Practise all four manoeuvres the DVSA examiner can ask for — parallel parking, forward bay parking, reverse bay parking, and pulling up on the right to reverse and rejoin — set up the way you'll actually drive them: right-hand-drive car, driving on the left, kerb on your nearside. Six drills, live coaching, and as many attempts as you want.
Six drills, live feedback, and controls that work on whatever device you have.
Drive on the left from a right-hand-drive seat. The bays, the kerb, the neighbouring cars and every coaching prompt mirror to match — so the reference points you learn here are the ones you'll use in the car.
Reverse into a kerbside space between two cars. Learn where to stop, when to go to full lock, and how to read the door mirror as you come in.
Drive into the bay nose-first, then reverse back out. One lock, no gear change — but it needs a wider aisle than reversing in, and the turn-in point is marked on the ground so you can feel where it starts.
Reverse into a marked bay at 90 degrees. Work on your approach angle, mirror checks, and straightening up before the car crosses the line.
Step-by-step prompts tell you exactly when to steer, straighten and stop — like an instructor in the passenger seat.
Every kerb touch and shunt is counted live, so you know what to fix before test day rather than hearing it in the debrief. Subscribers see forward and reverse moves counted separately, so you can keep your shunts inside what the examiner allows.
Two extra drills beyond the test manoeuvres: sliding into a diagonal bay, and threading a narrow S-bend without clipping either side.
Switch between 3rd person, overhead and 1st person view. The overhead view shows you the geometry; the 1st person view — with three mirrors — is what you'll actually see.
Three steps from cold start to parked.
Parallel, reverse bay, angled bay or the S-bend — plus which side of the road you drive on, your language, and how much help you want on screen.
Real-time prompts guide your steering, braking and gear changes.
Repeat until you finish inside the lines and close to the kerb, then check your time and how many corrections it took.
Repetition, without paying by the hour for it.
Nobody gets a tight manoeuvre right on the third attempt. It takes dozens — enough that the sequence stops being a checklist you recite and becomes something you can see coming. That is an awkward thing to buy by the hour, and an awkward thing to practise in a real car park with someone waiting behind you. Here you can reset and go again in two seconds, at two in the morning, for free.
Experienced drivers are not judging distance by eye. They are using fixed reference points — the moment the other car's rear bumper lines up with your door mirror, the point where the kerb disappears from the bottom of the glass — and those points are consistent enough to teach. The simulator draws them for you while you learn, then takes them away once you don't need them.
Most early mistakes are not steering mistakes. They are a wrong mental model of how big the car is and where it pivots when you reverse — the rear axle, not the front. The overhead camera makes that visible in a way the driver's seat never can, which is exactly why it helps to see both views of the same attempt.
A simulator will not teach you clutch control, and it will not teach you the all-round observation the examiner is watching for — which is where most manoeuvre faults actually come from. What it does is get the geometry and the sequence into your head beforehand, so your instructor's time goes on the things that genuinely need a real vehicle. Treat it as preparation for lessons with an approved driving instructor, not a replacement for them.
Know what you are practising before you rely on it.
These things need a real car, ideally with a qualified instructor.
How each drill decides whether you've finished.
These are the simulator's own thresholds. They are practice targets, not official test limits.
Practice mode shows coaching prompts, the reference path and your measurements. If you finish on a line or at an angle, you can keep adjusting or accept the result. Exam mode switches to the driver's seat and hides the measurements, and you submit once: finishing on a line, outside the space, too far off straight or too far from the kerb is marked as a fail.
Free practice isn't saved. Subscribers get every attempt saved to their practice history, including failed and unfinished ones, so the success rate isn't inflated. Full details are on the pricing page.
This page is set up for the UK: drive on the left, DVSA manoeuvres and UK guides. Check the current rules on GOV.UK.
Drive on the left, with guides written for Australian tests. Rules vary by state and territory.
Drive on the right. Every state sets its own road test, so check your state DMV’s driver handbook.
General guides that aren’t tied to one country. The simulator can drive on the left or right.
Step-by-step walkthroughs for every manoeuvre on the test.
The four-stage method, the reference point for each stage, and how close to the kerb you need to finish.
Where to start your turn, how to use the mirrors, and how to fix a bay entry that's going crooked.
Driving in nose-first: where the turn starts, why it needs more room than reversing in, and how to reverse back out safely afterwards.
How minor, serious and dangerous faults are marked on parking manoeuvres, and the observation misses that cause most of them.
The three-point turn — and why the DVSA dropped it from the test in 2017 but you still need it.
Yes. Choose Drive on the left on the start screen and the whole scene mirrors: you sit on the right, you reverse into bays and kerbside spaces on your left, and every coaching prompt swaps sides to match. This page defaults to left-hand traffic, so you can just press start.
You get 30 free minutes of practice a month, up to 5 minutes a day, on parallel parking, angled bay parking and the S-curve, with no sign-up required. If you want all six drills, unlimited practice time and full progress tracking, premium subscription plans are available.
All four the examiner can ask for: parallel parking, parking in a bay forwards (drive in, reverse out), parking in a bay in reverse (reverse in, drive out), and pulling up on the right to reverse and rejoin the traffic. There are also two extra drills — angled bay parking and an S-bend control exercise. Each runs in three camera views and at three levels of on-screen help.
It targets the reference points, steering timing and positioning the examiner is watching, so you arrive at your lesson already knowing the sequence. It cannot teach clutch control or all-round observation — and observation is what examiners mark most often on manoeuvres. Treat it as preparation, not a substitute for lessons with an ADI.
DVSA doesn't publish a fixed distance. The examiner looks for a finish reasonably close and parallel to the kerb, and many instructors use about 30 cm as a practice target. Hitting or mounting the kerb can be marked as a fault. In the simulator, every kerb touch is counted, and the pull-up-on-the-right drill shows your kerb distance live.
Pull up alongside the car in front with roughly half a metre of gap, reverse on full left lock until you sit at about 45 degrees to the kerb, straighten to bring the front wing clear of that car, then full right lock to swing the nose in. The parallel parking drill coaches each stage as you do it.
Yes. It supports touchscreen controls alongside keyboard and gamepad, so a phone or tablet works fine. A larger screen makes the overhead view easier to read, but it isn't required.
Yes — that's who it's built for. Start in Practice mode, which shows the coaching prompts, the reference path and the guide lines, then move to Exam mode once you can do it without them.