What is mad for me is that people when changing their lanes on motorways only rely on side mirrors and never turn their head to check their blindspot, it's just mad
I'm an HGV driver and we are taught to always have the windows open when reversing or doing fine manoeuvres. Most modern HGVs automatically mute the radio when you select reverse as well.
@@raithrover1976 definitely worthwhile, I learnt all my HGV licenses in the forces although been a while since I was unleashed in one! That’s good to know they mute the radio automatically, definitely a good idea
Nice tip, and something I've always done. Also leaning forward as far as possible to get a better view. If someone lives in a house where their driveway has really poor sight-lines onto the road, they ought to fit a convex mirror on the other side of the road to get a better view. I know it's not always practical to do so, but so many (usually rural) properties have entrances that are difficult to see out of.
It feels so odd to me that someone had to make a video about it. It's amazing people don't have any common sense anymore, isn't it? Great video tho! I'm just affraid that arogants who drive careless don't really watch videos like this.
@@rogalsiu yes unfortunately there are so many that have no interest in changing their ways. I do believe a lot of it comes down to our original driving lessons, if we’re just told what to do to pass a test and never have to work anything out for ourselves that’s how we continue to
@@JamesSimpkinsADI I don't know how it is/was in UK, but having my own experience in getting driving lessons abroad I can see your point being valid. I remember when they showed me how to parallel park based on specific number of steering wheel rotations and aiming on another car using rear mirror and a corner of headrest on the back seat. Unfortunately I see this everywhere. It's not common anymore to actually teach people so they can apply that knowledge in different scenarios. Nowadays they rather just tell you what to do. I had few courses at work recently and they all were like this: "do this, do that, don't ask why".
@@rogalsiu very much so. Parallel park is the perfect example, I often take pupils that have been learning with another instructor and when we do things like that they ask where my mirrors are (the little blind spot ones you can buy) because that’s how they knew where the curb is!
I learnt to do that coming out onto a road with a blind corner where cars join that road at speed. You can only see the traffic from the right if your on the pavement. It helps when quiet but when there is even moderate traffic it is not effective. There used to be a mirror on the other side to help people but the highways said it was on their land so took it away. The reason being the mirror maybe could be used as a reason for an accident among a long list of other reasons. The fact it reduced risk was ignored. The only foolproof method on this one is the passenger gets out walks across the road and when clear waves you out and gets back in!
It sounds silly, but yeah, I hadn't considered just listening for a car. I'll be doing this from now on and I will be a safer driver for it. Thank you
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Notice also that the driver pulling out didn't stop at the edge of their driveway and actually incurred onto the crossing driveway. Lots of people don't know how to stop right before a line, be it traffic light stopping line, STOP sign stopping line, give-way line, or just plain edge of driveway before an intersection. The secret is simple - align the stopping line to the bottom of your side mirror, as if your mirror sits on it. Most passenger cars are designed in a way that this always works. In some cars, especially if your bonnet is quite short like on VW Polo or a Mini or Fiat 500, you can drive even further than that, but that's something you have to test. The easiest way to test your stopping line is to park up on an empty parking spot and draw up lines with chalk or a laser spirit level if you have one, then getting into your car and just look from your driver's perspective, memorizing where those lines are. Then, just practice approaching that line and braking such that your car is as close to that line as possible. Ideally, your number plate should touch it.
I think this driver knows how to do that. He/she just wants to be able to see oncoming cars otherwise they won’t know if they can pull out or not. Hence the talk about windows and using noise. Only problem is if its a little noisy (maybe from the car that went past earlier) a hybrid or electric car comes about. You’ll only be able to hear the tyre/road noise. The rain helps with the sound often actually. But it could be a cyclist where there is no sound of them coming and road bikes are often bad at braking (super thin tyres), aerodynamic and often no disk brakes. Edit, hedges and bends. Very often, you can’t see anything you just have to go by noise and hope for the best
0:40 “You should never put your life in other people’s hands”. When I’m out on my bike that’s literally what I have to do several times a minute. Do they know the 1.5 metre passing rule? No idea. Do they care? Probably not. Is that builders van coming the other way on a country lane going to slow down or wipe me out? ☠️☠️☠️ 2:35 Yes … bicycles. It’s particularly a problem when pedestrians with their backs to you just walk out in front of you because all they are listening for is engine and tyre noise. Have you considered putting up a convex mirror on the other side of the road or perhaps cutting back the hedge?
@@Tailspin80 exactly. Hedges are due to be cut! It will help but the road bends so won’t be a game changer. And we’ve got permission from the neighbour to put a mirror up so is in process
@@nickwinn7812 easy to say from behind a screen. It will be done of course, however I actually live here. And even cutting the hedge will still leave me unable to see down the road as it bends. A mirror is also something we are getting sorted. However as stated in the video , I don’t nearly crash every day because I put the windows down, and I see almost no one doing this. Hence the video. Better than ‘hedging’ my bets.
@@JamesSimpkinsADI Yes, I understand your reasoning, but as someone who is hard of hearing, I'm not sure I could rely on listening for traffic myself. Every unique situation will require it's own solution surely?
@@nickwinn7812 of course! A mirror would of course be a better solution for yourself in this sort of situation, and if it doesn’t work at junctions then of course all you can do is creep slowly forward
@@H786... sounds a bit excessive but may be true for some signs. Wiltshire council posted costs and an average sign was between £600 and £1,100 depending on size and then an extra up to £1,500 if lighting was required. Potentially if they haven’t included labour costs that could then increase
@@JamesSimpkinsADI one supermarket I go has one I do use to help me out you look right, while turning left. I know there is a bunch of rules on the angles so it doesn't catch the sun and blind other drivers. Saying that it does help driver coming down the road to see you sooner
It’s something I need to start doing more, I’ve now started doing that in the mornings reversing off my drive plus turn music off at those kind of junctions so you can hear better. I had a classic example of this the other day, main road 30mph area and a driver just reversed off her drive so I had to stop quickly as did a bus opposite, she made it so much worse by pushing out as I’d not got much room with the bus there and had to reverse to let her get out (one of those moments as a new driver I tend to class as a near miss that I need to review in my head once home as often something I could have done better) I’ve had one guy hit my car as he didn’t look right pulling out of a junction, found no fault to me , thanks to my dash cams but just glad it was at 10mph so just cosmetic and a bad back for a week, and of course insurance increase of £200.
@@alisont308 great attitude - there are so many people not interested in improving as they think they’re the finished article. Even now I feel I can always learn from things that happen. Sorry to hear about your incident, they’re the worst no fault and an insurance increase, same for me recently getting hit from behind
@@JamesSimpkinsADI Thanks, I’m determined to keep learning and gaining experience and working on weaker areas. I did ask my instructor about pass plus but doesn’t seem a thing anymore so I’m just practicing. I passed first time last year at 50 and it’s taken me time to build up my confidence but I’m getting there. That accident happened in rush hour traffic on a hill a month after I’d got my new car. I still drove to work after and it all got sorted but did knock the confidence back a bit. I just knew the insurance would increase at renewal but to be fair my insurance is very low (maybe an age thing)
A few weeks ago I had someone creeping out of a junction. No big deal as I was go to have to stop for a set of lights plus they where blocking the road. I decided to hold back and let them creep forward so they could see traffic to their right which was stopped for the lights. The only thing was they changed there mind then reversed back . So I thought ok yo ain't taking the opportunity to go. So I set off and after reversing back they just set off and had to slam the brakes on for them.
Yesterday I was turning right from a side road onto a main road, the car on the main road slowed down and stopped so I assumed she was giving me her priority so I proceeded to slowly and carefully make a move, as soon as I started to creep forward she started to accelerate, I really don’t understand why some drivers are like that, they’re so unpredictable, as she was on the main road and there was nothing blocking her path she should have kept on moving as she had priority.
i don't think its a very reliable method as some cars make very little tyre noise. I think you should get rid of the hedge, get a mirror installed across the street or find some technological solution that gives you actual sighting.
Specially the most vulnerable, road bikes. Often there is noise from other cars that then means that you can no longer use your hearing to judge cars on your road. Should definitely get rid of the hedge or the only thing we can do is inch forward slowly. Brake. Forward Slowly. Brake. and so on so that others see you and are aware of you before you are aware of them. The uk is also ridiculous with speed limits of 30 where they should be (and were not so long ago) 60. And 60 where they should be 20. I know the whole its a limit not a target. But by that logic, speed limits shouldn’t exist since you should be driving at the appropriate speed anyway. See. Yes speed limits are targets, they let you know what you can be expected to safely do on that road. What i hate most is a high speed limit and then a speed bump out of no where. Or mini roundabouts or junctions with no warnings and worn out road markings, in areas with a high speed limit. If speed limits aren’t a target but a limit, then what you want people doing 20mph when the speed limit is 30? Because everyone goes 30 or more at 30 limit. For a reason. Because it’s clearly safe. Other times, we go 15 on a 60. Because that road its literally impossible to do a 40 safely let alone a 60. They will blame the accident on the driver anyway, whether they’re under the speed limit or not. So ultimately, you get screwed either way with the “you should have driven according to what was safe “while simultaneously enforcing speed limits on you because “you can’t be trusted with driving at the right speed”
@@ZeerakImranYou’re overthinking it. Just drive at a suitable speed for the conditions and your skill, and don’t exceed the speed limit because it’s expensive.
Alright. But what about people who are deaf? That is a terrible view you have of the road pulling out. Extremely dangerous. What if that was a deaf people trying to pull out of there? They can't hear a vehicle 10 secs before if at all?
@@angels77100 yes we’ve got permission from our neighbour so it’s in process. When we have people over we often stand out and let them know when it’s clear
Noone? Nobody? I don't nearly crash is a double negative construction. Some people moan that immigrants 'dont speak English' when the local are terrible at speaking and writing their own language
@@derekr1113 definition of noone- no person; not a single person. I don’t nearly crash means …… I don’t nearly…. Erm…. Crash. Lengthened its ‘I do not nearly crash’. If I remove the don’t it means I do nearly crash. Anyway plenty of English channels I’m sure for you to go and enjoy, mine is not one of them. No moaning about immigrants here so kindly take that sort of talk elsewhere
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That is actually more correct than "The reason I avoid near misses", as a cololoquial "near miss" implies you intended to crash.
Where's the double negative? 'I don't nearly crash'. Nearly crash implies a narrow miss. Nearly is an indicator of distance, not negativity. It's like saying, 'I don't narrowly avoid crashing.' you are simply staying that you do NOT avoid colliding with someone at a concerningly short distance. Please, get your pretentious self out of here.
What is mad for me is that people when changing their lanes on motorways only rely on side mirrors and never turn their head to check their blindspot, it's just mad
@@Bruno-00 definitely, especially when they have the awareness of a sloth 🦥
I'm an HGV driver and we are taught to always have the windows open when reversing or doing fine manoeuvres. Most modern HGVs automatically mute the radio when you select reverse as well.
@@raithrover1976 definitely worthwhile, I learnt all my HGV licenses in the forces although been a while since I was unleashed in one! That’s good to know they mute the radio automatically, definitely a good idea
My Seat Ibiza mutes the radio when I go into reverse as well
@@mark_1185 I’m going to have to try this in mine, I don’t usually have the radio on very loud but I’m intrigued now
I'd get some hedge trimmers. 😏 Thanks for the content.👍
@@MrTypo-kc6ib haha! My father in law says the same 😂
Also extremely useful in car parks and near schools. Small children are hard to see but very easy to hear.
@@ricequackers absolutely 👍
Funny enough my instructor taught me the same thing when we covered closed junctions or driveways/other exits
Nice tip, and something I've always done. Also leaning forward as far as possible to get a better view.
If someone lives in a house where their driveway has really poor sight-lines onto the road, they ought to fit a convex mirror on the other side of the road to get a better view. I know it's not always practical to do so, but so many (usually rural) properties have entrances that are difficult to see out of.
It feels so odd to me that someone had to make a video about it. It's amazing people don't have any common sense anymore, isn't it? Great video tho! I'm just affraid that arogants who drive careless don't really watch videos like this.
@@rogalsiu yes unfortunately there are so many that have no interest in changing their ways. I do believe a lot of it comes down to our original driving lessons, if we’re just told what to do to pass a test and never have to work anything out for ourselves that’s how we continue to
@@JamesSimpkinsADI I don't know how it is/was in UK, but having my own experience in getting driving lessons abroad I can see your point being valid. I remember when they showed me how to parallel park based on specific number of steering wheel rotations and aiming on another car using rear mirror and a corner of headrest on the back seat. Unfortunately I see this everywhere. It's not common anymore to actually teach people so they can apply that knowledge in different scenarios. Nowadays they rather just tell you what to do. I had few courses at work recently and they all were like this: "do this, do that, don't ask why".
@@rogalsiu very much so. Parallel park is the perfect example, I often take pupils that have been learning with another instructor and when we do things like that they ask where my mirrors are (the little blind spot ones you can buy) because that’s how they knew where the curb is!
I learnt to do that coming out onto a road with a blind corner where cars join that road at speed. You can only see the traffic from the right if your on the pavement. It helps when quiet but when there is even moderate traffic it is not effective. There used to be a mirror on the other side to help people but the highways said it was on their land so took it away. The reason being the mirror maybe could be used as a reason for an accident among a long list of other reasons. The fact it reduced risk was ignored. The only foolproof method on this one is the passenger gets out walks across the road and when clear waves you out and gets back in!
It sounds silly, but yeah, I hadn't considered just listening for a car. I'll be doing this from now on and I will be a safer driver for it. Thank you
Notice also that the driver pulling out didn't stop at the edge of their driveway and actually incurred onto the crossing driveway.
Lots of people don't know how to stop right before a line, be it traffic light stopping line, STOP sign stopping line, give-way line, or just plain edge of driveway before an intersection.
The secret is simple - align the stopping line to the bottom of your side mirror, as if your mirror sits on it. Most passenger cars are designed in a way that this always works. In some cars, especially if your bonnet is quite short like on VW Polo or a Mini or Fiat 500, you can drive even further than that, but that's something you have to test. The easiest way to test your stopping line is to park up on an empty parking spot and draw up lines with chalk or a laser spirit level if you have one, then getting into your car and just look from your driver's perspective, memorizing where those lines are. Then, just practice approaching that line and braking such that your car is as close to that line as possible. Ideally, your number plate should touch it.
I think this driver knows how to do that. He/she just wants to be able to see oncoming cars otherwise they won’t know if they can pull out or not. Hence the talk about windows and using noise. Only problem is if its a little noisy (maybe from the car that went past earlier) a hybrid or electric car comes about. You’ll only be able to hear the tyre/road noise. The rain helps with the sound often actually. But it could be a cyclist where there is no sound of them coming and road bikes are often bad at braking (super thin tyres), aerodynamic and often no disk brakes. Edit, hedges and bends. Very often, you can’t see anything you just have to go by noise and hope for the best
People forget they can move around in their seat and potentially get a better safer view.
Leaning in your seat and moving your head around is so useful and so helpful, it helps you to get a better view earlier.
0:40 “You should never put your life in other people’s hands”. When I’m out on my bike that’s literally what I have to do several times a minute. Do they know the 1.5 metre passing rule? No idea. Do they care? Probably not. Is that builders van coming the other way on a country lane going to slow down or wipe me out? ☠️☠️☠️
2:35 Yes … bicycles. It’s particularly a problem when pedestrians with their backs to you just walk out in front of you because all they are listening for is engine and tyre noise. Have you considered putting up a convex mirror on the other side of the road or perhaps cutting back the hedge?
@@Tailspin80 exactly. Hedges are due to be cut! It will help but the road bends so won’t be a game changer. And we’ve got permission from the neighbour to put a mirror up so is in process
When it's your own drive, simply trimming the hedges down to a sensible level would be the best course of action.
@@nickwinn7812 easy to say from behind a screen. It will be done of course, however I actually live here. And even cutting the hedge will still leave me unable to see down the road as it bends. A mirror is also something we are getting sorted. However as stated in the video , I don’t nearly crash every day because I put the windows down, and I see almost no one doing this. Hence the video. Better than ‘hedging’ my bets.
@@JamesSimpkinsADI Yes, I understand your reasoning, but as someone who is hard of hearing, I'm not sure I could rely on listening for traffic myself. Every unique situation will require it's own solution surely?
@@nickwinn7812 of course! A mirror would of course be a better solution for yourself in this sort of situation, and if it doesn’t work at junctions then of course all you can do is creep slowly forward
Simple but effective. Won't work all the time (as noted in the video) but helps a lot of the time.
Lovely piece of advice cheers
Great tip - thank you.
Thank you!
your so right i do that in multi story car parks also
off topic question but my examiner said that it costs the council £4000 to put up a road sign, is this true?
@@H786... sounds a bit excessive but may be true for some signs. Wiltshire council posted costs and an average sign was between £600 and £1,100 depending on size and then an extra up to £1,500 if lighting was required. Potentially if they haven’t included labour costs that could then increase
Genius
Noone. Good word.......
@@FAB12UCB thank you. Good comment, this is definitely an English channel
If you see a cyclist or quieter (EV) coming do you reverse back into your drive and then start the process all over again?
@@infinty1412 no I generally would stay put, and they’ll either make the decision to allow me out, or drive around me.
James, ask your neighbour across the road if you can put a convex mirror on a pole opposite your drive.
@@jamesknightreading yeah we’ve already got permission and it’s in process. Wouldn’t hugely change how I emerge but definitely will be nice!
@@JamesSimpkinsADI one supermarket I go has one I do use to help me out you look right, while turning left. I know there is a bunch of rules on the angles so it doesn't catch the sun and blind other drivers. Saying that it does help driver coming down the road to see you sooner
It’s something I need to start doing more, I’ve now started doing that in the mornings reversing off my drive plus turn music off at those kind of junctions so you can hear better. I had a classic example of this the other day, main road 30mph area and a driver just reversed off her drive so I had to stop quickly as did a bus opposite, she made it so much worse by pushing out as I’d not got much room with the bus there and had to reverse to let her get out (one of those moments as a new driver I tend to class as a near miss that I need to review in my head once home as often something I could have done better) I’ve had one guy hit my car as he didn’t look right pulling out of a junction, found no fault to me , thanks to my dash cams but just glad it was at 10mph so just cosmetic and a bad back for a week, and of course insurance increase of £200.
@@alisont308 great attitude - there are so many people not interested in improving as they think they’re the finished article. Even now I feel I can always learn from things that happen. Sorry to hear about your incident, they’re the worst no fault and an insurance increase, same for me recently getting hit from behind
@@JamesSimpkinsADI Thanks, I’m determined to keep learning and gaining experience and working on weaker areas. I did ask my instructor about pass plus but doesn’t seem a thing anymore so I’m just practicing. I passed first time last year at 50 and it’s taken me time to build up my confidence but I’m getting there. That accident happened in rush hour traffic on a hill a month after I’d got my new car. I still drove to work after and it all got sorted but did knock the confidence back a bit. I just knew the insurance would increase at renewal but to be fair my insurance is very low (maybe an age thing)
A few weeks ago I had someone creeping out of a junction. No big deal as I was go to have to stop for a set of lights plus they where blocking the road. I decided to hold back and let them creep forward so they could see traffic to their right which was stopped for the lights. The only thing was they changed there mind then reversed back . So I thought ok yo ain't taking the opportunity to go. So I set off and after reversing back they just set off and had to slam the brakes on for them.
@@wrightwoodwork always confusing when you get people like this! Not much more you can do in those situations
Yesterday I was turning right from a side road onto a main road, the car on the main road slowed down and stopped so I assumed she was giving me her priority so I proceeded to slowly and carefully make a move, as soon as I started to creep forward she started to accelerate, I really don’t understand why some drivers are like that, they’re so unpredictable, as she was on the main road and there was nothing blocking her path she should have kept on moving as she had priority.
1:50 ..... so why don't you trim the bushes down? Why put twigs and leaves over your own and others safety?
@@chrisl1797 because I will get round to it in my busy life. But even trimmed down, the road bends and would make little difference.
i don't think its a very reliable method as some cars make very little tyre noise. I think you should get rid of the hedge, get a mirror installed across the street or find some technological solution that gives you actual sighting.
Specially the most vulnerable, road bikes. Often there is noise from other cars that then means that you can no longer use your hearing to judge cars on your road. Should definitely get rid of the hedge or the only thing we can do is inch forward slowly. Brake. Forward Slowly. Brake. and so on so that others see you and are aware of you before you are aware of them. The uk is also ridiculous with speed limits of 30 where they should be (and were not so long ago) 60. And 60 where they should be 20. I know the whole its a limit not a target. But by that logic, speed limits shouldn’t exist since you should be driving at the appropriate speed anyway. See. Yes speed limits are targets, they let you know what you can be expected to safely do on that road. What i hate most is a high speed limit and then a speed bump out of no where. Or mini roundabouts or junctions with no warnings and worn out road markings, in areas with a high speed limit. If speed limits aren’t a target but a limit, then what you want people doing 20mph when the speed limit is 30? Because everyone goes 30 or more at 30 limit. For a reason. Because it’s clearly safe. Other times, we go 15 on a 60. Because that road its literally impossible to do a 40 safely let alone a 60. They will blame the accident on the driver anyway, whether they’re under the speed limit or not. So ultimately, you get screwed either way with the “you should have driven according to what was safe “while simultaneously enforcing speed limits on you because “you can’t be trusted with driving at the right speed”
@@ZeerakImranYou’re overthinking it. Just drive at a suitable speed for the conditions and your skill, and don’t exceed the speed limit because it’s expensive.
Alright. But what about people who are deaf? That is a terrible view you have of the road pulling out. Extremely dangerous. What if that was a deaf people trying to pull out of there? They can't hear a vehicle 10 secs before if at all?
@@angels77100 they would of course have real trouble getting out of somewhere like my driveway. They would need a mirror, we’re getting one soon
@@JamesSimpkinsADI A mirror is an excellent idea. Especially from where you have to exit.
@@angels77100 yes we’ve got permission from our neighbour so it’s in process. When we have people over we often stand out and let them know when it’s clear
Noone? Nobody? I don't nearly crash is a double negative construction. Some people moan that immigrants 'dont speak English' when the local are terrible at speaking and writing their own language
@@derekr1113 definition of noone- no person; not a single person.
I don’t nearly crash means …… I don’t nearly…. Erm…. Crash. Lengthened its ‘I do not nearly crash’. If I remove the don’t it means I do nearly crash.
Anyway plenty of English channels I’m sure for you to go and enjoy, mine is not one of them. No moaning about immigrants here so kindly take that sort of talk elsewhere
That is actually more correct than "The reason I avoid near misses", as a cololoquial "near miss" implies you intended to crash.
Where's the double negative? 'I don't nearly crash'. Nearly crash implies a narrow miss. Nearly is an indicator of distance, not negativity. It's like saying, 'I don't narrowly avoid crashing.' you are simply staying that you do NOT avoid colliding with someone at a concerningly short distance. Please, get your pretentious self out of here.
@@rafibistshock7628 thank you!
Shouldn’t the plural of local be locals?