Where can I learn to park?

Could practice with a little lego car, so you get the idea of when to turn the wheel. It should just 'make sense' though. You're basically pivoting around the midpoint between the back wheels.
 
Reverse parking is supposed to be safer than driving forward into a space, as when you pull out you're often doing it with a limited field of view.

Source: defensive driving instructor, and many many health and safety bods at my previous employer. Was annoying to start with, but natural now and do it without thinking.
 
Reverse parking is a walk in the park when you get the hang of it. Is parallel parking not mandatory on the test these days? I must admit I used to be rubbish at it but then I realised, I don't give a **** about people waiting behind. With practice it's easy, the hardest part is not getting flustered

Try a retail park in the late evening, pick a bay and reverse in, rinse repeat. Also take some objects with you, preferebly cones so you don't look like a complete mentalist. Make your parallel bay and practice, reducing the size as you get better. Then try on a real street when it's quite, then when busy

Good job admitting it, I'd say there's a good percentage of people on the road who really cannot reverse park to save their lives

Also, this tutorial should steer you right OP

 
Never reverse park in a supermarket - you've got to get the trolley round to the boot!

The solution to being unable to park....become a man
 
Thinking back to my driving lessons, whilst learning reverse parking I had difficulty parking straight in empty spaces due to not being able to see the lines (rubbish fov mirrors, not allowed to adjust them just for parking, but needed to be able to see normally when driving)
Said this to my instructor, so she asked me to go park between the 2 nearbye cars the same lesson.... Porsche 911 and a brand new Golf - she evidently trusted me!! Much easier between 2 cars.

Like some others, I tend to avoid parallel parking as it's a pain in the arse, certainly can't remember the tips I got on my lessons despite it only being a few years ago. I can do it fine if needed but given the choice I'll reverse park or find an empty bit of road :p
 
Epic fails in here - how can you survive by avoiding parallel parking? If youve got any spatial awareness then its easy as anything and the only way to get into some spaces!
 
Easier to mock than help apparently.


Whilst teaching a relative to drive, I aquired a number of large cones (cones with sticks would do), arranged them in a long line in an industrial park (Sunday), then just got her to reverse back along them repeatedly. Drive forward in the same pattern just to note the movements in reverse.

Once you have a sense of space around the car and the hang of turning the wheel, then the technique of parking is easier.
 
Watched a woman in a Mercedes try and park in a multi story the other day, I was literally sat there for 5 minutes and she tried to drive into a bay, reverse out without moving her steering wheel, then doing the same again. The queue behind me was comical
 
I always reverse park in the work car park, I wind the window down so that I can look down the side of the car as I am reversing. If there is a car parked on your drivers side you can sometimes see your refection in it to see where your back end is.
 
Reverse/parallel parking is the way forward :)
Properly set up mirrors = Complete view of what's going on around the car.


But yeah, night time at a supermarket is what you need. Having said that, some people are just complete fail at parking no matter how many times they practice.
 
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