[WELCOME TO SMART SUNDAY #8]
Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you tonight for
Smart Sunday number eight. the sessions already on the smart Sunday so yes happy
Thanksgiving to Canadians it is turkey day in Canada and it's not
turkey day in the United States for another month or so not until the end of
November so turkey day comes just before Black Friday in the United States of
America the Friday after Thanksgiving in the u.s. is the largest shopping day
during the whole year so black oh yes turkey baby absolutely turkey so that's
why we're having the live stream today and try and get in the center of the
screen here here we go on Monday rather on than Sunday because I was a long
weekend here in Canada and then I'll be along again in the United States so
questions so first question is where are people from and what kind of car are you
learning to drive on or what kind of vehicle are you learning to drive on I
guess the second question is can everybody hear me all right is the audio
working I was sort of messing around a little bit with the audio trying to get
it to work because I noticed last week as Corey said there was a bit of a buzz
from it so McKay a road test tomorrow and I'm nervous I haven't practiced
going 20 miles an hour and coming to a complete stop what maneuver is at Fort
McKay K that you're working on in terms of coming to a stop at 20 miles an hour
alex is from Houston Alex what kind of vehicle are you driving down there in
Houston preparing for your road test el Flaco's is great audio awesome I'm glad
that maybe I finally managed to get the hum out of the audio here Saif is from
Toronto hi Saif and the KK from Florida and I'm learning to drive on a 2009
dodge journey the journey McKay K is that a that's an SUV isn't it that's
new Dodge SUV that they've got it's a sort of a midsize Terry CDL air brakes
from New York so you're doing your air brakes in New York are you Terry your
CDL there Chris Christ Christ is from Oklahoma City Oklahoma great state of
Oklahoma in the Midwest let me just clarify that before I say that Oklahoma
is in the Midwest is is Oklahoma considered Midwest or is it considered
central south-central from Chicago Samson's from Chicago CDL
Class A that's great thank you so much for that Anna from Calgary testing a few
weeks hope it doesn't snow well Anna I'm doing a video right now about driving in
the fall in the mountains and I just drove to Vancouver Island from Vernon
where I live which is a five hour run it's a five hour driving time and it
goes through the mountains and there was snow and unfortunately there were a few
people who had not yet shifted into winter even though we have a fairly
significant commercial our advertising marketing campaign right now for
shifting into winter because as of the 1st of October in British Columbia and
other provinces and other northern states I suspect you required to have
snow tires on your vehicle as of the 1st of October to drive on certain highway
roads are on certain highways and mountain passes here in British Columbia
and yes there was ice on the top of the mountain because I left early Saturday
morning about 6:00 a.m. so at the time I got up it was 8 o'clock it was so there
was there was ice up there and there's a couple of rollovers so do be careful if
you're driving at higher elevations or in the northern states and whatnot and
Sam is here and we had a discussion last week about Sam's last name Jericho area
yo and I am NOT saying that right am i Sam so Jericho arrow yo I think I'm
getting that right now is from rookie auto driving school in the Bronx and Sam
is really good they have a Instagram is an Instagram Sam I think
it's Instagram that's attached to Facebook really lots of questions and
information on there so have a look at that yeah Cory's laughing yeah I didn't
quite get it my apologies alex is taking his road test tomorrow
any concerns for your road test tomorrow alex has a road test on Thursday tips
yes Wheeling Illinois excellent now I know that Illinois Wheeling Illinois is
definitely the Midwest I know that for sure I wasn't sure about Oklahoma but I
know that Wheeling is definitely the Midwest so chunky I'm from the UUs new
to the US and right-hand driving yes excellent I had some experience with
that John Key about driving on the other side of the road because I lived in
Australia and there is a video here so you're currently in Atlanta Georgia so
definitely have it that video looking at the other side of driving on the other
side of the road and that will give some tips on that so okay so questions tips
on passing your road test so all road tests have four basic components speed
management space management observation communications so speed management flow
of the traffic posted speed limit capability of the vehicle if you're
driving a larger vehicle and you're going uphill it's not going to do the
posted speed limit so whatever the beautiful will do whichever one of those
is less so posted speed limit flow of traffic capability of the vehicle those
are the speeds that you have to drive space management don't get near any
fixed objects and don't get near other road users
okay pedestrians cyclists scooters motorcycles those types of things okay
observation and communication you have to observe so you have to have a
scanning puck and pattern in place that includes your mirrors and shoulder
checking so every turn or lane change you have to shoulder check two times and
then communicate you have to communicate with other road users okay
communications signals lights appropriate hand gestures don't tell
other drivers that they're number one on a road test you will not be successful
okay and the position of your vehicle on the roadway tell and communicate to
other road users what you're doing okay so that that's the basic fundamentals of
any road test anywhere in the world where you are the other thing about road
tests here in Canada they tend to be a bit longer they tend to be 20 to 40
minutes in Canada Sam and other driving instructors we've had this discussion be
previously that on the eastern seaboard of the United States they tend to be
short like eight to 12 minutes so know that okay so you can sort of be anywhere
between that all right Matthew is from Pennsylvania I'm going to take my road
test on the 28th and you're taking it in a Toyota Corolla that's a good that's a
good vehicle for a road test lots of driving schools use those Mackay K ah
royo Arroyo there we go see you helped me out yeah now I can say it Arroyo
there we go maneuver and coming to a fast stop and not to screech the tires
or brakes will stop and when the instructor says stop okay so McKay K I
think what we call that up here we call that emergency stop if the examiner says
too huge like bring the vehicle to a stop so what you want to do is you want
to brake it's called threshold braking when you apply the brakes really hard
but you don't lock up the tires because if you start to feel it screech you
start to feel it move a little bit and you probably want to practice this a
little bit before you actually do your road test practice this and just release
the brakes if they're starting to lock up and then just before the vehicle
comes to a complete stop and have a look at the video here on how to bring a
vehicle to a complete stop on the channel and that will show you how to
have control because you want to release the brakes let the body settle back over
the chassis and then reapply the brakes and bring the vehicle to a complete stop
okay ash Murr are you talking about a dry how to become a driving instructor
or become a driving examiner one that works at the DMV or one of the other
licensing authorities that tests people to get licenses which one of those
excellent Sam said I finally got it okay Jocelyn you're having some trouble with
nerves and anxiety that is not uncommon okay it's really challenging to
take your road test so know that and if you haven't already have a look Jocelin
at the video on fear and anxiety and how to try and reduce that okay a driving
examiner at the DMV usually that's just a matter of getting on board with the
DMV now I don't know about in the United States so much but I do know up here
that a lot of like the Ministry of Transportation in Ontario the ICBC
the people who get become driving examiner's up here they have to sort of
get on board the driving licensing authority has training for that and then
they sort of work up into that position and I think they'll probably be similar
to to the DMV in the United States sorry I just had a tip there okay so that's
probably how you get on board as being a driving examiner at the DMV
I mean Sam might also have some tips about how to become a driving examiner
with the DMV in the United States Gavin don't get nervous well unfortunately we
all get nervous so you just got to remember to breathe okay faith wanted
some tips on parallel parking okay so one of the first things you need to do
faith faith is you need to determine if the space that you're going to parallel
park into is a legal space if it's legal and you're not parking next to a fire
hydrant those types of things have a look at that so determine that the space
is legal then make sure that the space that you're going to parking is at least
a vehicle and a half okay and know that most of the time as it says in the video
here on the channel they're not going to make you park between two vehicles by
most driving centers for the purposes of parallel parking what they're gonna make
you do is you're either gonna make you do it in a closed circuit area with
pylons or they're gonna take you out and they're gonna find some place to park
where you just park off one vehicle there's not going to be another vehicle
behind you that you're gonna have to look out for so when you pull out just
three feet from the vehicle that's already parked there
do a 360 degree scan put the vehicle into reverse immediately because you
want you verse lights to come on you put your
left your right signal on rather sorry and so your right single on telling
people if you're gonna parallel park your reverse lights are on 360 degree
scan and then move back all the way to the right with the steering wheel back
up until you're facing a 45 degree marker that you picked out before you
started backing up back in until you're half to a third down the hood straight
in the wheels out are sorry when you're facing your 45 marker then straight your
wheels out back up third to half down the hood and then crank all the way to
the left and come in and you should be parked at that point you might have to
adjust a little bit by moving forward but that's kind of in a nutshell what
the video here about parallel parking will tell you in terms of that and then
after that in terms of parallel parking it's just a lot of practice space for
parallel parking okay okay Richard I moved from the UK with nine years
experience class one to Alberta got my class five and advice for class one here
thanks well Richard you're in the right place
for getting a class one because Alberta my understanding is it takes a it's a
little bit easier to get your class one but it's just about going to a driving
school talking your driving schools seeing what you have to do in terms of
getting your class one but most class one driving courses entail five basic
components for getting a class one license the first one is turning so you
have to be able to get a larger vehicle with the trailer around corners in most
of the time in urban areas you have to be able to do a pre-trip inspection
that's going to take you approximately 45 minutes it's a thorough pre-trip
inspection of the vehicle and comprehensive you have to be able to
shift the non sick remission in Alberta because you're going to be driving in
the mountains if you get a job in Alberta then the two minor components of
a class 1 tractor-trailer program are backing up depending on where you go for
your license that can vary a little bit it can be straight line backing or it
can be parallel parking or just backing around the corner it depends where
you're going for your license and then the last one is hooking on how coupling
on coupled the trader so obviously you want
couple of first and then hook back up to it so those are the five basic
components and those can take you anywhere from sort of thirty to fifty
hours depending on how much money you have to spend or whether it's or whether
you're gonna get funding or those types of things so that's a class one program
that you're gonna be looking at in alberta there Angelique Angelique
do I need to take my 50 hour sheep when I take my test
angeleka where are you taking your test that you have logged the hours that you
have done for practicing the kk when you're backing out are you talking about
backing out of the parking space with KK is that what you're talking about just
answer that question for you ash tumour how do you get a motorcycle license or
endorsement okay getting a motorcycle license ash mer is similar to any other
class of license essentially you got to go get learner's permit so you have to
write a test a knowledge test and then they give you a learner's depending on
where you are the parameters for being able to drive a motorcycle on your own
or working with a mentor are going to vary a little bit depending on their
graduated licensing program if in fact they have one and then you have to take
a road test and you're probably if you're in a graduated licensing program
because most motorcycles do have I graduated licensing program you're going
to have to be in that graduated licensing program for a period of time
then you're going to take another test to get your whole motorcycle license so
that's how you do it okay McKay K yes out of parking space
now what I say McKay K for the purposes of your road test back into the space
before you go in and check in and start your road test because it's just too
hard okay now yes when you back out of the space
or back into the space you have to put your if you're on the right side of the
road you put your left hand on the top of the steering wheel and then put your
right hand behind the passenger seat and look out the back window for reversing
any vehicle okay so that's what you have to do in order to back up and the other
thing I recommend when you're backing into a parking space is to always
backing beside another vehicle because it's a lot easier to backing beside
another vehicle because you have a reference point as opposed to trying to
get between the lines there okay
Francois okay Francois no not every time you check you
don't have to check the oil and gas because there is a fuel gauge in the
vehicle if you're not familiar with the vehicle then I would go under the hood
and check the oil just to make sure that it's okay and whatnot the fuel gauge
will tell you it's a fuel if it's a new vehicle again you want to make sure that
you have fuel in it because it's embarrassing when you run out of fuel so
yeah but I you generally should check the oil every couple of weeks it's a if
it's a vehicle that you're driving all the time
okay ah Cory maybe it's all expunged but and I'm not entirely sure what the
handbook means when they say in order to save gas combined many smaller trips
into one yes so what they're talking about Cory is instead of you know I
gotta run out to the convenience store and get a jug of milk and then I come
home and then you need a pack of smokes so you go out to the convenience store
and get another pack of smokes and then you need you know some shoelaces so then
you go to the Walmart again so instead of doing each one of those trips
individually to pick up one of those items what they're saying there is that
you could just go to this local strip mall where the Walmart is and get your
shoelaces and then you could pop over to the liquor store and get a box of beer
and then you could get your what else did I say you you jug a milk if while
you're at Walmart so instead of doing it in three or four or five trips and then
back home and back out and back home just do it in one thing and then stop at
each one of those places pick up the stuff and do a round trip and come back
so essentially what they're talking about there is just a little bit more
planning in terms of what you need to do and those types of things and I mean the
other thing about saving fuel too is it's about choices I mean where do you
live in the city is there a possibility that you can walk and you take public
transit can you send somebody else to do and those types of things so that's
essentially what they're talking about is take a bunch of smaller trips and
combine them into one and that way you're going to save time
and and money and fuel in those days things faith how do you drive up hills
any tips what kinda Hills are you talking about faith are you talking
about highway Hills and those types of things are you talking about off-road
4x4 theme okay McKay Kay yes you know for backing up you don't have to have
both hands on the steering wheel McKay Kay just one because the other one has
to be on the back of the other seat to steady yourself while you're looking out
the back window so reversing is the one time that you can actually palm the
steering wheel and manipulate the steering wheel with one hand you don't
have to keep both hands on the steering wheel for the purposes of reversing now
I have a video Helen here and I'm just gonna say this
again and just remind you in the video I was adamant about the fact that you can
take your seatbelt off and in most jurisdictions according to the
legislation yes in fact you can take your seatbelt off for the purposes of
reversing however on their honor road test and I think Sam will agree with me
on this do not take your seatbelt haha because driving examiner's are not
very familiar with legislation and if you do that they'll just go oh my god
what is that person doing you're scaring me and the other thing is that because
you're on a road test oftentimes what happens is that you're nervous and you
forget to put it back on as soon as you put the vehicle in a forward gear so
don't take your seatbelt off keep your seatbelt on for the entire test all
right I'm Amira is it easier to start learning to drive a van or other smaller
cars the smaller it is yes the easier it's going to be learned how to drive
because the turning radius is better it's easier to get into parking lots and
those types of things okay a schmear when driving a manual transmission
vehicle to shift based on miles per hour or rpms actually ash Murr it's easier if
you watch the tachometer in my 1998 Honda CRV that has a 2-liter
four-cylinder engine in it I usually shift around 2500 between 2000 and 3000
rpms when I'm shifting it so I just know that all the time that that's where I
shift it if you've got a small diesel engine if you got a small diesel engine
it's going to be a thousand to fifteen depending on the engine and those types
of things but it's easier to learn how to shift on rpms yes
Sam just said what I was saying about seat belts even though the legislation
says that you can for the purposes of a road test do not take your seat belt off
okay I have retracted that so yes keep your seat belt on for the purposes of a
road test okay what things should be taken into consideration when someone is
trying to find an instructor or school for future road tests
excellent question excellent question okay go to the driving school does it
look professional are they going to answer your questions
are they accommodating what kinds of vehicles do they have are they late
model vehicles are they mid-sized sedans are they something like a Honda Civic a
Toyota Corolla a midsize car that is going to work well to teach you how to
drive those are the kinds of things in it the other thing that I would ask at
driving schools when you're going to look for a driving school and pay for
driving lessons as well ask if they teach senior citizens
because oftentimes instructors are teaching the senior citizens are really
good for students that may have some anxiety around driving and some anxiety
in terms of learning and those types of things okay okay so yes those are some
of the questions that you can ask drivers both the other thing that what
you want to do is if you can find former students who went to that driving school
ask them as well and then the other place to look is to go on Google and do
a search and you'll see comments from other students who have left comments
and gave a rating to the school so those are some of the ways that you can check
out schools and I know that Sam school has a really high rating on Google Auto
key driving school in the Bronx so I'll have a look there okay okay Sam says
some of the driving examiners are part timers or per-diem and are not sure
about the rules and that is absolutely right some of them have been promoted
into the position or do not do the position all the time so therefore
they're not familiar with the Highway Traffic legislation so even though you
can do something doesn't mean that you need to do it and again and here's a
great point I say to students if you're not
taking driving lessons be sure to take a mock road test with the driving
instructor 7 to 10 days before the road test now here's the other point I was
talking to my friend Peter last week who has a BC driving school here in Vernon
and he said three to four weeks before your road test called the driving school
and booked either driving lessons or booked a mock road test because he's
booked up three or four weeks prior to getting lessons so unless you call three
to four weeks before you're not gonna get a lesson with him because he's so
busy ok so just know that as well Sam how long do students how much lead time
the students need to book lessons with your school ok if you're taking a right
turn from a right turn lane that has no traffic lights merging into another road
do you have to stop if there is a crossing for people that there are no
people crossing Knab Knab no you don't have to if there's nobody in the
crosswalk you don't have to stop but make sure you scan well on to the
sidewalk on both sides of that crossing to ensure that there aren't any
pedestrians anywhere near the cross walkers you don't want to get caught out
right because that's considered a dangerous action if you proceed across
the crosswalk and there are pedestrians there because you do have to give the
pedestrians the right away all right a Shamir can you stay in first gear
going 30 miles an hour no no 30 is pretty high
basically first gear in any car any sort of mid-sized car is just to overcome you
know inertia just to get the vehicle going and if you watch my videos here on
shifting a manual transmission I shift from first to second almost immediately
like the cars probably not even going ten kilometers an hour or eight miles an
hour before I shift into second gear okay so know that
angeleka is there a certain number of time you have to look at side mirrors
when you're doing backing around corners yes you should be glancing in the side
mirror periodically but for the most part angeleka you should be
looking out the back window but you do just want to kind of glance over there
and make sure that there isn't anything over there or the driving environment
around you has changed whatnot so I know that okay
Munira thank you for the compliment I understand right of way I have
tremendous difficulty with the right of way at various kinds of intersections
okay Munira there is a video here where I go through a bunch of intersections
about different rights-of-ways okay now just remember that okay Munira there is
a video here it might be down in the description there otherwise Korey will
have a look for it for you and he'll tell you what it is
it's right-of-way at different intersections now just remember the key
piece of information about right-of-way is the right-of-way is never taken the
right-of-way is always given so if you're in the least bit of doubt give
the right-of-way to other traffic other road users let them go and then proceed
okay it's what we tell you again and again on a road test for the purposes of
a road test if you are the least bit sure or the traffic is just to a point
where you cannot deal with it simply stop wait for the traffic to clear and
then go you can do that on a road test you might lose a couple of demerit
points but you're not gonna fail if you plow through a traffic situation and
it's not quite clear you could potentially fail and there's another
video here that I'll put up as well about stop okay just stop if you're
unsure of the traffic situation just stop and let it clear alright okay Cory
has another question okay and just just before I continue here if you've asked
me a question I didn't get to it I didn't see it because the as you can see
the comments are kind of scrolling through here just to ask me the question
again and I'll be sure to answer it for you okay
as a company truck driver would deciding this be all up to you yes it would curry
all of that is up to you in terms of driving but I can tell you on one hand
how many times I ever pulled over for whether I just kept going so yeah it is
up to the driver if you are unsure as a truck driver or a bus driver or some
other commercial driver and the weather is bad just pull over it it isn't worth
your life to keep going and the other the other thing is is that you could
talk to dispatch you could bring your dispatcher and say listen it's bad I'm
going to pull over and they will be able to give you some counsel on that so
you're not out there by yourself okay Angelique I'm taking my test on Saturday
in Chicago but I'm not sure if I need my 50 hours sheet okay angeleka you do have
your 50 hour sheet if you have your 50 hour sheet just bring it with you that
way you're not going to get caught out if they say oh you need your 50 hours
sheet that way you'll just have it with you and it'll be fine okay as well I
need to fix that on the website but there is a checklist for test date and
make sure that you bring two pieces of ID if you wear prescription glasses and
those type of things you need to do those and make sure that you do a
pre-trip on your vehicle if you're taking your own personal vehicle if
you're going with the driving school ask them if they did a pre trip on the
vehicle before you show up for your road test cuz you don't want you know like a
brake light or something like that and then you can't take your test okay so
those are just some things you are most welcome faith it's always good that I
can help people out to pass the road test during the week and we can answer
questions and whatnot so all right ash America's school buses stopped at an
intersection with stop sign on its side loading children on the left can the car
make a right turn if though if the lights are flashing on the school bus
saw on the school bus and the stop sign arm is extended that no you cannot make
a right-hand turn until that vehicle proceeds so I know that with school
buses that if the lights are flashing the stop sign arm is extended then you
can't until the light stopped flashing okay otherwise if the lights aren't
flashing and their vehicles pulled over a lot of
passengers from the sidewalk then you can pass only if the lights are flashing
can you not pass um is it safe to turn left on a green after you yield as long
as you have a big enough gap then yes you can turn okay Knab Knab when you're
exiting a highway in the ramp exiting the highways is 40 but it's in yellow so
it's a cautionary sign you have to follow the speed of the sign even though
yellow is just a caution no you don't if you don't look if you know the curve and
you've been on it before then you can do a speed that you're comfortable with but
if you haven't been on it before and it says 40 miles an hour
I would slow down to 40 miles an hour so just know that okay all right so we've
got a little slow down here okay Francois when I drive on the
highway road I see the other car going up to 55 miles an hour what is the exact
limit I can go in the highway that risk could be pulled over by police Francois
I would say that your tolerance at 55 miles an hour is probably another 5
miles an hour so you could probably do 60 and the police will not pull you over
okay I know here in Canada we're on the we're on the metric system so it's
kilometres per hour you can do 10 kilometres an hour over and the police
will lead you along that's fine as long as you're not ripping past the traffic
flow if you're going much faster than the flow of traffic then you're probably
gonna get pulled over but the tolerance for miles per hour is probably 5 miles
per hour you're probably going to be fine
okay all right and since we have a break here what we're gonna do is I'm gonna go
over to the what smart drive test website and we'll see who pass road
tests this week we've had quite a number of successful people there's a couple of
people that I haven't got up yet I need to update that I was away for the
weekend so here we go
that is not coming up for some reason
they're real
okay here we go Mohammed Rachel username that is not
legible here Clinton nany Lesley velvet all these
smart drivers pass the road test this last week and we're successful Morgan
silly goose great username Jennifer and as I said there's a few more that I
haven't put up here but if you just go over to the smart drive test website and
you click on the logo that'll take you to the home page as you can see here and
it goes back to the home page here and if you go down to the bottom on the
right here it says you can't see that over there there we go and you go over
to the right it says here latest articles and you just click on this
first entry here it will take you to the successful smart drivers who have passed
the road test
just get back here transition
yeah
alright let's see who else Hecht or I'm getting my license at 17 and driver's ed
isn't required you still recommend it or any other educational driving program so
Hector what I would suggest in terms of driver education is to do some driving
on your own practice in low density traffic areas in parking lots and those
types of things and have a look down in the description therefore fundamentals
of driving and work with the 36 inch tall 1 meter tall pylons in the parking
lot get used to the primary controls which are the steering wheel the
throttle accelerator and the brake ok because you're probably going to be
driving an automatic transmission if you can get comfortable with those and how
the vehicle handles how it breaks how it steers and those types of things and
then do some more and then I would suggest that you do maybe 2 or 3 driving
lessons with a driving examiner if you choose not to do driving education at
least do a mock road test before you go for your road test that way you're going
to be the driving instructor is going to be identify any weaknesses that you have
that need to be sort of beefed up before you go for your road test and that what
you're going to be successful so just know that in terms of driver education
ok I'm just trying to get there we go okay there's the comments back all right
a shimmer when merging on a highway with a short entrance lane you don't have the
room to merge what should you do ok so a shimmer this question is
frequently asked question again and again and again in terms of acceleration
lengths on ramps and acceleration lanes and getting onto a highway it's one of
those things that you really got to get your vehicle going you got to put your
foot into it it's one of those times you can just mash that fuel pedal down and
get it up to speed and you have to match that flow the speed of the flow of
traffic on the highway and you have to pick a spot and the other key to this is
to signal early because the earlier you can signal the better chance other
vehicles have of creating a gap for you and helping you by either moving over or
creating a gap for you they can do that then you can get out
onto the thing but if it's a short acceleration lane you really got a mash
on it and get your beautiful going so that's what I suggest and please don't
slow down in the acceleration unless it's absolutely imperative because it's
an unpredictable action and other vehicles behind you we're not expecting
you to do that and you could potentially get rear-ended
so don't slow down on the acceleration lane and I know I've had a few people
say yeah I can do that no no you can't do that and I really recommend you don't
ok Sam I sent some times asked my students do you know why some of my
students fail the road test the answer is because they didn't listen to me that
is very true Sam that is very true because what we do is driving
instructors we teach people how to pass road tests we teach people how to pass a
road test every day and you know exactly and you know it's some of the questions
on the smart drive test Channel here they tell me that they're having
difficulty with turning or they're having difficulty braking or they're
having difficulty with speed control they can't manage the speed of the
vehicle and the reason that you can't do any of those things is because you
didn't spend the time at the beginning of your learning how to drive getting
used to the primary controls and mastering the primary controls and you
really need to do slow speed maneuvers and you need to go to the parking lot
with those 36 inch tall one meter tall pylons and you need to work for those
and you need to work with those for several hours to get comfortable with
the vehicle and get comfortable with the vehicle in space in place and understand
the blind areas around your vehicle where your vehicle is in space in place
because there's a lot of area around your vehicle that you can't see so you
need to you need to understand that ah
litchi a lychee thank you for that for helping me out there ah Providence Rhode
Island you wanna hear funny story about Rhode Island in the early 1990s they
switched from 48 foot trailers to 53 foot trailers for semi trailers and this
Texan was telling this funny story in a truck stop one day and he was in
Providence Rhode Island and with this 53-foot trailer just as they rolled them
out they were and anyway got pulled over by the d-o-t
in in Rhode Island on Rhode Island and the devotees officer system is you can't
have that trailer in here in Texas is what do you mean it can't have the
trailer he says well that's too long he says it's not legal in this state the
Texas looks down at the deed the deal teeth the Texas truck driver looks down
in the d-o-t offices well I'm not really in the state he says the back end of the
trailer sticking out in that other state and the front ends in the other state
next to it so he says I'm not completely in the state so there you go there's a
story about Rhode Island tips for changing lanes yes okay
a litchi you need three flashes on the signal okay so you need to put your
mirror signal shoulder check so check the center mirror make sure you're not
gonna get rear-ended if you're slowing down
check your wing mirror put your signal on and then shoulder check okay get your
signal on you need to have your signal on three times three flashes minimum
before you start moving from one lane to the other because the first signal is to
get the attention of other drivers the second signal is for them to locate you
in the third signal is for them to take some kind of action so you need at least
minimum three flashes before you start moving over and then before you actually
do start moving over shoulder check again okay and by that time the space
will be there and when you check in the mirror you should be able to see the
front of the vehicle the whole front of the vehicle in the center mirror and you
should be able to see the vehicle behind you up in the top left corner of the
wing mirror and that way you know you have enough space to move over into the
thing leave your signal on the entire time that you're changing lanes and you
have to accelerate slightly because you're going on a diagonal and to make
up for that increased distance that you're traveling you have to accelerate
a little bit in order to maintain your current speed and then keep your signal
on all the way and cancer you signal when you get into the other lane okay so
those are basic tips for changing lanes okay okay um now I have to drive left
hand can you tell me one most important thing to keep in mind always okay when
you say left hand um are you talking about a vehicle on the other side that
you're on other side of the vehicle or just right
hand left hand on top of the steering wheel okay Tanya you are most welcome
I'm really happy to hear that you passed a road test that is awesome news the
parallel parking yes the parallel parking video is quite popular and just
a month or so ago the parallel parking video got half a million views so it's
500,000 views it's passed by them in about two views now so that was really
great so thank you Tanya for that it's really
awesome I'm glad we helped Jim okay had an unsecured he had an unsuccessful
merge and had to stop fortunately there's no behind me a bit unusual merge
though it merges into the left passing fast lane Oh
curry is it one of those old the exit lane and the entrance lane are one in
the same thing it's just a you is it one of those one of those old ones
yeah Kizzy they're starting to phase those out there's still a few of them
laughs there's one up in Kamloops and actually maybe I'll do a video on one of
those because those are those are not safe with me entrance and the exit lane
are this one in the same thing okay a
shimmer is the left lane on the highway for people exceeding the speed limit
well more or less a shimmer in the trucking industry we call it the big
dollar lane because if you're out there in a big truck you're gonna get a ticket
but most of the people who are out in that left lane yes their speed their
exceeding the speed limit quite a bit so yes they're going very fast no that
other side of the vehicle okay ash merr
see now I can say um because your user names um yes I can if you move to the
other side of the vehicle and the other side of the roadway what you need to do
is be very careful when there isn't any other traffic around because as long as
there's other traffic around you're going to be fine
if there is traffic then that's when you're getting
in trouble when I was in Australia the two times I got into trouble by driving
on the wrong side of the road was when there was another traffic around so just
know that okay it's I left I need help making left-hand turns at lights is
extremely hard to see are you saying that it's hard to see when you're
looking up the road because what you might need to do is you might have to do
a little jig jog if you watch the left-hand turn videos here on the
channel what I do when I can't see because there's a vehicle across from me
that's blocking the my line of sight is oftentimes it's what I do is I move to
the left a little bit and then bring the steer tires back to straight you have to
bring the steer tires back straight because if you get rear-ended you don't
want to be driven out into oncoming traffic you want to be pushed straight
forward okay so you just move to the left and then bring your steer tires
back to straight and that's how you can see past the other vehicles okay tips on
slip lanes yes Mira look far ahead scan the slip plane scan the crosswalk
determine whether it's a yield or whether it's a stop light there might be
a stop light at some of these slip lanes you're looking for pedestrians that's
gonna be the hardest thing now most of the time when you have a slip plane
you're gonna be turning right onto a multi-lane Road so there's going to be
more than one lane so there's gonna be other traffic besides you never pull in
beside the traffic beside you like the car in the middle lane for example or
the other lane to the left always turn right behind the other vehicle so you
want to be in the spaces and have a look at turning right at complex
intersections and that will help you and explain that a bit better about how to
turn right so that you're not going to get into trouble when you're turning
right at a slip plane and as I said the most important thing is to scan for
pedestrians and make sure that there aren't any pedestrian because you have
to give way to them in the crosswalk there because most of these slip lanes
are gonna have a crosswalk okay Matthew how do you stop at stop signs in
Pennsylvania okay so stop signs are essentially all the same Matthew they
all have three stopping positions at stop signs before the stop line before
the crosswalk and if there isn't a stop line or a
crosswalk stop at the edge where the two roads meet okay and there's a video here
on stop sign stopping positions and that's the three stopping position
so students throat so before the stop line and essentially all you do is you
roll up your slowing up and just as you see the stop line go under the front of
the car from where you're sitting in the passenger's seat bring the vehicle to a
stop and you'll be a couple of feet back behind the stop line if there isn't a
stop line that stopped before the crosswalk if there isn't a crosswalk and
there's a sidewalk stop before the sidewalk we're just imagine it extending
out into the roadway and if there isn't a stop line or a sidewalk then stop
where the two roads meet so those are the three stopping positions that any
stop sign the intersection through all the same and then the last point about
stop sign the intersections if you can't see once you stop at the correct
position creep forward until you can see so after you stop completely treated as
a yield just move forward until you can see okay okay
yeah you don't have to send me that quarry y'all send me the address and all
to look at it okay hi my front bumper almost tape always scratches the ground
when I try to enter places like fast-food restaurants the incline in the
entrance is too much for my car and sometimes I can't get a good angle one
of the things you can try pape is to try and come up on an angle instead of going
straight in come up on a bit of an angle and that way what happen is that the one
wheel will go up and it'll lift the front of your car up so that you're not
bottoming out when you're coming in because some of those are pretty steep
right we've got I've got an alleyway here that it's pretty steep when I if I
go straight up but if I kind of go in on a bit of an angle it gets the one wheel
up and then I can come around and it'll bring the front end up more and let you
do that so that you're not bottoming out so that's one way that you can do that
okay a shimmer who has the right-of-way at an intersection if two cars are
making a right or a left if the two vehicle okay so what I think is what
you're talking about is the 2v across from each other and they're both
making right-handed turns or they're both making left-hand turns
both vehicles can call at the same time if they're both making the same turn in
their across from each other I don't know whether that answer your question
or not angeleka do I have to stop right before I start turning when backing
around the corner or do I have to stay a certain distance from the curve
generally angeleka what they want you to do is they want you to stay sort of 8 to
12 inches away from the curve so when you're backing around is what they want
to try and maintain Mads in there are three videos and have a look at all of
those videos on how to parallel park and I made a couple of supplementary videos
on parallel parking that will give you different reference points in key pieces
that you need to be looking for when you're parallel parking that will allow
you to parallel park into tight spaces now if your parallel parking into tight
spaces the other two things that you can do is instead of making a 45-degree
angle you can make it a sharper angle and then you can back straight in and
then bring it around but it's gonna take a bit more practice in order to packing
in but do have a look at all of the videos the three I think there's three
of them and they will give you different reference points on how to park between
two vehicles and some of the other things that you should be looking for in
terms of parallel parking okay so that'll help you with that Karthik
I passed my g2 in Toronto with practice and with confidence from watching your
videos thank you so much I appreciate the compliment and I'm really glad that
the information helped you out and helped you to be successful with your g2
so yeah that is awesome so now you have a full view of a full G licence now or
was it just the g2 license on your first license there in Ontario okay Corey I
don't know I got confused that Laney shouldn't be in some anticipated
happening and he ended up in the middle of the lane going fifty yeah yeah you
anticipated that's really great that you can do that
okay Karthik getting a vehicle so you want to buy something that secondhand
something that is relatively sound as I've said before I'm biased in terms of
Toyotas and Honda's okay those are my preferences and buying vehicles now you
want something that's sound and what I would suggest to you is if there isn't
already dead mechanical inspections would have been done on the vehicle ask
the person you're buying the vehicle from or the dealership that you can take
it to an independent mechanic and get that mechanic to do a pre-trip
inspection they'll cost you about $100 and it's probably the best hundred
dollars that you'll ever spend so because we kind of get emotionally
attached to vehicles when we see them and we like them so yes take a new
mechanic spend hundred dollars get them to do an inspection on it for you and
then purchase the vehicle the other thing you want to just look in the motor
compartment are there any odd smells any burning
smells those types of thing check the color the oil is it kind of clear you
know does it have good tires on it those types of things is upholstery rip does
it have really high mileage is it kind of dirty and yucky if it's any of those
things you really don't want to have a used vehicle and now that you mentioned
that I'm gonna get a video done for you here on how to buy a second-hand vehicle
and some of the things that you should be looking at they really need to help
you out with that okay yes a shimmer can you hug the curb
parallel parking on a road test yeah you can be close to the curb a shimmer just
as long as you don't hit the curb okay don't hit the kerb and don't push one of
the tires up over the curb okay yeah no krei I'd be interested to have a look at
that all right so we're almost done with questions here and we're rolling into 50
minutes and yes the kids are here tonight and they breathe really good
because we had a discussion about this and I think there was something talked
about them getting a movie so they've been really good so we're gonna wrap
this up pretty quick here if anybody doesn't have any more questions if you
do have questions I'll be around for a few minutes afterwards and I'll answer
those just by typing you a comment as well if you're going for road test or
want some more driver education as I've said before over at the smart drive test
website I've got the and Cory's helping me with this and I really appreciate
that bricks for wheels his user name his name's Corey he's helping me with my
course passion road test first-time guaranteed
okay if you don't pass your road test first time within sixty days I'll give
you money back okay and as well there's a coupon YouTube live and you'll get 30%
off the course it runs for $38.95 so if you get 30% off you get it for about
twenty bucks and you can sign up for that course and as I said passion road
test first-time guaranteed it has a schedule of six weeks start with the
fundamentals of driving in the parking lot you go out you do left turns right
turns how to control the vehicle most types of things it'll help you with all
that so that's available over at the website and as I said YouTube live is
the coupon you put the coupon in save that in that you'll get it for about
twenty bucks okay Ashmore how many miles would you recommend on a used vehicle
okay when I bought my Honda my current Honda CRV that I have it's in nineteen
ninety eight so it's about it's almost twenty years old now it had two hundred
and fifty thousand kilometers on it which is about a hundred and fifty
thousand miles on it so if you're buying one of those vehicles kids in the
background they're playing with the clothes bags making noise if you're
buying one of those vehicles you can get higher mileage vehicle if you're buying
a domestic vehicle I would be kind of careful once you start running up around
the hundred and twenty thousand miles two hundred thousand kilometers because
they can start getting into problems and those types of things the other thing
you can do is look for the reviews on the internet there that will also give
you information about used vehicle ok faith you are most welcome Francois okay
Francois what I suggest is look at that video on fundamentals of driving and
work with the 36 inch tall pylons the one meter tall pylons and that will help
you with your parking because for purposes of road test you're going to
have to park you're gonna have to reverse stall park you're gonna have to
parallel park and you're gonna have to do three-point turn all of that is gonna
be required for the purpose of the road test all right so we're gonna wrap it up
there again pasture road test first time is available on the smart drive test
website it's a six week course it's self-paced the online stuff is all
self-paced and it will tell you what you need to do in the vehicle to be
successful on your road test first time so have a look at that okay do manuals
really have better longevity Corey you'll have to ask me that question in a
different manner cuz I'm not following you okay um you are most welcome Anna
you are most welcome yeah that is unfortunate Anna okay so if you got a
road test coming up this week good luck on your road test if you have any
questions at all leave me a leave me a comment okay
no disrespect but I just failed my road test by 11 points and I just paid him a
hundred bucks and he said yes and passed me and where was that baby that you were
able to do that I'm curious now that you've got me Karthik it's a Volkswagen
the r6 2,100 miles auto transmission of good again I would Karthik I would go
take that to a mechanic I would spend $100 if you're sort of set on it
spend the hundred dollars and get an inspection Donna okay that would be my
suggestion okay for you are most welcome 200,000 miles
okay well two hundred thousand miles is a lot of miles okay yeah that's a lot of
miles yeah I would definitely get an inspection done on that if you were
thinking about it okay so you have a road test coming up coming this week
good luck in your road test and remember pick the best answer not necessarily the
right answer have a great night bye now
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