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Old Feb 15th 2017, 10:04 pm
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Originally Posted by ivanidea
I normally reverse into a parking space (still in the UK), do I need to drive in forward for the test?

Are reversing cameras permitted? The wifes new car has this fitted as standard.
I guess do what's easiest for you if not given a specific way of getting in the space. However, I would have thought more could go wrong with backing up.

On my test I pulled in forward to a space that had no cars around at all and made sure i couldn't mess it up.
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Old Feb 16th 2017, 11:21 am
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Default Re: Getting drivers license in Florida?

Originally Posted by ivanidea
I normally reverse into a parking space (still in the UK), do I need to drive in forward for the test?

Are reversing cameras permitted? The wifes new car has this fitted as standard.
Florida requires that you reverse by looking over your shoulder, throughout the whole manoeuvre. The only points I dropped for the test occurred because I also mirror checked, spending most of the time looking over my shoulder was not good enough.
The manoeuvre was carried out in a coned area that could easily accommodate an F350 duallie ( that's a horrible word/spelling!!)
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Old Feb 16th 2017, 11:37 am
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Default Re: Getting drivers license in Florida?

Originally Posted by ivanidea
I normally reverse into a parking space (still in the UK), do I need to drive in forward for the test?

Are reversing cameras permitted? The wifes new car has this fitted as standard.
Americans reverse into a parking space??? Come on the angle the slots to make it even easier to park nose in!
I guess a good way to spot a Brit is he'll be the one berk who reversed into an angled space! Lol
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Old Feb 16th 2017, 12:34 pm
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Default Re: Getting drivers license in Florida?

Originally Posted by ivanidea
I normally reverse into a parking space (still in the UK), do I need to drive in forward for the test?

Are reversing cameras permitted? The wifes new car has this fitted as standard.
When I took my driving test (in Alabama), I didn't know anyone to take as a 'designated driver'. Our realtor volunteered and met me at the test centre.
When I came out with the examiner, she wanted my car in a specific space as the first test was backing out of the space. So she asked me to get the designated driver to move my car to the space.
My realtor was having difficulty getting it into gear (it was a column shift which she wasn't used to). I turned to the examiner and said "Are you allowed to fail HER?"

It's very unusual for Americans to reverse into a parking space. I doubt many drivers are even capable. Many states don't have front license plates so if you back into a space, police etc. can't ID your car.
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Old Feb 16th 2017, 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by dj6372
Americans reverse into a parking space??? Come on the angle the slots to make it even easier to park nose in!
I guess a good way to spot a Brit is he'll be the one berk who reversed into an angled space! Lol
I often "drive through" an angled space into the "far space", so I can drive out of a space as well as drive in.

Originally Posted by chawkins99
.... It's very unusual for Americans to reverse into a parking space. I doubt many drivers are even capable. ...
I don't really agree with that. The lot where I park every day has as many cars backed up to the landscaping as there are driven in nose first. Another lot directly out side my office also has many cars backed into space where driving in would be equally easy.

FWIW I don't know of any other car in either lot driven by a British driver.
Many states don't have front license plates so if you back into a space, police etc. can't ID your car.
That seems like a good reason to back in. .... I have Union Jack front plates, so at least they can see the owner is British!

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Old Feb 17th 2017, 8:28 am
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
I often "drive through" an angled space into the "far space", so I can drive out of a space as well as drive in.

I don't really agree with that. The lot where I park every day has as many cars backed up to the landscaping as there are driven in nose first. Another lot directly out side my office also has many cars backed into space where driving in would be equally easy.

FWIW I don't know of any other car in either lot driven by a British driver.

That seems like a good reason to back in. .... I have Union Jack front plates, so at least they can see the owner is British!
I have developed into lazy butt syndrome already, I drive in nose first at the store so I can throw all the crap in the trunk easily!
At work I reverse in for quick exit!
FWIW I have rugby plates front and back!
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Old Feb 21st 2017, 5:53 pm
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Originally Posted by chawkins99
..... It's very unusual for Americans to reverse into a parking space. I doubt many drivers are even capable. .....
Further to my post #20, above. I was outside at lunch time and noticed the cars parked in the parking lot outside my office. There were 18 cars parked in spaces around the perimeter, up against a curb or the landscaping, of the 18, 17 of them were backed into their space!
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Old Feb 21st 2017, 6:13 pm
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
I often "drive through" an angled space into the "far space", so I can drive out of a space as well as drive in.
I always try and do that too
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Old Feb 21st 2017, 6:28 pm
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Default Re: Getting drivers license in Florida?

Originally Posted by Pulaski
Further to my post #20, above. I was outside at lunch time and noticed the cars parked in the parking lot outside my office. There were 18 cars parked in spaces around the perimeter, up against a curb or the landscaping, of the 18, 17 of them were backed into their space!
Maybe they all do a Le-Mans style start at 5pm.
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Old Feb 21st 2017, 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by chawkins99
Maybe they all do a Le-Mans style start at 5pm.
That would be interesting to see!
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Old Feb 22nd 2017, 11:27 am
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Just so you know I had the luxury of driving Mrs DJ's car, a big mofo Lexus SUV and was making a complete pigs ear of parallel parking, to make matters worse she said FFS let me do it................ wham bam in one!!
After making excuses for at least an hour, curb was high, turning circle, mirrors were crap, steering wheel on wrong side, blah blah it dawned on me, this was the first time I had attempted parallel since I moved here!
I could hurl my 5 series into a tiny space in UK.
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
I often "drive through" an angled space into the "far space", so I can drive out of a space as well as drive in.
I do this when I am in our truck. I hate having to back it out of tight parking areas.

I also make sure I park as far out as possible but it never fails that when I return there is always someone right next to me even if the parking area is almost empty!

I love driving a truck because I feel safe and I like being up "higher" but now i have a little car to run around in and I sure do like the easier manoeuvring and parking ability
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Old Feb 22nd 2017, 3:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
I do this when I am in our truck. I hate having to back it out of tight parking areas.

I also make sure I park as far out as possible but it never fails that when I return there is always someone right next to me even if the parking area is almost empty! ....
My truck, at 21'6" overhangs most regular parking spaces, so if I can't back up to a curb or landscaping I usually try to find a double space, and yet, just like you, in a mostly empty parking lot I often find a vehicle in the ¾ space behind me. I can understand it if the car is a Civic, Mini, Fiesta, Fit, etc., but it is often an SUV or minivan!

In fact it happens so often when I am parked outside Lowes that if I am there to buy timber, plywood, or anything else large and/or heavy I park with the front end of my truck overhanging the other space, not the truck bed.
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I took my Florida test recently. Easiest driving test I've ever done (I've done a few over the years for numerous reasons).

I stopped by to check and as I wasn't a first time driver I didn't have to take the DATA course online first.
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