> I could never tell if I was in the center of the lane, either, until I figured out that the car would be centered if the front left corner of the hood just touched the yellow line. Then my problem was staring down at the corner of the hood and not looking where I was going. My mom absolutely refused to drive with me after the first couple of times. She hasn't let me drive her anywhere since I caught her van's brakes on fire. X-P
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My trick for staying centered was lining up the car so that I was directly behind the driver of the car in front of me. If there was no car in front of me, not hitting the cars on either side was a workable system too.

I use a similar trick for parallel parking. I judge closeness to the curb based on the next car's closeness and how it lines up with mine, adjusting for the difference between the widths of the cars.

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F"but it's easier just to tap bumpers and curbs, and it doesn't really do any damage"B