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Everyone remembers their road test \u2014 especially the parallel parking. The Driver Tester is our newest simulator, built to let you practice the maneuvers an examiner actually grades before you’re sitting in the car for real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first scenario live is Parallel Parking, with Three-Point Turn, Driving in Traffic, and Left Turns in Traffic coming soon. Before you start, pick your vehicle: a Small Car, an SUV, or a Small Pickup. This isn’t cosmetic \u2014 each one has its own length, width, and wheelbase, so a bigger rig genuinely turns wider and makes the same curbside space harder to hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you’re behind the wheel, it’s a full instrument cluster, not just an on\/off toggle. Turn the ignition and let the engine settle to idle, then shift into D, N, or R \u2014 try it too early or above 1,500 RPM and the dashboard warns you instead of grinding the gears. Steer with a three-turn, lock-to-lock wheel, and work the pedals for proportional gas and brake, just like a real car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reverse into the marked space between two parked cars, and the scoring engine grades you like an examiner would: up to 40 points for parking fully within the space, plus points for alignment, distance from the curb, and keeping your pull-ups to a minimum. Clip a parked car or the curb and you’ll shed points fast. You’ve got five minutes and need 70 out of 100 to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think you’ve still got it? Pick your vehicle and find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Scoring Works in The Driver Tester<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Driver Tester grades every attempt out of 100 points, and you need 70<\/strong> to pass \u2014 same threshold across all four scenarios: Parallel Parking, Three-Point Turn, Turns in Traffic, and Driving in Traffic. Here’s exactly how that number gets built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The basic idea: faults live, bonuses at the end<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every attempt runs on the same scoring engine under the hood, and it works in two passes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faults get deducted the moment you make them.<\/strong> Clip a curb, hit a parked car, run a stop sign’s cross-traffic zone \u2014 the points come off immediately and show up in your fault log in real time, so you always know where you stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonuses get awarded once, when you finish.<\/strong> Things like parking cleanly in the space, centering yourself in your lane, or judging a gap well are only scored when you click “Grade My Attempt” (or the clock runs out), because they’re about your final<\/em> result, not something that fluctuates tick by tick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your live score is just faults subtracted as they happen; your final score adds in every bonus on top of that, floored at 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each scenario follows the same four-category shape for its bonuses \u2014 completion, precision, positioning, and efficiency \u2014 just re-keyed to whatever that maneuver actually tests. Here’s the breakdown for each one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reverse into a curbside space between two parked cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n