Drive Practice: Parking

Practise parking, reversing and tight turns at your own pace. Guide lines show where every wheel will go, so nothing about the car surprises you on the road.

Drive Practice is a calm game for anyone who feels nervous in tight spaces. It shows how a real car moves, so parking and turning stop feeling like guesswork.

Only the front wheels steer. The car pivots around the back axle, the back wheels cut inside the front ones on every turn, and when you reverse the back of the car goes where you turn the wheel. Drive Practice lets you see all of this as it happens.

HOW IT WORKS • Steer with a large on-screen wheel, about one and a half turns from lock to lock • Pick P, R or D and use the gas and brake pedals with your other hand • Guide lines show where each wheel and the swinging front corner will go • A marker shows the point the car turns around • A fading trail shows where your wheels actually went

22 SHORT LEVELS IN FIVE CHAPTERS • Basics: stopping on a line, gentle curves, a full circle, reversing straight • Turning: street corners, pillars in a car park, a narrow gate, cones, a U-turn • Reversing: round a corner, into a driveway, out of a space • Parking: forward and reverse bays, angled spaces, parallel parking • Tight spots: a three-point turn, an underground garage, a home garage, a car park ramp

A short animated lesson before the turning chapter shows why the back of the car cuts inside a corner, and what that means next to a pillar.

There is no timer pressure and no penalty for going slowly. Touch something and the game tells you which part of the car hit and why, then lets you carry on. Slow motion, a whole-area view and a left or right wheel position help you practise the way that suits you.

No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your progress stays on your device.

Drive Practice is a practice aid and does not replace lessons with a qualified instructor.