{"id":172167,"date":"2022-07-08T08:16:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=172167"},"modified":"2022-09-23T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:39:07","slug":"how-to-perform-a-three-point-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/illustrated-guides\/how-to-perform-a-three-point-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform a Three-Point Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The three-point turn is used when you need to turn around, but the street is too narrow to complete a U-turn. You also might use it when you need to turn around when you’ve driven between two rows of cars in a parking lot and reach a dead end. <\/p>\n

It’s a basic driving maneuver that you probably learned in drivers’ ed and had to perform to get your license. You’d think a grown man would have it down pat. <\/p>\n

But that’s not always the case.<\/p>\n

Awhile back ago we and some friends watched as a guy reached the entrance gate of a national park, realized he couldn’t get in, and attempted to turn around to drive back out.<\/p>\n

Over the course of this agonizing attempt, what should have been a three-point turn turned into a six-point turn. <\/p>\n

If you could use a refresher on this driving technique, here’s how to smoothly perform a three-point turn.<\/p>\n

Illustration by Ted Slampyak<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The three-point turn is used when you need to turn around, but the street is too narrow to complete a U-turn. You also might use it when you need to turn around when you’ve driven between two rows of cars in a parking lot and reach a dead end.  It’s a basic driving maneuver that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,42259],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-172167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrated-guides","category-skills"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2022\/07\/car-feat-538x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2022\/07\/car-feat-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2022\/07\/car-feat-320x165.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172191,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172167\/revisions\/172191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172167"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=172167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}