What are the tests for Texas Driver's License Road?

Texas Drivers License Road Test?

• I'm just about ready to take my road test to get my drivers license. I've never tried to parallel park behind a real car. I've tried parallel parking between cones with varying degrees of success. I think I could park behind a car, but I have trouble with cones because once you're next to them they're hard/impossible to see, and most of the tips I've seen for parallel parking are based on visual cues. How do they usually have you do the parallel parking on the road test? Oh, one more thing, how is the road test scored exactly? The drivers license handbook gives a list of things they test, and say you can't have more than 30 points deducted, but they give no indication of the point values of anything?

• Answer:

  1. It depends on what part of Texas you are from because the ones in my area of Texas do the parallel parking on the parking lot using cones... 2. Yes, 30 points of more and you will fail on the spot.. 3. Maneuvers are.. (1) start; (2) quick smooth stop; (3) backing; (4) upshifting; (5) downshifting; (6) lane change; (7) merge; (8) use of lanes; (9) right-of-way; (10) posture; (11) approach to corner; (12) traffic signals; (13) traffic signs; (14) left turns; (15) right turns; and (16) parallel parking (if applicable). 4. Rejection standards for road test are: (1) accident. Any contact with another vehicle, object, or pedestrian which applicant could have prevented, regardless of who was responsible, resulting in any damage or injury; (2) dangerous action: (A) accident is prevented only by defensive driving on the part of another or dodging by a pedestrian; (B) any loss of control creating a hazard; (C) driver stalls vehicle in middle of busy intersection so as to obstruct traffic; (D) drives one or more wheels over the curb or onto the sidewalk; (E) accident prevented only by warning given by the examining officer; or (F) runs over parking standards on the parallel parking test. (3) violation of law. Unless otherwise stipulated in scoring standards, a driver is disqualified for: (A) any act for which the driver might be arrested; or (B) any act which might make the driver liable for damages in case of accident. (4) deductions. As soon as any of the following conditions occur, the applicant is disqualified: (A) various or repeated minor mistakes totaling more than 20 points deducted on the off-street road test score for motorcycles or more than 30 points deducted on the on-street test for any vehicle including a motorcycle; (B) various or repeated minor mistakes totaling more than 5 points deducted on the backing test; or (C) various or repeated minor mistakes totaling more than 7 points deducted on the parallel parking test for any vehicle. (5) lack of cooperation or refusal to perform: (A) refusal to try any maneuver in good faith; (B) repeated failure to follow instructions; (C) offer a bribe or gratuity; (D) argument concerning scoring, not just a discussion of scoring; or (E) refusal to wear a seat belt when required and has no physician's statement for waiver or refusal to comply with a continuing, necessary restriction (e.g., "corrective lenses").