Knowing how to park is not always easy. however, 360° SURROUND VIEW CAMERA SYSTEM turns you into a parking pro. Yet there are simple guidelines for all types of parking without it. Before you get started, discover our tips on how to make a niche, or park in a row and on a herringbone easily.
How to park safely
Control the surroundings
To know how to park, you must first know how to warn other users and ensure safety around your vehicle. Whatever the maneuver, one must constantly observe in turn its direction and its environment.
Before starting the maneuver, we let all the users in the area pass, or we wait for a sign from them indicating that they let us do the parking.
Then during the entire maneuver, we must remain vigilant on everything around us. To do this, regular visual checks are carried out using the mirrors and their movements are indicated by the turn signals.
Control your speed
No matter how you park, parallel, herringbone or row, the maneuver must be done at the slip point, at reduced speed. This allows you to have good control of your vehicle and to refine your position, in order to succeed in your niche, parking on a herringbone or in a row.
Respect the direction of traffic
It is forbidden to park against the direction of traffic. Certain maneuvers should therefore be reserved for one-way streets. For example, it will only be possible to make a left niche or park in a left rear row in a one-way street.
How to park on a herringbone
The 45 ° herringbone parking can be done in forward or reverse . To know how to park on the herringbone, you must therefore follow the markings on the ground, to follow the direction of the herringbone. If the entrance is facing forward, we go forward. If the entrance is towards the rear, we go into reverse.
Right rear herringbone parking
Here is how to park on the rear right groyne:
We start by stopping about a meter wide from the vehicle parked on the side, passing it very slightly.
After making sure not to interfere with any user, we back up to the skating point.
When you are visually between the start of the parked vehicle and the middle of it, you turn your steering wheel to the right, while maintaining reverse gear in the point of skating.
We regularly inform ourselves about other users by using direct vision and the side mirrors to ensure our trajectory.
When the vehicle is parallel to the square and to other parked users, the steering wheel is straightened. If, however, you are too tight on one side or the other, you can re-advance to correct your trajectory.
When parking is finished, do not forget to apply the hand brake before leaving your vehicle.
Left rear herringbone parking
To find out how to park on the left rear herringbone, just follow the same steps as for the right rear herringbone. There is only one difference in step 3: when the rear left corner of your car is level with the end of the parked vehicle, you turn the steering wheel fully to the left.
Front Right or left herringbone parking
Here is how to park in front:
You must first move away from the parked vehicle. We move forward by taking the front of the car as far as possible in the width of the place, so that the rear of the car does not risk catching the parked one.
Then, you turn the steering wheel in the direction you want to go, to position the vehicle parallel instead.
You can repeat this operation several times if necessary, backing up between two to correct your trajectory.
In each case, you can once stopped in the place, open the door carefully to ensure its placement.
How to park in a row
Parking in a row: steps to follow
To know how to park in a row, just follow the same steps as for herringbone parking.
Parking in reverse or forward
In a two-way street, parking in a row is mainly done in reverse if performed on the right and in forwarding gear if performed on the left. The important thing is not to end up against the direction of traffic.
In a one-way street, you have the choice between reverse and forward.
Being parked in forwarding gear can allow easy access to the trunk for loading or unloading the car. On the other hand, this makes it more dangerous to exit in reverse, because there is often a lack of visibility on vehicles coming from the left and from the right.
How to make a niche
Like a “time slot”, that is to say the time between two hours, parallel parking consists of parking between two cars or obstacles, in reverse.
Right-side parking
Here's how to park in the right-hand side without a Surround View Camera :
We stop at about 50 cm in width of the parked vehicle and at its height (mirror of his car at the level of the mirror of the car already parked).
We make sure not to hinder anyone and we slowly back up to the skating point.
When you see the rear of the vehicle parked at the level of the right-front passenger seat, you turn your steering wheel to the right. We back up looking at the vehicle parked behind. When you can no longer see it on the right, you look for it from the left side, still indirect vision.
When the rear left corner of his car is in the extension of the vehicle parked behind or at the level of the line on the ground, the direction of the wheels is changed.
When we are parallel to the sidewalk, we stop and drive forward we put the wheels straight.
You can of course, go back and forward as many times as you want to successfully park.
Left parallel parking
Here is how to park in the left niche:
We stop at about 50 cm in width of the parked vehicle and at its height (mirror of his car at the level of the mirror of the car already parked).
We make sure not to hinder anyone and we slowly back up to the skating point.
When our rear has passed the rear of the parked vehicle we turn our steering wheel to the left.
We then look at the vehicle parked behind. When our rear right corner is level with the rear right corner of the vehicle parked behind, we change the direction of the wheels.
When you are parallel to the sidewalk, you move forward to straighten your wheels.
You can do as much forward and reverse as you want.
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