Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you tonight about
vulnerable road users and defining who vulnerable road user groups are and how
you can protect yourself as a vulnerable road user. Because at one time or
another we're going to be vulnerable road users pedestrians riders on
motorcycles cyclists and people on scooters mobility scooters mostly senior
citizens and other people who have mobility challenges and those types of
things those are what we're going to be talking about tonight so question is and
answers live stream this is smart Sunday number thirteen and we certainly
appreciate all the smart drivers that show up and talk to us and ask questions
and are successful in passing a road test and congratulations to all of the
people in the last week who have passed a road test and done all the work that
they need to do in order to be successful in that endeavor
as well if you are endeavoring to pass a road test have a look at the playlist
pass a road test mark the other thing that I did this week that you may or may
not be aware that there are playlists on different YouTube channels if people are
up on what they're doing and have divided a lot of the videos into
playlists so certainly have a look around at the playlist here on the
channel because one of the things I've done this week is I've divided the
turning videos on how to turn right and how to turn left into two separate
playlists so I have a out of turn right and and how to turn left playlists and
as well the other thing that I'm going to do is start organizing the videos
into observation and communication I also had a seeing and observing plays of
the played playlists that I generated for you as well so for anybody who's
going for a road test soon and coming up soon those will help you as well so for
those of you watching the live feed on the playback make sure you have a look
around for those playlists and the other endeavor that I've started this week as
well is
crash analysis smart so what I've done is I've been watching YouTube videos
with my mate Tim who has a channel on basic joomla tutorials for those you
don't know joomla is the competitor to wordpress and we tim and i both use
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need a website by all means look tim up at basic joomla tutorials and he'll be
able to help you out with web service and helping design your website and he
is very much about designing websites that you can build yourself and and do
content and the sorts of things so so crash nails too smart tim and i we're
working on that and i actually got some of that up so got that going this week
and did the first one on left-hand turns it seemed to be a theory this week on
our theme this week rather on doing left-hand turns and talk to you about
left-hand turns and how to stay safe and how to do that for the purposes of a
road test and what to do if you get caught in the intersection on the yellow
light and the light goes yellow and then to red and we'll talk a little bit more
about that as well so Andrews here hi Andrew receive my G last Wednesday
thanks for everything you are most welcome Andrew and that is great news
that you passed Bernice
didn't start driving until 55 and how is that going Bernice that you didn't you
had your license but you didn't drive how is how is that going for you sir are
you having any challenges with your driving and that sort of thing just let
us know there and we can talk about that maybe we can help you out as well so
yeah so we time a few people here and so yeah we've had some good success and I
do apologize if I'm tardy on getting to the comments been trying to get up on
that it's you know I as as the YouTube channel builds and is more and more
successful there tends to be a bit more work so it's really great as as our I
did not pass my test as I was watching inbuilt cameras that looked too much
turning yes as SAR you cannot use cameras for the purposes of a road test
you know that and yeah I wish you had to ask me that before maybe what I need to
do is I need to do a whole video on that that you can't use cameras in the
vehicle - for the purposes of your road test they really want to know that you
can drive a vehicle doesn't have cameras or other technological aids in it you
can drive a vehicle and still observe and scan and do the things you need to
do to be saved for the purposes of a road test and in terms of looking on a
road test what was it going to say built-in cameras technology yes but the
thing I was gonna say was is that the reason for that is because they believe
that you're not always going to be watching are driving the same vehicle so
if you get into a different vehicle you're gonna need to be able to do that
being able to observe and scan those types of things without technical
technological aids and that's the reason that they don't allow you to do that as
of yet with a vehicle but you know self-driving cars are coming in the
coming decades so they're there they're thinking that that's going to happen as
well Katie's here and bit confused about speed limits so I find it hearing - the
speed limit on my test but that's below the flow of traffic is that a ding
what's the best thing to do ok Katie so for purposes of speed on a
road test you have to do the speed limit or the flow of traffic whichever is less
so if you're doing the speed limit and it's less than the flow of traffic then
that's fine but just make sure you if you're on a multi Lane
that you stay over to the outside lane that's the slow lane and the other lanes
are for passing so yeah but that's okay so I'm adhering to
no no you do not want to Katie you do not want to keep up with the flow of
traffic if it's going above the posted speed limit for the purposes of your
road test you have to have a look you have to adhere to the posted speed
limit okay so make sure you do that it's the posted speed limit or the flow
of traffic whichever is less okay so quarry bricks for wheels is here just
finish my email thanks Cory I'll have a look at that after I do the live feed
tonight a few other odds and ends I got to do as well
Jamal thank you so much my problem is left turns and what is it Jamal that
you're having problems with in terms of left turn is it where to position the
vehicle is it pulling out and turning is a judging gap is that how fast you're
going on the turn what specifically are you having difficulty with in terms of
left turns for the purposes of preparing are you preparing Jamal for your road
test or do you already have your license just let me know that and I'll be able
to answer that for you so crash analysis so yeah this week we
were talking about left turns I did a video I had a comment from someone who
had some difficulty okay so Jamal said he's having trouble with speed there
I'll just talk about that and then I'll come back to the crash analysis Duff
Jamal on a left-hand turn you want to be doing somewhere between 15 kilometers an
hour 30 kilometers an hour or sort of 18 miles an hour to 30 miles an hour
depending on how big the intersection is so when you come up to the intersection
for your left-hand turn you want to put the front steer tires on the front cross
walk lane line and the reason that I advocate that and I've had discussion
about this with other drivers in the past is that you are committed to the
intersection but you're not in the intersection if something goes wrong and
we've seen this week in terms of the information that I presented on the
left-hand turns that left-hand turns are the highest risk maneuver for new
drivers and they're somewhat daunting for I would say veteran drivers as well
so if you're not in the intersection if something goes wrong you're probably
going to be stay out of trouble so that's the reason the other school of
thinking in terms of where you position your vehicle and when you're waiting to
make a left hand turn is to move into the intersection and try and get as many
vehicles through the intersection as possible I don't find that pans out as
well and I always stay with front steer tires in the front cross while walk line
so it works out you wait for the gap you judge your gap and then when it's when
you can go and if it's a busy intersection you're gonna have to wait
for the advance screen your or you're gonna have to go on the yellow so you're
gonna need to know that so you're gonna need to make sure that the other traffic
the gap is sufficient or the vehicles are coming to a stop before you go and
if it's a left-hand turn it's a multi-lane Road onto which you're
turning you're gonna have to turn into the left-hand Lane and then immediately
move over to the right-hand lanes signal mayor shoulder check and move
over to the right-hand lane as well if there are vehicles turning right from a
slip lane or what not and what I would suggest you do is look at the turning
right at complex intersection I'll explain this about don't pull in beside
another vehicle don't turn in beside another vehicle turn into the spaces
between the vehicles that are turning right so that's what you want to do to
be safe again as I said Jamal your speed fifteen to thirty kilometers an hour or
12 to 20 25 miles an hour depending on how big the intersection is and get that
speed before you actually go into the corner the corner iso BLISK
doing a live feed talking to people about driving and talking about crashes
and those types of things okay so Corey there you go you the video for Katie on
speed limits that's really great thanks Wilson is here
drive right having contact me really wanted passed more testing or later I
have to wait at almost two weeks Wilson have you contacted them to see
what the delay is in terms of getting in and getting booked have they said
anything to you my pleasure Jamal I'm glad I could help
out Sam I have my road test of six days and I have about forty five hours of
driving time and I do in the next couple of days to fine-tune everything and ease
by anxiety Sam have you done any work with the fundamentals of driving so for
example going back and read revisiting the fundamentals and working with one of
those some of those thirty-six inch one meter tall pylons and the fundamentals
of driving excuse me because I find that sometimes after you've done a bit of
driving and gotten used to that sort of thing if you go back and work with some
of those pylons and you do some of the reverse backing up and backing or a
two-point reverse turn reviewing some of the parallel parking and doing the
forward and reverse figure eights sometimes that'll help with reducing
your beer and it'll help you to also better understand the spatial
relationship of the vehicle and space in place so sometimes that's what I do is
with students when I'm working with them and teaching them how to drive is after
they've had some experience in driving revisit the fundamentals and that will
help you out to just understand some of the stuff and to clarify some of the
stuff that may be the first time around you didn't get all the details and that
whatnot so yeah I might suggest you go and do that as well and then just you
know take a catalog or sit down on a piece of paper and find out think of the
weaknesses and those types of things and the last thing Sam I would ask you is
have you booked in for a mock road test yet just answer those questions and I'll
let you know Wilson
okay but Wilson you if they haven't contacted you yet in terms of booking
the road test then you need to contact them and say hey just sort of you know
what's going on so ok definitely be a sort of it yeah yeah you know because
you got it you got to get out there and and really sort of you know make sure
you sure make sure that you do what you need to do in order to get them but to
get you booked in okay Karen going for my CDL in a couple of weeks and I'm
working on my pre trip there are a lots of parts that I'm not familiar with I
can't remember everything any pointers okay Karen when you're doing your pre
trip inspection make sure you have a sequence and brake the vehicle up into
sections which one are you doing are you doing tractor-trailer are you and a
straight truck Karen because it doesn't really matter which one but you want to
you know break it up left side under the hood right side under the hood run to
the truck top to bottom so make sure that you move top to bottom left to
right and then you break the vehicle up into sections when you break it up into
sections that's going to help you to remember the information that you need
for the purposes of doing your pre-trip inspection as well the in-cab is
probably the hardest part so make sure you have a sequence as well come up for
your own sequence for that and that will help you to remember the information
that you need to do now are you having difficulty Karen with the pre trip
inspection for the air brakes is that one of the other things that you're
having difficulty with just leave a comment down there and I'll be sure to
answer that for you Sam you're most welcome andrew is going straight but
traffic is packed and you become stuck in the middle of the intersection at red
light is it wise to attempt to change lanes reverse or turn left to avoid
being stuck no Andrew if you're stuck in the intersection it's a red light know
that you own the intersection and now to look at the video that I put up today
about charging the yellow light there's a section in there on the vehicle the
pickup truck is going through the intersection making a left-hand turn the
tractor-trailer comes through the intersection and that pickup truck
actually turns on the red light so know that you own the intersection do not
back up don't attempt to change lanes because all of that's unpredictable
actions the other traffic knows that you're sitting in the intersection so
just relax take a breath I know it's I know it's daunting that
you're in the intersection the lights red and you're like oh my god oh my god
oh my god oh my god you're not gonna die okay the other vehicles at the
intersection can see you and they know that they're gonna wait for you okay so
just take a breath and go okay when the light when when the gap is clear go and
that's the most important thing because you are much safer sitting in the
intersection and other traffic going around you and weaving in those types of
things than it is for you to go in the gap isn't sufficient so know that
all right so carrying your driving tractor - yeah so break it up into
sections so the truck now I'm I can't get too technical because I know Karen
that other driving schools and driving instructors have kind of a different
sequence for for doing the truck and whatnot but break it up into sections
and make sure that you stick to top to bottom left to right because if you
stick the top to bottom left to right there's less chance that you're gonna
forget stuff okay and then after that it's just practice practice practice
keep doing it okay Jose and you are most welcome for the live programs I am
really glad that I can help people to do pass the road test and be successful in
getting your license and being better drivers and in crash free so that's
really my goal now ruto tips for not making white turns Naruto definitely
looked at the fundamentals of driving work with those 36-inch meter or three
sections tall one meter tall pylons in the parking lot doing the forward figure
eights the reverse figure eights because what you're having trouble with Naruto
is you're having trouble with space in place of the vehicle and you need to
sort of understand the the blind areas around the vehicle and you need to
understand steering and that will help you with that if you Bri visit that in
the parking lot the other thing is when you're making turns oftentimes you make
wide turns because your speed is too high so if you're making right-hand
turns you need to sort of be eight 10 to 15 kilometers an hour or sort of 8
to 12 miles an hour or on left turns you need to be 15 to 25 kilometers an hour
or you need to be sort of 12 to 20 miles an hour so know that you need to get
your speed down before you actually execute the turn so you're not as wide
there we go okay Corey thank you so much for that
Bernice highway driving is my greatest fear so I just drive this city to get to
anywhere all right Bernice one of the things that I might suggest for you to
sort of work on that anxiety and trepidation that you have with with
driving on highways is to try and drive on some of the highways that don't have
as much traffic on them so you know some of the back roads and highways and those
types of things and also the ones that don't have higher speed limits you know
it's not 100 or 120 kilometres an hour or 65 or 70 miles an hour just driving
the ones that have 80 kilometers an hour 50 miles an hour and it's a fairly
decent not too traveled Road and just get used to that and in that way you
won't you know it'll help to reduce some of your anxiety and fear about driving
on roadways and you know just the more exposure you get the better that's going
to be for you okay
okay thanks Cory for putting that video up on the fundamentals of driving so for
those of you I suggested that okay
all right so Wilson so your art yeah do try and contact them Wilson for sure and
they'll certainly you know once you talk to them and sort of remind them hey
because unfortunately you know we're all busy and we get busy doing other things
especially driving schools and those types of things so just definitely you
know tap on the door and say hey I'm still here I want to pass my road test
okay so Paul just pass my road test this
morning at the age of 57 and we're watching your videos I've been an
epileptic since 1975 thank you very much Paul you are most welcome and that is
just an awesome story that you passed your road test congratulations and I
certainly hope that you are having a great celebration because that is
well-deserved that is that is an inspiring story that you passed a road
test at 57 and you know and you've been an epithet that is really an inspiring
story that's a great story thanks so much for sharing that okay so we've got
kind of a pause here so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over and do my
presentation on vulnerable your road users and talk to you a little bit about
that and then I'm going to come back and I'm just going to revisit the left-hand
turn thing because I thought I was going to do that so we'll just switch over to
the PowerPoint presentation here there we go
so most of you know who I am and I am Rick Auguste and I actually yes I do
have a PhD in legal history I call it traffic safety as well because I looked
at the history of road traffic in between sort of 1890 and 1930 as road
speeds increased 500% and essentially what happened Road speeds went from 6
miles an hour to 30 miles an hour which is sort of saying today that in another
40 years we'll all be driving around cities at 250 kilometers an hour that's
essentially what happened at the at the beginning of the 20th century with
motorized vehicles and I looked at that huge increase in Road speeds and its
impact on policing and law so that's what my PhD is in and one of the road
user groups that vies for Road space are vulnerable road users and I was once a
vulnerable road users well I still have a road user but let me repeat that I was
or let me rephrase that I was an arrogant vulnerable road user I used to
step out in front of traffic and say oh they'll stop they'll stop but then I
became a driving instructor and became somewhat more informed about road users
and traffic and how vulnerable the you are as a pedestrian on the roadways and
then I became a bit more cautious and certainly tried to teach my children to
be more cautious and speaking about my daughter my children my eight-year-old
daughter Scout that's her name
when we went out of the house the other morning to walk down to school and she
dislikes having her hair combed she Viet mentally dislikes having her
hair combed and we went out of the house and it was kind of a flash point and I
calmed her hair because she wasn't going to do it and she stormed off and she's
old enough to go across the road on her own and she stormed off and went across
the road well the traffic from the left did in fact stop but the traffic from
the right didn't and she stormed out and she was about halfway across the first
lane of traffic before I bellowed about her telling her to get back and she
nearly got clipped because the vehicle coming from the other side didn't stop
in fact even slowed down which kind of is a terrifying moment for most of us
who are parents as you may or may not know so that's what happened so who are
vulnerable road users vulnerable road users on our roadways are pedestrians
cyclists motorcyclists and people on scooters you can see in the picture
there the person on the scooter in traffic and this is becoming more and
more common the road users that are wiring for our road space are
pedestrians cyclists people on motorcycles like cars and trucks buses
trucks trolleys trams now the other road user group are these people on scooters
who have mobility challenges and they can be a bit intimidating because
they're small and they're actually out in the lane traffic so this is the new
road user group that you need to look for traffic statistics tell us that 25
percent of fatalities on our roadways due to traffic crashes are these
vulnerable road users or groups and you can see here in the image that most of
these pedestrians are crossing the roadway against the traffic light so you
need to know that vestri ins aren't always going to cross the roadway at a
crosswalk they're not always going to cross at an intersection oftentimes
you're going to cross outside of the crosswalk they're going to cross cross
lights and those types of things so these are one of the groups of road
users that you have to be looking out for when you're preparing for a road
test and you're driving generally to continue to be a a safe driver and one
of the reasons they call them vulnerable road users just because if they get in a
traffic rush they're most likely going to be killed or seriously seriously
injured so that's why they're called the
vulnerable road users and one of the things that you need to do as a
pedestrian is you need to develop a road sense that roads in fact are dangerous
cars are dangerous and that they don't always stop for you so one of the things
we do with children is we teach them a road sense we teach them of a very young
age that traffic is dangerous that they need to stop at intersections they need
to look both ways and one of the things that I'll add about teaching children a
road sense is that they have to look in both directions and they have to listen
as well and if you're crossing an intersection make sure you look back
behind you to the left in case there's a right turning vehicle as well so we
teach children a road sense and the other thing about children is children
have some limitations in terms of their biology in contrast to adults for
example children only have about 160 degrees of peripheral vision or 150
degrees rather whereas adults have 180 degrees of peripheral vision children in
motion tend to stay in motion they don't stop and they don't see cars as
dangerous and oftentimes if they see a car they think that the car is going to
stop because they can see it even though maybe the driver can't see them and then
yeah so those so children have some limitations in terms of their biology in
terms of being in traffic in those types of things so we teach them from a young
age of traffic sense and cars are dangerous and some of the other programs
in place in the 50s and 60s the interior safety league Odom Ontario developed
Elmer the elephant and Elmer the elephant was the safety elephant they
had little songs that taught children how to cross roads safely in those types
of things so those are some of the ways that we did that in terms of keeping
children safe history this is a this is an article that I wrote called spinning
our wheels in ability of traffic policy to change driver behavior and one of the
challenges for traffic experts and driving authorities to change driver
behavior is is that you're trying to change millions of people's behavior on
any given day in any given traffic situation in any given mood so it's a
very daunting task to try and get drivers to change their behavior and can
see that in terms of when the seatbelt seatbelt laws came in in the early 1970s
there was a huge enormous pushback in terms of not wearing seatbelts and it
wasn't until 20 years later that we started to see high rates of the
seatbelt use and that was because of a whole lot of different reasons one of
them was you know seatbelt lights in the car that are annoying and we need to put
our seat belt on the biggest one that I argue in this article is is that it's
the reverse impact or the reverse influence of children growing up wearing
seatbelts and then they once their parents and nagged their parents to wear
their seat belts and that's why we got a high use 20 years later pedestrians at
the beginning of the 20th century up until the 1950s after the Second World
War really the ones that were being
killed on a roadways because they needed to develop a traffic sense you had to
understand that it was the baby boomers in the 1960s and 50s and 60s
that were the first generation to grow up with the motorcar so people in the
beginning of the 20th century had to learn a traffic sense very much in the
way that we teach children a traffic sense in this day and age and then at
the last half of the 20th century motor cars started running into each other
single vehicle crashes due to drinking and driving drinking and driving was an
enormous problem at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s and this was one of the
reasons that we had seatbelt laws in combination with anti drink driving laws
and really an entire culture of drinking in North America and other countries and
changed because of the high fatalities so the other vulnerable road users are
on a roadways as motorcycles people who ride motorcycles are 35% more likely to
be killed in a car crash than people driving a car and many of the crashes
happen at intersections we know as traffic authorities that 40% of crashes
happen at intersections this is one of the reasons why left-hand turns which
I've been talking about this week and the videos are such a high risk maneuver
so left-hand turns the other thing that the reason that a
lot of motorcycles are killed or injured or fatally hurt on traffic crashes is
because of inexperience and youth motorcycles are very much associated
with masculine traits of aggressiveness and immortality that people you know
young men just are not thinking that they're going to be killed and insurance
statistics show all of this the other interesting thing in the last few years
women have become young women have been begun to come on board with high rates
of crashes and collisions well with men so it's not just males anymore that are
high risk of being involved in a traffic crash it's also women as well so where
to drivers look for vulnerable road users you need to observe especially at
night because a lot of pedestrians are wearing dark clothing they're not
crossing at crosswalks or intersections they're jaywalking in those types things
and when you're making left-hand turns and pedestrian
crossing the roadway please do not charge pedestrians I find that
incredibly irritating when I'm trying to cross a roadway people are making a
left-hand turn they drive right up to you just really is annoying and it's
dangerous and it really frightens pedestrians and it really upsets me when
people have done that and I have had it done to me several times so those are
some it's a bit of information about vulnerable road use the one other point
that I'll make about vulnerable road users for those of you are still feeling
a bit arrogant as a pedestrian and stepping out in front of traffic in
those types of things just before I say that I'll just say if you getting a road
test this week good luck on that and then I'll just switch this back here
there we go so and I'll just look at the comments here
all right so what I was gonna say about vulnerable road users and being a
pedestrian and stepping out into the roadway in front of traffic and those
types of things if you do get hit by a car and you're a pedestrian and most of
the time it's going to be a car it's not going to be a pickup truck in those
types of things what happens is the car the bumper the front bumper of the car
is usually high enough that it's going to hit you in the femur and it usually
shatters that bone it usually shatters the themer bone and unlike what's in the
movies where people get hit by cars and they just roll up over the hood they
don't it doesn't happen like that the bumper is at the femur and then
essentially what happens is it knocks the legs out from underneath you spins
you up in the air you do a couple of back flips and your head usually comes
down on the windshield so you not only sustained severe damage to your lower
extremities but usually what kills you is the impact of your head going through
the windshield of the vehicle so know that if you're involved in a crash with
a car and you're a pedestrian very unlikely that you're going to survive
and traffic statistics really pan that out because 25 percent almost a quarter
of Road traffic fatalities are because our vulnerable road users so pedestrians
cyclists motorcycles people on motorcycles and scooters so it is
dangerous all right so let's get to some of the comments here all right
thanks Paul okay Sunday's a good day to venture out on the highway rush hour to
work is the scariest yeah rush hour burners is a daunting time because
there's lots traffic for sure yes that great quote from Roosevelt there's
nothing to fear but fear itself indeed that is very true so and the more
exposure you get to it the easier it's going to go and the fear is going to
start to abate Anna yes you are very right Anna most drivers do not come to a
full stop when they turn right on a red light your and you'll probably notice
that at stop signs as well that most drivers do not come to a complete stop
at a stop sign
Michael no somebody wasn't running over my my girl she just sort of stomped out
in front of traffic the one lane of traffic did stop and I got to her and
yelled at her before she continued I would across the roadway so it was just
a near miss and one of those you know the heart skips kind of moments okay
yes as we get older and as our bodies mature we get a wider degree of
peripheral vision it actually goes out to about 180 degrees and children it's
only about 150 so it's actually a narrower field of peripheral vision and
that's the way our vision works is that we have a peripheral vision and it's
attracted to light and movement it's one of the things that keeps us safe and
that's why you only have to check 90 degrees because there's another 90
degrees in your peripheral vision and there's something there and what happens
is that your peripheral vision is attracted to that light movement and
then it draws in your central vision which is about a quarter it's about this
much at arm's length is your focus of your central vision so that's how that
works
cousin rota motorcycles one time cut off by a car turning right yes sometimes
yes there are resistant road users no doubt okay a little Montse what advice
do you have for someone that's going to the DMV to get their permit this week in
California now when you say your permit is that your learner's permit that
you're going in just to write the knowledge test is that what you're doing
this week
you
djenka you are most welcome Mikey hey man it's easy to pass a driving test the
very first time with no experience Mikey probably not for some people it's very
difficult and you have to know that passing a road test is very different
from driving because there are certain skills and abilities and techniques that
they expect you to have in place for the purpose of passing a road test I had a
comment from a smart driver this week failed to road test because they didn't
stop for emergency vehicle you don't stop for an emergency vehicle on a road
test you have to know that those types of things are automatic fails so you
need I would suggest that you do a bit of work before you go in don't just go
in without any experience is it's not likely you're going to be successful I'm
not saying that you won't be successful just saying that the possibility of you
actually passing the road test is not very high okay little Montse yes my
permit my knowledge test yes read the book study what I suggest you is to go
online here look for some practice driving test questions there are some
practice driving test questions over the smart drive test website do those
because those will identify the gaps in your knowledge don't try and read the
drivers manual from cover to cover because I'll tell you that just like
will cure insomnia so what you need to do is
do the practice driving test questions identify the gaps in your knowledge go
back to the driving manual read the driving manual and those specific parts
and then go back and do the test questions again and that will help you
do that and as well the tagline that I use at the end of my videos pick the
best answer not necessarily the right answer so you need to pick the best
answer so make sure that you read the question thoroughly pick out the key
words read all four choices on the test question and then pick the best one not
necessarily the right one because for example if you're going to if you're at
a four-way stop for example and they ask you the question who has the
right-of-way at the fort before we stop first vehicle to arrive the vehicle on
the right the vehicle in the intersection or the biggest vehicle
right so what is the best answer of that so there's two right answers because the
vehicle on the right and the first vehicle to arrive both have the
right-of-way that is a correct answer according to the the manual but the best
answer is the vehicle in the intersection because the vehicle in the
intersection has the right-of-way because as I say again and again about
right away right away is always given never taken and so know that for the
purposes of your theory test all right
michael is it possible to pull over to the right lane if it's the nares lane
yes you can Michael whichever lane or shoulder is the closest that you can
pull over to the purposes of an emergency vehicle you don't necessarily
have to pull over to the left lane or the right lane just get out of the way
of the emergency vehicle and if you're at an intersection an emergency vehicle
appears for the purposes of your road test you might have to drive through the
intersection or drive through the intersection or turn the intersection or
go through the roundabout or wherever you might be at to get out of the way
and clear a path for the emergency vehicle so know that as well andrew for
driving general on the highways their way around checking blind spots first
moving on ER it's scary to take your attention from the front to turn your
head yeah I know Andrew it is a bit scary because you're moving really
quickly and essentially what you need to do is you just need to turn your head
more quickly okay because you don't need to linger there when you're when you've
got your head ninety degrees it's just a quick snap of the head just quick head
check to the to the left or right whichever way you're going to be moving
the vehicle okay ah let's see
Express hello press solutions hi there how are you okay
and little Monte thank you so much for the subscription we really appreciate
that that's really awesome and I think I think I'm finally gonna have to do a
milestone video we're coming up on 30,000 and I really appreciate that to
all the people who have subscribed and have continued to be smart drivers and
educate themselves a little being better drivers and staying out of trouble way
we my route test is coming up in a few days sadly it would be my third time
completing it the only different about this road test is that there's snow I'm
currently having problems with snow yes I have a look at the video there's
passion road tests first time in the winter time have a look at that that
will help you out with driving in the snow and passing your road test and I
have little doubt that you're going to be successful on my channel that's what
we do here is we help you to pass a road test okay and be successful busy be obey
speed limits but drivers always pass me or give me dirty looks I asked my
driving instructor he says sometimes people break the law and speed what do
you think about that yes I totally agree with what your driving instructor said
very few people drive the speed limit they're always going to drive above the
speed limit because tolerance for speed limits so people are going to do that so
you just need to know that alright people rarely stop at stop signs
complete stops and those types of things there is a driving culture that we have
here in North America they have a driving culture and straw any country in
the world has a driving culture and those driving cultures are going to
allow certain laws to be broken not stopping a stop sign speeding and those
types of things so know that that you're just gonna have to get comfortable with
that driving culture and know that after you for the purpose of getting your
license it's a different set of requirements than for driving okay so
after you get your license have a look at top 10 tips for post licensed driving
to stay safe and that'll help you out a little bit okay
Rayna hi there how are you love the smiley faces what's the great okay and
Corey's got the video up there for those of you taking a road test in the winter
time how to pass driver's license road test first time and as well I noticed
today that I was looking at that video because somebody was commenting I was
doing 40 in a school zone and actually I remember
scoot excuse me I did that video for Kyle crass know who was doing his road
test last almost a year ago now in Toronto at that time in the winter time
in yet he requested that I do that video so I did that video and it was
interesting because I went past a school sign and I was doing the post-production
on the video and I saw that because there's a speedometer I have the
speedometer up in a camera on that video and I was doing 40 kilometers aren't
like oh great now I got it was Sri shoot the video and after doing some research
and looking at Google Maps which I just love Google Maps Street View I noticed
that it wasn't a school zone sign but in fact it was a school in the area sign so
I don't have to slow to 30 kilometers an hour if it's just a school in the area
so check out the school zone signs our school signs have a video on that as
well and explains because there are about five different school signs that
indicate those goofy school signs and some of them are school zone signs do 30
kilometers enter when children are present on the highway and there's a
school in the area so just take note of those signs and whatnot okay so there
you go Corey's got that up really great
awesome alright so yeah and I think we got all this we'll see who else is here
I did it
name
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Michael you saw animals on the roadway if it's a smaller animal I generally
recommend that you do not try to avoid smaller animals if it's a bigger animal
then you're gonna have to try and brake as hard as possible and reduce the
impact by as much as possible by getting the vehicle off on an angle you try it
don't want to try and hit the animal straight on like if it's a cow or a
moose or a deer or something like that because oftentimes what happens is
you'll sweep the legs out from youth have been the torso of the animal will
come up and come through the windshield so if it's a bigger animal you want to
try and get off line a little bit that will help you out somewhat in terms of
reducing the severity of the impact okay but if it's a smaller animal like a
squirrel or a badger or something else then you want to try to you just want to
run over it don't don't do any defensive moves evasive action and those tips
things all right Ricardo
instructors are now saying at a stoplight
make a left turn you have to stay at the line and not go up in the box when the
light is on Green is that now a general rule
Ricardo that's probably somebody's opinion it's somebody's professional
opinion I don't say to get into the intersection when I say well you're
waiting for a left-hand turn I tell you to just put the front steer tires on the
front crosswalk line and as I've said that you're committed to the
intersection but you're not in the intersection if something happens so
that's what I recommend for drivers now that might be something else specific to
the licensing center where you're taking your license test but it tends to be
fairly Universal that where you wait is up to different places and discretion of
them and whatnot
Danyelle how can you get over the fear of failing the permit test do practice
tests lots of practice tests on the internet fine practice driving test
questions on the internet there's some over at the smart drive test website go
over there and do those and those will help you to alleviate your anxiety and
tension and as well don't try and read the manual cover to cover because man
that thing will cure and just care insomnia there are terrible things to
try and read so just do the practice driving test questions identify the gaps
in your knowledge and then
go back to the manuals find the specific information that you need to answer
those questions and then go in and take your test and just breathe and remember
pick the best answer not necessarily the right answer for the purposes of a
theory test okay and then you just unfortunately got to do it I mean if and
you know one of the things that I used to do when I went to university in
school and did tests and those types of things is you need to sort of play the
game what's the worst thing that's gonna happen if you're unsuccessful if you're
unsuccessful then you just go and do it again it's it's not gonna be you know
it's not a blight on your reputation you're gonna be okay
so know that that you're gonna be okay all right and that you can do it you're
just gonna go and write the test until you're successful and do it
rhoann thank you so much passed my g2 yesterday because of you you are most
welcome and thank you for letting us know that's really great I'm glad that
helped out
thank you so much that's just a really awesome compliment thank you so much
that really is appreciated so again if you like what you're seeing
here and you like the videos on the channel be sure to subscribe hit that
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and you know if you can share the channel around with your friends and
other people that might be getting a road test one of the things with social
media is is that we're in the six degrees of separation actually I think
they're getting down to five maybe even four degrees of separation now that
you're always going to know somebody that's going to need some help and you
know really that's what we're trying to do here is help people be successful
passing a road test and be successful at being crash free and being good safe
defensive drivers so that they stay out of trouble because there's nothing more
of a shock to the system than being involved in a traffic crash and if you
can help you to do that to stay in trouble especially with the new crash
analysis playlists and videos that I'm creating and putting up we can learn
from other people's mistakes and we can put in place strategies and techniques
that are going to keep us safe and keep us out of trouble and that way you know
and you can learn from other people instead of making the mistakes yourself
because we'd you know it says Newton said I know what I know because they
stood on the shoulders of giants writings and sometimes it's not just
shoulders of giants but it's also you know we learn from other people's
mistakes instead of making mistakes ourselves we learn from other peoples
and say hey I know how to fix that or how to change that make different
alright okay so yeah Corey showed me a video tonight that I'm gonna do a video
on I'm gonna do it for the crash analysis I'm not gonna do it right away
because this claim are on the crash analysis video is that people do die in
traffic crashes and what I'm going to say about traffic crashes
one of the things that academics have said about traffic crashes if you took
all of the traffic crashes that occurred in your country you put them in one
place at one time it would be deemed a national emergency because so many
people are killed in traffic crashes that it's it's mind-boggling to people
who are you know who study this I mean in the United States of America every
six weeks six to eight weeks more people are killed in traffic crashes every six
to eight weeks than all the people that all the soldiers that were killed in the
Vietnam War well it just gives you some idea of how
dangerous traffic crashes are so one of the one of the disclaimers are going to
put in the crash analysis is that people do die in these traffic crashes I mean
some of them you can't see it some of them you can so the video that Corey's
talking about about the Flying Brick incident is that some of the cargo fell
off the back of a truck and flew up into a car and the woman was killed and I'm
gonna do a video about it and talk about load security and those types things and
how important it is to make sure that you do a pre-trip inspection if you're
hauling a trailer or you have a truck and you have Freight or cargo on it you
make sure that it's secure that you didn't leave any tools or anything else
on the deck or those types of things that can fly out because it's gonna
cause damage and maybe even fatalities and injuries to other people on the
roadway so you need to do that all right so the disclaimer about some of these
videos that I'm going to be showing in the crash analysis videos is that
they're going to be fairly graphic and you know as I said people are gonna die
and people are going be injured maimed and what so know that about traffic
crashes and as well know how dangerous traffic crashes are I mean most of us
drive around every you know we know that the average person on average has has a
traffic crash every fourteen years so most of us we have an optimism bias and
we know that we're not going to be involved in a crash but every once in a
while that happens and it happens quite a bit and because of the short duration
of traffic crashes they're cleaned up so quickly
oftentimes we don't see them okay so know a lot about traffic crashes
all right busy bee
for that two weeks good luck on your road test
busy bee you're gonna do fine yes mirror signal shoulder check so make
sure you check that Center mirror first and make sure that before you start
slowing down and whatnot the traffic behind you is actually coming to a stop
and then shoulder check to check your wing mirror and do that twice before you
start moving the vehicle laterally and make sure that you do that for every
lateral move or you do that anytime you're going to turn the vehicle just
any time you're going to move the vehicle sideways that your shoulder
checking and having a look there all right djenka have you need to beat high
speeds okay yes Janka moderate exposures so sort of move yourself up as you you
know drive in the city it up to 50 kilometers an hour and then move into
multi-lane roads where there's more traffic in those types of things so just
you know ease yourself into this as you move up and up and when you actually get
up on roads that have you know 80 kilometers an hour 50 miles an hour go
onto a low density road where you can do that and you can practice and that will
help with tension and anxiety and just help to reduce it is just you know give
yourself exposure a bit and bit in those types of things as well check and make
sure that you give yourself credit for what you've done you know celebrate your
little successes because it is a big deal if you've got fear and anxiety
around that when you're able to do that and your drive on a 70 kilometer an hour
road or a 40 mile an hour road and you're able to do that for five to ten
minutes that's a big success so make sure that you you know congratulate
yourself and you know maybe take yourself out for some ice cream or
something like that and say yeah you know I can do this and just keep that in
your head as well the most foremost powerful words in the language I and do
this right so when things get tough for your feelings scared or upset just
repeat that to yourself so that's how you do that
Asha Merve why do driver x' cut people off I don't think I can answer that
question you definitively with any answer but unfortunately one of the
things you need to know about driving is is that it's not a matter if people are
gonna cut you off it's a matter when people are going to cut you off know
that it's going to happen and just I know it's frustrating I know what's
upsetting but just take a breath and say to yourself have a nice day go and have
your crash somewhere else okay just try not to get upset by it and know
that it's gonna happen if you know that it's gonna happen then when it does
happen probably not going to be so amazed or upset about it alright
okay Michael another car run a red light on the way to an appointment yeah
unfortunately you're gonna see that a lot okay so yep all right
yes Michael do multi car collisions on freeways because on you know those are
quite deadly and unfortunately it's very daunting especially when you see them on
video and the cars are just coming in really high speeds and not slowing down
some
yeah there's definitely Michael there's no shortage of traffic crashes that's
for sure all right we're getting up to the
okay Anna
all right I think we're gonna wrap it up there okay
lots of questions lots of great information and feedback and those types
of things so if you have any further comments or further questions I'll
definitely catch up to you in the comments as well you can leave me an
email at Rick at smart drive test comm I'll be more than happy to get back to
you and talk to you about anything to do with driving passing road tests
defensive driving and those types of things so know all of that
okay and be more than happy to help you out to pass a road test and be
successful doing that so I want to thank Cory for getting up the videos bricks
for wheels for the other people that I mentioned in terms of those people
asking questions and the videos that are there and provide information for you to
be successful on your road test thank you for showing up I appreciate all your
questions and answers and provide really appreciate your feedback and for those
people telling me that they passed a road test in the last couple of weeks
thank you so much for that it was really great and I appreciate your time and
remember good luck and if you're taking a road test this week good luck on your
road test and remember pick the best answer not necessarily the right answer
have a great day I know
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