When parking uphill on a hill or incline with a curb:
- Turn your front wheels sharply toward the curb.
- Turn your front wheels slightly to the right.
- Turn your front wheels sharply away from the curb. ✓
- Keep your front wheels straight.
Answer: C. Turn your front wheels sharply away from the curb.
When parking uphill with a curb, turn your front wheels sharply away from the curb.
Why this is the answer
The Florida handbook's parking section gives a specific wheel direction for an uphill park with a curb: turn the wheels away from the curb. It also explains the general idea behind wheel direction, so that if the car starts moving it will roll away from traffic or into the curb. For this uphill curb situation, the handbook's specific instruction is the away-from-curb position, not straight ahead or slightly toward the curb.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Turn your front wheels sharply toward the curb. — Turning the wheels sharply toward the curb does not match the handbook's uphill-with-curb instruction, which is to turn them away from the curb.
- B. Turn your front wheels slightly to the right. — Turning the wheels only slightly to the right is not the handbook's setting for an uphill park with a curb, which calls for turning them away from the curb.
- D. Keep your front wheels straight. — Keeping the front wheels straight ignores the handbook's instruction to turn the wheels away from the curb when parking uphill with a curb.
Remember it
Uphill with a curb: point the tires away from the curb, so the curb can catch the tire if the car rolls back.
Official handbook: Florida Driver License Handbook (FLHSMV), 7. Driving Safety – Passing, p. 66