After you have finished parallel parking, how far may your wheels sit from the curb according to the manual?
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A.
Two feet, matching the pre-park spacing
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B.
Up to eighteen inches, for a safer margin
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C.
One foot from the curb, at most Correct
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D.
Just outside the flow of traffic
The answer is "One foot from the curb, at most"
The manual caps the finished distance at one foot from the curb: closer is fine, farther is not. Two feet is the setup gap you leave from the car ahead in Step 1 of the procedure; drivers who learned the sequence once often carry that opening number forward as if it were the final position rule.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Two feet, matching the pre-park spacing
Two feet is the gap you leave from the vehicle ahead in Step 1, before backing in. The manual's final-position rule is one foot at most from the curb. This answer learns the two-foot number from Step 1 as the parallel-parking distance and forgets which step it belongs to when the question asks about the finished position.
B. Up to eighteen inches, for a safer margin
The manual caps the finished distance at one foot (30 cm); eighteen inches leaves the vehicle too far into the travel lane and fails the rule. This answer rounds the one-foot cap up on the driving-school habit that extra clearance from the curb is always safer than being too close.
D. Just outside the flow of traffic
The manual measures the finished parked position against the curb with a specific number, not against the travel lane. This answer reaches for the general stay-clear-of-moving-cars rule when the specific curb number from the parking chapter did not stick.
This question tests your knowledge of Parking in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "Chapter 7 - Parallel Parking, How to Park," p.42..
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