Rolling back a metre before you take off!!.

HAHA !! Could Never be enfoced but practiced by a few could help!.

Axle.

hahahahaha the twin nightmares of the old license test. The reverse park and the hill start whoooopeeeee. Do they still test these techniques?

Bugger that tested me made me do a hill start and reverse park combined. To top it off he said, do it behind that VW Beetle.
Bloody old Beetles are a full 18" longer than what you can see from the drivers seat of an XY three on the tree Falcon.
But I did it, might be why he passed me!!

They should test them. Number of people who can't reverse park is scary. Get them to do it on the RHS of a one way street, that sorts the wannabe's from the can do's.

Funniest site I ever saw was when I lived in Armidale NSW. An old 180B Datsun full if the local indigenous brethren pulls up iin the main street. Everyone except the driver piles out and runs around to the front and starts pushing. Bloke did a perfect reverse park under four indigenous power. The lads spotted me laughing, and said "Hey brother no crackin' reverse gear"

Geoff.

hahahahaha must have been the boys from Bush Mechanics on a road trip LOLOL

Al,
You might be right, cracked me up.

Geoff.

>>Number of people who can't reverse park is scary.

A friend (a brunette felame driver with firm C's), was that useless at reverse parking that she would pull up in the shopping center and ask someone walking past to do it for her...

It was always dodgey just driving round in the car with her driving, specially when you were in the back...

"ask someone walking past to do it for her..."

You know Truckster that's why I don't accept that driver training in this country is competency based.
Competency Based Training requires you show a pass level of competency in ALL areas of the skill, not just a couple.
People are taught to pass a driving test, not taught to drive.

Geoff.

From what I can remember when doing hill starts you're not allowed to roll back at all.

Agree re no rollback in license tests but damned if I can remember where I read the 1 foot limit.

I've had those bloody little doof doof's so close to the back of the Troopy at times all you can see in any of the mirrors is the roll of the roof as it disappears to the back windscreen of said doof doof. Usually they are good enough to line up dead centre and appear only just in the interior mirror!!

Geoff.

>>People are taught to pass a driving test, not taught to drive.

always been the same I thought.

I always leave a big gap for that reason and also if you get hit in the rear you might be able to stop before you hit the one in front of you, like a buffer zone i call it.also what you have watch is that although they roll back into you and damage is done they could say you hit them ....usually the rear vehicle is at fault , that's why I would like to get or find one of those video cams that records all out the front windscreen

Down Here, if you left to big a gap, Some bugger would try and get in front of you!!!.

TOO TRUE Axle!

when i stop at lights on a hill and the car gets to close behind me i always roll back into them as i take off, i'm talking can't see headlight close. they aren't ment to be that far behind

>> I always roll back into them as i take off

I'll bite at the troll.
BULLCHIT. So you admit to leaving the scene of an accident?

yep sure do. i must admit it has only happened twice and only just touched and so far nobody has done anything, the law is you must stop far enough back . you should be able to see where the tryes on the car in front of you touch the road, that is how i was showed about 40 years ago. a mate of mine was piggy in the middle of a smash at the lights and he was booked for been to close to the one in front of him and the one behind was booked as wellfor been to close to him etc.
not sure what ever happened about it all.

Try seeing the headlights of the car behind from a landrover wagon with the spare wheel on the back door. They need to be a looong way back (never measured it, but I reckon a good 10m plus). Despite this I can still reverse park, and I CAN use the handbrake for hill starts!
on a totally different subject - anyone else tried reverse parking with a trailer!?
cheers,
Alex.

I know a bloke who's of the age to know better who refuses to use his handbrake at any time.
It's "irrelevant" he says as he pulls the lever out of park in his Merc with a bang after parking on a hill and just bashing it into park.
I'm waiting for his gearbox to give him an expensive message that MB and other manufacturers still put handbrakes in because they're there to be used.
And his driving isn't up to much either, completely arrogant and incompetent as he thinks indicators are "irrelevant" as well!
Alan.

Or pull out a GUN!!.