Driving test: What to expect The driving test measures your ability to drive legally and safely. An examiner rides with you to evaluate your driving. They won’t try to confuse, trick, or ask you to do anything illegal. These videos may help you: • (2 min 56 sec) • (2 min 17 sec) • (2 min 26 sec) • (1 min 48 sec) What will I be tested on? You’ll be tested on: • Starting your vehicle.

So first thing find a spot that's big enough for your vehicle one. And a half to two times the size of your car is.

• Leaving the curb, do you signal and wait until it’s safe to re-enter traffic? • Controlling the vehicle, do you. • Use the gas pedal, brake, steering wheel, and other controls correctly? • Change your speed to suit the number and speed of other vehicles, pedestrians, road conditions, weather conditions, construction, amount of light, and the distance you can see ahead?

• Driving in traffic, do you. • Use the proper lane? • Signal to change lanes? • Change lanes carefully? • Follow other vehicles at a safe distance? • Turn your head and look back before changing lanes? • Signal the proper distance before turning?

• Obeying traffic signals and signs, do you. • Turn into the proper lane without cutting the lane or going wide into the improper lane? • Driving through blind or crowded intersections, do you. • Scan carefully for signs, signals, pedestrians, and other vehicles? • Yield and take the right-of-way correctly?

• Stopping • Do you stop smoothly and at the right spot? • Can you stop quickly and safely in an emergency? • Backing up • Do you look over your right shoulder? • Can you back in a straight line?

• Do you have complete control of your car? • Judging distance, do you stay a safe distance away from. • Other cars when following or passing, or • People walking or riding on the roadway? • Respecting the rights of others • Are you courteous to other drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists? • Do you pay full attention to the driving task? • Performing specific maneuvers, can you successfully complete all of the following?

• Arms signals for right/left turns and slow or stop. (You may use arm signals during the test.) • A brake reaction test/emergency stop. • Parking on a hill.

• Parallel parking. • Simulating backing out of driveway or alley into traffic using a corner. Related information • • (2-wheel) • (3-wheel).

​'If I have to parallel park, don't invite me.' Parallel parking is likely the most-dreaded part of the driver's license road test. It can be intimidating for sure, but with some helpful tips and lots of practice, you can be a parallel parking pro. As part of the non-commercial driver's license road test, drivers must park their vehicle midway between two uprights in a space that is 24 feet long and eight feet wide. The entire vehicle must be completely inside the space, and you cannot: • Make contact with any of the uprights to the rear or front of your vehicle, • Cross over the painted line, or • Go up onto or over the curb. You have just one attempt to successfully park your vehicle using no more than three adjustments. Here are some tips for successful parallel parking: • Stop even with the vehicle ahead and allow 2 feet between it and the passenger side of your vehicle.

• Turn the steering wheel sharply to the right and back slowly toward the vehicle behind. • As your front door passes the back bumper of the vehicle ahead, quickly straighten the wheels and continue to back straight. • When your vehicle is completely clear of the vehicle ahead, turn the wheels sharply to the left and back slowly to the vehicle behind.

• Turn wheels sharply to the right and pull toward the center of the parking space. Learning drivers can practice parallel parking at home by setting up their own cones or other obstacles. You may also practice at your nearest PennDOT Driver License Center during non-operating hours. Use our to find a PennDOT location near you. For more driving information, be sure to read the (PDF), listen to the, or download our.

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