Hey, what's up everybody? Today I'm going to show you how to parallel park. All right? Parallel parking is not as difficult as it seems. The concept behind parallel parking is pretty simple. All it is is you pull up next to the vehicle, you turn your steering wheel in the direction of the curb, you reverse into the spot and then out of certain point you turn your steering wheel away from the curb and then you continue reversing and then your parked. All right, so the concept behind parallel parking is pretty simple. All right? What makes parallel parking difficult is that you have to know when to turn the wheel to the right, when to turn the wheel to the left and how much. Okay? So, so that's what makes parallel parking difficult or seem difficult. All right? So, now you may learn parallel parking from different people and everybody has their own method of parallel parking. If you take a hundred people and let a hundred different people show you how to parallel park, how many different ways of parallel parking we learn? 100. You'll probably learn more than 100. Right? You know, for example, like somebody like me, I know all the different methods of parallel parking that work, the ones that don't work. And so, you know, I can show you various different ways of parallel parking that that someone will work for you, someone won't, someone will work for others, someone. All right? So, what I'm going to do today is I'm going to go over the most popular ones that, you know, driving instructors usually show their people. All right? And then I'm going to go over the ones that I, that I like. And I'll show you and I'll let you know, okay? This method works well. I like it. I don't like it or whatever. All right? All right? So, here we go. All right. So, one of the things you want to do is be consistent. So, whatever parallel parking method you learn, memorize the steps. All right? Memorize the steps and try to duplicate every single thing as well as you can each time you parallel park. All right? So, do not take anything for granted. All right? So, what that means is that if, if your parallel market, parallel parking method says line up mirror to mirror. All right? And turn your steering wheel one full circle to the right. Make sure every single time you parallel park, you line your vehicle up mirror to mirror with the other vehicle and you turn your wheel one full circle to the right. All right? Now, make sure you are as precise as possible. All right? With that. Because a lot of times when you're not, that's what leads to changes or various results. All right? Sometimes it will be good. Sometimes it won't. Sometimes it's too far. Sometimes it's too close. All right? But as consistent as you can get with each step, each thing you do, the better your results will likely to be. All right? All right? So, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to show you a parallel parking, one of the basic, a couple of basic ones. All right? So, here we go. So, when you pull up to the vehicle, you want to be somewhere, I would say maybe about somewhere between two to three feet, four feet may work well. What you don't want to do is be too close to the vehicle. All right? Especially when you're taking your road test in New York City, or probably pretty much anywhere. You know, if you get close enough where the examiner feels like you're going to hit that vehicle, you'll probably never get a chance to parallel park. All right? So, and I've seen people fail for that actually. So they failed as they were pulling over to the vehicle. The examiner felt like they were going to hit the car panic, whether they panicked or not. As soon as they feel or have a doubt that you that you will hit that vehicle or you might not hit that vehicle, the test can be over. All right. So anyway, all right. I'm going to pull up next to this vehicle right here. And I'm going to line up mirror to mirror. All right? And that is my passenger side mirror with a line with his passenger side mirror. All right? Okay. And I would say, I'm going to run. I say I'm almost three feet away from that vehicle. All right? I don't think it's quite three feet, but I would say I'm about almost three feet away from that vehicle. All right? Okay. So now, and then somebody waiting behind me while I'm doing this video, you can see if I can get him to go around me. Can you, can you fit, buddy? Can you fit? Okay. All right. He can't fit. So he just has to wait. All right. Anyway. All right. So now I turn my steering wheel one full circle to the right. All right. I'm not going to pan that way. Anyway, I turn my steering wheel one full circle to the right. And now I'm going to back into this space. All right? So one of the things that people do is one of the methods that people do is they will say, all right, reverse now until your passenger side mirror blocks out the tail lights of the car in front of you like that. All right? So once you get there, then you turn your steering wheel all the way to the left or however much to the left and then you reverse into the space. And if you look in the mirror, my side mirror there, you see how close I am to the curb. As I look there, that looks pretty good actually. I'll tell you this, I don't really like this method. But that actually worked out pretty well. All right. So that's a very popular one. So a lot of example, a lot of not examined is a lot of driving instructors will train their students to use that method. The reason I don't like that method is because it relies on the tail light being in the same position on the vehicle on every vehicle that you park at for you to have consistent results. So if the tail light is in a different position, which you can be like say, for example, that time I parked out a regular vehicle. But what if I was parking out of van or bus or something like that? Now you won't get the same result when you reverse back. All right? Okay. So for that reason, I don't like that method. But it can work. So it's not a bad method. But I don't like it because it doesn't give as consistent results across the board, at least as not as much as I would not as consistent as I would like. All right. So that's one method. So that is the method where you reverse back, you line yourself up to the vehicle and then you reverse back until your passenger side mirror lines up or blocks out the left tail light of the vehicle that you're parking behind. All right. And then once you get there, you turn the wheel, you cut the wheel all the way to the left and finish reversing into the spot. All right. Boom. That's one method.