Parking — Florida Permit Test
Parking on the Florida permit test — 8 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Park parallel to the curb in the direction of traffic, with the right-hand wheels within 12 inches of the curb or the side of the roadway.
Further out than that and your car is sticking into the lane traffic uses.
Park parallel to the curb in the direction of traffic, with right-hand wheels parallel to and within 12 inches of the curb or side of roadway.
Always park on the right side of the road unless it is a one-way street, and when parking on a public road move as far away from traffic as possible.
Parking facing the wrong way means pulling out across the road to leave.
Always park on the right side of the road, unless it is a one-way street.
Florida law requires you to take the keys out of your vehicle before leaving it.
A car with the keys in it is a car anybody can be driving a minute later.
Florida law requires that you take the keys out of your vehicle before leaving it.
Always check traffic around you before getting out of a vehicle so you do not open the door into a bicyclist or another vehicle.
A door swung open in front of a rider has nowhere for them to go but into it.
Always check traffic around you before getting out of a vehicle so you do not open your door into a bicyclist or another vehicle.
Before driving away from a parked position, make sure the road is clear, give the proper turn signal and yield to other traffic.
Pulling out from the curb means joining traffic that has the road already.
Before you drive from a parked position, make sure the roadway is clear. Give the proper turn signal and yield to other traffic before pulling away from the curb.
Parking downhill, turn the wheels to the curb. Parking uphill with a curb, turn them away from the curb. Parking uphill with no curb, turn them to the right.
If the car rolls, the wheels should carry it into the curb or off the road, not into traffic.
Turn wheels to curb.
When parking on a hill, set the parking brake, put an automatic transmission in Park or a manual in Reverse downhill and First uphill, and turn the vehicle off.
The gear is the backup for the brake, and on a hill you want both.
Automatic transmission: put gear shift in Park. Manual transmission: shift to Reverse (downhill) or First (uphill).
In straight-in parking the vehicle should be centered inside the space with no part of it extending into the traffic lane.
A bumper hanging out of the bay is what the next car through clips.
When properly parked, the vehicle should be centered inside the space with no part of the vehicle extending into the traffic lane.
On the test
How close to the curb must the right-hand wheels be?
Within 12 inches of the curb. Further out than that and your car is sticking into the lane traffic uses. Official Florida Driver License Handbook, p.65: “Park parallel to the curb in the direction of traffic, with right-hand wheels parallel to and within 12 inches of the curb or side of roadway.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Official Florida Driver License Handbook, published by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-20.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/FL.pdf (Official Florida Driver License Handbook, rev. 08/2023, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/FL.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that file, not -layout; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (the sha256, the folio offset of 8 and the footer sweep behind it, the folio marker and the measurement that justifies it, the extraction flag scored on 17 facts the corpus had to teach, the six pages that yield no text, the six that state no rule, and the two sources the exam shape comes from)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/FL-exam.html (flhsmv.gov Class E Knowledge Exam page, retrieved 2026-09-19; the pass mark the manual does not state)
- https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/handbooks/englishdriverhandbook.pdf (the handbook this corpus is cut from)
- https://www.flhsmv.gov/driver-licenses-id-cards/licensing-requirements-teens-graduated-driver-license-laws-driving-curfews/class-e-knowledge-exam-driving-skills-test/ (the exam page the 40 of 50 comes from)