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How Solenoid Valves Work - Basics actuator control valve working principle

The Engineering Mindset:

Hey there guys.
Paul here from theengineeringmindset.com.
In this video, we're going
to be learning the basics
of how solenoid valves work.
Coming up, what do they look like?
Why are they used?
Where are they used?
And how do they work?
If you are working with solenoid valves,
you're going to want to
download the Magnetic Tool app
from Danfoss, who have
kindly sponsored this video.
The app makes it easy to test
that your solenoid valve
is working properly
and works with both AC and DC versions.
You can download it for
free for Android and iPhone
using the link in the
video description below.
Solenoid valves are used to
convert electrical energy
into mechanical energy.
Solenoid valves have quite a
distinctive look about them.
As you would expect,
they have the valve body,
but on the top they have a block,
which will have some cables coming out
once the valve is installed.
This top part is the solenoid,
and the bottom part is the valve,
therefore making a solenoid valve.
Here's a small real-world solenoid valve,
and in the next solenoid video,
we're going to actually cut
this one open to look inside
as well as make a very simple
solenoid valve ourselves
to understand the mechanics
of how it operates.
Now these valves do come in a
variety of shapes and sizes.
I'll just show you some examples here.
The shape variation depends
on the capacity of the valve,
the pressure it's working with,
and the different internal mechanisms,
which we'll look at
later on in this video.
Why do we use solenoid valves?
Well these valves allow
engineers to autonomously
and remotely control the flow
of fluid within a system.
This fluid can be a liquid or a gas,
for example, water, air,
natural gas, oil, steam,
refrigerant, etc.
The list goes on and on.
The solenoid coil on the top
is used to operate the valve
by passing an electrical
current through it
to create an electromagnetic field
and operate the valve.
This means, if it is
connected to a controller,
it can be operated autonomously
and remotely by a computer,
without the need for engineers
to physically run around,
opening and closing valves.
This allows systems to
run much more efficiently
and safely.
So where do we use or
find solenoid valves?
The short answer is everywhere.
Solenoid valves can be
found in everything,
from washing machines up to space rockets,
although we're going to
focus on the industrial
and HVAC applications for this video.
Let's have a look at some examples.
In commercial refrigeration systems,
we're almost certainly going to find
at least one solenoid valve in the system,
and it's usually found in the liquid line
near the expansion valve.
We've also covered how
expansion valves work
in a previous video.
Do check that out.
Links are in the video description below.
You can see this example here
from the air handling unit
which I was recently working on.
This has a double direct
expansion cooling coil inside
to control the temperature
of the air being sent
around the building.
The top expansion valve and cooling coil
is always on when the system operates.
But the second expansion
valve and cooling coil
only come on in the summer,
when the cooling load is too large
for the single coil to handle.
The solenoid valve is therefore used here
to isolate the second coil
and the expansion valve
until it is needed.
The controller then sends
a signal to the valve
to open and provide
the additional cooling.
Another very common
application for solenoid valves
in refrigeration systems is
in the hot gas defrost line
to control the flow of hot refrigerant
into the evaporator
during the defrost cycle.
When the moisture in the air condenses
on the tubes of the evaporator,
it will freeze and cause a buildup of ice.
We need to remove this to
ensure efficient operation,
so we open the solenoid valve
to send hot refrigerant
from the compressor
through the evaporator
instead of the condenser.
Then, once the defrost has completed,
the solenoid valve shuts
and the system continues
as normal in cooling mode.
In industrial applications,
we can use these valves
to precisely control the
flow and mixing of fluids,
for example, to pour a
perfect amount of fizzy drink
into a bottle on a production line.
We might also find
solenoid valves being used
in a production line to
detect and prevent leaks.
If a sensor detects a
leak from the pipework,
then a controller will tell
the solenoid valve to close
to shut that part of
the production line off
and prevent product being wasted
and also protect the
manufacturing equipment
until engineers can get there and fix it.
So how do they work?
As we saw earlier in the video,
there are a few variations
in how the valve operates,
depending on the required capacity
and the pressures it's working with.
We're going to focus on the
directly operated valves,
which is the simplest version.
With a direct operated valve,
we have the solenoid on top,
which is basically a coil of wire.
As you may have seen in
our electrical videos,
when you pass an electrical
current through a coil,
we generate an electromagnetic field.
This magnetic field is what
we'll use to control the valve.
We have two types of valve,
the normally open and
the normally closed type.
Let's look at the normally
closed type first.
So inside the valve we have the armature.
The solenoid is placed over this
and completely surrounds the armature
so that it's at the centre
of the magnetic field.
Inside the cylinder of the armature
is the plunger and spring.
The spring pushes the plunger down
in a normally closed type valve.
Because the plunger is
pushed by the spring,
it will sit in the down position
to close the valve indefinitely.
But if the coil receives
an electrical current,
then it would generate
an electromagnetic field,
and this magnetic field
passes through the plunger
and will cause it to move upwards,
against the spring,
therefore opening the valve.
At the centre of the coil,
the magnetic field lines
are the most compact,
and therefore the strongest.
This is why we place the
plunger in the centre.
Once the electrical current is stopped,
then the magnetic field disappears
and the spring will force
the plunger down again
to close the valve.
With normally open valves,
we again have the coil
sitting around the armature,
but this time the spring
pushes the plunger
in an upwards position so
that the valve is always open,
unless the solenoid coil is powered on.
There are a few different designs,
but one of the simplest to understand
is if we pass a current through the coil
in the opposite direction,
it again creates an electromagnetic field,
but this time the field pushes the plunger
instead of pulling it.
When the plunger is pushed,
it will close the valve
and stop the flow of fluid
in the system.
When the electrical current is stopped,
the spring will then
force the plunger back
to the upwards position
and open the valve again.
In this very simple version,
the direction of the
current flowing in the coil
is what determines whether
the coil produces a
pulling or pushing force on the plunger.
Now we're going to look at that
in much greater detail in our next video,
and we're going to even
make a simple solenoid coil
ourselves to see how this operates.
Can you think of any
interesting application
for these valves?
If so, then please let me know
in the comments section down below.
I just want to remind you to
download the Magnetic Tool app
from Danfoss for free using the link
in the video description below.
Okay, guys, that's it for this video,
but if you want to continue your learning,
then check out one of
the videos onscreen now,
and I'll catch you there
for the next lesson.
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Clutch, How does it work ?

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Have you, ever wondered what is happening inside a car, when you press the clutch pedal
Or, why, do you need, to press the clutch pedal before you shift gears in a manual transmission car
This, video gives you, logical answers to these questions
At the end of the video we will, also understand the crucial role played, by the clutch in an uphill start
To, understand the need for a Clutch let's first understand the anatomy of an internal combustion engine car
Internal combustion engines have a very limited torque band
and
Due to this reason in order to efficiently vary the speed of the drive wheels
internal combustion engine cars need a transmission system
The use of this transmission makes sure that the engine is working within its optimum rpm range and by changing gear
According to the driving conditions the transmission helps to control the drive wheel speeds
In a manual transmission car making these gear changes is not an easy task to have a smooth gear change with a
Manual transmission the engine power flow to the transmission has to be discontinued
However it is not practical to turn off the engine just for this gear change
The clutch is used for this purpose
in short the clutch is a mechanism to disconnect the flow of power to the transmission without turning the engine off
Let's understand how it works
The main part of the clutch consists of a disc coated with high friction material on both sides a
simplified clutch disc is shown here this disc sits on the flywheel if
An external force presses against the clutch disc the clutch disc also will turn with the flywheel due to the frictional force
The input shaft of the transmission is connected to the disc
So that when an external force is applied to the disc the engine power will get transmitted to the transmission system
This external force is provided by a Pressure plate spring system
Cover of this system is attached firmly to the flywheel
So the pressure plate will firmly press onto the friction clutch disc and the engine power will be transmitted to the transmission system
But this is the case in normal driving so how is the power disengagement done with the clutch
For the disengagement purpose a special kind of spring is introduced in the pressure plate
Assembly, this spring is known as a diaphragm spring
To understand this diaphragm spring better, assume that the diaphragm spring motion is fixed around
This circle in this case if you press the center portion of the spring as shown
the outer portion should move in the opposite direction
The diaphragm spring sits between the pressure plate and the cover
To understand this configuration better let's take a cross-section of the assembly
the outer portion of the diaphragm spring is connected to the pressure disc
This means if you press the inner portion as shown the pressure disc will move away from the friction disk
thus the power flow will discontinue to the transmission
This is exactly what happens when you press the clutch pedal
A hydraulic system transfers the clutch motion to the center of the diaphragm spring
When the diaphragm spring is pressed the power flow is discontinued?
During this time you can make a gear change the clutch pedal is released after the gear change and the power flow continues again
This is how a clutch works
In an actual clutch you can see a few coil springs on the clutch disc what's the purpose of these springs
These are used to smooth out the fluctuations and vibrations from the engine power output
It is clear that the hub and disc are not directly connected
The engine power first reaches the disk then it transfers to the springs and finally to the output hub
This means that the springs will dampen out most of the power flow
Fluctuations from the engine and the motion transferred to the vehicle will be much smoother
Now, let's explore an extremely important and difficult task in driving cars with manual transmission starting from uphill
Even in a car without a handbrake you can use this clutch technique to start, while pointing uphill
In an uphill start initially both the brake and clutch pedal are pressed, while the engine is running
Now, release the clutch pedal partially until you feel the clutch bite
The clutch bite can be experienced at. Your foot it may feel like the engine is shivering at
This point even if you release the brake pedal you can see the vehicle will not roll the
Partially released clutch acts like a brake now You can press the gas pedal and the car will move forward
The big question here is how does the partially release clutch act like a break
This break phenomenon is nothing but a game of force balanced in a perfectly forced balanced condition the vehicle
Wheels will not be able to roll and the gravitational pull will be the same as static frictional force at the wheels
The vehicle wheels are prevented from rolling by another force balance
Force balance between the engine forward force and the same static frictional force
When you partially release the clutch and it balances for the clutch bite you are unknowingly doing all these force balances
When these forces are in perfect balance the wheels the transmission system and the clutch disk will not be able to spin
This is how the clutch bite acts as a brake but remember the frictional force between the rubbing surfaces
Produces the engine forward force in this case this will result in wear and tear of the friction material on the clutch disc
We hope this video will enable you to be a better engineer and a better driver
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Brushless DC Motor, How it works ?

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In order to make the operation more reliable, more efficient
and less noisy, the recent trend has been to use brushless dc motors
They are also lighter compared to brushed motors with the same power output
The brushes in conventional dc motors wear out over time and may cause sparking
Thus the brushed dc motor
should never be used for operations that demand long life and reliability
let's see how a brushless DC motor works
the rotor of a BLDC motor
is a permanent magnet
the stator has a coil arrangement as
shown
by applying DC power to
the coil, the coil energize and
become an electromagnet
the operation of a BLDC is based on the
simple force interaction between the
permanent magnet
and the electromagnet
in this condition when the coil A is
energized the opposite poles on the
rotor and stator are attracted to each
other
as the rotor nears coil A coil B is
energized
as the rotor near coil B coil see is
energized
after that coil as energized with the
opposite polarity
this process is repeated and the rotor
continues to rotate
a humorous analogy to help remember it
is
to think about BLDC operation like the
story of the donkey and the Carrot
where the donkey tries hard to reach the
carrot but the Carrot keeps moving
out of reach
even though this motor works it has one
drawback
you can notice that at any instant
only one coil is energized. The two dead
coils greatly reduce the power output of
the motor
here is the trick to overcome this
problem. When the rotor is in this
position
along with the first coil which pulls
the rotor
you can energize the coil behind it in
such a way that
it will push the rotor. For this
instant a same polarity current is
passed through the second coil
the combined effect produces more torque
and power output from the motor
the combined force also makes sure
that a BLDC has a beautiful constant
torque nature
with this configuration two coils need
to be energized separately
but by making a small modification to
the stator coil
we can simplify this process just
connect one free end
of the coils together
when the power is applied between
coils A and B
let's note the current flow through the
coil
it's just like the separately energized
state
that's how a BLDC
works but you might have some intriguing
doubts in your mind
how do I know which stator coils to
energize
how do I know
when energizer so that I will get a
continuous rotation from the rotor
in a BLDC we use an electronic
controller
for this purpose. A sensor determines the
position of the rotor
and based on this information the
controller decides
which coils to energize
most often a Hall effect sensor is used
for this purpose.
the BLDC design we have discussed so far
is known as the outrunner type. Inrunner
BLDC design
is also available in the market we hope you had a nice introduction on the working
of BLDC motors
thank you

Understanding Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) !

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Nowadays an anti-lock braking system
is used in almost all modern vehicles.
This system prevents accidents like this,
where you lose control of the steering
as you apply the brakes.
With ABS, you will be able
to steer the vehicle properly
and it also reduces the braking distance.
What is ABS?
How is it able to prevent
accidents due to the braking?
We will explore these
questions in this video.
To properly understand ABS,
we first need to understand
the principles of steering and braking.
When you press the brake pedal,
the brake pads on the wheel disks will
be activated and press against the disks,
and this will stop the rotation
of the wheels.
As the wheels stop,
this causes slippage between
the road and wheels,
and the vehicle stops due to this friction.
Now let's understand the steering mechanism.
The whole steering mechanism is dependent on
the simple principle of the wheels rolling.
The wheels will always try
to avoid slipping on the road.
So this means that the velocity of
the wheel at the contact point
will always be zero.
The wheels have two kinds of motion.
They rotate on their axis and also
they move along the direction of the car.
Due to these two kinds of motion,
they have two kinds of velocity:
translational and rotational.
For non-slip rolling conditions,
the sum of the translational
and rotational velocities
at the contact point should be zero.
Just keep this simple principle in mind,
and you will very easily be able
to understand the steering mechanism.
In an automobile,
all four wheels should be rolling at
all times to avoid the vehicle slipping.
In fact, this simple rolling
principle is the reason why
your car turns when
you turn the front wheels.
Let's examine this.
Assume a hypothetical condition in which,
even after turning the wheels,
the car carries straight on.
In this case, the rolling velocity
will be inclined as shown,
and the translation velocity
remains straight.
Therefore, if you add up
these two velocities,
the resultant velocity will not be zero.
This will cause the car to slip.
The only way to avoid this is by making
the translation velocity also inclined.
This is possible only when the whole
car makes a turn as shown.
When the car makes a turn at
the instantaneous center shown,
all four wheels can satisfy
the condition of rolling.
From this snapshot, you can
clearly see how the velocity
at the contact point of all
four wheels becomes zero.
Now, let's analyze the steering
mechanism at the time of braking.
Due to the brake pads being activated,
the wheels stop spinning.
Even though the wheels are turned,
since they are not rotating,
there will be no rotational velocity at all.
In this case, the vehicle
does not need to turn
as this has become like
a normal case of braking.
The vehicle will no longer react to
the driver's changes to the steering
and will slide in a straight line
which can cause an accident.
Apart from losing control of the steering,
cars without ABS face another big issue,
braking on surfaces with
different levels of traction.
When the left and right wheels
are on different traction surfaces,
applying the brakes will generate
different frictional forces on the wheels.
This will produce torque, and the car
will go into an uncontrollable spin.
Let's see how ABS solves these issues.
An anti-lock braking system is very simple.
What ABS does is to prevent
the wheels from completely locking up.
The ABS system includes speed sensors
attached to all of the wheels.
When the sensors detect that
a wheel is about to lock up,
a modulator unit partially releases
the brake pad on that wheel.
This way, the wheels will be allowed
to spin intermittently during braking.
You can immediately see the effect of
this intermittent wheel rotation on steering.
Here, the wheels will have
a rotational velocity component.
This will definitely allow
the steering to function,
and driver will be able to steer
the vehicle even during the braking.
But the big question here is:
How does the action of intermittently
releasing the brakes
reduce the braking distance?
To get an answer to this question,
we first need to understand
how the coefficient of friction
between the tire and the road
varies with respect to slip.
In perfect rolling conditions,
the value of the frictional
coefficient is nearly zero.
However, when the wheel is 100% slipping,
sliding friction comes into play.
You can expect the frictional values for
other levels of slippage to vary like this.
But since rubber is a complex material
which has strange behaviors during braking,
the frictional coefficient between
the tire and the road varies as shown
with respect to slippage.
It has a peak value at
around 12% of slip ratio.
And below and above this,
the frictional coefficient reduces.
During breaking without ABS,
the frictional coefficient
which comes into effect
is predominantly sliding friction.
However in ABS braking,
the clever algorithm adjusts
the break pressure
to keep the slip ratio near to 12%,
where the frictional value
is at the maximum.
This significantly reduces
the braking distance.
Now back to the huge
instability issue of the cars.
By intelligent electronic
braking distribution,
which is a subsystem of modern ABS,
one can overcome this issue very easily.
An EBD yaw rate of the car
and the relative slip of each
wheel is measured.
Just by reducing the brake pressure
on the wheels with higher grip,
we will be able to reduce the frictional
force produced by these wheels.
This will keep the yaw torque and
the whole car under control.
We hope this video gave you a clear
conceptual overview of the workings of ABS.
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How to Avoid Common Car Accidents :: Tips, Techniques & Strategies

Smart Drive Test:

Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart
Drive Test talking to you today about
crashes, and how to avoid crashes. This presentation is a kind of a high-level historical overview of
traffic crashes and why they're so
dangerous... well kind of dangerous in this
day-and-age. Anyway that's what we're
going to talk about today. Stick around
we'll be right back with that
information.
[INTRO & UPBEAT MUSIC]
Hi there smart drivers. Welcome back. Rick
with Smart Drive Test talking to you
today about traffic crashes. And I
realized as I was putting this together
there in the hour before getting going
here that one of the things is that this is
going to be a two-part series. And yes,
just bear with me here for one second.
I'm just going to turn down the brightness
here a little bit on the camera because I'm
a little bit washed out here so just
turn that down just a little bit. There
we go and. That should be better -
excellent! So welcome to the Smart Drive
Test livestream here on Monday, because
it was holiday weekend - Easter. Happy
Easter to everybody and wishing you all
the best with you and your family and
travels that you may have been on this
weekend. Corey the moderator he's gonna
be a little bit late but he's gonna be
here shortly so yes and so as I was
saying prior to getting this going while
I was putting the presentation together
those types of things I realized that
this is going to be a two-part series
this is going to be kind of the academic
part of traffic crashes and kind of a
historical overview and then next week
I'm gonna do specifics on how to
implement specific techniques and
strategies that you can put in place to
protect yourself and reduce traffic
crashes so Tommy is here from Oshawa
Jayden is here from Florida and
excellent Jayden you passed your permit
test that's really great congratulations
on that yes happy Easter and Passover
for everybody that's tuning here in here
on the livestream a few people here
getting a bit late but really good and
welcome to the live stream to smart
drive test and
and we are quickly heading into spring
thus the reason for traffic crashes and
those types of things because summertime
is the time when we have the most number
of crashes now some will argue that yes
there are more people driving on our
roads than there are in the wintertime
and that is true however many people are
of the false idea or the false notion
that winter time is when we have the
most crashes when in fact we don't it's
actually June July and August are the
most number of crashes that we have and
actually in other countries where they
don't get snow they do actually have a
high number of crashes and the reason is
is because our risk perception is much
lower we don't think that we're gonna
have as much you know the chances of
being involved in a crash are much
reduced and I mean we can talk about all
that with the presentation and those
types of things so we're just kind of
getting started here and for those of
you just tuning in to the live stream
here on Easter weekend be sure to tell
us where you're from in the world where
you're watching from what class of
license you're getting from what class
of license you're working toward whether
it's a car truck bus motorcycle license
some of you will be getting a motorcycle
license here coming up in the summer and
those types of things so just let us
know which class was Isis you're going
for and of course after you get the
presentation done I'll be more than
happy to answer any questions you have
about driving about air brakes about CDL
driving getting a doing preparing for
your road test for CDL and passenger
vehicle license motorcycle license
answer all of those questions and help
you to be successful as a driver working
towards getting your license or being
crash free for the remainder of your
driving career so quickly I'm just gonna
head over to the PowerPoint presentation
we'll do that and then I'll come back
and I'll answer any questions that you
might have about driving about getting a
license and those types of things so
just bear with me here and of course I'm
not at the top okay so today transition
the slide over there we go okay so
PowerPoint presentation car crashes
we're going to be talking about car
crashes and most of you probably have
seen one or two YouTube videos on
crash test dummies and car crashes test
crashing or testing of cars for safety
ratings and those types of things and
it's done there in the United States of
America and they've improved Traffic
Safety incredibly and in the 1960s Ralph
Nader who was one of the presidential
candidates in the United States in the
last election
maybe the election before that camera
which one but anyway he was a
presidential candidate at one point
wrote a book called unsafe at any speed
and he particularly took aim at the
Chevrolet Corvair in the 1960s and
talked about how unsafe the vehicle was
and that occupants vehicle occupants
were dying in crashes at very low speeds
and pointed out that traffic safety was
not an issue of automotive manufacturers
and automotive manufacturers argued that
traffic safety would never sell which
they couldn't have been more wrong at
the time because 25 probably 25 years
later into the 1980s
traffic safety or not traffic safety but
vehicle safety and vehicle safety
features were in fact selling
automobiles at an incredible rate and
today this is one of the first thing
that people look at when they're
purchasing new vehicles is a safety
rating of that vehicle okay I got a
little technical problem here going on
bear with me there we go so for those of
you who may be new to smart drive test
consider subscribing my name is Rick
August I do have a PhD in legal history
particularly in placing through most of
the 1990s I was a truck driver and ran
Freight between Canada and the US and
delivering mostly everything east of the
Mississippi did a lot of delivery of
Freight into cities on the eastern
seaboard New York Philadelphia Boston
Florida Florida is a state not a city
but into Florida as well into Miami and
Tallahassee in those types of places
I drove buses for gray on while I was
going to university in Australia and
that was very interesting learning
experience as well laughs especially
after years of driving truck 1997 I
became a licensed commercial driving
instructor and I have an expertise in
air brakes and as
as I said I have a doctorate in legal
history with my expertise in policing
oddly enough as it relates to traffic
and this picture of me when I had hair
in 2002 when I was driving buses for
Greyhound it's hard to believe that
that's 18 years ago now so most of what
I'm gonna talk about today in terms of
the history of traffic crashes is based
on an article that I wrote in 2006
called spinning our wheels the inability
of traffic policy to change driver
behavior and there's three ways that
authorities try to reduce the number of
traffic crashes and fatalities and
injuries on our roadways and basically
it's through engineering enforcement and
education it's the the triangle of the
3e so enforcement we try to enforce
traffic laws through policing and then
engineering we try to make better roads
we try to make better cars and then
education we educate the public and
again in 2006 then when I returned to
Canada and start working at UB Co they
interviewed me one of the newspapers
here about distracted driving and now
distracted driving has ballooned into
this enormous problem that we now have
on our roadways because of cellular
telephones available in vehicles and a
few years ago there was a study done by
the triple-a the Automobile Association
of America which 66% of Americans
admitted to using their phone while
driving you know not a hands-free set
but a you know a handheld set and then
33 percent of those admitted to texting
and driving so distracted driving has
become a huge problem that you can see
here in the upper right corner in this
slide
that even in 1923 this distraction on
the part of road users was still
something that was happening and the
person in evitable died because they
stepped in front of a train so this you
can have a look at this article and if
you look down in the description there
you'll find the link to this article and
you can have a bigger look at it
interesting enough in the last 120 years
at the beginning of the 20th century war
famine and disease were the big
reasons why people died a hundred years
later terminal illness suicide and
traffic crashes there now the the main
reasons for deaths amongst people in
quote-unquote first world nations and
traffic crashes have not the number of
traffic crashes that occur on our
roadways has not been reduced we still
have the same number of traffic crashes
we still have the same number of
injuries as we did 30 40 50 years ago
what we have reduced is the number of
traffic fatalities the number of people
dying in traffic crashes this is much
much less and basically I argued in that
article that I just mentioned spinning
our wheels that the reason we've reduced
traffic fatalities is not because people
drive better and not because we've
reduced the number of crashes it's
because of better engineering better
safety features and vehicles better
roadways and better medical advances in
medical science so we understand how to
get people to the hospitals quick more
quickly and how to treat trauma victims
victims that have sustained tremendous
injuries and to keep them alive so we're
keeping people alive more they're simply
not dying in traffic crashes as it once
were and the other thing I'd like to say
about traffic crashes is that no one is
immune from traffic crashes these are
some of some of the few just a few of
the famous people who have died
Princess Diana James Dean Tim Horton for
those who are not Canadian Tim Hortons
is one of the biggest coffee shop chains
in Canada and for some of us who have
come from the eastern provinces in
Canada Tim Hortons is sort of next to
patriotism and then of course the most
recent famous deaths was Paul Walker who
was killed in a car crash just a few
years ago and some irony attached to
Paul Walker's death because he starred
in The Fast and the Furious which was
you know a TV show about not a TV show
but a movie series a movie franchise
about illegal street racing and you know
he
we died in a car crash so when as I
mentioned in the introduction the
highest number of car crashes are during
the summer months most number of crashes
occur in the summer months most traffic
crashes to keep occur on clear roads dry
roads moderate traffic conditions and
the driver is sober and we'll talk a
little bit more about fatigue but it's
some of these traffic crashes are
inexplicable especially single occupant
crashes single vehicle crashes where the
person just the driver just drives off
the road for no apparent reason and they
can't figure it out and the driver tests
negative for alcohol or drugs or those
types of things they just simply on a
clear stretch of road they just drive
off into a telephone pole or off an
embankment or something like that and
these are a lot of the traffic
fatalities that are going on our
roadways the most common types of
crashes and next week I'm going to talk
more about each one of these and how to
protect yourself while driving head-on
crashes t-boned crashes and the two
these two first ones tend to be often be
fatal especially if there's any speed
involved if you're on highways excuse me
at highway speeds head-on crashes and
t-bone crashes are going to be fatal in
these situations rear-end crashes inside
what sites sideswipe crashes often
involve injury they're not fatal
rear-end crashes however can leave you
with lifetime injuries because it's soft
tissue damage it's tearing of cartilage
and muscles and those types of things so
there are ways to prevent being
rear-ended especially when you're
sitting at an intersection waiting for
the light to change or waiting to go on
those types of things you can protect
yourself you sort of need to be on
yellow alert most of the time while
you're driving to avoid being involved
in these different types of crashes
interestingly enough there are twice as
many crashes that occur inside city
limits as opposed to out in the country
however the reverse is true for the
number of fatalities that occur in the
countryside in rural areas there are
twice as many fatalities as there are
car crashes as opposed to what happens
in the city and the reason for that is
obviously higher speeds that people are
traveling you know well in excess
fifty miles an hour eighty kilometers an
hour or is in the city the speeds tend
to be lower but there are more people
and more crashes most of the fatalities
occur in the countryside of rural
crashes and the reasons for these is
that oftentimes it's difficult to get
emergency services to you and get you to
the hospital whereas if it happens in
the city you're within close proximity
to getting to the hospitals now
obviously some of this time and distance
has been reduced with crashes that occur
in the countryside
we have GPS units and satellites and
those types of things and a lot easier
for emergency services to find you we
now have have a lot more access to
helicopters and high speed vehicles and
we can get you to emergency services
into the hospital a lot more quickly and
whatnot and a lot as I mentioned just
previously in the previous slide a lot
of these crashes that occur in the
countryside our single vehicle crash is
people driving the telephone poles
driving off the roadway into Rock
embankments and those types of things so
it tends not to be as many crashes in
the in the country but the speeds are
hiring because the speeds are higher the
crashes tend to be fatal
now what are the three top reasons for
crashes the three top reasons for
crashes are speeding failing to yield
and following to close and when we say
speeding we're not just talking about
driving faster than the posted speed
limit there are other definitions of
speeding driving faster than me so if
you're driving down the road at say 80
kilometers now and somebody passes you
they're driving faster than you driving
faster than the traffic flow so if the
traffic flow is moving along at 100
kilometers an hour or 60 miles an hour
and then somebody passes you're doing
110 or 120 they're speeding or driving
too fast for the conditions of the
roadway if it's snowy out and they're
passing everybody else that's on the
roadway they're simply driving too fast
for the conditions that the conditions
will allow you to drive the other one
and I would argue that failing to yield
is probably the most important one a lot
of people simply fail to give way and
this is one of my favorite sayings that
it doesn't take any time out of your day
to simply let your foot off the throttle
let the person go ahead of you or you
know just too many people on the roadway
is that I have the right away and I'm
gonna go well you can be right or you
can be dead right so a lot of people
fail to yield and finally the last one
which I argue is the basis of Defense
driving a space management many people
follow too close they don't leave enough
space around their vehicle and because
they don't leave enough space around
their vehicle they're in they're going
to be eventually involved in a crash
it's going to catch up with them
now intoxication and as well
intoxication also includes the use of
drugs interesting enough a lot of people
will not know that most people who are
intoxicated due to drug and use it's not
illegal drugs that they're intoxicated
with most people abuse prescription and
over the medic over-the-counter
medication this is one of the most
abused drugs that most drivers are using
so what happened in terms of traffic
safety in the late nineteen sixty was
that traffic fatalities went off the
chart authorities were finally pushed to
do something about the number of traffic
deaths that were occurring on roadways
and they implemented seatbelt laws for
one one thing in the irk late 1960s and
early 1970s and the other thing that
they did was they implemented huge
public advocacy campaigns against
drinking and driving and then of course
these were spurred on in the 1980s by
the creation of MADD Mothers Against
Drunk Driving which was founded by Pam
candy Lightner whose daughter was killed
in a car crash by a drunk driver and
then of course other people have written
books and started other organizations
against us particularly now against
drinking and drive our against
distracted driving those types of things
now for new drivers one of the reasons
that new drivers are such high risk of
being involved in a crash is what I call
the four DS drinking driving dating and
distracted driving for young people who
are 17 18 19 years old 20 years old
these four things all come together at
the same time they're learning how to
drink they're learning how to drive
they're getting in the dating scene they
may have been in the dating scene for a
while but there tends to be a lot more
drama for young people in terms of
dating and then of course distracted
driving we now have cell phones we have
screens we have iPads we have telematics
inside of our vehicles it's an
incredible amount of distraction that's
going on inside of vehicles for drinking
driving
dating distracts driving and I would say
that many young people just simply do
not have enough experience with these
things
to be able to focus on just one of them
at one time especially when it comes to
cellular phones and those types of
things I mean they're not they're not
phones anymore they're small computers
in our pockets and there's so many
things going on and so many things that
we can do with our phones that little
doubt it's going to distract you so one
of the other things in the last decade
or so was is that authorities have
brought in increased police powers for
drinking driving especially here in the
province of British Columbia in Canada
and I wondered why this had happened but
they granted police powers they
increased police powers and a lot of
place to issue roadside 24-hour
suspensions which was interesting here
and I always wondered why it hadn't been
challenged by anyone because the
provinces drink-driving in Canada is
charged under the federal law it's not a
charge under provincial law and the
reason for this just quickly trying not
to get off on a tangent here on you but
essentially the reason they did this was
because it was so difficult to convict
for drink driving because most drivers
who were charged with drink driving got
off on a technicality so they increased
police powers and allowed police to
issue a 24 hour suspension and it allows
you know drink drivers to not continue
on their way on the roadways and get off
on a technicality so this was one of the
reasons that they did that we could talk
more about that in the question and
answer period there we go
vehicle safety features this is the
other reason that we are surviving
crashes more and more is because the
safety features on vehicles crumple
zones especially the front end of the
vehicle for head-on collisions the
crumple zone absorbs the energy of the
crash and for those of you who may not
know when you are involved in a crash in
a motor vehicle there are three
different crashes that occurs that's the
car hitting an object there's you coming
against the seatbelt or the interior of
the vehicle because you're traveling at
the same vehicle the same speed as the
vehicle and you have to come to a stop
and then the last crash is your internal
organs hitting your chest cavity and
coming to a stop as well and if you're
traveling at any speed that's generally
what does the most damage is your
internal organs
your chest cavity if you're not
restrained inside of the vehicle as well
you coming in contact with other
occupants inside the vehicle or coming
in contact with the - the steering wheel
and those types of things in the vehicle
is also going to cause you severe damage
and injuries and those types of things
so some of the safety features just
quickly crumple zone safety glass
breakaway steering columns and the
breakaway steering columns one of the
things that came out of Ralph Nader's
book unsafe at any speed because what
they were finding out was is that in a
minor front-end crash the steering
column would be pushed into the cabin of
the vehicle often catch the driver under
the chin and then it would snap their
neck and they would be killed instantly
in a car crash so they had breakaway
steering columns safety restraints and
airbags airbags interesting enough were
first invented in the 1950s and then
were first fitted on some of the
higher-end cars in the mid-1980s so it
took almost 30 years before airbags
actually made their appearance in Motor
Vehicles okay one of the other advances
as I mentioned earlier was medical
advances these have been significant in
reducing traffic crashes and most of the
medical advances in understanding trauma
understanding the golden hour getting
people to emergency rooms within the
first hour came out of the Vietnam War
the Vietnam War was incredibly
significant in understanding how to save
people's lives and have them live from
severe trauma
now the question out of that becomes
what is the quality of life you yes you
survived a traffic crash but what is the
quality of life that you're going to
have after that crash occurs and in the
article that I wrote spinning our wheels
I put just posit briefly in the article
that maybe traffic crashes are more
dangerous now than they were 30 or 40
years ago because now you have to live
life with these injuries and what is the
quality of life that you're going to
have after that but anyway we can talk
about all of that so thanks very much
for that good luck on your road tests
and remember pick the best answer not
necessarily the right answer we'll just
go back over here and we'll answer any
questions that you have
there we go all right so Cory is here
bricks for wheels he is the moderator
happy Easter to Gordon Bernard
thank you so much Bernard for that
comment being a licensed driver for over
15 years but I'd love to watch this guy
to refresh my knowledge awesome ok epic
for rear-end collisions are they common
on city streets that lead onto freeway
ramps because the Manhattan Upper West
Side there is a portion of Amsterdam Ave
that serves as i-95 rain got bumper
damage epic when you say you got bumper
damage did you get rear-ended is that
what happened in terms of the bumper
damage Kingsly planning to go for a road
test awesome and you're from Minnesota
well congratulations and good luck on
your road test you're gonna do awesome
brilliant okay and Gordon what's with
the me Gordon driving skills are also
declining with the grandeur of even
cheaper cars now these you know Thomas
truck industry are promoting even more
senseless idleness the vanity of modern
driving I don't know whether that's true
or not Gordon I think what's happening
is is that we just so we simply have
more and more vehicles on our roadway
and because we have more and more
vehicles on a roadway it you know we the
few people who are not driving according
to the rules of the roadway and the
culture of the roadway are more
prominent because as you get more
traffic on the roadway you're gonna get
more more people and unfortunately it's
kind of the 80/20 rule of life right are
we paying attention to the 80% of life
that's good or are we paying attention
to the 20% of life that's not so good
and it's the same thing with driving
eighty percent of the people who are on
the roadways are doing the best they can
they're driving well they're paying
attention they're driving cautiously
they're putting in defensive driving
strategies but unfortunately what
happens is that the 20% of people on the
roadway who are driving air
you know not keeping Goods not managing
space well around their vehicles and
those types of things this is what
happens is is that we tend to pay
attention to the 20% that's not driving
well instead of the 80% that is driving
well and what happens is that that's
where our focus goes and that's where
your focus goes then it's not it's not
gonna you know that's all we're going to
see we're not gonna see the 80% of
people who are driving well okay uh epic
I've got rear-ended as our family
minivan was about to enter Interstate 95
from ok and apprehension that be a
common rear-end scenario not not so much
but epic I would really encourage you to
have a look at the video on being
rear-ended core you'll get that up for
you there and that that'll give you some
strategies about how to prevent being
rear-ended and interesting enough one of
the things epic that will prevent you
from being rear-ended is managing space
in front of your vehicle because you can
always manage that space in front of
your vehicle and if you've got space in
front of your vehicle and you're sitting
there and as I said when you're driving
you should always be on yellow alert you
should always kind of be scanning around
paying attention looking in that
rearview mirror and as you see the
person coming up behind you and they're
not slowing down then you can move
forward and oftentimes when you're
moving forward if you're tapping the
brake lights and the brake lights are
flashing often time that's going to get
the attention of the people behind you
and you get the people behind you then
they're gonna slow down and they're
gonna stop because obviously the person
behind you doesn't want to rearrange you
right and it's the same thing sometimes
the person behind you
for whatever reason doesn't have a lot
of experience they're not paying
attention they were distracted by a
billboard they were distracted by
somebody walking down the sidewalk it's
you know there are just so many things
on the roads these in this day and age
that will distract us from the task of
driving and it only takes a moment to be
distracted now the other thing that we
learn and I've been thinking about this
a little bit in the last a while is
veteran people as opposed to
inexperienced people and think of it
like this when you're driving down a
road way and the roadway is litter
with signs right and take will just as
Anna as an example we'll take a
passenger vehicle driver versus a CDL
driver somebody who's experienced like
myself when I Drive down the roadway I
know that there's a certain number of
road signs that I need to pay attention
to I need to pay attention to the one
lane end sign I need to pay attention to
the no left turn sign when I'm trying to
figure out where to go I need I know
that there are certain signs that I need
to pay attention to on the other hand
the passenger vehicle driver isn't going
to pay attention to the same number of
signs so coming back to what I was
talking about when you're driving along
a roadway an experienced driver will
know that there are certain points along
the roadway that they can allow their
attention to Wayne you know that they're
not kind of fully paying attention to
what's going on on the roadway there are
other times that they know when they're
driving along the roadway for example
what epic is talking about here in terms
of on an on ramp onto a freeway as an
experienced driver I know that when I'm
trying to get onto a freeway that I'm
getting off on and on you know an
on-ramp and I have to merge over and
then I have to pay attention to my speed
I have to pick my spot on the freeway in
those types of things I know that the
execution of that maneuver requires my
full attention and that I bring my full
attention back to driving because you
cannot be 110% stuck in to your
attention of driving all the time it
just you just physically can't you just
emotionally are you you just don't have
the energy to be able to do that so what
happens so what's one of the differences
between inexperienced drivers or drivers
with not a lot of experience and veteran
drivers is that veteran drivers know on
which part of the roadway that they have
to bring their full attention back to
the task of driving whereas
inexperienced drivers don't have enough
experience to know that and sometimes
that's why you're gonna get into these
rear-end situations because the driver
didn't bring his or her full attention
back to the task of driving it's the
same thing when you're driving down
freeways and I've actually predicting
freeways have a look at that video as
well quarry I'll put that up for you
it's the same thing when you're
down a freeway right most of the time
you can just drive down the freeway you
can kind of zone out you can listen to
the radio and whatever else is going on
but when there's an on-ramp coming on to
the freeway even if you're in the middle
lane you still need to pay attention to
the traffic that's going on on that
on-ramp because you may need to move
over there maybe a car right beside you
that's pacing right beside you and
there's another truck car that trying to
get on even though you're in the middle
lane and you technically have the
right-of-way you could still be involved
in a crash excuse me because you should
move over so the vehicle beside you you
can get over and then the car
that's merging onto the freeway can get
on yes the onus of responsibility is on
the merging vehicle over there but if
the three of you are abreast going down
the freeway there's no place for anybody
to go and the person can't get out to
merge yes the person who's merging
should adjust their speed his or her
speed so that they either move into the
vehicle in front of you or in behind but
again this is the point that I'm making
that with more and more experience of
driving you're gonna know when you need
to bring your full attention back to the
task of driving as opposed to people who
are not that experienced they're not
gonna be able to know that so there's my
T my big thinking on driving and why
some people have traffic crashes and why
other people don't okay Gordon should it
be legal to turn left through a right
way road going through to get on to the
other side I've seen a few close calls
with cars making these turns illegal to
turn left through a right way Road okay
Gordon I'm not quite fully understanding
that should be legal to turn laughs
through a right way Road maybe somebody
can help me with that because I'm not
quite understanding all the way alright
so we got a couple of people going for
road tests in the next couple of weeks
here and in terms of going for road
tests as I said in the past and I'll say
it again there's four basic fundamental
components for each any road test
anywhere in the world regardless of
class of license that you're going for
okay space management speed management
observation and communication these are
the four fundamental components
passing a road test and as well for
defensive driving and remaining crash
free not kidding in one of the crashes
that I was talking about here earlier
space management if you don't get near
anything it's less likely that you're
going to hit something so you want to
maintain a following distance of two to
three seconds in a passenger vehicle
under ideal conditions driving a bigger
vehicle obviously that DRI following
distances have to going to have to
increase you need to stop at the right
place at controlled intersections before
the stop line before this sidewalk or
crosswalk lines and if those two
conditions don't exist then where the
two roads meet you need to stop in
traffic so you can see the tires of the
vehicle in front of you making clear
contact with the pavement and last one
last one don't block intersections for
the purposes of space management and
then as well you need one lane of
traffic a buffer space between you and
pedestrians and that's if the
pedestrians are going away from you so
for example if you're making a
right-hand turn pedestrians are crossing
the cross street you need to wait one
lane of traffic and actually I'm gonna
redo that video because I noticed in one
of the driving manuals that they
actually give you specific numbers and I
thought those specific numbers were
actually quite good for the purposes of
a road test so that's base management
speed management the flow of the speed
of speed management the posted speed
limit or the flow of traffic whichever
is less that's the speed that you need
to drive for the purposes of a road test
now in some conditions you can drive
slower for example if you're in a
residential area and there's parked cars
on both sides of the street and it's
quite narrow then you can go slower if
you're in a high pedestrian area where
there's lots of pedestrian traffic and
parking armed malls and those types of
things then obviously you can drive a
bit slower so that's basically speed
managed is pretty straightforward
posted speed limit or the flow of
traffic whichever is less and then you
need to scan effectively you need to
observe effectively for the purposes of
a road test when you're driving straight
down the road you need to have a
scanning pattern in place when you look
as far down the road as you can in check
your centromere far down the road both
shoulders in check your instrument panel
and that will help with your speed
management far down the road in check
your wing Ymir's and then repeat that
every eight to twelve seconds when
you're changing lanes you need to
shoulder check twice before changing
lanes and it's simply ninety degrees to
the direction that you're turning
anytime that you're turning changing
lanes you need to shoulder check when
you're reversing for parallel parking to
point reverse turn reverse stall parking
you know those types of things you need
to do a 360 degree scan around your
vehicle look out the back window while
you're reversing and approximately every
vehicle length
stop the vehicle do your 360 on you scan
again and then carry on with you're
backing up and doing your maneuver okay
that's observation and then finally you
have to communicate and there are five
ways that we communicate with other
traffic lights and signals your horn I
contact hand signals hand gestures make
sure you use all five fingers don't tell
other people that they're number one on
a road tests you won't be successful and
then finally the position of your
vehicle on the roadway is going to
indicate to other road users
where you where you're going and those
types of things so position of your
vehicle so if a vehicle is in the
left-hand turning lane it's a good
chance that they're going to turn laughs
so those are the four fundamental
components of any road test anywhere in
the world and for any class of license
speed management space management
observation and communication and that's
what you need to do to be successful on
a road test all right Augustine do you
need to hold your driver's license when
you're driving yes you do Augustine you
do have to have your driver's license
with you every time you're driving you
can get a fine you can get a suspended
you could also potentially get suspended
I'm not sure the charges for not having
your driver's license vary depending on
whether you're in the GLP program to
graduated the licensing program which
means you're a new driver or you're a
veteran driver some police might be kind
of nice to you and let you go get your
driver's license but you should have it
on you at all times and if you borrow
somebody else's vehicle as well make
sure that the insurance papers and
registration are in the vehicle as well
before you take off so that you have
let's do all that information in the
unlikely event that you do get pulled
over okay
Gordon basically if you were turning
onto the side of a road where traffic is
going right or left to get onto the
other direction of traffic okay Gordon
you're gonna you're gonna have to send
me an address for a map because I simple
I'm sorry I simply don't understand what
you're talking about there okay
it just doesn't it's not I'm not being
able to get a picture of what you're
asking me Jaden
hey Rick I asked one of the DMV
employees and they are correct if I get
my driver's license I can't drive home
then you can pretty completely agree
with you yes so what Jaden is saying
there is is that one of the one of the
fat hard and fast rules that I have
about being a driving instructor and
this is for any other driving instructor
that might be watching this you do after
a person passes a road test you don't
let them drive home there's just too
much going on they're too excited they
just passed the road test do not let
them drive home and I'll tell you a
funny story about this is that this was
kind of my hard and fast rule for a long
time and I was working they sent me out
to take this guy off a road test he was
that the fire department he was using
the fire truck and I thought oh I better
not drive the fire truck I better let
him do that so we were at the test
center passed his road test we drove
home he stopped at his girlfriend's
because he was all excited he wanted to
you know and it was on the way so it
wasn't a big deal so he went in told his
girlfriend we went back to the fire
station we drive around the fire station
he pulls up in front of the door and
puts it in reverse and then he proceeds
to back into the door at the fire
station and yes he did damage to the
door and then after he backed into the
door he pulled forward and then he hit
the garage door opener and backed the
truck into the garage so they just
reinforced my rule that you do not let
students drive home after they have
passed a road test so yes all right
Carson I have crashed my car while I had
my permit I think I have a car trauma
and a nervous I'm going to fail my road
test tomorrow no Carson you're not gonna
fail your road test tomorrow
visualization visualize yourself passing
your road test and I see quarries put up
the video here a couple of videos for
you on passing a mock road test this
will give you all the information and
what to expect on your road test as well
9 tips to reduce fear and anxiety and
again say to yourself I can do this I am
a good driver I'm going to pass ok and
put all these tips in place the one
other one that you might want to have a
look at there's some information in
there is 10 tips to pass your road test
10 top tips there and Koryo get that up
for you as well jadynn by the way I
wrote a new tigress at Busch Gardens but
the end the ride had busted a hip sounds
like it sorry here that Jaden okay
awesome okay so I just want to go back
to Gordon's comment here about traffic
skills declining I don't think that
traffic skills are declining and I I
would argue that what has declined is
people's exposure to driving a lot of
people coming to the task of driving
when they are eligible to get their
license now have never driven before a
lot of these there are a lot of people
even that have not even ridden bicycles
because they live in large metropolitan
areas they haven't ridden a bicycle they
haven't driven and when they come
driving they're absolutely brand new and
have had no experience with driving
whereas when I grew up in a lot of other
people that I know of my age group grew
up on farms we drove tractors we drove
the lawn mower and those types of things
and you know for those of you watching
on the replay for those of you watching
here on the live stream maybe you can
correct me on this or tell me you know
tell the smart drivers what kind of
driving experience you had before you
started driving before you started
working towards getting your license did
you ride a bicycle
did you drive mom and dad's car on back
gravel roads
did you drive farm equipment did you
drive construction equipment did your
dad have a construction equipment and
you drove you know the
and those types of things because before
I came to the task of driving I had a
minibike that I drove back and forth
through work on the gravel roads
I drove tractors on the farm I drove old
trucks on the farm I learned to drive
standard I think when I was 13 or 14
years old because we had one on our farm
that we drove around in the field
I drove snowmobiles in the winter time I
drove dirt bikes and those types things
so before I actually came to the task to
the to learning how to drive to going
and getting my license I'd already had
heaps and heaps of experience about
driving vehicles without a license so I
think what's happening with what Gordon
is saying is is that it's not that
driving skills are declining I would
argue that people don't have the same
amount of experience that they did 20 or
30 years ago when most people grew up on
farms and they then they had all kinds
of driving experience riding bikes and
motorbikes and old trucks and those
types of things before they even went to
get their license so I don't think that
driving skills are declining I'm
thinking that people are starting
farther and farther back than what they
were 20-30 years ago so just you know if
you're like I said watching on the
replay you're watching now just let me
know what your experience is in terms
when you came to get your driver's
license did you already have a whole
host of driving experience or do you can
come to a completely new completely
fresh never been in a vehicle before
okay ah Jaden by the way I wrote okay
well he said that one say if there are
two lanes of traffic you need to go
through the lane you are not turning on
to like coming out of a gas station oh
okay so I know what you're saying now
Gordon so you come out of a gas station
the gas station is on the corner of the
intersection and you want to turn left
most of the time you know if traffic is
busy you're not going to be able to do
that you're not gonna be able to make a
left-hand turn because you can't make
the left-hand turn from the right-hand
Lane you've got to get over into the
left turning lane so no you shouldn't be
able to do that and if people are trying
to do that and force their way over then
those people I'm sure we all have some
choice words for those people who are
trying to force their way through
traffic now on the other hand there are
going to be some people who are just
gonna let these people in I mean
no if I was coming up and I saw the
person they're trying to get over I
would simply leave enough space and just
let them go it depends on the situation
depends on who's in the vehicles and
what cars are there and those types of
things but yeah that's basically my take
on it Tommy I learned from this channel'
accidents are also caused due to drivers
making unexpected moves
I had a car pull in front of me at an
intersection while I had the green light
and yes and that is an excellent example
Tommy about what you're talking about
they're people making unpredictable
moves on the roadway and this is this
goes back to what Gordon here is talking
about people make pulling out of a fuel
station at the corner of an intersection
and then trying to get over into the
left-hand Lane so they can turn laughs
that's an unpredictable fashion and
sometimes that's going to result in a
traffic crash and people are going to be
involved in traffic crashes and being
unpredictable and one of my favorite
questions in terms of driver training is
I say to students what does a green
lightning and students will inevitably
say to me it means I can go well that's
not the right answer it's it's the right
answer but it's not the best answer the
best answer is you can proceed if the
way is clear and this goes back to what
Tommy's saying here that people that we
expect the intersection to be clear when
the light is green but don't rely on
that right so inexperienced drivers
novice drivers with not a lot of
experience are gonna go through the
intersection there I got a green light I
got the good go
but veteran drivers experienced drivers
who've had some sort of incident and now
the Tommies had this experience you're
gonna be going through the intersection
you're gonna be scanning the
intersection looking at the intersection
to make sure the intersection is clear
before you enter that intersection and
that's one of the things that you need
to do for defensive driving managing
space knowing that the way is clear and
it's clear for you to proceed and most
of the time 99.9 percent of the time the
intersection will indeed yes be clear
because the light is green and it's good
for you to go but you still need to
check okay because there are other
people who are going to be
unpredictable so just keep that in mind
all right excellent
thank you so much for that Tommy luck
the person turn their car to the point
where I hit them from behind bummer
okay Marsha hey Rick thanks for your
videos I passed my road test last week
Wednesday after failing six times
excellent that is some some serious
tenacity
congratulations Marsha that is just
really brilliant that you finally passed
your road test and we're so glad that we
can help out and Coria put the link up
there for if you haven't done so already
if you could sign up for the hundred K
program that would be tremendously
awesome and just let us know that you
were successful aft on your on your
seventh attempt there brilliant Cory
Cory Cory Cory merging two lanes over
instead of one at a time out of the
yield scenario yes excellent okay Gladys
hello hi there
welcome to the live stream Jayden and
when me and my mom are on the freeway
last night we saw an unmarked charger
Dodge Charger not see what police state
was not even in okay Gordon a lot of
drivers think they are giving courtesy
as opposed to the process of signaling
okay Carson should I back into the
parking spot when I show up at the test
and how do I line up my wheels inside
the lines okay Carson most of the time
yes I have heard of some licensing
centers but they do have signs that they
don't want you to back into this into
the spot but for the most part if there
aren't any signs then yes reverse into
the spot and Cory will put the video up
for you on reverse stall parking and
that will help you out to learn how to
back up the other thing Carson I will
give you just as a tip most of the time
when you're in a parking lot and the
lines are there for the parking lot if
you look in front and there's cars
parked in front those parking spots will
line up with ones behind you so if you
look out the windshield and line
yourself and the vehicle up with the
parking space in front of you oftentimes
that will allow you to back straight
into the space that you're in the other
piece that I advocate for students is is
that when you're backing into a parking
space look at the park beside another
vehicle it's a lot easier to line
yourself up off another vehicle than it
is to
try and line your vehicle up with the
car now if you have a modern vehicle and
some people some of the smart drivers
here on the live stream some of the
smart drivers watching on the replay
will have the newer vehicles because I
know myself a couple years ago I rented
a Nissan their SUV and when you put it
into reverse the mirrors would tilt down
so that you could see the lines on the
pavement so those will help you out as
well if it does that automatically if it
doesn't do it automatically then don't
do it but what I advocate is parking
beside another car and that just makes
it a lot easier Ajay I agree riding my
bike has given me awareness skills when
driving and looking far ahead to see
hazards and yes I agree with you AJ I've
ridden my bicycle a lot and it really
helps you out on the road test ah Gordon
I told my brother before his road test
you might watch in front of you not just
the green light yes that's an excellent
piece of wisdom you imparted to your
brother there Gordon excellent the show
I got my end next Wednesday at ICBC in
Vancouver Island should I Drive down
where the test is for a week okay so the
show you're not on Vancouver Island but
you're going down to Vancouver are you
doing it in Victoria are you doing it
somewhere else on Vancouver Island
therefore your road test Tommy I was not
charged by the police my accident but I
decided to look into my defensive
driving hence why I'm here and excellent
and the other thing that I'll put up
here Tommy that you might consider and
all of those watching here on the replay
you can pick up the defensive driving
course over at the smart drive test
website for 17 dollars okay so 17
dollars that's the price of the course
over there and it will go through step
by step the four different kinds of
crashes it'll go through different
driving in adverse weather conditions
and those types of things but it is over
there you can have a look at it you can
get all the information if you're
interested I can go over the different
components of that course I think it'll
take you about three or four hours to
complete the course it's a completely
self-paced online course
good course excellent course and we'll
give you all the skills and information
and also I did driver training last
winter for the highway through hell
movie crew for those of you have seen
the movie highway through hell and they
also gave me an endorsement to put up
there on the website and they were able
to survive through the winter
running the Coquihalla Highway and we
remain crash free with the help of my
winter driving and defensive driving
course so have a look at that as well
and Cory's put the link up there for the
defensive driving course so definitely
consider that and that will give you all
the skills and give you a lot of good
information tips and techniques that you
can put in place that will help you to
remain crash free all right okay the
show today to do okay so there Marsha
Cory put up the link for the 100k
campaign there's the video for the
reverse tall Park the show also can I
use a backup camera during my test how
do I have to turn off the screen with
doing the test the show you don't have
to do that
but definitely have a look out the back
window while you're backing up okay you
can use you can kind of glance at the
backup camera but do not use it as your
primary source of observation for
backing up you have to look out the back
window okay the show I live in Vancouver
alameen I should practice the road test
route for a week oh yes and the other
thing show if you haven't taken driving
lessons the other thing I would suggest
you do is get in contact with one of the
driving schools down there Steve you
can't think of his last name right now
he writes the newspaper article and then
there's Drive wise there's a couple
other driving schools just get them to
do a mock road test for you and that'll
help you out okay Brandon I failed my
driving test because I wasn't decisive
enough how do I overcome this Brandon
one of the ways that you overcome that
is through practice and the other thing
that I would suggest you do is look at
the video on learn to drive in choreo
put that up for you and because
basically what I think they're trying to
say to you in terms of you just don't
have enough mastery over the primary
control so the primary control is to
break the steering wheel and the
throttle and if you can strengthen your
fundamental skills with the primary
controls by doing the exercises and to
learn to drive video that will improve
your overall driving and if you can
improve your fundamentals slow speed
maneuver skills that's going to prove
your overall driving and make you more
decisive when you're driving and then
you're going to be successful on your
road test excuse me all right so there's
the link okay lots of people questions
here we go Sebastian hello Sebastian AJ
just six manual driving in six lessons
AJ what did you say where did you go
where'd you go where'd you go
do you think $250 is too much for six
stick shift driving lessons um my manual
driving lesson courses should be that
should be in a course oh my god $250
okay AJ Cory I'll put up the video
series for you on manual transmission
and how to learn how to drive a manual
transmission I would suggest you have a
look at that and then you can decide
whether you want to spend the $250 now
Sebastian how much study do you think is
necessary to be ready for a CDL license
had my license for just 18 months now
okay CDL license Sebastian are you
talking about a tractor-trailer unit are
you talking for a boss or straight truck
just let me know there Gordon last year
was fine hundred dollars for making a
turn that you cannot make after a
certain time the turn was perfect yet I
still got a ticket I found that a little
overbearing yes Gordon unfortunately you
made a turn contrary to a sign that's
that's the technical offence and
essentially there was a sign over the
intersection and it doesn't allow you to
make a turn at certain times and we have
those here in Vernon there in most
cities and essentially what they're
trying to do is they're trying to reduce
congestion by preventing people making
turns because when people make turns at
intersections it causes the traffic to
slow down now I can't comment on whether
the officer was being overbearing or
whatnot there's just too many variables
that
go into that for me to comment on it but
yes sometimes they're gonna let you off
sometimes they're not it depends on who
you get pulled over by I have heard
stories that people that police officers
who work just traffic they're gonna be a
bit overbearing so that may or may not
been what it happened for you uh Hatter
AE I know this guy who can make me pass
my license you were the best thank you
so much for that that's excellent Jaden
I completely forgot where'd you go
where'd you go where'd you go the new
tigress is actually powered by Magnus
and yes I'm not making this up and
Belinda hello Belinda from Toronto
welcome to the live stream
Nika hey Rick what is the school's own
speed here in Kelowna if the speed limit
is not posted down below the sign okay
dica in dica India I'm sorry I wasn't
saying that correctly
Cori I'll put up the video on school
signs for you and if there isn't a speed
sign on it it's probably not a school
zone and you're you're well within your
mandate to be confused about school
signs because there's about five
different goofy school signs so they're
they can be a bit confusing but Corey
I'll put that up for you and that'll
help you out okay Belinda this Saturday
drove to Hamilton second time I caught
myself and it turned out well though
exciting the wrong exit but I did good
on the way back three months old driver
that is awesome congratulations Belinda
and thank you for sharing that success
story with us and just one tip that I'll
give you Belinda in terms of finding the
correct exit the next time you go and do
that or driving on the freeways the 401
and the 403 and those those types of
freeways down there where you're at just
have a quick look at Google to your
destination where you're gonna go and
pick up the the mile marker number and
when you pick up the mile marker number
when you're driving down the interstate
and say for example that you're going to
mile marker 380 which is the exit number
right 380 and you're driving down and
you get to 375 well you know that your
exit is five kilometers down the road
once you get to 379 you know it's a
kilometer down the road and you're
getting get off the next exit and that
will really help you out with your
navigation okay Gladys you know how many
buses have rear steering
soles those make the buses push out on
other lanes how can you avoid an
accident like that I almost got creamed
by a boss of doing a left turn what I
would suggest you Gladys is larger
vehicles give them plenty of space okay
lots and lots of space just stay away
from them okay because as you said they
have wide swings so you want to stay
away from them bigger vehicles lots of
space and basically the rule of thumb is
is that when you're behind the vehicle
if you can't see the driver in the
mirrors the driver in the mirrors can't
see you so that's one of the rules of
thumb that you want to keep in place
okay so Sebastian you're going to be
doing a bus basically for a bus it's
about two weeks of driver training
Sebastian it's not very long it's pretty
straightforward you're just learning
about you know how to do the pre-trip
inspection how to drive the vehicle down
the road and how to reverse the bus and
that's basically what you're going to do
for a bus and won't take you that long
change why did you decide to become a
driving instructor change the reason I
became a driving instructor was to try
and get off the road because in nineteen
in the 1990s I was driving truck long
haul so I was running from Canada in the
United States I was gone for you know
weeks at a time and I just didn't have a
life and it was one of the ways that I
saw myself sort of as you know bridging
the transition to get off the road and
actually I mean you know now it's worked
out but I mean at the time it was a
pretty tough go and it wasn't a smooth
transition it took me a pretty long time
because interesting enough in the
province of Ontario they certify you to
teach people how to drive a tractor
trailer unit and how to pass air brakes
and whatnot but it's kind of an
unwritten rule in the industry that
nobody really tells you that you need to
go and get your car instructors license
because in the province of Ontario you
are actually licensed to be a car
instructor license but if you want to do
everything else buses and trucks and
whatnot you have to have that
fundamental license so that's what
happened that's how why I went to get my
license because I was trying to come off
the road and try and make the transition
away from being an over-the-road truck
driver so that's why I became a licensed
instructor now and that just continued
on because then I started
you know getting all of these questions
about traffic crashes and whatnot
and how to avoid traffic crashes and
then I got in if you go and look at my
biography and quarry I'll put up the
link for you about my autobiography
where I was having an argument with
another truck driver about the speed on
the 401 Highway in Ontario and I was
saying that the speed limit was 120
kilometers an hour and he was saying it
was a hundred kilometers an hour what
and the posted speed limit was 100
kilometers an hour but I was arguing
that if you do anything less than 120
kilometers an hour you're not gonna get
a speeding ticket and we had a pretty
intense conversation about that and then
I realized you know I kind of asked
myself the question you know why the
people obey traffic laws is it because
they respect traffic laws or because
they fear traffic laws and that was
really the really deep question that I
went back to University and just kept
you know doing traffic and policing so
you know and Here I am today with a
YouTube channel doing quite well with
all of this information and knowledge so
thanks okay
Gordon Hamilton is nightmarishly busy
yes it is else you helped me get my
driver's license thank you sir you're so
much appreciated and you are incredibly
welcome we so glad that we could help
you out thanks for letting us know else
and again if you could go over and sign
up for the for the Hunter K program
that'd be great okay
Gordon veteran complaints about the
contemporary trucking industry can cite
that there are numerous unskilled
truckers can you attest to that yes and
I can Gordon and again you know this is
a long conversation this is a long
conversation about the truck driving
training industry in the United States
and Canada they do have something to
answer for there's there's no doubt
about it that the the training is not up
to the standard that it should be
particularly with the amount of rules
and regulations and compliance that are
required by new truck drivers and the
amount of skill that's needed to be able
to drive a tractor trailer unit
particularly in urban areas and we can
have a longer discussion about this
another time but we're getting near the
end of the hour here so we're just going
to wrap up so again for all of those of
you watching on the live stream
you very much for those of you watching
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have a great night bye now

How to Get Your License to Drive Any Vehicle

Smart Drive Test:

Hi there smart drivers. Rick with smart
drive test talking to you today about
getting a license for any vehicle. so
we'll talk mostly about passenger
vehicles but we'll touch on CDL drivers
as well and going to truck driver school
to get your truck or bus Larry license
to start as a CDL drivers stick around
we'll be right back with that
information how these smart drivers
welcome back Rick with smart drive test
talking to you today about getting your
first license what you need to do the
steps to put in place and learning how
to drive and just bear with me for one
sec here I just need to what is going on
here just bear with me I'll just fix not
sure why I'm not as bright as it should
be white balance there we'll try and fix
that there we go okay so we got a few
people here already
Courtney's here each of the Sierra
Katie's here from Arkansas
Kingsville Courtney wants to know how to
pass her license we're gonna talk about
that Jonathan's here from New York Carl
is here thanks for your insights on how
to drive safely appreciate your wisdom
Kerry you're most welcome Razzies tuning
in from vancouver british columbia
Jada's here from Rochester New York
Cory's here from Manitoba roses here
Yummy's here al Maz this year so hello
everybody and if you're just tuning in
let us know where you're tuning in from
and what class of license you are going
for in the world and we'll answer any
questions you have well passing a road
test starting your career as a truck or
bus driver or staying crash free no
suffering the results of being involved
in a crash not
and your insurance rates go up in those
types of things so we're gonna help you
with all of those types of things so
yummy says that his or her road test is
next week I do apologize and GLaDOS is
here integral is here as well so we have
a few people here my test is on the 23rd
excellent Jennifer's going for her test
as well so we'll give you lots of tips
about going for the actual practical
road test because that's what a lot of
you are going to be doing Doris is here
from Charlotte Doris is that Charlotte
North Carolina that you're tuning in
from just let us know there in the
comments as well awesome and Cory bricks
for wheels is the moderator Cory helps
out with getting up the videos that I
suggest that you have a look at to pass
a road test and be successful on that
and so without further ado just bear
with me here one sec there we go and
just getting over to the PowerPoint
presentation here to get going
transition there we go so and we'll
answer your questions after the
PowerPoint presentation I'll do the
PowerPoint presentation so getting a
license we're gonna get you a road test
we're going to get you your learner's
permit you must anywhere in the world
GLP programs graduate licensing programs
you must have a learner's license it's a
written test that you go in you answer
questions for new drivers is usually 50
questions for CDL drivers it's going to
be 35 questions you need to go in and
answer those questions get your
learner's permit before you can actually
go out and start driving in the vehicle
with an experienced driver who's going
to teach you and help you and mentor you
along to get your license so that's what
you need to do first and we're going to
talk about that in more detail
philsie a new to smart drive test my
name is Rick August I was a truck driver
through most of the 1990s in 2002 I
moved to Australia to pursue a graduate
degree in legal history which is the
study of police in courts and prisons
and my expertise oddly enough is in
policing as it relates to traffic and
while I was going to university I drove
truck for great hour drove buses rather
for Greyhound and along that path I
became a licensed commercial driving
instructor in 1997 I've also often the
book
airbrakes explained simply fellows are
working towards the CDL license head
over to the smart drive test website and
have a look at that and Corey put the
link up free of that as well and if you
pass a license in the last a while click
the link down below in the description
there and head over for the smart drive
test hundred k campaign we're handing
out prizes every month for fuel cart and
also we're trying to help 100,000
drivers earn their license this year so
learners license for those new drivers
passenger vehicles start the clock as
soon as possible because now because New
Zealand implemented a GLP program in
1987 in most countries in the world
followed suit with the GLP graduated
licensing program or GDL graduated
driver's license you have to have your
learner's for a minimum of one calendar
year so get your learner's the day that
you turn 16 the day that you are
eligible to get your learner's that way
you'll get the clock ticking and be able
to get on to the novice phase of your
learner's license as soon as possible
this is the same for CDL drivers even
before you go down to truck driving
school and sign up for classes go and
get your learner's license you have to
have your learner's license the
knowledge test is going to be
approximately 50 questions they're
multiple-choice there's four possible
right answers and again the knowledge
test is going to be a process of
elimination and this is where my tagline
comes from pick the best answer not
necessarily the right answer so know
your road signs along the routes know
basic right-of-way attitude driving
tasks the six factors of the driving
task light weather driver vehicle road
and traffic and you also need to know
the terminology of driving and roll
systems infrastructure painted islands
right-of-way yield those kinds of
terminology are all going to be part of
parcel of the test and for CDL drivers
you're also going to be given images and
you're going to have to determine who
has the right-of-way or which the right
course of action is going to be so this
is becoming more and more prevalent
amongst computer tests and know that for
the purposes of a knowledge test it's
not gonna be paper-based in other words
they're not gonna give you a test and
set you at a desk and you're gonna sit
down and do it most driving centers now
are going to be computer-based tests so
you're gonna sit there with
computer-based tests and I'll just go
back up here for just one second here in
problems in British Columbia when you do
a theory test you can skip some of the
test questions so if you're not sure
what the answer is right away you can
skip it and the question will go to the
bottom of the queue so it's a randomized
set of questions that they pull from a
pool if you skip the question or go to
the bottom of the queue and if you don't
answer 80% right so 50 questions you
need to get 40 of the 50 correct if you
get 40 to 50 correct you won't see that
question again however if you don't get
40 of the 50 questions correct that test
that question will come back up and
oftentimes you'll have enough time to
sort of think about it let it mull over
in the back of your brain and you'll get
the question right so most new drivers
for passenger vehicles are going to
enter into the GLP program the GDL
program there you're gonna have to have
a mentor these going to be the
restrictions on your license you're
going to have to have a mentor in the
vehicle and the province of Ontario that
mentor has to have four years of
experience and you'll see that by the
four dots underneath the picture on the
license that indicates that the driver
has four years experience you are not
allowed to have passengers in the
vehicle unless they are direct relatives
to your mom dad sibling grandpa grandma
okay zero blood alcohol no you have cell
phone restrictions you're not supposed
to be able to have any cell phones
nighttime driving you're not going to be
able to drive between 1:00 and 5:00 in
the more
and there's no highway driving on 400
highways in the province of Ontario so
these are general restrictions that
you're going to have on your license as
a learner driver have a look at your
jurisdiction in your drivers manual to
understand your restrictions as well
okay
mentors can be parents families friends
and pick a mentor who's gonna spend some
time with you and has time to drive with
you the other thing with your learner's
license and I suggest this not in the
weeks leading up to your road test but
in the months before you move to the
novice phase and take your practical
on-road test drive as many different
vehicles as you can work with as many
different people as mentors as you can
because if you can do that you're gonna
be much more prepared for your road test
because if you got a lot of different
people in the vehicle that you've worked
with who are helping you to learn how to
drive it's not going to be as daunting
when the stranger who's going to be the
driving examiner gets in the vehicle and
sits down beside you so after you go
through the learner phase which is one
year you're going to enter into the
novice phase the novice phase is a
minimum of two years in the GLP program
or the GDL program your passenger
restrictions you can only have one
passenger in the vehicle I know somebody
years ago who worked in traffic safety
and their son was in the novice phase of
his license and his his dad went out and
bought him a sports car that was a coupe
and only had two seats in it that way he
knew that he was only gonna have one
passenger in the vehicle and not other
ones because it didn't have a trunk
either so you know it's not unusual for
drivers in the novice phase on their end
to have passengers in the trunk and
those types of things because if they
get pulled over by police there are
fines for that and you can face being
assigned demerits and you'll lose your
license so it's no cell phone use zero
blood alcohol can't drive between 1:00
and 5:00 in the morning and they're
harsh road harsher penalties for
speeding tickets failing to give the
right of way dangerous actions and those
types of things so you can lose your
license most veteran drivers are allowed
15 points on their license no obvious
drivers are only allowed 9 points at 6
points they're called in for a review
about why they should keep their license
all right so we had a few people saying
they're going for road tests this week
road test consists of four fundamental
components it doesn't matter if it's a
passenger vehicle it's a bus or a truck
they are all the same regardless of
where you in the world what class of
license you're going for speed
management space management observation
and communication speed management
posted speed limit or the flow of
traffic whichever is less and for those
driving bigger vehicles the capability
of the vehicle if you're going up a hill
for example and the speed limit is 80
kilometers now are the vehicle only is
60 well then you can only do 60
kilometers an hour okay space management
you have to manage space around your
vehicle so you're not near other road
users you're not near fixed objects you
never want a driving examiner go because
if you get a sharp intake of breath on
the part of the examiner
you're never gonna regain that trust and
unfortunately at that point if the
examiner does that it's pretty much all
over they're gonna get to drive back to
the test center and you're not gonna get
another opportunity so manage space well
following this - 2 to 3 seconds for
passenger vehicles up to 5 seconds for
CDL vehicles stopped in traffic so you
can see the tires of the vehicle in
front making clear contact with the
payment stopping at all intersections
either behind the stop line behind the
crosswalk or sidewalk line or at the
edge where the two roads beat and
something else I was going to say about
that no I think I got all that okay
observation you need to observe
correctly you need to have a scanning
patter in place far down the road in
check the centromere far down the road
both shoulders in check your instrument
panel down the road in check your wing
mirrors and then repeat that pattern
every eight to twelve seconds and you
need to shoulder check every time you
move the vehicle sideways you change
lanes or you make turns minimum to
shoulder checks when you're reversing
you have to look out the back window and
for every vehicle Inc that you back up
you need to stop the vehicle and do a
360-degree scan around your vehicle so
anytime that you're doing a parking
maneuver before you execute the maneuver
or move the vehicle you have to do a
360-degree scan and then lastly you have
to communicate effectively with other
traffic and the ways we communicate in a
vehicle lights and signals horn we
I contact we're not sure what a
pedestrian or a cyclist is doing we get
eye contact with that pedestrian or
other road user hand signals hand
gestures make sure you use all five
fingers don't tell another road users
are number one especially on a road test
and then finally the position of your
vehicle on the roadway is going to
communicate intent okay and then finally
you can be right or you can be dead
right so in other words if another
driver even though you legally have the
right-of-way and you can go if you force
the situation you risk being involved in
a crash so don't do that
so sometimes you're gonna have to give
up the right of way even though legally
you have it to avoid a crash okay so
slow speed maneuvers parallel parking
three-point turn two-point reverse turn
stall parking u-turns so out of all of
these slow speed maneuvers the ones you
can be guaranteed on just about any road
test anywhere in the world parallel
parking three-point turn and curb
Parkington two points are reversed all
parking those are almost guaranteed on
any road test anywhere in the world okay
as I said earlier get as much practice
as you can practice in different
vehicles practice in different
environments and different weather
different road conditions different
vehicles as much practice you can get
not in the weeks leading up to your test
but in the months before your while
you're still in your learner's face okay
practice the road test three weeks out
book a practice driving test with a
local driving school and book that
ideally 7 to 10 days before your test
that way the driving instructor can give
you specifically feedback about the
skills that you need to improve for the
purposes of passing your road test and
you've got time to do that it's better
to spend a little bit of money take a
driving practice test with a local
driving instructor then failing your
road test and trying to rebuild your
confidence because it can take a couple
of weeks to rebuild your confidence if
you're unsuccessful on your road test so
book a practice driving test with a
local driving school remember driving
instructors teach students how to pass a
road test every day ok so good luck in
your road test and remember
pick the best answer not necessarily the
right answer will flip back over here
and get on to answering questions that
anybody has about passing a road test so
there we go
Quarry put up the link for the hundred K
campaign epic is here
volcanic can you answer one of my
questions okay volcanic yes I can drop
that in there volcanic and we'll do what
we can to answer that for you and as
well for those of you watching on the
replay for those of you here now if you
have a specific question
there's always super chat available if
you super chat I definitely will answer
your question before you do the best I
can
okay there you go thanks Corey for that
Jonathan school zones have posted speed
limits and other warning signs like a
crosswalk make sure you abide by them
yes that is an excellent point that
Jonathan made if you speed in a school
zone know that that is an automatic fail
on a road test
okay so school is back in session we
talked about that last week I've got a
couple of videos that I need to crunch
to put up on stories here I'll get those
up for you but know that there are
several different kinds of signs and of
the traffic signs that are available
school signs tend to be the ones that
are not consistent around the world most
traffic sign most school signs are for
example here in Canada in the United
States it's a Pentagon so it's shaped
like a house with two people on it and
they could be different colors it can be
black on white it can be white on blue
it could be black on neon so it's it's
different different colors are not
consistent in Europe and in the UK the
school signs are inverted triangles red
border with two people on them so it's
the only consistent part is the
symbolism on the nervous on the sign so
that's what you need to do okay Yemi how
can I control my nerves
okay Yemi you're having your road test
this week right can you just let me know
that you're having your
test and then I'll talk a little bit
about how to control your nerves but
most for the most part we all are have
nerves when we get tested I mean even if
I went up for a road test right now and
I was being tested in a vehicle I would
still have nerves but know that you have
nerves breathe all the way into your
navel know that because that will force
your body to relax okay
but know that you got nerves and just do
it anyway and focus in you know just get
rid of all distractions try not to talk
to the person in the car and focus on
what you need to do okay
ah yes I uh
Rahzel what's the school playground zone
does not have the 30 kilometer zone the
ICC book only says to slow down if
children are present what do I do
slow down - all right so razzle I think
what you're talking about is is that the
school signs that have a regulatory
underside underneath that it says is a
particular speed limit and it says if
children are present along the roadway
so you only slow down if that condition
is present if children are not present
along the roadway you do not need to
slow down okay so if that regulatory
sign that little rectangular black
lettering on white background is not
present you don't have to slow down okay
so know that William I'm 31 Kingsport
Tennessee how long do I have to have a
class-d permit okay Class D there in
Tennessee so William class D just remind
me what Class D is in Tennessee because
you're going for a CDL license I believe
and if you're going for a CDL license
there isn't a time limited there isn't a
graduated licensing program as of yet
for the CDL we'll see what happens here
in the province of British Columbia here
with them revamping the CDL program but
there isn't a time period that you have
to
have your learner's permit it's just
whenever you're ready for your training
usually it's kind of three to four weeks
before you actually go and actually take
your road tests with them okay
epic thanks Jonathan it's a small 814
seater bus if you look at from a bus
dealership website it's a non CDL
requiring bus as a card license
sufficient for one do watch this
low-speed videos okay all event should I
go forty in resident forty kilometers an
hour residential areas no old man no you
shouldn't be doing that you should be
doing fifty kilometers now in a
residential area unless there's a speed
limit that tells you otherwise now
sometimes there are conditions that
mandate that you go slower so for
example if you're honest a small
residential street and there's cars
parked on both sides of the roadway
yes potentially you could go slower you
know down to 40 kilometers an hour but
unless those conditions exist then you
do not want to be slowing down you want
to try and do 50 kilometres an hour as
much as possible
now the other thing that I'll say about
this is that the practice Road test
video that I have put up here on the
channel which I'm also gonna say
congratulations to us the smart drive
test channel because it it's the third
video to pass a million views you'll see
in that video that I rarely get up to
fifty kilometers an hour just because
I'm turning I'm going through school
zones I'm watching for children I'm
going past parts of those types of
things so even if you're driving in a
residential area it's very unlikely that
you're gonna get the vehicle up to the
posted speed limit anyway okay so know
that alright ah presto
will you fail a road test if you go one
mile an hour over just for a second no
presto you will not fail a road test for
going one mile an hour over the speed
limit you will however fail on speed
management if you go five miles an hour
over the speed limit for 20 or 30
seconds because what happens is is if
you are over the speed limit for and
period of time what that means is that
you are not observing properly because
part of the observation that I was
talking about previously was you look
far down the road you come in you check
the mirror down the road again in check
your instrument panel so you're checking
your instrument panel every 10 to 12
seconds as part of that scanning pattern
if you're checking your instrument panel
you're going to see that you are going
too fast and you're going to adjust your
speed so part of what you're going to be
doing in your driving test is adjusting
your speed all the time and Cory I'll
put the video for you as well on speed
control so that you're not doing that
now one of the things that you got to be
careful prèsto and this is one of the
things you need to practice in the days
leading up to your road test is you need
to practice not following the other
traffic because you can be guaranteed
that other traffic on the road is going
higher than the speed limit so don't
follow the other traffic if you're on a
multi-lane Road stay on the right side
and go the posted speed limit because
unfortunately that's one of the
challenges of a road test is that you
got to do the posted speed limit where
no other bloody fool on the roadway is
doing the post that's being limit
everybody else is going five to ten mile
five to eight miles an hour over the
speed limit okay so know that all right
and even in the mock road test video
that I put up I had to go back and
reshoot that portion of the video
because I was going downhill I was
talking narrating the video and all of a
sudden they look down and I'm followed
just following along with the traffic
and I'm going too fast so know that it
happens even to the to those of us who
are veteran drivers ah okay so old man
so my area rarely has posted speed
limits in residential areas and that is
going to be true for most places they
are not going to have speed limits and
that's an excellent point know that in
urban areas so in cities and in villages
and places like that unless otherwise
posted the speed limit is 50 kilometers
an hour or 30 miles an hour unless
otherwise posted and outside of urban
areas and rural areas on highways and
those types of things the posted speed
limit is 80 kilometers an hour 50 miles
an hour unless otherwise posted and that
is
consistent in North America Australia
other places in the world
okay fifty kilometers an hour 30 miles
an hour in the city 80 kilometers an
hour 50 miles an hour outside of the
city okay
swag I failed the test because of poor
steering alright swag what I'm gonna
suggest to you is choreo put the video
up for you on how to learn how to drive
go back to the parking lot revisit the
fundamentals do the figure 8 exercises
drive up to the pylons hit the pylons
have fun in the parking lot working with
the pylons all of that will help you to
control your steering and make you and
give you better awareness of the primary
controls of the vehicle which is the
steering wheel and as well will give you
a better sense of where your vehicle is
in space and place ok
I carry a certain distance out of an
intersection if the light turns yellow
can either come to a hard stop or go
through hope to enter a new yellow
slippery conditions this usually target
which is better
ok so carry its unfortunately this is
one of those situational questions that
you know if you're in the intersection
and you're coming up and all of a sudden
the like goes yellow and catches you out
what do I do do I come to a screeching
stop and yes as a novice driver as a
learner driver taking a road test and
preparing for a road test yes sometimes
you're gonna have to do a hard break and
I have had students do that in a tractor
trailer where they come up with a light
turns yellow and boom they got a lay on
the brakes and they leave some black
marks on the on the roadway so that's
what happens unfortunately you have to
do that for the purposes of a road test
ah after you get your license no you
don't need to come to a screeching stop
stop scan the intersection if it's safe
to go through go through because I'll
tell you if I have a loaded tractor
trailer and I'm doing a fairly decent
clip I'm doing the posted speed limit I
come up with all something the like boom
goes yellow it's unlikely I'm gonna come
to a stop because I'm I just can't get
that unit stopped it's without you know
squealing tires and those types of
things
ok yes as Jonathan said keep practicing
you'll get it okay in Tennessee the
Class D is a passenger vehicle okay
thanks for clarifying that William so
Class D so I'm almost sure that tenant
that Tennessee has
GLP program I'm almost certain that all
states in the u.s. have a GLP program so
if you have a GLP program just look up
in your manual or Williams send me an
email Rick at smart drive test comm and
I'll have a look at the manual for you
there in Tennessee and I'll tell you
whether you're in a GLP program I'm
almost certain that you're gonna be in a
GOP program and if you are you're gonna
have to wait a year okay so there we go
okay Hall phase how are you my friend
introvert you can drive RV in Florida
with your regular license without
special training introvert you can drive
an RV excellent point unless it has air
brakes if you have a vehicle an RV
vehicle that has air brakes you do have
to get an air brake ticket for the
purposes of driving an RV okay
Hall phase Instagram is coming along as
a little bit slower than what I would
hoped but I'm doing some work on that
and I'm working on getting that going
it's just you know I don't know why I
find Instagram a little bit it's
supposed to be so easy you know just
click and do stuff on your butt any
advice that people can give me about
things they want to see on Instagram and
those types of things it's gonna is
gonna help me I wouldn't move it forward
but I've been I'll tell you a bit of a
story and last week I worked all week on
a video and I don't know it was just one
of those videos that was just like the
Sisyphean task you know everybody I
don't know whether everybody knows who
Sisyphus was Sisyphus was the guy that
was sentenced by the gods to roll the
rock up the hill and then it would roll
down at the end of day and he had to
push it up again and the next day well
some of the tasks on YouTube feel like
that and so I made this video last week
I was remaking to learn to drive video
trying to make it shorter in those types
of things and you know it just it didn't
go well I had to shoot the introduction
like four or five times and you know the
I bought a new dashcam that didn't work
out
blah blah blah just one thing after
another and anyway I got to yesterday
and I got it all finished and a friend
of mine said you know you really need to
change these up and you know I came to
the realization that I kind of don't
want to be I I kind of want to be either
patch Adams of teaching driving getting
a license I want this to be fun
and I'm looking some of my videos and
anything is this is not fun this is not
this is about as interesting as watching
paint dry and so this is what I'm trying
to do I'm trying to make all this more
interesting or fun right and I got you
know I you know I went up and talked to
my friend my good friend of mine who's
him and I are both building businesses
and we're trying to figure out how to
scale up our businesses right and you
know at the end of the video I just kind
of let it sit on the shelf and I'm just
gonna I'm gonna shelve it because I'm
gonna go back and shoot it again because
I think that learning how to drive a car
getting in for your first lesson I think
it's your responsibility as new drivers
to kind of drive to have your parents go
what the heck are you doing because it
is important for you to figure out in a
controlled environment in a parking lot
to figure out what the car won't do
right that if you back up and you start
wiggling the steering wheel back and
forth that thing is gonna go out of
control and your part you're gonna have
a really hard time trying to steer that
thing backwards because I want you to
know as smart drivers I want you to know
what your vehicle will and won't do so
that when you get on the roadway and
something happens you're gonna go okay
I'm just gonna let the other person go
I'm just gonna take some space I'm gonna
give them some space
I'm gonna hang back and I'm gonna let
that person go off and have to crash
somewhere else not going oh I got the
right away because that person's at
fault not saying that because I'll tell
you right now one of my beefs about
people saying to me oh it was their
fault or it was his fault her fault
their fault Gramp and grandmas fault we
don't want to be saying that because if
you get in a crash you got a wrecked car
they got a wrecked car maybe you're
injured maybe you got soft tissue damage
that you're gonna be dealing with for
the rest of your life nobody wins so in
the end because you got a wrecked car
who cares whose fault it is now you got
to spend months of your time and energy
dealing with insurance companies dealing
with driving a rental car if you're
lucky enough to get a rental car and you
know where is five seconds of oh hey
wait a minute
I just need to back off and give this
person a little space here a few seconds
out of your day could have sent saved
you months and months and months of
grief so this is what I want to do this
is what I need you to understand is I
need you to understand what the vehicle
will and won't do and I need you to have
a really good attitude about saying hey
that guy's being a moron let that person
go and have to crash somewhere else and
I'll just move on with my happy day so
that's why that's my goal with teaching
and also I wanted to have to be fun okay
so that's what I'm working on in the
back of my head all right Katie
I is it normal to be nervous backing up
for new driver who are learning to drive
yes it is Katie and I'll tell you a
funny story about that Katie I had my
wife at the time her sister had a
learning disability she had dyslexia and
she had difficulty learning how to back
up out behind their house where we lived
in Australia there was this long
alleyway and there were fences on both
sides and there was probably I don't
know maybe 18 inches on each side of the
car and it was an automatic car so it
wasn't that hard - she didn't have to
manipulate the collection what not but I
would make her back all the way down
that alley and literally I'm not kidding
you Katie she would get out of the car
and she would be pouring sweat like
literally dripping in sweat because she
was so nervous backing that car up but
you want to know something even though
she had a learning disability because I
did those exercises with her because I
took her down to the parking lot and I
got her to do reverse figure eights and
forward figure eights and the pylons and
screeching forward and nailing on the
brakes and doing hard acceleration and
those types of things she was an
excellent driver once she passed a road
test and she passed a road test first
time and she learned to become a better
driver so Katie it's totally normal to
be nervous when you're backing up and to
be uncomfortable with that but if you
can spend some time on that and get
really comfortable with backing up you
are gonna be a better driver overall and
the chances of you passing your road
test first time are going to increase
exponentially so that's what we're gonna
do
all right ah Athena I really enjoy your
time you put into your videos and live
show thank you so much FINA that is
really awesome and hopefully because
this is the thing I've been struggling
with Athena and this is what I just
talked about a little bit is I want all
this to be more fun and that's what I'm
struggling with right now I am
struggling I will I will be quite honest
with you right now and this is probably
the reason that I haven't put up videos
for a little while I haven't made any
new videos for a couple of months the
reason is is because I look at the
videos and I go out okay I'm doing the
same thing that I was doing before and I
could make these way more fun I just got
to figure out how to make them want more
fun and I think I just got to let myself
off the chain a little bit and you know
go for it so that's what I need to do
alright so but thank you so much for
your comment that really keeps me going
here alright
presto I have been driving for about a
month and my parents say I can't drive
their suburban is this a good idea
what's different about driving a truck
and SUV versus a car that makes it so
much harder okay presto it's not that
it's harder it's just bigger okay so you
and and because the vehicle is bigger
there's bigger blind spots around the
vehicle as well trucks and SUVs don't
have the same turning radius they have a
higher center of gravity that's a kind
of a technical term which means trucks
and SUVs are more prone to tipping over
in corners so you got to slow down more
when you've around corners and those
types of things so you got to slow down
before you start turning and then
accelerate not accelerate but have a
little bit of power as you're going
through you gotta be pushing the vehicle
through the corners you're going around
and Corey put up the video here I see on
SUVs how to drive in SU techniques and
strategies so if you do want to drive
the other vehicles and I don't know how
far you out press though from your road
test but I would suggest that you you
know maybe try and convince your parents
that you can drive the truck and drive
the SUV and have a look at the video and
the exercises that you can do in the
parking lot maybe go down and do those
first and that would give your parents a
bit
Comfort in letting you drive the SUV and
drive the truck but know that if you can
do that it's gonna make you better a
better driver overall when you're
actually going for your road test to
drive the car because you're gonna find
driving the car a lot easier and I'll
give you a perfect example that I have
an old Honda CRV CR V stands for
comfortable runaround vehicle you know
for bombing around town it's a great
thing and get into parking lots really
easily in those types of things a little
SUV right my mate has a $2,500 and
pickup is huge it has the turning radius
of you know the Queen Mary and you know
getting into a parking lot I mean
there's one parking lot we go to the pub
downtown here you can't even he can't
even get in the parking lot let alone
park the vehicle in the we got to park
on the road whereas the SUV you just go
into the parking lot bomb into the space
stop carry on with your life right so
know the size differences also the blind
area is the areas that you can't see
around your vehicle are much more
substantial as well alright she you
passed your road test awesome where
which stayed in the United States there
did you pass your road test okay presto
about seven months out before I'm
eligible for my road test so that that's
awesome presto if you who drive the
truck in the SUV you can get used to
that you can drive with your mom and
drive with your dad your uncle you know
the abominable snowman all those types
of things when you get your road test
and that stranger gets in the vehicle
with their little clipboard you're gonna
be just like yeah hey chill whatever
you're gonna be Hey Dude how's it going
right you know and you're gonna nail it
so the more experience you can get
driving other vehicles the better
prepared you're gonna be for your road
test in seven months all right Jonathan
I became nervous about backing up
because a friend of mine lost their life
because my friend was the driver driver
blind spot didn't really make sense
Katie can you just I'm sorry here but
you lost too as well that's awful okay
Brazil when you're going down a hill
should you break the long enough to go
slightly below the speed limit then
release the brakes as you drive down
should you be repeating this when you
are about to go over the speed limit
okay Rozelle what are you driving it
depends on what vehicle you're driving
are you talking about a CDL vehicle or
are you talking about a passenger
vehicle if you're talking about a pass
in your vehicle yes just you're going
downhill and it's gaining speed and
you're trying to maintain the posted
speed limit for the purposes of your
road test yes just ride the brakes a
little bit bring it down a little bit 2
or 3 miles an hour under the speed limit
or 4 or 5 kilometers an hour and then
let it run back up again and then brake
again to do that for the purposes of
your road test and maintaining proper
speed control for the purposes of your
road test Katie went merging onto the
highway are we supposed to continue
accelerate when getting on the shoulder
getting on while shoulder checking ok
Katie this is this is another one of the
videos that I need to remake and I need
to make this better for students because
I've had the same question over and over
again with students and it's a valid
question and I'm going to try and answer
that question in a in a new and improved
more in the bottle merging onto the
highway video and one of the things that
you need to do Katie when you're merging
onto the freeway is as you come around
oftentimes you come around on a loop and
then you get onto the on-ramp portion
before you get on to the acceleration
ramp and the acceleration ramp you know
it's the acceleration lamp ramp portion
of the getting onto the freeway because
it has continuity lines on the left and
continuity lines are twice as wide and
half as long as regular dividing lines
and those continuity lines tell you that
the lane that you're in is either going
to and
or it's going to exit ok so that's what
continuity lines meet when you get onto
that when you come around on the on-ramp
on the loop there and you're still on
the on-ramp you're looking out on the
freeway measuring the traffic if you can
for the most part and you're picking the
spot that you're going to merge into and
you're going to aim for that spot so as
you get you're already as you're coming
on the on-ramp you're already checking
the traffic over here and picking your
spot so once you get out into the
acceleration lane on most places I know
there are some places in the United
States and other freeways and
interstates and those types of things
that you have a very short acceleration
lane but hammer down pedal-to-the-metal
gas on that puppy get that thing going
ok get up to speed I mean unless it's
bumper-to-bumper traffic on the freeway
but for the most part know that the
faster you go and one of the smart
drivers pointed this out a little while
ago in a comment the faster the traffic
is going the spaces between the vehicles
is bigger if the traffic is going slow
the spaces are going to be smaller so if
it's going fast and you're gassing on it
to get your vehicle up to speed
aim for that spot if you're about
halfway down the acceleration lane and
they're not moving over they're not
creating a space for you then what you
do is you move to the left side of the
acceleration link you you use the
position of your vehicle to communicate
to other drivers on the roadway your
intent so in conjunction with the
flashing signal that you're going to
merge out on in the freeway
moving to the left side of your lane
also indicates the view people hey I'm
coming over I am coming over so you move
to the left side of the lane and that
tells other people hey you're not
listening to my signal so now I'm
bringing my whole vehicle over and that
will indicate through traffic that you
were in fact gonna go over but pick your
space aim for your space and that way
you're automatically without even really
thinking about it once you know you're
aiming for that space on the freeway
between the two vehicles that the the
speed will automatically adjust itself
because you're looking at that space and
that's what you're aiming for remember
the vehicle will go where you're looking
all right
okay my friend was in his driveway
driveway was amber was backing out of
the driveway without knowing he was in
in the blind spots oh that's terrible
I know those accidents Katie they're
just awful crashes my condolences about
that and this is an excellent point the
kitty races about her friends crash if
you're in a driveway and there's kids
around or other people just walk around
your vehicle real quick before you get
in and start backing up the driveway
presto any special things I should be
doing while practicing over the next
seven months yes in the next five months
presto what I want you to do is I want
you to drive as many different vehicles
as you can with as many different people
as you can
funny people sad people miserable people
happy people I want you to drive with as
many different people as you can who
have a driver's license to meet the
mentor and criteria of being able to be
with you in the vehicle but the more
people that you drive with the more
vehicles that you drive between in the
next five months you are going to be so
prepared for your license it's just
going to be just like it's going to be a
cakewalk and then in the six to eight
weeks leading up to your road test
practice specifically in one vehicle for
your road test with one mentor don't
don't go with all those other people
that I told you to go with okay and sort
of seven to ten days out before your
road test book a practice driving test
with a local driving school and a
driving examiner will be able to give
you a feedback on the skills and
abilities that you have to have in place
for the purposes of passing your road
test and I will tell you that on the
road test date it's going to be a
cakewalk if you do all that it'll be
easy peasy lemon squeezy okay there you
go
Katie thanks for explaining emerging
you're most welcome justin is stopping
multiple times at a heart to see stop
sign and air it's not an air Justin it
just in kind of indicates that examiner
that maybe you're not really confident
about what you're doing so essentially
what you need to do Justin you need to
come up to the intersection you need to
stop at the correct position so the
three stopping positions before the stop
line before the sidewalk or crosswalk
line and then at the edge where the two
roads meet and then if you can't see
after stopping at the correct stopping
position then creep forward until
you can see and treat it as a yield okay
don't stop several times just keep sort
of inching forward until you can clearly
see the intersection and once you can
clearly see the intersection then
proceed okay Jonathan everyone at all
times when you backup please look before
you go into reverse this applies to
driving in your road test and that is an
excellent point that Jonathan made the
number one reason why people have
backing crashes they move the vehicle
before they look and if you if you want
to do a little social experiment the
next time you come out of the grocery
store or you come out of the shop into a
big parking lot just walk through the
parking lot and watch the drivers
backing up in the parking lot I
guarantee you that you will see these
people to put the thing in to reverse
the movie back a couple of feet and then
they look number one reason why we have
back in crashes and if you're driving a
CDL vehicle please do a walk-around if
you've been away from your vehicle for
any period of time you've been away for
10 or 15 or 20 minutes and you come back
walk around your vehicle because I can
guarantee you that there are people in
passenger vehicles who know nothing
about CDL Vehicles and they will park in
the weirdest places right around your
vehicle and you run into them in those
types of things
some years ago parked down in Chicago on
the side of a road somebody pulled right
up behind me and I was tucked right up
tight against the vehicle friend me
which I shouldn't have been but I was
and backed up a little bit and backed
into the car behind me so know that it
happens okay and it was my fault because
I didn't get out look and I should have
so excellent point that Johnny made
Jonathan made there always always always
look and if you're unsure about the
environment where you're at or you
didn't come from a distance you couldn't
see behind your vehicle when you got in
get out and do a walk-around okay all
right anybody else have questions we'll
answer any more questions that people
have about this one of the other things
that presto can you make a video on
perpendicular parking for beginners I am
currently struggling with traditional
parking with getting into the middle of
the spot
yes presto we do have a video on that
core you'll get that up for you on how
to
verse stall park just watched through
the middle of the video there's also
getting in forward as well into the
parking space but presto if you're going
to drive your mom and dad's truck and
the SUV as well go down to the parking
lot
do those learn to drive exercises with
the cones where you're doing forward
figure eights in Reverse figure eights
driving up though touching the cone with
the front of the vehicle touching the
comb at the back of the vehicle all that
will improve your overall driving and
help you with your parking as well so
know that for the purposes of learning
how to drive and what not
okay Katie you're in Arkansas they're
still they still have a charge of
manslaughter while driving a vehicle
that's interesting because in most other
places in the world they've done away
with the manslaughter charge and it's
driving dangerous driving causing bodily
harm because they have found the legal
profession has has found that juries
particularly but other people you know
other people involved in the legal
system are unwilling to prosecute for
the charge of manslaughter they find
that conviction rates are higher for
this dangerous driving causing bodily
harm so that's interesting that the
state of Arkansas still has that charge
okay Christine could you explain how to
use the side mirrors when parallel
parking
Christine most of the time you're not
going to be using the mirrors when
you're parallel parking you're going to
be I know that some driving examiner's
tell you to take the passenger mirror
and face it down to the roadway I myself
and other driving instructors discourage
you doing that because it takes 30 40
seconds and driving examiner's get a
little bit annoyed when you do that for
the most part you're not going to be
using your mirrors when you're parallel
parking and do have a look at the
parallel park video here as well if
you're if you want to learn how to use
your mirrors and Coryell put this video
for you as well on the Ohio
maneuverability test the Ohio
maneuverability test will will teach you
how to use the mirrors and when you're
backing up and I would suggest that you
go and get some pylons go down to the
parking lot and just practice using
mirrors to reverse your vehicle as well
because yes you can use them but for the
most part for a road test you're not
expected to use them it's going to be
easier for you to change lanes it's
going to be easier to do the Ohio
manoeuvrability test if you're in that
state and required to do that maneuver
for the purposes of a road test but for
the most part it's not required that you
use the wing mirrors but you can learn
how to do that with those exercises so
know that for the purposes of a road
test as well okay Justin when activating
the parking brake should I leave the car
and drive and apply the brake or place
it into park then apply the parking
brake all right Justin so the correct
procedure for putting the parking brake
on is that when you're parking the
vehicle parking brake first so hold the
foot brake parking brake on put the
transmission into park when you're
leaving put the transmission into Drive
hold your foot on the foot brake release
the parking brake and drive off okay so
that's how you do that you want to apply
the parking brake first because you want
the parking the brakes on the vehicle
holding it in place not the transmission
the transmission is a backup okay it's
your backup remember the Serenity
where's the backup where's the backup
that's your backup and for people
driving manual transmissions you
definitely want to put the vehicle in
gear apply the parking brake before you
leave the vehicle unattended because
again if you just leave it in gear you
don't have any backup and I've had
friends who've been driving manual
transmissions and parked it in the
driveway and came out and they're like
where's my car dude where's my car and
they look out in the middle of the road
then the cars rolled down the hill and
it's out in the middle of the road so
into gear parking brake on it and it's
just a good habit to get into and for
those of you driving CDL vehicles apply
the parking brake every time you leave
the vehicle because if you don't you
will not be successful on your road test
that is one of the nursery and passenger
vehicles and CDL vehicles you must apply
in the parking brake every time you
leave the vehicle in a CDL vehicle apply
the parking
so if you don't have that habit already
in place I would encourage you to begin
to develop that habit for driving X she
is in the highway for example the road
speed limit is 55 I Drive 60 but always
some people behind me fall in my car so
close and want to pass which they do in
this case okay first of all do not get
pressured by other people who are
driving and want to drive faster than
sixty miles an hour if they want to
drive faster than sixty miles an hour
it's their responsibility to pass you
just focus on what you're doing and try
not to get annoyed by them I know that
it's that's challenging for certain but
let them go and have their crash
somewhere else okay if you're driving 60
and a 55 that's plenty fast I mean you
know 65 is probably too fast but 66 TS
enough okay
introvert use your key fucked I'd like
to find your car there you go yes that
will work too but yeah you might have
rolled down the hill there and do a
telephone and exploded it a fiery crash
then you and then then your key fob
thing won't work okay
Hall face what happens if I get a ticket
or tickets well in a CDL truck okay so
Hall face if you're driving a CDL
vehicle you have what's called a drivers
abstract and to get a job as a CDL
driver you have to present your your
drivers abstract to the company if you
have too many speeding tickets or you
have overweight fines and those types of
things now overweight fines are not
going to affect your general driving
record but it is going to go on there
because every driver has a CVR number
because the commercial vehicle operator
see CVO commercial vehicle operators
numbers so you as a truck driver have a
CVO or a bus driver you as a company
have a CVO as well because if you if the
company is getting a lot of infractions
the d-o-t this CBSE the MTO they're
going to come in and shut that company
down you as a driver your insurance
rates are going to go up and your
chances of getting a job
are going to
because people don't want to hire a
truck driver who's got three or four
speeding tickets okay one maybe in a
four or five year period but no that's
going to affect your chances of getting
job hired as a job and it goes so it
goes on your drivers abstracts I know
that for the purposes of going on and
becoming a driver okay so as Jonathan
said that goes on your driver record not
to mention driving companies won't touch
you for a good while when you get a
citation which is why I prefer to keep
my driving record clean yes and this
comes back to what I was talking to you
about with my friend yesterday about
sports players and being a commercial
truck driver and driving your passenger
vehicle you can't go to work drive your
commercial vehicle and be all
professional and then come home and
drive your personal vehicle and be a
moron and eat cheeseburgers and get fat
and then go back to playing baseball and
expect to be good at playing baseball
it's the same thing with truck driving
and driving your personal vehicle you
need to be a professional in both you
can't be a professional in one leave
that and go and not be a professional in
your personal vehicle so this is exactly
what Jonathan is is saying about keeping
your personal record clean keeping your
CDL record clean so that way you can get
a job you can look good on the roadway
and do what you need to do in order of
getting a license and bringing you know
looking after your family those types of
things
focus on what you're doing for now and
listen to your parents driving on the
highways and as hard as a lot of to pay
attention and yes and this is another
one of the questions that comes up for
new drivers about driving on highways
they're intimidated by increased speeds
and those types of things keep in mind
that when new drivers when drivers are
driving on highways the faster you go
the spaces between the vehicles are
bigger so it's easier for you to manage
space well around your vehicles and keep
in mind that if you're not near anything
you're not gonna hit anything okay it's
less likely that you're going to hit
something so maintain speed well on the
highway if you're not comfortable with
it maintain a 4 to 5 second following
distance from you and other vehicles
that's going to keep you safe lots of
warning if you're going to change lanes
and paths other vehicles and those types
of things and as well if you're on a
multi
high-waist a to the right okay that way
other vehicles can get around you they
can pass in those types of things and if
you're really uncomfortable and nervous
and it's your first time driving on the
highway go out and drive in the evening
or drive early in the morning when
there's very little traffic out there
and get accustomed to it
that way you're gonna ease yourself into
it and you're gonna do what you need to
do to be able to be get more comfortable
because we're all anxious we'll all
nervous when we're driving it's just a
matter of exposure the more you do it
the more comfortable you're going to get
your skills are going to grow your
ability to be able to do the task at
hand is going to increase and the more
that all of that increases the better
driver you're going to become and it's
gonna be going to become second nature
after a while okay so do all of that ah
Hall phase you're most welcome justin is
this the correct order for parallel
parking apply the brake apply parking
brake place car in park yes yes and then
once you do that and the cars in park
you're in the space you can say to the
examiner I'm finished the vehicle is
secure now I would leave the vehicle an
examiner will well may probably open the
door see how far you are from the curb
they'll go okay fine carry on and then
you do your thing where you're going to
look out the back window you're going to
back up a little bit because you're
going to be too close to the vehicle in
front to pull out you're gonna back up a
little bit you're going to signal a from
your signal shoulder check make sure
there's no vehicles coming and then
you're going to proceed by moving out of
the spot and going back onto the roadway
and accelerating up to speed all right
presto one reason my parents say I can't
do it is because merging is too hard hmm
no it's not too hard it's just something
you have to learn there's no swinging it
being too hard and something you have to
learn it's just something you have to
learn and if you practice doing the slow
speed maneuvers in the parking lot all
of this is going to be easier and again
the my other counsel to you presto is is
that go out and drive around in the
roadways early in the morning
or in the evening when there isn't as
much traffic that way you're going to be
able to focus just on driving the
vehicle and if you're with your parents
they're going to be able to give you
counsel okay start slowing down let's
start to slow down now start to turn
earlier in those types of things is the
thing with the truck and the SUV is that
you're going to have to do things a
little bit sooner because this is the
problem with CDL drivers that are making
the transition from their passenger
vehicle to a big truck and they have to
start gearing down right and their burn
or herb or um they're gearing down and
they're like oh my god I don't have
enough time they need to start doing it
sooner it's the same thing with driving
an SUV or driving a truck you just need
to start breaking a little bit earlier
you need to start breaking turning a
little bit earlier in the intersection
to get around the corner and those types
of things and you need to allow more
space when you're accelerating for
example making left-hand turns or what
not because all the responses of a
bigger vehicle are going to be slower
it's not going to accelerate as fast
it's not going to brake as fast and the
turning radius is a lot bigger so you
just need to allow more time and it's
just a matter of you being able to make
those allowances for the purposes of
driving a bigger vehicle alright John
New Jersey has Road testing real traffic
but parallel park tests with cones and
yes that's not just New Jersey that does
that John lots of states do that as well
for example Ohio has the Ohio
manoeuvrability test the Ohio
materiality test is with cones but the
rest of the road test is out in traffic
okay John make sure the cars you bring
to a road test in New Jersey is a middle
handbrake or on it's unobstructed foot
access to the normal foot brake yes
because and and that's not just for New
Jersey John that's for any state any
place in North America the parking brake
on your vehicle has to work if the
parking brake doesn't work you're not
going to pass your road test you may not
even be able to go out because your
vehicle is considered unsafe so Cory
I'll put the video up for you on doing a
pre trip inspection so if you're taking
your vehicle or you're taking a driving
school beautiful make sure that the
do a pre-trip inspection before you show
for your road test you don't want to be
denied your road test because something
simple isn't working like a brake light
for example something that can be
changed out in ten minutes so make sure
you do a pre-trip inspection on your
vehicle before you head down to show up
for your road test okay uh here we go
over there we go over there we go
alright so head over to the smart drive
test website and pick up past your road
test first time you can find the link
for that down in the description there
Rahzel what are your thoughts on
vehicles like Tesla that have autopilot
is there ever a situation where a driver
even experienced one should be using it
yeah Raziel I think that these are
fairly safe on the highways I think
they've got that more or less figured
out not so much in in town but on the
highways I think it's more or less but I
you know I wouldn't fall asleep or be
texting on my phone or those types of
things I'd be very much paying attention
to what the vehicle was doing because
it's it's about 97% safe
it's that 3% that I don't think I would
you know it's not worth chancing
Courtney I need to know how to pass the
driving test when I go and take my
driving license Courtney talked about
that in the president states
presentation so just go back in the
video to the presentation and go to the
part with speed management space
management observation communication and
that will help you out sir in surrender
whereas u-turn allowed in BC look that
up in the in the index in the driver's
manual tell you all the places as well
look at the u-turn video here on the
channel and that will give you
information about places where you can
do u-turns ah Jonathan I would not
recommend autopilot if it's another
means of cruise control then it's
different yes it is a different it's
it's very much an autopilot Jonathan and
I'm sort of on board with you I still
don't quite trust it
presto my dad's Genesis has an electron
electronic parking brake should I use it
differently or use it the same as a
traditional parking right don't use it
the same as a traditional parking brake
apply it first put the transmission into
park and then release the foot brake
exactly the same way
actually in Illinois state trust me
merging is very dangerous and freeways
because the gap is so small
yeah but actually as I said in Illinois
and everywhere else I've driven all
through the United States of America
find your spot aim for that spot and if
you're about halfway down the
acceleration Lane and you're not they're
not making a space for you move over to
the left side of that in that
acceleration lane you move over you
start crowding that left side and I'll
tell you they'll start creating a gap
for you because they're they're not
gonna trust you at that point about
whether you are or are not coming out
okay practice practice practice
absolutely Justin can I parallel park
with one hand we're looking back or is
that an error no Justin you can reverse
with one hand on the steering wheel the
other hand behind the passenger seat
looking out the rear window and have a
look at the video on reversing Corey
I'll put that up for you as well all
right so we're gonna wrap up here
congratulations to all of the smart
drivers who've passed their road test in
the last couple of weeks I've put a poll
up on the community tab about British
Columbia havoc holding forums about
improving class one tractor-trailer
driver training go over and voice your
opinion on that leave a comment and
whatnot and we'll help you out with that
as well and what else do they need to
say so there's that and if you got any
comments about improving the quality of
the videos improving content making them
more enjoyable more fun how we can do
that leave us a comment as well all of
that is very helpful and lastly remember
pick the best answer not necessarily the
right answer have a great day bye now

How electronic stability control (ESC) works

IIHS:

If you enter a curve too fast and start
to lose control of your vehicle, you
might not safely make it through the
turn. Electronic stability control is a
feature that can help you avoid this
kind of disaster. About half of all fatal
passenger vehicle crashes on US roads
involve a single vehicle and crash
studies indicate that ESC can reduce
these crashes by more than half. ESC is
an extension of anti-lock brake
technology with speed sensors and
independent breaking for each wheel.
Additional ESC sensors continuously
monitor a driver's steering input. They
can tell if the vehicle is pointed in
the intended direction. On slippery roads,
curves, or in emergency maneuvers. The
front end of a vehicle may start to plow
ahead or the rear end may spin out. When
this occurs ESC brakes individual wheels
to maintain control. They may also reduce
engine speed to bring the car back into
the intended line of travel.
The benefits of ESC are clear.
If every vehicle on the road had
ESC, you might avoid as many as 600,000
single vehicle crashes each year and
save as many as 10,000 lives.

Automatic vs Manual Transmission

Learn Engineering:

Which is better? Manual or automatic transmission?
That's a pretty interesting question
This debate has been present for the last seven decades
Manual and automatic transmissions are completely different technologies
Which use different configurations and principles
one is based on a simple grear pair while the other is based on a
planetary gear set one uses a torque
converter while the other uses a clutch
pack we will do a logical comparison of
these technologies in this video but
first let's understand the basic science
of transmission an internal combustion
engine produces useful torque and power
only during a certain speed range
due to this inherent problem of IC
engines controlling the drive wheel
speed by directly connecting them to the
engine is not a clever idea such an
approach will give the engine of very
low efficiency
rather we need a transmission in between
so that the engines rpm can always be in
the maximum efficiency range the
transmission takes care of the speed
variation of the drive wheels first let
us see how the speed variation is
achieved in a manual transmission a
manual transmission is a collection of
gear pairs
it has three sections
input intermediate shaft and output
the input is connected to the
intermediate shaft so the intermediate
shaft always rotates at a constant speed
the intermediate shaft is then connected
to the output gear set you can see that
the output gears will turn at different
speeds due to different gear ratios
however the output gears are not fixed
with the output shaft and you can even
see a gap between the output gears and
shaft if we connect only one output gear
to the shaft the shaft will have the
speed of the connected gear
for this the main shafts gears have a
synchronizer cone teeth arrangement
a hub is connected to the shaft and a
sleeve slides over it
just by moving this sleeve you will be
able to connect the gear and shaft
it might seem like a simple mechanism
however during an actual operation the
hub and gear will be rotating at
different speeds and the sleeve gear
connection is not possible as they do so
first let's make their speed the same
for this we must discontinue the power
flow to the transmission the use of
clutch pack comes here
by disengaging the clutch pack the power flow to the gear
set is discontinued
now a synchronizer ring with a friction
cone can help to match the speed of gear
with the sleeve
when there is no power flow pushing the
synchronizer ring against the gear will
help match the speed of the gear to the
hub
now we can have a smooth connection
after the connection clutch pack is
engaged
so every time you need to change the
gear you must disengage the clutch this
also means power discontinuation and an
Associated speed drop during the gear
change this is why a manual transmission
drive is never a smooth experience now
let's see how an automatic transmission
is different from manual transmission
automatic transmission was developed to
overcome the power discontinuation
problem in manual transmission and it
uses a planetary gearset arrangement
rather than a simple gear pair
you can see that a planetary gearset has
two inputs and one output
the basic principle of automatic
transmission is simple just vary these
two input speeds and you will get
different output speeds
to achieve this objective let's
introduce one more planetary set
the output of the second
connected with one of the inputs of the
first set in simple words the carrier of
the second set and the ring gear of the
first set are a single unit this forms
an interesting mechanism and is the
simplest automatic transmission possible
to clutch packs are introduced to arrest
the motion of the ring grears
when the clutch pack is pressed the
corresponding ring gear will be
stationary and carrier will rotate
when the first clutch is pressed the
green ring gear is stationary and we
will get the first gear
if we can turn the green ring gear the
output speed will increase to achieve
this you must release the first clutch
and engage the second clutch the green
ring gear will rotate as it is connected
to the carrier of the second set
it is worth noting that the first clutch
is being released at the same time that
the second clutch is engaged so there is
no loss in power transmission
for different output speeds are possible
with two planetary set arrangement to
learn the details of it check out our
detailed video on automatic transmission
by using three planetary gear sets in
series we will be able to achieve six
different speeds and a reverse the
beauty of the automatic transmission is
that by engaging the proper two clutch
packs we can achieve different output
speeds
now let's compare these two technologies
directly as discussed in the automatic
transmission there is no abruption of
power flow so you will get a smooth
driving experience computer controlled
operation of the automatic transmission
makes the driving even simpler it is
clear that the manual transmission
technology is much simpler than the
automatic it has fewer components and is
easier to repair on the other hand
automatic transmission is a tightly
packed arrangement when it comes to
heavy duty operations manual
transmissions offer more durability due
to this reason almost eighty percent of
heavy duty trucks use manual
transmissions
the way automatic and manual
transmission handles the condition of
braking is quite different and
interesting
in manual transmission driving before
you press the brake pedal the clutch
pedal must be pressed completely this
way the engine rotation and wheel
rotation are separated completely and
the sudden cease of the wheel will not
be transmitted to the engine
however there is no clutch pedal in an
automatic transmission car so to
separate the engine rotation from the
transmission a torque converter is used
this is a fluid coupling which allows
slippage so a torque converter helps
automatic transmission handle the
braking scenario without the need of a
clutch pedal however a torque converter
is a good heat generator which in turn
reduces efficiency of the vehicle as a
result automatic transmission vehicles
tend to become less fuel-efficient than
manual vehicles however the modern
torque converters have overcome this
problem it is our hope that the next
time you plan to purchase a four-wheeler
you will be able to choose the proper
transmission technology according to
your needs to miss our video on DSG
transmission which has the best features
of automatic and manual transmissions
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How does a Stepper Motor work ?

Learn Engineering:

How does a robotic arm in a manufacturing facility repeat the exact same movements over and over?
How does an automated milling machine move with such precision?
It's all because of the stepper motor
What's special about the stepper motor is that it can control the angular position of the rotor?
Without a closed feedback loop it is a simple accurate and open-loop system
Let's first understand how the variable reluctance type of stepper motor works which is the simplest one?
Later on we will move to a highly accurate and commonly used motor type
This motor has six stator teeth and can be energized with three separate DC. Power sources
The Rotor is made of a stack of steel laminations
It has a different number of teeth than the rotor for in this case
This is done. Intentionally, so that only one pair of rotor teeth is aligned with the stator at a time
You can explain how the stepper motor works by yourself
If you [de-energize] coil a and Energize B
It becomes clear that the rotor will rotate as shown
from the geometry it is clear that the one step size is 30 degrees to
[get] the next step the energized coil B and energized [C] after
[that] coil A becomes energized again in short the rotor moves to the position with the least reluctance the
[step] size of this motor is 30 degrees. You can improve the accuracy to 15 degrees with a small trick
When coil a is energized the rotor is in this position? We know that when coil B?
Is energized it moves 30 degrees?
What happens when coils A and B are energized together?
The rotor will come to a position between these two cases
Or it will move 15 degrees
after this [de-energized] A
then after reaching B
Energized C as well this kind of operation is known as half stepping
The motor we have been discussing is called a variable reluctance motor
The most versatile and commonly used stepper motor is the hybrid motor type
Let's explore the functioning of a typical 1.8. Degree. Step size hybrid motor
The Hybrid Motor has an actually magnetized rotor with toothed steel caps
So one end of the rotor becomes the North pole and the [other] end becomes a south pole
The accuracy of this motor lies in the clever arrangement of the rotor and [stator] teeth let's understand it first
The rotor has 50 teeth to understand the stator teeth arrangement first assume that the stator has 50 teeth as well
However the stator actually has two fewer teeth than the rotor
So we are left with 48 teeth
Let's arrange the 48 teeth into [four] group pairs as shown
Now let's realign these groups the green set moves so that it is half aligned with the rotor
The teeth of the yellow group are completely unaligned with the rotor teeth
The blue group is half aligned with the rotor the [red] group remains in place in
Short the red set is completely aligned with the rotor while the yellow set is unaligned
The other two sets are half aligned
Please remember that the rotor and facing you acts like the south pole
The stator coils are connected as shown
They are two independent coil sets
When set a is energized the stator forms a magnetized pattern as shown?
one pair of stator pulls acts as the North pole and the other as the south pole as
The opposite poles attract, they will be aligned the same polarity poles will be unaligned
When the coil B. Is energized observe, what happens to the rotor?
It has to rotate by a small angle in order to align with the new North Pole it
Is clear [that] this angle is [1/4] of the angular pitch?
in other words the rotor moves by 1.8 degrees
Next set a is energized with the opposite polarity again the rotor moves by 1.8. Degrees
This process is repeated and a highly accurate motion is achieved by the motor
The step Angle Resolution can be further improved by half-stepping
It is interesting to note that the north end cap teeth are placed in between the south end teeth
This way the alignment of the opposite polarity poles are guaranteed again
So this is how a hybrid stepper motor works
They are ideal for applications where precise movements and simple control are desired at
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