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My problem with exiting junctions is the power of my cars engine. I used to have a 2009 Citroen C5 2.0, which I loved, it had loads of power, we had a caravan. When I sold the caravan and needed a smaller car I opted for a Hyundai i20 1.4 which has nowhere near the power of the Citroen and am now somewhat reluctant to drive the same way as when I had the Citroen. I now tend to wait for larger gaps before pulling out because I no longer have the power to accelerate quickly to ‘catch the gap’. I agree with everything Ashley says but feel I can’t drive as I used to.

I usually tell my students people don’t usually fail because they are bad at Junctions or Parking, they fail because they are bad at Observation. The vast majority of driving is about your eyes not the car or your skill. Obviously you still have to have some basic car control but once you have that, it’s mostly observation and getting your self into a good position so you can observe safely. Everything else from there is just repetition.

When people pull up to give ways too fast it can make the cars on the road that they are trying to join think they are coming straight out. I was taught what I thought was correct until I started watching your channel about 6 years ago. In my area the instructors on the whole seem bad, I've seen them go through red lights, pull out in front of you when its not safe. People seem to think that driving is a god given right but its not. I am a much better driver now even though I passed with 0 faults since I found your channel Ash. Keep up the good work

Not entirely related but do you find yourself observing friends, family, taxi drivers etc when you’re not teaching them? I can only imagine it’s hard to turn off the instructor mode when you’re in the passenger seat.

GeoAmey drivers are all DPD rejects

I'm a 76 year old who has been driving since I was 17 and it's always interesting to view your videos offering advice in safe driving skills. I hope that at some point you could use your influence to make transport ministers and insurance companies aware of the need for police traffic patrols to observe and take action in the event of poor driving standards. Speed cameras only catch those exceeding the legal limit but little else. The costs involved in both injuries and delays caused by collisions could be greatly reduced and investment in the aforementioned would be a mere pittance in comparison. Keep up the good work. Larry Edinburgh

If it wasn’t recorded, no one would’ve believed.

I would like to take this a step further and address the mental aspect of people who "hood watch" or "bonnet watch" and don't make proper observations. Usually the root cause of this is mental health. Although autism and ADHD do not prevent safe driving, severe anxiety disorders do. Many driving students have undiagnosed anxiety disorders, and don't even know they have a problem until they start trying to drive and end up tensing up. The instinctive thing to do, when you feel your life is in danger, is to constantly check your personal space for predators. Hood (bonnet) watchers are doing exactly this, observing for lions and tigers near their body, rather than looking far ahead down the road, and looking right and left for pedestrians that may cross the road. I would love to see you do a video on the mental aspects of driving, as, for me, this was the single biggest thing holding me back. And there was little to no support for this issue.

Why the biker dident brake ????

There is no way those yobs have every worked a day in their lives. We can only hope that they get put in prison. No place for that lot in my society.

Van driver is even worse.

The car stopping to let a car through has blame and then the car driver not respecting the cycling lane and pushing in is at fault. No the cyclist had no idea the car was pushing into the lane. Stop blaming a cyclist.. he had 100% right of way because it's hard to see in general..

Until there's a squirrel or cat around, then instinct kicks in .

in this video you mentioned the 5 main skills that are relevent to how quickly people learn. I feel like i've watched a lot of your content, but don't feel like i'm aware of the 5 skills you're referring to. Can you elaborate please?

I've got a sticker at the back saying 'do NOT honk at me/ my life is WORTHLESS/I will KILL us both' :D I kinda get the guy xDDDD

One important thing that I am not sure you covered Ashley is to look each direction more than once and from a different angle (ie. lean forward a bit). A vehicle could be hidden by an object such as another vehicle passed the opposite direction or even the A pillar of the vehicle in that split second the observation is made. Even more important these days when the majority of drivers seem to be breaking the speed limit, or if not, driving too fast for the conditions or risk involved.

Sorry it’s a very random question but I know you’re not allowed to park on yellow zigzag lines but can you stop on them when say for example there are road works or a temporary traffic light or a queue of stationary traffic or must I keep the whole area clear at all times?

3:30 when that white car pulls out in front, it's unsatisfyingly safe. Most people would speed up, use the horn, continue pace etc etc etc and "prove" how bad the white car driver is. But this is so safe it looks as if nothing wrong happened at all. I really think there's psychology in proving others wrong that didn't happen here because even I was a little frustrated how safe it was.

I learnt my first proper driving with IAM, ( how did you like it Ashley? What did you take from your HGv class 2 licence? Any new wisdoms?😅). But as European, school cyclist,and practising more sports than any UK citizen could afford in" private school ") i was used to a lot more than UK drivers( bad weather, no mumsy driving traching, professional teaching and much more motorway work/ night driving for my European licences , here they cannot even come up a slip road properly in their German sports cars as mind still on sofa at home). Majn problem Here now: peiple are not interested in driving, its an American- like service driven society , they want to arrive, be served, dont wan tro be active ( proper driving requures lits of acrivity of the mind, forward thinking, observations, thinking for others, loosing own advantage , conceding space and sometimes priority. Combine that wirh general undereducation in physics, law , mechanical engineering understanding ( not mych beeing produced here anymore, consequently no skills) , lack of investment from selfservjng selfish government and third world health care, you have a society struggling with respecting each other.

I would suggest observation (or lack of) is why people fail..

Cyclist is a complete prat

My first driving test, 17 years ago, I failed it with 2 minors and one major. I was gutted and felt hard done by, as I’d had a great drive until the major happened. I look back now and think “it can only take one mistake, no matter how well you think you’re driving”.

I past my test first time a few months ago

I ride a bike, but I don't consider myself a cyclist, I pretty much stay on pedestrian friendly paths. But, if I was a cyclist I'd have carry some throwing rocks or an asp or something.

Keeping standards high is more about retesting drivers every 5 years or so. Many test centres are already failing over half of first time candidates (how much more difficult do you want to make the driving test)?

18:31 Assumption there that it is a male driver......?

Cyclist is an arse.

I always assume nobody saw me and I'm likely to get run over at any time.

I drove my Dad's (new car) automatic for the first time a week or so ago and I was "caught out" a few times with the fact there is no clutch lag. By that I mean in my manual when I decide to go I've got half a second or so as the bite point is found before the car actually starts to creep. In the automatic as soon as the go pedal is touched IT GOES. One isn't able to follow a car out of a junction in the same way (whether emerging behind one in front or tucking in behind one already on the main road). It is an oft forgotten thing that many people drive different vehicles and sometimes get caught out be an unexpected foible. That particularly applies at junctions with limited visiblity.

One thing I try not to do at junctions is block side views if two vehicles are parallel and turning left and right. Best to hang back, let the other vehicle go and clear, then hopefully you've a much clearer view of the junction and aren't waiting ages because the other driver doesn't go because you've blocked their view......

As an almost every day cyclist I take full responsibility for my own safety. While I cannot stop bad or distracted drivers I do not care if they are in the wrong, I would rather be safe than right. I am soft and squishy motor vehicle not so much. I Always ride alert expecting the unexpected!.

Fools rush in. Wise people allow sufficient time for a decent level of observation.

I failed my first motorbike test because I didn't pull out onto a mini roundabout to turn right and gave way to a bus on my left that clearly was not going to stop. I tried again and unluckily got the same examiner. He failed me on a complicated junction for starting to creep when lights turned green but I instantly realised they were for a different lane and stopped on the line. I passed on my third go. Zero faults, different examiner. There were a couple of points I thought he'd fail me on based on my experience with the previous guy but on querying he said that he eas confident in my ability and that he thought the previous examiner should not have failed me.

Make life easier , just do it in an automatic. Passed my test with a manual, but prefer a semi automatic DCT. Can let the car manage the gears but switch to manual mode for instant gear change when needed for overtakes , hazards, spirited ride etc with the press of a button without the hassle of a clutch. Passed my test first time, but put it down to having no nerves as was just having fun, not bothered if passed or failed, forgot I was even sitting a test at the end; had no idea what the examiner was talking about when he said I passed. Similarly , passed the motorbike and advanced tests first time aswell.

The simple game of eye spy as child teaches you to look for things while moving along then when you do go to learn to drive you already have observation skills and are comfortable looking around you

Very nice good advice mate, I think there are many problems on the roads today, the main problem in my opinion is some peoples poor bad childish selfish must get in front attitude, another is, a lot of people are in too much of a rush, I see it all the time where I live, people want to turn right from the major road into the minor road, they cut the corner and enter the minor road too fast without observing properly, they enter way too fast, they come in thinking nothing will be there and then they have to slam on the brakes when they almost hit a car approaching the give way lines, people need to chill out and relax more, if you take your time and drive slowly and carefully and safely you’ll actually get to your destination faster but not everyone understands that unfortunately.

If you don't stop at a junction how can you check your texts?. Poor instruction Ashley, it's 2024 🤣🤣🤣

'Plan to stop - be prepared to go'......

Does Myth mean common sense?

The other thing i hear is be at this speed or gear etc. Truthfully the information you need to take in is happening outside the window not on the dashboard. Trust your eyes they will tell you if you need to slow down or carry on . If you are looking at the speedo you aint observing whats happening

VOTE REFORM!

I failed my first exam because of an oddly hysterical examiner

They should change it to 3 minors = fail

I finally realised, about 10 years ago, that I was approaching junctions too quickly a lot of the time. I “fixed” it each time by slamming on which brought comments like “you rely on your brakes too much”. I’d been doing it for years but never copped on. I passed my test 40 years ago. Great information here Ashley. Thanks. The 360 camera made me feel ill watching this video. Felt like travel sickness. Anyone else?

Regardless of people passing/failing. The standard in general of driving has dropped dramatically since Covid I’ve found. The aggression in people’s driving, disregard for indicators especially at roundabouts, tailgating even though you’re doing the speed limit, middle lane hogging on the motorway. It was absolutely pointless building smart motorways, everyone sits in lanes 3/4.

Black car has hazards on, so I'm guessing they knocked the van at the previous bend. Otherwise no need to be hanging around there. Red Shirt could be looking for a bit of trim, or more likely going back to photograph the accident location.

@17:55, that is an important thing most drivers dont think about is getting the angle correct to see past other vehicles or parked vehicles. in Dundee, the T junction emerging from Cleghorn street on to City road, there is usually a big white van parked to the right as well as other parked vehicles. it hinders vision a lot. vehicles coming down the steep hill of city road at 30mph are usually not ready or prepared to stop, so many horns get peeped as people start to emerge from Cleghorn but do it blindly because they cant see past the van. but this is where the slow in, fast out approach and what your video is about, because if you dont go all the way up to the give way and hang back a meter or 2, you can see up the pavement to the top of the hill and count the vehicles coming down the hill and work out a safe gap. still need to creep forward and as my motorbike instructor told me (if you got parked cars either side, the give way line moves forward in line with them so you can pull forward to get vision then emerge when clear) and make sure but it makes life so much more simpler for me when emerging from difficult junctions that other drivers find it difficult and take risks hoping its clear because they were taught to drive up to the give way line and not observe and react to each individual junction. also come home to 2 crashes in the 2 years i lived near the junction.

that last clip is the worst driving fail i've ever seen in all your videos

I failed my army driving course. The equivalent of 120 lessons. Was told by the examining NCO that driving just wasn't for me. Like other things in life not everyone is good at everything. Never have been a driver. Yeah had to put up with some restrictions but was for the best. I've never been part of Kar kultur. Same can't be said of motorists. Lost count of the number of times I 've nearly been smoothed by pavement parkers, red light jumpers and other homicidal maniacs.