park like this... some examiners (written also in the traffic code book) that driving so close is an offence . That's why is best to listen to your local driving instructor that knows the rules and tricks to pass your test. But nice video though and great way of explaining too👍👍
Waaaaaaa!!! Im in Spain and told by my instructors the wheel needs to touch the kerb for perfect parking
@@TheWeirdoinchains Does your driving instructor also run a wheel repair business? ;)
I tried my best, the back was sticking out. It looked like I was drunk parking but I was 100% sober😂😂
People where I live can't even park normally without scratching other cars.
This is good. it's the same we got taught in Hong Kong where parking space is way smaller. 2-2-2 instead of 1-2-1 in other videos.
can you elaborate what you mean?
2:04 that was dangerously close
goto china , if u wanna be more efficient or pro in parallel park.
I will come after sometime..looks like the comment section is still empty. 😅
The driver almost hit the rear car though...
Came back to like and comment, last 10 times i parked with this method and it was perfect every time, meanwhile i struggled before and would usually rely on luck more than anything, thanks, i can finally move on with my life
This is OK however, I learnt with a vehicle without power steering, so a "dry turn" as shown here is near impossible, you need to keep moving to turn the steering.
Start from position would be the same, but you need to start moving back and turning the wheel at the same time, as you get the vehicle needing to be on the opposite lock, the vehicle has to keep moving as you quickly roll the steering, and then before you hit the vehicle behind you need to roll the steering back to the right hand lock so you have maximum pull in available, then as you move forward, you unwind the lock so you end up in the centre of the space with all wheel straight. Simple.
Advice here is great apart from dry steering demonstrated here is harmful to vehicle and ingrains bad habits / techniques.
My anxiety is off the roof!
How are you supposed to know where your rear bumper aligns with the opposite car??? 😂
Parallel park give me nightmares
Tried this and Crashed😑