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If you pass your license on a manual you are allowed to drive both. If you learn on an automatic you are limited to driving automatics.
in NSW that's only while on your red P's once you get green P's you can drive either
Thanks. I wondered what the green P was for. @@breno_mac
@@kennethdodemaide8678 the green P plates are essentially level 2 of your provisional license is, you go from Lerner (L Plates) to P1 (Red P Plates) to P2 (Green P Plates) then to an unrestricted license
I passed my driving test 40 years ago in a manual and haven't driven one since 😂 Team Auto!
No, thats not true at all.. if you pass your ps test in an auto, you can only drive auto on your p plates while on probation, when your finish and get your full licence you can drive manual and auto.. only p platers are stuck with auto while on their p's, after their p's tjey can drive anything..
Oh Ryan...everyone knows, if ya can't drive a manual, YA CAN'T EFFIN DRIVE 🤣🤣🤣
That’s not true as manual cars are in the minority these days, no cares if you can drive a manual car, only boomers.
too bloody right
My ex husband and myself told our 4 daughters that in order for us to pay for their first cars they had to get manual licenses I’m 63 and still drive a manual automatics are for people who really can’t drive
^^^ This. lol If you can drive a manual you can drive pretty much anything. Mine is a manual but my parents have an automatic. I love the control I have in my manual.
Abso effin lutely 😂😂
L PLATES IN Australia are required at the Front and rear of a car. Many driving schools use multiple L Plates to show clearly that there is a Learner at the wheel. Some even have one on the roof on a light bar, some with the Driving School name as well.
good idea to have more than one I was test driving a new car and the P plate flung off, i'm like oh crap, oh well have spares at home. Salesman is like nah lets go back and pick it up :). So I waited and did a 3 point turn to do so. No dramas. Strange many learner cars a few years ago were suzuki swifts.
L = Learner (Minimum 1 year)
Red P = Provisional (Minimal 1 year)
Green P = Provisional (Minimal 2 years)
Opens (No plates)
It’s super rude to honk at a learner as well. They’re already stressed and if you honk at them impatiently you’re being a jerk.
True.. but you will find this show fakes you out with inserting sounds, like honks, engine revving and skidding.
I"ve seen that happen recently in Mascot. And then on another day I saw a Learner driver who had stopped so far into the pedestrian crossing at the main road.
Important context: The driving tests you were watching are to graduate from a learner's permit to a provisional licence. Before you can drive a car at all, you take a written test to get your learner's or L plates (other people have explained this). Then you have to drive for around 100 hours supervised by a fully licensed driver and documented in a logbook. THEN you take this test to get P plates (provisional) which lets you drive unsupervised but with other restrictions like speed, number of passengers after 10pm, limits on supercars etc depending on your age and the state you live in.
They’ve increased it to 200 hours in QLD.
5 years ago it was 120, 20 of which had to be night driving
@@janelletwiner4289 it's only 50hrs in Tassie.
@@dcsc1 yikes! That’s not a lot of time.
@@janelletwiner4289 that's why Tasmanian drivers are no good 😄
I'm a mainlander that moved here and I've never seen such worse driving. They also call it "no indicator Tasmania". It's shocking 😆
When my old mum did her driving test, she blew the gear box, 3 times!!. Luckily my old dad was a motor mechanic & fixed the gear box for the instructor each time for free.
The 4th time old mum went for her driving test, the instructor didn’t even let her drive, he just let her pass, he was over it, he had enough 😂😂, that was back in the 60’s.
Ryan’s British accent is coming along nicely.
Maybe he should try to do an Australian one...
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It sounds more like a constipated South African to me 🤔
You mean his Forest Gump accent
Don't be cruel.
I grew up in rural Australia and learned to drive on a manual. All of my cars have been manual, and the rare occasion I drive auto, it drives me absolutely insane.
Yes but that’s unusual as the majority of Aussies drive automatics and have done for years now.
I didn't drive an auto until around 5 years after getting my licence. I learnt to drive with the old Holden 3 on the tree column shift. My first three cars were 3 speed column then a 4 speed UC Torana hatch. Next was a HZ prem wagon that was T bar auto and I never got out of the habit of going for the clutch and grabbing the T bar ready to change down. Lovely car but with 4.2L and traumatic, I mean trimatic auto it was a bit of a slug and boring to drive.
My company cars were automatics, but apart from that, always manual. I'm a control-oriented person and resent the transmission making gear-change decisions for me.
@@bellabanathats because its now cheaper than it used to be to buy an auto, it used to be an added expence
@@nickislade5533some car companies don't even offer the fancy models in a manual. Pisses me off when car shopping
German here. It is funny… I drive a manual car but thought about changing to an automatic one due to lazyness, but the more I accompany you watching driving videos, the more I‘m convinced to keep my hand to the control stick.
It is obviously more fun!
In driving school I struggled hard to do that starting on a hill for the first time but now I‘m always the one waiting on the ramp in parking garages. Having to do all those different things at the same time to get it going in the right direction is always a little kick.
😆 Sorry for getting excited.
I love driving.
I live in Adelaide in South Australia. We have the Adelaide hills fringing the city. Lots of tight, twisty narrow roads in the hills to drive on. Loved driving in the hills on motorcycles. Also love driving in the hills in manual transmission vehicles. I want to be in control of what the car is doing. Not the other way around.
P.S. the last girl wasn't doing the driving test, she was taking a driving lesson to prepare her for her test after driving her mum's car into the back of the garage.😊
I learnt how to drive a manual in the late 90's, and my parents insisted the 1st car I bought was manual!
Although I now drive auto, I have recently driven a manual (after not having driven one since 2002),it was like riding a bike!
Perfectly fine to do a 3-Point Turn in the middle of the street - the street being not quite wide enough for a U-Turn is the rationale.
The only condition is that it is safe to do so when you begin, and where possible while you finish - if someone comes upon you while you're still in the midst of it, that's their problem and you safely carry on to either completion or can pull safely aside in the other direction so they can pass.
Maybe so, but IMHO that was a bad call by the driving instructor. I would not be encouraging new drivers to do this sort of thing in a location like that.
I love driving a manual, you feel more in control, I have a heavy rigid license and enjoy driving those as well.
Living in a country town I did my test back when you could go to the police station in Australia to do the test. When I walked in another guy from my year at school was already there to do his driving test. He went off with a police officer for it while I waited for my turn.
The cop behind the counter said to me "To save time we'll fill all the paperwork out now for your licence, and if you hit a tree we'll cancel it." 😃
I enjoyed my test because I knew I had it in the bag, despite a couple of mistakes. Much more relaxed in the good ole days! 🙂
This explains a lot (the amount of crap driving here).
the police station thing makes me think of the old show "a country practice" wasn't there an episode where Frank (the cop) was testing someone & ordered them to chase a suspect or something in the middle of their test? Possibly even testing his wife, I can't remember now, but I'm sure there was something like that in at least one episode
@@lilaclizard4504 Definitely sounds like "A Country Practice" and at the same time in the 80s. Great show.
In Australia you do a test on the computer at the equivalent of the DMV and if you pass you get your learner's license. You are on this for minimum 1 year and have many rules around it. You must have a fully licensed supervisor in the car at all times, you must always display the yellow L plates on the front and back, limited speed (can't go over 90km even when signage allows for it), you need to record your driving time in a log book and have at least 120 hours before you can go for your P's (provisional license) and thats got its own set of rules...
And yet, the majority of Australians drive like shit! Hahahaha. (Yes, I'm Australian and am taking the piss out of our drivers). The best drivers in my opinion are the truckies. They are awesome!
Since when do you have to do 120 hours? I thought it was still 100, some of my younger workmates have just got their licence last week and only had to do 100 hours. That driving under 90km/hr rule can't be real right? I had always assumed that it was illegal to drive that far under the speed limit.
@@j_edwards6075 It does vary a fair bit depending on which state you're in on things like speed limits and logbook hours, even how many non-family passengers you have have on each colour permit. S' like motorcycle licensing ~ I've never held more than a Learner's for a car but I've been fully licensed on a bike for 15 years because that's what's allowed in NSW. I recall back when I got that license, the rules for existing road experience for bikes were wildly different from state to state.
I'm guessing OP is from NSW -- here it's indeed 120 logbook hours with a minimum 20 of those being night driving, and also have to hold your Ls for a minimum of 12 months before getting your Ps. The exception is if you're over 25, in which case those limits are removed ~ that's the one thing that seems to be more or less the same all over. And yeah, speed limit is 90kph for L & P1, 100 for P2. It used to be 80kph for L at one point, but I'm not sure when they changed it.
@@RaptorGoesRAWR Ah, ok dokie that makes sense. I still can't understand the logic behind the 90kph law, If they're meant to be driving in a 110kph zone they're a hazard to other drivers on the road driving that slow.
A green round traffic light means you can go in any legal direction, straight or left or queue to turn right. A green arrow means you can only go in the arrow's direction but also that you have exclusive right of way and all other cars are facing red. Junctions that get busy at rush hour will have filter arrows letting certain lanes have a fair turn to move safely across the junction.
A green light DON'T mean go , it means you MAY proceed if safe to do so .
@@PeterPan-el6jbno shit!!!!
That's the one thing in the aussie road regulation that's has been adopted from Europe. The rest is heavily based on the US MUTCD. Altough I never really understood why.
My first driving test included a reverse park up hill between 2 cars. I made it perfect and had few troubles doing it ever since. My incle was the testing officer and was harder on me than reg people.
My brother got his licence at Mintabie in outback SA when we had an opal mining lease in the 80's and the local copper dis the test. The cop made a cup of coffee and said "drive me around the block and if I don't spill my coffee you got your licence. Would have only been 400 metres the length of the whole town.
@@zalired8925 my mother got hers in longreach. Cop asked if she drove into town, she said yes. He wrote out her license which she held non stop the rest of her life
I was made to do this. I got told there is two difficult instructors, one never passes people on first go, 2nd nearly never, i got the second and passed :)
Testing in a manual will mean that your driving license may be endorsed (depends upon the specific rules in the state where you are tested). When trained and tested in an automatic your may only be licensed to drive an automatic. I learned to drive on manual (many different configurations of manual), but now own and drive automatic vehicles.
In the Northern Territory (where this is filmed) automatic licenses convert to manual after to 12 months.
Channel 9 is an Australian Television channel that is broadcast Australia wide.
L plates are for "Learner" drivers, however only 1 plate is required on front and one at the rear.
Manual Licences are a personal choice. A lot of teens nowadays don't bother because they can't be bothered learning manual but if you only do an exam for an automatic then you legally cannot drive a manual.
When I was a child I came home and saw the brick back wall of our garage was not there. (In the 60’s) My dad was teaching my mother to drive in the driveway 🙄 and she drove straight through the garage. Mum maintained that dad didn’t tell her where the brake was. Luckily the car was an Oldsmobile and was like a tank. Mum never drove again and dad bricked up the garage. Luckily he had trained as a bricklayer.
When I was 16 I learned to drive. I refused to drive the Oldsmobile which we still owned. Dad swapped it for a GMH car. I refused because we had a drop in the driveway from the road and the Oldsmobile was like a ship and the front end rose up high enough to block the driveway and gates from view. Funny memories! 🤣😅
as long as you don't do what the international tourists visiting a popular tourist attraction near me, did today! Drove out of the carpark exit and turned onto the wrong side of the road, straight towards oncoming traffic which was taking evasive action in every direction! Drove for a couple of hundred metres before moving across to correct side of the road. OMG!!!!
Omg I saw that on the Great Ocean Road, needless to say, I held my breath.
@@joanneburford6364 It's so weird to see, and you question if what you're seeing is really happening or if you are going the wrong way. Fortunately we were behind him, my husband slammed on the brakes because he didn't know if the tourist was going to swerve back to the correct side in front of us (or on top of us!) without realising we were there.
Manuals are less common in Australia than they used to be. I looked it up - in 2000, 30% of car sales were manual, by 2020 5%.
SUVs, 43% in 2000 down to 1% in 2020.
It used to be that manuals were cheaper to buy, to get an auto you had to pay extra.
Now its the reverse Automatics are now more common imports.
When i got my licence everyone did it in a manual,
Driving a manual is just much more fun and, I think, it keeps you more mindful of what you are doing.
Agreed👍🏼
agree I learnt in manual and ztill love to drive one but haven't for a few years not common in new zealand now
@@gwendixon74 My last 4 cars have been manual including my Rodeo ute I drive now.
love my little 5 speed, in 45 years of driving I have only owned 1 auto, that was a 1974 cadilac with the big 504, was the same as Boss Hoggs car only bronze
With the 2 arrows, Either one or both could be red to allow pedestrians to cross but traffic turning in the direction of a green arrow, to proceed. Back in the 80s, I found myself on the Banks of Lake Eyre (Kati Thanda) with a flat battery. If I hadn't been able to do a clutch start I'd still be there. I've never had anything but manuals since.
We have all types of Transmission Ryan ... manual, automatic and CVT (continuously variable transmission). It's always best to learn on a manual (my personal preference) because you then automatically have an automatic licence too. The L is for a learner driver, the P for probationer (after you pass your test you're on probation for a while.)
Being a aussie country girl I was always taught a manual (which I prefer) because if there were ever any emergencies and the only transport available was a manual vehicle then at least I could help. However in saying that my car is a 2005 VZ Calais which is automatic BUT has paddle shifters which I was unsure about at first cause it wasn't a real manual. I love them - I definitely should have taken up motorsport racing. My ute is a manual though. Who knows what the future holds...... 😉🤣
Tyla, my niece was on this show. They paid for all of her driving lessons.
I went to school with Scott the instructor in QLD. He's an awesome guy. We came from a town that made the biggest piece of cheese in the world, which was presented to the royal family.
G'day Ryan. I know it must have changed, but when I got my licence, if you did your test in a manual, you could drive either Manual or Auto. Back then, if you went for your Auto licence, you weren't allowed to drive a manual. But I'm talking decades ago. Probably changed to make it easier now
It's still that way now. Not sure if it changes after several years of driving.
Helpful tip I learnt while driving internationally, the driver is always closer to the centre of the road than the passenger!
When it comes to auto or manual. In Australia I think it depends on were you live. My daughter just passed her license test in a manual and about 50% of her friends also passed in manual, but we live in a small rural town. In the city it would very high % passing in an auto.
I got my licence in Wellington New Zealand. I had 6 lessons, took the test, 45° hilly streets and steeper, are murder for doing hill starts! I stalled the car twice (yikes) and drove over a curb doing a left turn. The inspector said I was just nervous and we started again, no problem after that, he passed me! My troubles started when my boss and I drove across a snow-covered, very hilly and windy road section of the Remutaka ranges. SNOW! Lots of it! No chains on the wheels! Steep drops down the hills on one side and cliffs on the other. It freaked me out and I never drove again for 18 months. It was only after my boyfriend at the time pushed me to get "back in the sadle" or I'd never drive again, that I overcame my fear.
I'm a member of the Auto only club. I decided to only deal with automatic transmission because the tech is reliable, and I can fully focus on my surroundings and potential knuckheads on the road.
Also makes eating and drinking drive through much easier 😂
😂😂 me too I chose automatic cause it’s easier to drive. I hated manual. 😂
I just love how much you love learning about our life here in the big down under! I watch so many of your videos and as much as I love our beautiful amazing and crazy country, I keep coming back coz I love to see you react to our way of life. Come on down, wed love to have you here! ❤
L = Learner driver.
I learned on a manual and drove a manual for about ten years before buying another car, which happened to be an automatic. Buying a used car, you go for safety and reliability, so you get whatever you find. If you’re in a position to buy a new car, you can order whatever you want.
I worked on a LNG construction site in Queensland. The site had a bunch of Americans working on it. The site vehicles were all manual. I had to teach three guys in my department to drive a manual, they had no clue, couldn't get the work vehicles to move 2 meters.
“My job is to boost their confidence up again”
Also him: “I BET you’re gonna stall it!”
On 1 July 2000, New South Wales introduced a three-stage Graduated Licensing Scheme (GLS):
Stage one is a learner licence with the requirement to complete 120 hours of supervised driving, including 20 hours of nighttime driving. A learner licence must be held for a minimum of 12 months before a practical driving test can be taken in order to proceed to a P1 probationary licence.
Stage two is a one-year P1 probationary licence (with red P plates).
Stage three is a two-year P2 probationary licence (with green P plates).
On 1 July 2010, Victoria introduced the Graduated Licensing Systems (GLS).[4]
Stage one is a one-year P1 probationary licence (with red P plates).
Stage two is a three-year P2 probationary licence (with green P plates).
P1 drivers are prohibited from using a mobile phone of any kind.
P1 drivers are banned from towing, except for work or when supervised.
P1 drivers can carry no more than one passenger aged between 16 years of age and less than 22 years, unless the passengers are immediate family members.
In the early 1990s I worked with an American (in Australia) who had just bought a car. I made some casual comment about it being an automatic and she explained that in the U.S nearly everyone drives auto. Back then lots of people drove manuals in Australia but sadly like obesity Australians have followed the U.S trend so now we have more (and larger) people who can only drive automatic cars.
There has been auto and manual cars in australia for many years My first car i owned and drove was a manual. I had bought auto car back in 1990s and it was made back in 1974 datsun 120y that was an automatic. Even drove 1974 hq holden that was an automatic.
When my son started to learn to drive was driving an auto . When he got his gold licence could have changed to a manual but he didnot want to change from auto to manual.
It's bloody frustrating that so many car manufacturers only offer an auto unless you are buying their bare bones models. I just want the manual with all the bells and whistles, dammit!
I’m a 59 year old Aussie been driving since I was 17, only got my first automatic about 4 years ago.
Ryan, L L is learners plates. Until you actually get your driving licence you must display the L plate. When you acquire your licence you go on a P plate for 3 years as a provisional driver with a few restrictions
A black "L" on a yellow plate represents a learner driver. You are only required to have one plate on the front & one on the back of your vehicle, but some driving instructors have extras for safety. A white "P" on a red plate is a level 1 Probationary diver & a white "P" in a green plate is a level 2 Probationary diver. The number of hours in training, how many passengers you can carry, the speeds you car drive at or how long you are on each level varies from state to state. The majority of passenger cars are now automatic, however we still have many older cars with manual transmissions, plus many commercial vehicles are manual - driving enthusiasts also generally love manual cars. If you pass your test in a manual car, you can driver either style, but if you only sit the "automatic car" test - this places restrictions on the driver.
I’m Australian and i have an automatic license. They’re making less and less manual cars but some people still choose it. And the Ls on the back of the car I can confirm means learner.
2:15 In Australia when you are learning to driver you must display "L" plates on the front and back of your car so other drivers are aware that you're learning to driver. each state is different but in WA you have to complete 50 hours of driving in your logbook then you have to do your hazard perception test, which is just an online test, once you turn 17 you are then able to do you're practical driving assessment. if you pass that then you get your provisional license which just means you're allowed to drive without supervision but there are restrictions to your license. When you're on your provisional license in WA for the first 6 months you must display Red "P" plates on the front and back of your car. When your on your Red P's you get 4 demerits and you're not allowed to driver between the hours of 12am-5am and you cannot have an alcohol in your system. after you Red P's you're then on you're Green P's for 18 Months which now means there is no restrictions on curfew, you now have 8 demerit points but you still cannot have any alcohol in your system. After your 2 year provisional period you no longer have to display any plates on your car and you now have the full 12 demerit points and you can have a blood alcohol limit of 0.05.
thats the basics I'm sure I'm missing some things and its also worth mentioning that each state is different.
Yes, we do have manual cars in Australia, though like anywhere else in the world it's mostly older generations that know how to drive them.
Yep. It's mostly older generations that know how to do a lot of things that the younger generation don't.
In Victoria the first license you’ll need to get is your learners. This lets you learn to drive when there’s an experienced, fully licensed driver in the passenger seat. After you’ve passed the requirements, you can then do your driving test and apply for a provisional license (your red P plates). After a few years on a provisional license, you can apply for a full Victorian license.
To get your learner license, you need to;
Be at least 16 years old, pass the learner permit knowledge test (you’ll need to get 25 out of 32 questions right - so study hard!)
To get your P plates, you need to:
Be at least 18 years old
If you’re under 21, you must have completed a minimum of 120 hours of supervised driving as a learner, including 20 hours of night driving.
(If you got your learner license before November 1st 2017, you only need to do 10 hours of night driving but 20 hours won’t hurt).
If you’re under 21 years old, you need to have had your learners permit for at least 12 months
When you’re aged 21 to 25 years old, you need to have had your learners permit for at least 6 months
When you’re 25 years old or more, you need to have had your learners permit for at least 3 months
You must pass the Hazard Perception Test, which you can take from the age of 17 years and 11 months
You must pass the drive test
After passing the drive test, you’ll either get your red P plates or your green P plates. If you’re under 21 you’ll be given your P1 license, or your red P plates. You’ll need to stay on red P plates for a year before you can apply for your green P’s, which you’ll need to have for three years before applying for a full license.
If you’re over 21 years old when you pass your drive test, you’ll go straight to your green P plates, which you’ll need to hold for 3 years before applying for a full license.
The L plate on the back of the car is telling other road users that they are a Learner driver.
We have similar ones in the U.K., but ours are white with a red L.
The man who conducted my driver's test knew my father and we basically chatted the whole time, that is if he wasn't whistling. I learned on a manual in Queensland as most folks used manuals back then and my father's truck had two gear sticks so I had to learn that as well.
My Dad's test consisted of driving his tractor to the police station, picking up the local sergeant, driving him to get his lunch and back again. Why? Because he lived in an outback (railway stop) town and everyone knew everyone, so the policeman already knew he could drive.
That TV show is in NT - these instructors are able to assess driver licence tests. L plates are for Learners or Lunatics if you see them struggle. We all needed to start somewhere but this is painful. Often vans used for work or utes are manuals but most are autos.
I’m 58 and have always had a manual car, all my kids also drive manual.
That intersection with the 2 arrows is a Controlled T Intersection.
During Peak Times, it would most likely operate such that one phase has Left Turning traffic turning left and traffic arriving from the left turning right and going straight, another phase traffic from the left going straight while traffic from the right goes straight and turns left, and onw more phase with traffic turning right turning while traffic from the right turns left.
The test is different state by state. In the NT they certainly do things different.
Way back 30 + years ago when I was getting my licence, my dad was a qualified driving instructor. My dad & I have very similar characteristics. So we clashed on more than one occasion. I actually stopped in the middle of traffic, on a fairly long bridge & jumped out of the car & told him where to go. (Aussie polite way to say F' off.). So I mainly learnt of my speed-demon of a mother. In the test for my licence the instructor (one off the biggest prick) said I want you to do a parking manoeuvre behind that car up there. As there was no car behind, I drove up & pulled in straight behind it. The instructor goes well ok, I should have specified properly. I'll give you that one. No other parking was done. So I passed that test first go.
The majority of people in Australia drive automatic cars, it’s only much older cars that are manual. I don’t know anyone that drives a manual car.
I learned on a manual. Back in the day, the majority of cars were manual. Now the majority are automatic. I must admit, though, it did make getting my truck [Heavy Rigid] licence MUCH easier as I was already used to driving manual cars. Getting a licence these days is MUCH harder for young teens. In Western Australia you need to pass a written test to get a learner's permit. You must also complete a minimum of 50 supervised hours before you can be tested, which includes a min of 5 hours night driving. After getting your licence, you will get a probationary licence [with extra rule requirements such as speed limitation and hours of operation] This is done for 12 months after which you are given a higher level probation for another 12 months. Earning 3 demerits in the first year will lose you your licence, 7 demerits for the second 12 months. After that, you can receive up to 12 demerits on a full licence.
The green arrow on the left means the left lane can “go” and the arrow on the right is for the right lane and it is green so you can go.
If you get a license in an automatic your licence is restricted to automatics only, but if you pass the test in a manual you can drive any kind of car, so it is advantageous. It also gives you experience with manual shifting if you want to upgrade to a truck licence.
I reckon that Channel Nine put that horn honking in as a sound effect, for drama. People in Australia rarely, if ever honk at a Learner Driver (L Plates are clearly displayed), we've all been there.
L is for learner driver, so when learning in Australia especially New South Wales you must by law show L plates, and it really should just be 1 L plate front and back of the car. Most of the cars are auto. Different state have different ways to get your P plates, in New South Wales you can only get your Ps by doing a driving test with the RMS who issue all licenses, not by driving instructor as shown in the video, this must be in the Northern Territory, Darwin. On that show they show at the end who passes and who fails.
I’m watching this video in the U.K. and I’m confused on how this video can have 917 likes with only 216 views?
I’m watching this 5 minutes after this video dropped, U.K. time 05:13am.
It has 46 likes
I learned to drive in a manual Holden Commodore VK station wagon (tank!), got my L's in 1992, P's in 1993 and full license in 1994. Driven manual cars ever since.
In Australia the rules vary from state to state. A new driver holds a Learner licence/permit which has a minimum age of 16, or 15 and 9 months in some areas. This must then be held for a certain amount of time before a driving examination can be undertaken, usually 12 months later.[1] After passing, the driver must display 'P' plates. Holders of a provisional/probationary licence may be restricted compared to fully licensed drivers in speed, blood alcohol limits, limits on the type and power of their car's engine (i.e., no more than 6 cylinders, no forced induction, kW per ton limits), and number of demerit points that can be accrued.[2] VicRoads, the Victorian road authority, publish information for learner drivers on the L-Site.[3]
Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) first commenced in Australia in the mid-1960s with New South Wales introducing learner and provisional licences on January 4, 1966. In all states, newly licensed drivers are required by law to display P-plates for varying lengths of time. The P is usually a red or green letter on a white background or a white letter on a red or green background (Victoria and Western Australia only). In New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria there are two classes of provisional/probationary licence: red P-plates are for the first year after passing the Learner test, and then after passing a computerised test they are green for two to three years. Western Australia requires six months of red P-plates, where provisional drivers are under a 12 midnight-5 am curfew, and one and a half years of green P-plates.
The double arrow lights at a T intersection are so that turning can be restricted for one direction while the drivers turning the other direction can proceed. There is one of these double arrow one's near me, but it is combined with plain light as well. So left turn, right turn, and straight ahead can all be controlled independently.
The car's with 2 L plates on the back are driving schools & the ones with a single L plate are privet cars, usually mum or dads
In Australia we can choose whether to get a licence in a manual or automatic car. Sadly most people are choosing automatic, I personally like a manual car and I have told my daughter if she learns to drive a manual I will give her my 2 door Lancer.
I don't know why that first car had two L (learner) plates, maybe they put them on the back instead of one on the front and one on the back. This was an actual weekly TV show that was on a few years back. That two arrows was pretty self explanatory really bcoz there was no option to go straight ahead, but then why put arrows there 🤔 Also they didn't show it here but the instructors will actually tell you to use your handbrake when trying to drive off on an incline. Myself, I tended to ride the clutch which is not a good thing for your clutch in the long run. A manual is a lot easier to start if your battery goes flat, no jump leads and another car, just a hill or a couple of friends to give you a push start lol. The house I grew up in was on a hill so I learnt that thru experience 😂😂
In Australia you do your licence in the street, in Minnesota during the 90s they had a mock street park set up, like a Hollywood set. So no other cars around. Don't know if that still exists.
I have a manual car. I see it as a theft deterrent 😂😂
My sons are in their 30s now but when they got their manual cars and license at 18 I was comforted knowing none of their friends would or could drive his car. Driving autos was becoming the strong option in the big cities.
@@shez5964 Yep.. it helps to know how to drive both in case of emergency but most kids these days only know how to drive an automatic. All my kids are in their 30's too and they can all drive both
You had to be 18 when I got my licence in the 60s. We used to have to park against the kerb between 2 poles, representing cars in front and behind. (Usually the last part of the test). Thank goodness we just park between cars now because I failed my first attempt at a licence on that. I parked ok but just for a little insurance, I moved back a little and touched the pole. On my second attempt at getting a licence, one particular examiner at the Oakleigh police station, used to like us to back along a small bit of winding road. My husband told me this happened when he went for his licence there and he was shown how to do it by the same instructor I had. This time my instructor hadn't shown me. If I'd just had the confidence to use my brains, I would have done it and passed but I don't know what I was thinking. I thought there was a position the steering wheel had to be in like when you just back along a straight bit of road. How stupid is that? I was scared of not getting my licence. For some reason, I kept the wheel straight as I backed and of course, didn't follow the winding curb. The examiner seemed to be confident in my ability to drive because he kept his head in a magazine while I was doing the test (or maybe it was so I wouldn't be self conscious). The examiner looked up suddenly as if seemed surprised then he asked me why I did that and I said I hadn't been shown. My instructor said that was true. I don't think it was a required part of the test because I don't know anyone else who had to do it. Oakleigh just had a nice winding bend in a small suburban road, where we could do it.
You also have to learn a book of road rules that you're tested on first. When I was young, the police took care of that but now the Registration brand takes care of driving tests. Yes, those yellow plates with the black 'L' on the are funnily enough, called 'L' plates (for learners). We also have 'P' plates (for probationary drivers who have the gained their licence but are on probation for 1 year). Probationary drivers under 21 have a two-stage 4-year licence system. This means you will have: a P1 licence (red P-plate) for the first 12 months. a P2 licence (green P-plate) for the next three years. If you have learned well and have the ability to drive, the test won't be too hard but if you're not good with machines or you don't use your brains, it won't be as easy.
Main Road/Thoroughfare Speed Signs are typically larger than what you'll find by the highways and urban/city streets when the speed limits switch between defaults and specific.
Been driving a manual car since i was 14 years old here in Australia. 57 years old now and finally gave up driving a manual as the clutch hurts my left foot too much. Nerve damage so had to get my old Tarago/ Previa back because its auto. L plates are compulsory for lesrner drivers. More often driving schools have multiple L's. In 43 years driving a manual i only ever used it during the driving lessons and test. Lol
If you want to know what its like driving a right hand drive on the left side of the road you just dtive in a city with lots of one way streets. Most one way streets have more than one lane. Drive in left lane and turn left in to another one way Street going from right to left. Pretty much everyone drives one way streets in cities no matter which side your steering wheel is. Just try driving on the left lanes often and turning left in to the left lane , it is the same action for everywhere.
Hill start in a manual .... balancing the clutch and accelerator. I learned on a manual. Went for my licence in a flat top one and a half ton truck. Sarge (sergeant) was not happy, but I passed first time. Also in the 70's, didn't have all the restrictions of books and hours. But he also knew I had been driving for a few years, private property on a farm.
the L plates on the car are legally required to be on the car, being a schools car they sometimes they will have 2 on the back, it just symbolizes the driver is on their learner permit
The Green light for Left turn may be because of a pedestrian crossing at this intersection. eg: Green ahead/right okay to go ,BUT Red for left turn means cars wait for pedestrians crossing, it will turn Green to Left as well after about 30 seconds.
My mother told me that the policeman testing her got out of the car and put a matchbox behind the wheel and then told her to so a hill start.
I heard he was a terror on the tests.
A hill start (also known as a handbrake start) is one of the trickiest manoeuvres to master on a manual. With the car stationary and facing uphill with the handbrake on, by doing the correct coordination of accelerator and clutch actions and releasing the handbrake at the right moment, you have to move off forward up the hill without the car rolling back at any stage. It's a non-issue on an automatic, but a skill to be learnt on a manual.
It's not all that hard to learn, and once you know how to do it, it becomes just as easy as a regular start.
With your American car Speedos you have to remember the in Canada the speed is in kilometres and you can drive from the US to Canada there is a need for two speeds not so much in Australia
My driving test, in manual, reverse park on a hill on the uphill side. Plus a three point turn ..So much stress😅
Passed
We do still have Manual vehicles, but to my knowledge they're trying to phase them out in favour of automatics, but we still have the option of doing lessons in either manual or automatic vehicles.
G'day Mate! I took my driving test in 1970 and back then automatic cars were not common due to the added cost when buying one which was up to 20% more than for a manual.... While I could still drive a manual it is much easier now at 73 to not have to keep using the clutch to constantly change gears...BTW I did an almost perfect first test but was failed for over confidence...The reality is that had a daily maximum quota to pass so more people passed in the mornings than the afternoons...My second test was at 9 am...I passed! Cheers!
Yes, most people have learned and been tested on a manual car! The ability to drive both types means you are automatically able to drive any vehicle if there is the need in an emergency! I learnt a tractor gear box in the country, and a small geared motorbike! That was entertaining, as long as it's not me! 😄
The speedo placement can vary from car model.
It’s not common to find a dual speed speedometer. That’s common for North America because the US uses freedom units and Canada uses KM so it makes it easier to drive across the border (some of your digital Speedos you can change the main one via settings).
Australia isn’t connected to any other country and none of us are shipping our car to another country when we go on holiday.
As I said in a previous comment this was a weekly TV show a few years back and at the end of the show they'd tell you if the person passed or not.
These seem a lot more chill then what I was told which was if you made a major mistake, 3 minor mistakes or failed the 3 point turn/parallel park within 4 motions it would instantly fail you the test. I got my license earlier in February this year after I turned 21 and passed on my first attempt was scary af but I only managed 1 minor mistake
L is for Learner
P is for Provisional Licence
I drive a 5 speed manual .. but more people drive auto's than manual - just because of the amount of stop/start during peak hour traffic when commuting
Not sure if it's still the case but if you pass your test in a manual you can drive both manual and automatic. If you do the test in an auto, you get a restricted licence and can ONLY drive auto. I think there is a way to progress to the unrestricted licence but I'm not sure what you have to do. Probably something to do with driving hours and driving under supervision? 🤷♀
Where about 12- 20 hours ahead of America, in Australia 🇦🇺
I absolutely love your content on Australia and your curiosity. You and your family will definitely have to visit down under day 😊
Funny story about the auto/manual thing. A person with a manual licence can drive both auto and stick. A person with a stick licence can drive both.
So, this only really applies to people of Italian/Greek extraction (the wogs). A bunch of us went out and one of the guys had one too many drinks so his GF was asked by her boyfriend to drive him home in his (manual) car. She said she only had an auto licence and couldnt legally do it. They hitched a ride with another guy who didnt drink (much) but he was under the limit. The bf then had to come back next day to pick his car up
I asked her why she lied about only having an auto licence. She said that we all do it otherwise the bf gets drunk and we (the girlfriends) are just a taxi service, so fuck 'em.
Ryan, we drive both kinds of cars depending on choice, as many 4 wheel drives are manual so they can shift into 4WD on really rough or slippery surfaces, but everyone older than 60 would have learned on a manual so they can drive any automatic, but not vice versa. Automatic driving test passers can only drive automatics unless they pass a test driving a manual car.
So in NSW you start on your L's which is your learner Permit, after that you progress to your Red P's (provisional) licence after that Green P's then finally your full licence.
Hey i found something in Indiana that matches Australia! Carmel Indiana has roundabouts instead of traffic lights and they work! Saving lives and money.
Driving on the roads in Los Angeles scared the crapp out of me. People tailgate so badly & lane hop without using indicator lights. Wtf. It's a guessing game
Challenging Hill start - Melifont St, in Hobart, Tasmania.
Ryan, the giant speed signs are for trucks (not the pick-up type).
Our Speedos have kms and mph. I’m fairly certain we have similar cars ( the same cars) with the driver seat switched. The left right intersection is a T junction intersection.
Unless you’re driving a European car our speedos don’t have mph
@@Dr_KAP untrue, all cars produced after 2006 must have MPH if the car is sold in imperial countries. So cars sold in both America and Australia have both units of measurement.
@@atleastimgenuine3566 yes but my point was that we are not an imperial country 😂 😂 Cars sold here do not show mph unless they’re European. And we don’t use the same cars as Americans. There may be a few models, but predominantly our cars are Japanese, Korean etc and definitely no mph. Your initial comment said our cars have both it didn’t specify where they were made.
I remember getting my license in a manual. One day I got a red light on an incline and there I was with cars in front of me, cars behind me stuck under a viaduct with trains rattling across the bridge above me … yep I stalled it. I was sweating buckets afraid I would stuff up the handbrake start as I restarted the car. I never drove on that road again!!!
I'm from Western Australia and we don't have the 2 arrows facing right and left.
To start to drive in NSW Australia you start with a Learner's Permit. You must be at least 16 years old, prove your identity, pass an eyesight test, pass the Driver Knowledge Test and pay the fee. A Learner driver can only drive with a fully licenced driver in the car with them. To get a Provisional Licence (no longer need another driver in the car), you must be at least 17 years of age, had a Learner's Permit for 12 months, logged 120 hours in their driver log book with at least 20 hours at night, prove identity, pass the Hazard Perception Test (computer test), pass the driving test and pay a fee. Not easy these days.
When we see US videos of police asking for licence, registration and insurance - in Oz the insurance is part of your registration and all police cars have number plate (licence plate) recognition cameras so they know instantly the rego status. No need to carry anything but your licence.
You have to pass a written test to get you L plates, and you have all these restrictions and rules while on them. Then once you have done enough hours in you L's you do an online hazard perception test, if you pass it, then you do the practical test, which you were watching in the video. If you pass your practical you get your Red P's and then I think it is 6 months that you turn them to green P's, which you do 12 months on, then after that is when you have your full licence.
Just as US networks are known by their initialisms (ABC, NBC, etc), networks in Australia tend to be known by the old VHF channel designations that tended to be consistent across capital cities. Things are a bit different outside the cities. What this means is that "Channel 9", Channel 7" and "Channel 10" are synonymous with America's ABC, NBC, and CBS networks. The exception is Australia's ABC and SBS. They are synonymous with US networks as well although they are publicly owned.
So, Channel 9 is not a local channel but a national network. From the number plates, it looks like it was filmed in the Northern Territory.
The licensing rules vary from state to state, but the yellow L plates designate a learner driver. They must have a licensed driver in the passenger seat. Once you get your license, you will probably be on a Probationary license and have to display P plates. Here in Victoria, you are on the red P plate for a year, then on the green P plates for another 3 years if you are under 21. Each P plate level comes with restrictions. After the P plate period, you have a full license. The display of L and P plates is a legal requirement although you don't need to display 2 on the back of the car.