In the driving test you will be asked to carry out one of four manoeuvres and possibly an emergency stop. In this section of the website I will detail my favourite manoeuvre techniques. These are the techniques I use most often and that most people seem to use sucessfully, however they are by no means the only methods that you can use to perform the manoeuvres required in the driving test.
When carrying out manoeuvres, generally you want to keep the car slow so you can observe all around as well as steer. In a modern car on all but the steepest slopes, you can carry out the whole manoeuvre without using any gas over the normal idle of the car. This will help to keep the car slow and under control. Even using just idle gas you may go too fast and you will need to dip the clutch and brake to slow down.
All the manoeuvres involve reversing. When reversing, the back window is now the direction of travel. You would never drive off forwards without looking forwards so never reverse without spending the majority of the time looking out the back window. Before you reverse look carefully left shoulder, left mirror, straight ahead, right mirror, right shoulder and then directly down the middle of the car through the back window. If you haven't reversed before, practice reversing in a straight line before attempting a manoeuvre.
Some of the techniques described involve marker points, points where you are looking for partitular parts of the car to be in a particular place. I have tried to minimise marker points, I very much want the techniques I teach to generalise to all cars and drivers. Please note the marker points described may require adjustment for different drivers and different cars.
Left Reverse (reversing to the left, reversing round a corner, left corner reverse)