Parking on a hill — Tennessee Permit Test
Parking on a hill on the Tennessee permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Parking downhill with a curb, turn your front wheels toward the curb (right) and set the parking brake.
If the car rolls, the tire bumps into the curb and stops instead of rolling into traffic.
On a downhill with a curb: Turn the front wheels toward the curb (right) and set the parking brake.
Parking uphill with a curb, turn your front wheels away from the curb (left).
If the car slips back, the back of the front tire catches the curb and holds it there.
from curb (left). This way, if the car starts to roll back, it will roll into the curb and stop, instead of rolling into traffic.
Parking uphill with no curb, turn your front wheels toward the edge of the road (right).
With no curb to catch it, the next best thing is a car that rolls off the road, not into the lane.
On an uphill without a curb: Turn the front wheels toward the edge of the roadway (right).
On the test
Parking downhill next to a curb, which way should you turn your front wheels?
Toward the curb. If the car rolls, the tire bumps into the curb and stops instead of rolling into traffic. Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.65: “On a downhill with a curb: Turn the front wheels toward the curb (right) and set the parking brake.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, published by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-03.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TN.pdf (Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, information current as of July 1, 2022, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TN.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TN-exam.html (tn.gov/safety/driver-services/classd/teengdl/knowledge-test-online.html as served on 2026-10-03; the only source for both exam figures)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json, TN entry -- the folio marker and its basis, the extraction-flag score and its welded compounds, and the record of where the exam shape comes from
- docs/plans/how-to-build-laws.md (the runbook this corpus follows)