Summary

• In Arielle’s first driving lesson, the instructor is doing an “assessment for learning.” She is determining what skills the student possesses, her ability to take on new information, and how much is required to drive safely

• Shoulder (Head) checking is a critical skill when learning to drive

• What are the correct stopping position at STOP signed intersections

• A tremendous exercise for beginner drivers is to back in a staight line for 500’ft (150m)

• Learning to do complex left turns

• How to observe correctly and move your head when driving

• Finally, we teach Arielle how the right-of-way at roundabouts and how to signal correctly

In Arielle’s first driving lesson, the driving instructor determines her skill level and gets her to back in a straight line for 500’ft (150m)

– First driving lesson with Arielle today, we’re figuring out where she is with her driving, what she needs to do to prepare for her driver’s test, and, of course, my favorite exercise, backing up for two blocks in a straight line.

– [Arielle] Oh, that should be easy.

– Stick around, we’ll be right back with that information.

FIRST Lesson – Assessment for Learning

(upbeat music) – Are we doing this specifically or?

– Yeah, we are.

We’re going to do straight line backing.

– Straight line backing, okay.

– We’re going to drive around first.

So basically, today is like, it’s the technical term.

The pedagogical term of teaching is assessment for learning.

So I’m just going to figure out where you’re at.

Figure out what you’re good with.

Straight Line Backing

Straight line backing because, I’m going to get you to back down an alley for two blocks.

– Oh, that should be easy.

– So straight line backing.

– I have a backup camera.

– Yeah, I know, but you can’t use the backup camera.

Yeah.

You got to look out the back window.

You can, you can glance at it, like you would your mirrors and whatnot, but you can’t use it as your primary line of sight.

– Yeah.

– You have to look out the back window.

Okay.

So right here.

Where to Stop at STOP Signs?

Stop, stop, stop.

Where’s the stopping position here?

– I already stopped.

– I know you did, but where is the stopping position?

– At the stop sign?

– No.

– [Arielle] You’re not supposed to stop before the stop sign?

– No.

– Well, it’s where the line is, right?

– There’s no line.

– Yeah there’s no line on this one.

– I know there’s no line.

There’s no line.

There’s no sidewalk.

So where do you stop?

There’s actually three different positions depending on the intersection.

– Right up there.

– Yeah, at the edge.

Just before you go into the intersection.

– Well Mom always told me to stop before the stop line, but there’s no stop line.

– That’s not correct.

– [Arielle] That’s not correct?

– No, it’s not correct.

Yeah.

– Well, that’s what she taught me.

Your mom has given you misinformation.

– Oh no.

– You can go and give her the gears now.

– Wow.

I was just going off of what she told me.

– So before the stop line, no stop line, then before the sidewalk or crosswalk line.

And if those two conditions don’t exist, then just at the edge before you enter the intersection.

Backing Up in a Straight Line

An excellent exercise for beginner drivers

Slow down, slow down.

You just got to control the brake.

So if you stop and look forward.

– Yeah.

– Where is your car?

Is it in this?

– It’s kind of over.

– Yeah.

So you need to get that way.

– Going in the weeds.

– There you go.

So you just look forward.

Now, look back.

I forgot my tape.

Okay.

So look forward.

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, pull forward and get in the center of the way, cause you’re like right over on this side here.

I’m smiling right now because I remember somebody saying, oh, this is easy.

– Shh.

Okay well and then.

– Nice.

You don’t have to manipulate the steering wheel back.

You can just open your fingers.

Keep the steering wheel in contact with your palms by just open your fingers and let it spin back.

– Is it wrong if I like bring it back?

– No, but it’s just easier if you just open your hands.

The Myths of Taking a Driving Test

– Is it true that the percentage of failing in Kelowna is like 80 percent?

– No, that’s not true.

– Okay, someone told me that.

– That’s okay.

Watch the video with Charlie.

He went to Salmon Arm and he’s like, if you get the guy with the monocle, you’re going to fail for sure.

No, really?

First of all, I don’t think there’s a guy with a monocle and second of all, you can’t fail everybody.

We’re going to turn right here at this intersection.

Okay.

Slow down.

Slow down, slow down.

Stop.

Okay.

Turning Right – Turn into the Space Between the Other Cars

See these cars here.

You want to turn in between them, not beside them.

Yeah.

So right here, go, and step on it.

Cause you’re in a, an 80-er.

So when you come out on a multi-lane road and there’s left turning vehicles, you don’t want to turn in like this.

You want to either turn in behind them or turn in front of them.

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Slow down back here.

There you go.

Now you can go.

Driving is Always Changing

We’re going to go straight.

Scan the intersection.

– That was weird, it like curved.

– Yeah, offset.

That’s the great thing about driving.

It’s always changing.

Now we’ll turn right here.

But we can turn left too.

– Oh, sorry.

– It’s okay.

That’s okay.

– You pointed this way, so I kind of just.

– Did I?

– Yeah, you did.

– Yeah, go right, see.

You’re confusing them.

Turn your signal off.

– Turn it off?

– Yeah.

I thought.

– Now turn your signal on.

So if you’re going straight through the roundabout or you’re going in a U-turn, don’t use the signal, cause you’re just confusing other traffic.

– Only when you’re leaving one?

– Yeah, only when you’re leaving.

Scan.

Scanning Correctly When Driving

– Every time you say scan you scare me.

– Why?

– Well cause I do and then you say scan.

– You need to see your head, I’m going to send you the video on head movement.

– What?

– Well, you got to move your head so the examiner can see your head moving.

– Yeah.

They’re not going to watch your eyes?

– No, not at all.

– I mean, that makes sense.

– I got all excited in a live stream one night because somebody said that to me.

– What?

– They’re going to watch your eyes.

You’re going to drive with just moving your eyes.

And I got right bent out of shape.

Okay.

Automatic Fails on a Driver’s Test

See those cars right there?

– [Arielle] Yeah.

– You do that on a driver’s test, it’s an automatic fail, because they’re blocking the intersection and the light’s gone red, and there’s pedestrians walking around them.

So if that happens and the traffic’s backed up through the intersection, stay over there until you can actually get right through the intersection, okay.

Cause that is an automatic fail.

– Okay.

That’s good to know, thank you.

– I put that video up on the 17th of May, top 10 reasons.

Automatic fails on a driver’s test.

– Oh yeah.

– 110,000 views.

– Yeah.

Probably cause everyone doesn’t want to fail.

No one wants to fail.

– Not outright, anyway.

So there’s two of the most common mistakes and automatic fails.

Stop here for a second.

Okay.

So in a, in a healthy adult as us, okay.

Peripheral vision is here.

– Yeah.

– Right?

So when I turn my head, I can see all the way back there.

– Yeah.

– We don’t need to, so we have central vision, which is like this much.

That’s how much?

Yeah, that was wrong.

The size of a quarter, we’ll change our language.

The size of a quarter is like what we can actually discern, right?

– Mmm hmm.

– You’re stuck on that now.

– I’m sorry, I can’t.

Doing Shoulder Checks Correctly

What is peripheral vision?

– Peripheral vision though is like 90° degrees.

So anything kind of light and movement is what you’re going to be seeing back there.

So you just need to look out here.

What’s happening Arielle is when you’re, when you’re going like this and turning you’re, you’re doing it too slow.

And the car is going to go in that direction.

– Yeah.

– And you’re not going to be able to observe properly.

So it’s just quick, just like this.

Just quick head turn.

– Like that?

– Yeah.

Otherwise it’s going to be too slow and it’s going to be encroaching on other things.

Cause sometimes you have to shoulder check really quick, especially if you’re at a complex busy intersection and you need to be doing it a couple, two, three times.

Right?

So just quick head spin.

– And they’re not going to get mad if I?

– No.

– If I just do it quick?

– No, no.

As long as you’re doing it and that’s all you need to do, is 90 degrees.

Because the other thing too is if you’re doing it too much, like this, the car is going to go in that direction because the car is going to go where you’re looking, right.

So just quick.

Learning is Hard Work

– You want me to go now?

– Well, let’s go do some more left-hand turns cause I know how much you love doing those.

– Oh, sorry, you told me not to turn, okay, sorry.

I’m sorry.

– It’s okay.

– It’s hard.

– Learning is hard.

You know how much learning I had to do to build a YouTube channel?

– [Arielle] Which way do you want me to go?

– Go straight.

– Straight.

– Slow down, slow down.

That was a two-way stop.

Remember the cross traffic doesn’t stop for you coming through there.

– How many times do you think I messed up?

– Oh, there wasn’t anything serious.

It was just some minor things that need to be fine-tuned.