You finish a parallel park in California. What is the greatest distance the manual allows between your vehicle and the curb?
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A.
Six inches, the width of a standard curb face.
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B.
Two feet, the same space you left beside the car next to you.
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C.
Eighteen inches, roughly a foot and a half. Correct
The answer is "Eighteen inches, roughly a foot and a half."
California sets the finished parallel-park position within eighteen inches of the curb. Option B reuses the two-foot side gap the same section tells you to leave while pulling up alongside the parked car, treating that pre-park spacing as the final distance from the curb.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Six inches, the width of a standard curb face.
Six inches is tighter than the manual requires. This answer confuses the eighteen-inch curb limit with a tighter figure drivers sometimes quote from painted parking-lot stalls.
B. Two feet, the same space you left beside the car next to you.
Two feet is the side gap while lining up, not the finished distance from the curb. This answer reuses the two-foot side-gap number from earlier in the same parallel-park steps as the final curb distance.
This question tests your knowledge of Parking in California. Source: California Driver Manual, "Parallel Parking," p.26..
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