You should go to Lancaster County, PA sometime; it's the picturesque heart of Amish Country and the many horse buggies, roadside pedestrians walking on roads without sidewalks and the number of bicycles on the road relative to the rural nature of the area are all fairly high, and that would be worth putting up on your channel in addition to seeing the area as a whole.
left the question I didn't hear emergency flashers, so I don't know if they weren't used, or if they are just quiet. that would be a valid place to use them.
@@oyvey304 Stop it and stop it now. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. Gender all you like but that looked like a woman to me. The behavior in rescuing the poor dog reminds me of the activities of my adult human female partner.
It always amazes me how people who are normally perfectly law-abiding in their day to day lives, think nothing about breaking the law once they get in a car. There is something about driving a car (and travelling in general) that makes people lose their patience, empathy, and respect for others.
Most people drive with an “I should’ve been there an hour ago” attitude whereas I like to remind them “You should’ve left an hour ago” I would rather be late to my destination than early to my final destination
Every time I cruise down the motorway at my cruise controlled 70mph I think again and again, "Oh, look, all these law-abiding citizens the politicians like to bang on about,,,,,"
People aren't perfectly law-abiding in their day to day lives though. They exploit any opportunity that isn't adequately punished. The weaker the enforcement the more people adopt the criminal behavior.
At around 10:22, I just love it when you give a big grin and laugh at a situation and simply shrug it off. So many drivers would be getting hot under the collar but you've taught many of us to just keep calm and shrug it off.
This attitude clicked in my head one day and I've been a safer driver ever since. If it wasn't even close to being a crash, there's no reason to not just laugh at the other driver. The roads can be brilliant entertainment when you get into like this.
That clip about guessing when the car will overtake (and then it tries to as soon as it gets to the 30 limit) is a great learning opportunity and should be made into its own video.
Tailgaters don't seem to have the wit to actually pass when it would be good to do so. I've just had one get right up close behind me when I'm already doing 60 on an NSL road, like _really_ close, less than a car length. I slowed so that he could use the legal and safe option to pass - thereby leaving me to get on with my life - but he didn't overtake. Neither did he pull back. Instead, he waited until it was marginal to roar past and then slow and turn left off the road. Ho hum.
That is one thing that annoys me. If I'm going at 20 in a 20 zone of 40 in a 40 zone, why do they assume I'm not going to speed up when I pass the 30 or national sign?
@@PedroConejo1939 Agreed. Just this weekend, back roads near my town there is a narrowing off centre with a yield and a single white line lead in. Guy behind me with a good distance until then, I slowed to make sure way was clear and luckily I checked my mirrors before move over to make my way through the narrow section as thats when they decided 'Yeah now it's safe to over take' Ended up behind them all the way to the next town.
I wonder if Nissan's Forward Emergency Braking kicked in as well avoiding contact - I'm not sure how well it would react to something coming from a wider angle like that but it can be surprisingly effective in situations where you've limited time to react. The driver did well to react and steer away as quickly as they did though.
16:00 Ashley, imagine speeding up from 20 to 30 when the speed limit goes from… 20 to 30 😂 Shame on you, you must’ve completely caught that Micra off guard! 🤣
Really good discussion on the horn at 5:12. Unfortunately, given how people use the horn, I'm pretty much conditioned to hear it as a reprimand now, when ultimately it should be just about helping the other driver out.
I was really thinking about that bit, too - I have a danish driver's license, and I'm almost certain that Ashley's little "toot" would cost you the exam attempt, if you did it in Denmark. I was always instructed that the horn is for "giving a warning of an imminent risk of accident, to someone who is unaware." - and specifically *not* a tool of casual communication. For example; we are not allowed wave at a hesitant pedestrian, to enter a crossing, because we are intending to brake for them. Not acceptable in the exam, because now you are directing traffic, and that isn't something you are allowed to do.
ive seen how people drive pallet jacks in a supermarket distribution centre and thats exactly how they do it, they even do it at regular locations to avoid collision
Really well done by Luke at 13:25. Stopping nice and efficiently as soon as the problem became apparent. No panic, no drama, just quick problem solving
It's taken as a reprimand because there seems to be a UA-cam culture of people that just love to call every single use of the horn a reprimand. I've seen loads of dash cam videos with crashes and near misses where things could have gone much better had the cammer not been afraid to use a horn. Take the clip at 14:25. Do you think that there was a fair chance that the black car would have stopped had the red car used its horn at the same time as the brakes? Do you think that using the horn never even occurred to that driver because British drivers are encouraged and even bullied into not using their horns?
8:15 Can I just say the blue car did very well there. Saw all the danger of the truck, indicated and attempted move over to the other lane. Spotted the danger of the van (who didn't indicate) and backed off, making this whole thing a non-event. Like, we need more drivers like them imo.
8:46 with Sarah was intense bless her, shows also the skill and patience of an instructor in full flow, i really enjoyed that segment. What struck me was that as a learner Sarah was learning to use mirrors and the quick glances she was definitely looking AT the mirror rather than IN the mirror in order to take anything meaningful from what can be seen using the mirror. I have no doubt she is early in her training and she becomes more competent she will have more time in those mirror checks to actually check. Would be really interesting to see more clips like this and how people improve over time though I appreciate that might be another whole level of filming and organisation in terms of editing etc!
When the students have more skill in operating the car the instructor should be asking what they are seeing in the mirrors, and how they are going to act upon it. This is demonstrated in the overtaking car clip at the speed limit change (Instructor Training). When the student is at an earlier level, that extra information about what is there and how they going to act upon it, is often too much to take in.
I once had to stop for a ferret... I've had some close calls but I've not hit one animal whilst driving(I live on the edge of the country with pheasants everywhere)
Not entirely sure that having a propane cylinder fire across a motorway and into your car bonnet counts as “lucky” 😊, but as I always say, no matter how bad it gets, it can always get worse.
If it's the incident I think it is, the vehicle hit was a Nissan Qashqai. It was driven by my neighbour. He told me there was no warning and no sign of fire. One minute he was driving along, the next he was hammered by a flying propane bottle. I don't imagine those happen too often. He's more annoyed with his insurance company dragging their feet and trying to find a similar replacement.
You're ACTUALLY making this world a better place! I'm just realising you train the instructors too. Just another level to your work I'm seeing. Much respect my friend. And the shout-out to Ogmios for 'the grateful run' is brilliant! 😅👍🏻
8:14 it'd be cool to see a video on this at some point. You've shown more than once how it's good to give other people around you space to switch lanes when you know they're likely to, but at the same time you gotta move back into the middle or left lane at some point. The one thing I personally struggle with the most on highways is when I am at that point where I have to merge back, but there's traffic in the lane next to the one I'm moving back to. I never know for sure whether or not they can see me but at the same time I don't want to tunnel vision focussing on just them either. I try to always merge so I'm staggered behind or in front of them, but when it's a line of cars with no gaps you can't really do that.
Hi Ashley , ive been driving 40 yrs ..i consider myself an above average driver and lets be honest that doesn't mean much .. ive had my class 1 for 30 yrs , ive got my bus test on Friday and i really admire your skills . Great instructor, high five to you mate . 👍
I've got to say, this is the best dashcam content I've come across. your channel in general, not just this video. There are so many people on youtube under the flag of educating other drivers while mostly just spreading toxic attitude and aggressive behavior behind the wheel.
At around 6:45, yes very valid points regarding to the two faults. Namely the underinflated rear right tyre and stopped over the line. This prompts me to ask: Do driving schools have any guidelines as to how often they carry out a basic routine vehicle check for items such as tyre pressures, lights, fluid levels etc? Actually, in the case of tyre pressures, my understanding is that fir many years now, by law cars hsve to have a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) which will alert of issues on the dashboard.
Well, in fairness, just like with broken lights, the flat could have happened just moments earlier. But yeah, basic vehicle inspection may be good idea for a next Learning Point episode (:
With regards to TPMS, it's not always reliable. We have two cars in our household. I was on the motorway last week on a long journey in one of the cars and the TPMS light came on - stopped and checked pressures, it was all fine. In the other car, caught a nail in one of the tyres causing it to completely deflate - no light - and had a blowout as well - also no light. Was at the garage for its service and asked them to check it out but they came back with no fault codes found in the system.
@@birgitfischer8031 That's interesting to hear. I was well aware that TPMS is known for giving "false positives" but didn't think that "false negatives" were also an issue. Makes me wonder about the usefulness of these systems, though I realise they have been a compulsory feature for many years now.
@@p.a.1675 Yes that's a valid point re the tyre deflation may just have occurred. Who knows, maybe the owner was even aware of it and on their way to have the issue fixed a short distance away.
9:30 nice to see you teaching people to go over the bump straight and level. I see so many people hitting them with only one side of the car. At best that is going to unevenly wear the suspension and in the worst case it will fatigue break the welds in the chassis constantly twisting it along it's length each and every speed bump. I almost feel it's a question you should ask when buying a used car privately, "How do you take speed bumps in it mate?"
I'm sorry to say that you're just repeating a myth. Speed bumps are not exactly unknown to the designers of car suspensions, do you think that they aren't factored into the designs? If one's suspension was to get worn out to failure by the occasional bump then it wouldn't be up to the thousands more road irregularities it encounters every day. Until I see several hundred metallurgist's reports citing fatigue or stress corrosion cracking and systematically associating it with speed bumps I'm not going to believe this one.
I very much doubt you're going to damage the chassis from going over bumps unevenly. Now, uneven wear on shocks, bushings, maybe even wheel bearings? Sure. They're consumables anyway, and in some areas they don't last long without a speed bump in sight..
I find potholes do the most damage to vehicles and mostly on the bushings and struts which would be the same “damage” as speed bumps but takes longer as you are generally going slower over them. Never heard of chassis damage unless people are driving over them so fast they are grounding out…in which case that is fair warning to really slow down. If they were doing damage to the chassis through metal fatigue then I think we would be seeing a lot more safety recalls on vehicles as you wouldn’t want to be driving at 70mph on the motorway and then suddenly find the rear or left side of the vehicle drift away from you as it splits
Utterly poor driving from the Micra but a great example of the contempt most motorist have towards the 20mph speed limits that are increasingly being implemented. It does feel slow but there’s no need to be deluded into thinking an old Micra can out accelerate a Golf GTI!
@@awild10 This thought process intrigues me, because being from Puerto Rico, we abide by U.S. rules and they state that when driving in an urban or suburban setting you must assume the speed limit is 25mph unless there's signs stating otherwise; so, in my head, driving 30 in an urban/suburban area is a bit alien.
@@jakescustoms the problem is that in this country its always been the case that unless signed otherwise, all built up areas are a 30mph speed limit. Many are now being reduced to 20mph and a lot of drivers don't like it and are seemingly being triggered into poor behaviour when they come across someone obeying the limit. It also happens on roads where limits are reduced from 60 to 40. Often there's no enforcement to act as a deterrent.
8:56 I did this once not long ago to let a pedestrian cross and a guy turning right (like the VW in this clip) just darted in like i'd done something wrong. Luckily the pedestrian just finished crossing. I was creeping to show i was about to set off, he nearly hit my bonnet to be honest.
When i was a kid i used to ride my home made "steering cart" down the hill and over the bridge on higher lane by the allotments, of course in those days Higher lane was open all the way from Long lane/Landford avenue past Hoggs dairy and the cemetary and on to Longmoor lane. (Aintree hospital didnt exist then) It was great fun. You wouldnt have had to worry about "Gandalf" corner then either..
Hi Ashley, have you done a video on motorway slip road problems? I'd love to hear your thoughts on merging two lanes of slip road before enering motorway.
That Fiesta driving instructor is the same person I caught using her phone at some traffic lights in Warrington. She said it was legal because she was stopped!!
We have a similar lollipop person where I live who just steps out and even on occasions has said thank you to the drivers and walking back to the pavement while people are coming up to cross…on a pedestrian crossing. All the locals have learned not to look at what he does but to look at the crossing as if he wasn’t there. On the otherside of the coin, the others we have where there is no pedestrian crossing, they are 100% perfect and understand traffic flow and vehicle behaviour. As you say, hopefully it was picked up and remediated before it sets in as the norm for them
There were two cars emerging from that side road. The one turning left goes first, I think maybe hiding the red car. Like Ashley said I think they saw the slow learner car, got excited and just never properly checked to the left
02:25 I don’t like these new rules whereby you have to stop suddenly at a junction for a pedestrian. I mean in this situation with no other cars around, it would of made a lot more sense for the women to cross after Ashley had gone round the corner.
We could do with more driving instructors like you. You remind me of my driving instructor back in 2000. So many instructors just don't seem to care or teach correctly anymore, it's no wonder standards are slipping when it comes to driving.
At 12:50 I apologise on behalf of Jag drivers everywhere. Blind entitlement. Top marks to your driver for spotting that coming and adjusting his speed accordingly. At 16:00 absolutely LOVED how you assertively accelerated as you had been planning, and didn't hang back. Yet you were prepared to brake if the situation had escalated and the Micra had continued to push past. A little bit of tough love there, helps the other driver get a sense of what is happening and you allowed them space to wise up! 🙂 Ashley Neal, administering tough love to the road hogs and hot heads while helping to keep roads calm and safe. 😇👍
The new rule about giving way to pedestrians at junctions invites someone to drive into the back of you, as the vehicle following might not have seen why you had stopped.
11:30 whenever I see that many pedestrians crossing near, but not at, the pedestrian crossing it makes me wonder if the crossing is in the right place.
At my old university there was an area of grass that had paved pathways in it. It took 20 years of Malcolm the gardener repeatedly reseeding one patch of grass that always got worn away by foot traffic until they finally saw sense and put a paved footpath where the natural one fell. Rather hard to do the same with road crossings as footfall doesn't wear the road out so conspicuously.
I wish every instructor was like you- or mines, he was awesoe! I was coming up a hill on my bike the other day and an instructor done possibly the worst turn on the road I have EVER seen! He basically turned into a side street off of a busy main road and proceeded to awkwardly turn himself around while reversing into a main road, he held up two busy roads, could have went around but given how unfathomable his decision was NOBODY wanted to mess with it. We were all just looking at him and shaking our heads at one another, he stopped 6 directions of traffic for a good 2 minutes- even if there was a student in the car (whch there wasn't) I'd have expected a good instructor to tell them to proceed down that road and find a place to turn (there are many crescents and other great options) I don't know what his thought process was there! I hope that he doesn't teach like he drives when he's alone!
What would you do if you was in the fast lane on the motorway you are over taking because the car was lane hogging and was not going fast enough but then they matched your pace at 70 MPH and another car then was up your arse wanting to get past ? I can't move over the car is still lane hogging and the car behind is to close for comfort would you speed up to get out of this situation or keep at 70MPH ?
My instructor drove me home after passing my test too so I assume it's a common thing, but I am wondering why that is? My hunch says it's just because the emotions would be high after the stress and relief of the test and the results, and so it's a safety thing to prevent nerves causing any accidents, but I'm not sure if there's more to it than that...
That's most of it - some people take the whole emotional rollercoaster of exams quite well, others don't. Since you never quite know either way until it's too late, it's better to be safe than sorry (I'm firmly on the "definitely stay out of traffic" end of the spectrum myself!).
The Highway Code advises against using L plates when a qualified driver is driving, although it is not obligatory. (This does not apply to driving instructors).
@@wildefyri hm, my friend's dad is a driving instructor and from what I understand of his policy, his car is insured for any qualified driver, with or without him, with his permission; obviously provisional holders still need qualified supervision
12:37 on the M3 this afternoon They had a line closed to allow emergency vehicles to get to an incident up ahead, but everyone ignored the lane closure sign and didn't even move out the way when the emergency vehicles were behind them. They just sat there in blocking the lane with emergency vehicles behind them. And it wasn't just one vehicle there must have been about 50. One of them was a coach. My mind boggles how people can be so selfish.
I initially posted it may have been an ackowledgement or apology for the error of pulling out, but then realised the hazards were on as they emerged. Yeah, defo a distracted driver.
At around 13:05, I wonder how many folks get confused by the one way streets and mistake them for two way. Especially also when following SAT NAV instructions. I would be on high alert for that and as a pedestrian, I would always look both ways before crossing.
Satnav instructions can be misleading. Recently mine told me to make a left turn, but it was merely a sharp left bend in the road, with a minor road joining from the right. It didn't need to tell me anything. It helps to sometimes look at the screen, besides listening to the instructions.
@@Alan_Clark Your comments could virtually have been written by myself! Totally concur regarding Sat Nav telling me to turn left (or right) just because there is a minor road in the "straight ahead" position. I've even had it tell me to make such a turn purely due to a sharp bend and no side street at all. As you mentioned, it pays to glance at the sat nav screen and confirm the path to be taken. It can be even worse whenever I'm in Canada or the USA (I'm a dual citizen Brit Canadian and I cross the border into the USA frequently). What can often happen is at freeway entrances which unlike the UK, do not have roundabouts but a regular intersection. Sat nav will tell me to "Turn left onto I-5" for example. Even if distance to the turn is mentioned (and that's not always the case), you have to be aware to turn left onto to the second roadway which is the onramp onto the freeway and not the first roadway which would mean getting onto the freeway in the wrong direction via the offramp for the opposite direction. There are No Entry / Wrong Way signs for this but if someone is just blindly following the sat nav instructions and not thinking, it's easy to do. Especially more so at night in the rain and feeling tired. You need to first drive under / over the freeway and then turn. And for the record, I've never made that mistake...but almost!
This video includes three interesting examples of pedestrians crossing the road, and together they illustrate why there's no simple "one size fits all" rule that applies in every case. 2:25 Zen master Ogmios may call it the "grateful jog" but in this case it was more like the "irritation sprint". Stopping to allow the pedestrian with the dog to cross was done in a spirit of kindness and co-operation, but it could be seen as being patronising and it didn't actually help anyone. Is that why it's part of a 'Driving Fails' video? The pedestrian had slowed and was timing her arrival at the kerb so she could safely and easily cross behind the turning car in her own time, with no delay or inconvenience. By stopping, pressure was put on her to change her plan and to cross immediately. By breaking into a run, the pedestrian is showing that she feels hurried, and in those circumstances danger increases. She could stumble. The dog could get out of control. She might not notice other vehicles. The expression on her face looks more annoyed than grateful. 8:35 : A more complex situation but one that is made worse by hesitation on the part of the inexperienced pupil. But telling her to stop and wait for a pedestrian who is not even at the kerb merely adds to the confusion and actually increases the danger to the pedestrian who, again, breaks into the "irritation sprint" - right across the path of the oncoming vehicle which incorrectly enters the junction. Silly stuff all round. 11:32 A small child stranded in the middle of a multi-lane road? Potentially deadly and absolutely the responsibility of drivers to resolve the situation safely. Top marks! Different situations demand different responses. If pedestrians are in a dangerous situation or clearly struggling to cross safely because of the weight of traffic, then drivers can and should help but if they are safely stood on the side of the road, happily waiting for their turn, why interrupt the natural flow of traffic and effectively force the walker to move prematurely? Why be so deferential to the pedestrian that other road users are inconvenienced or even put into danger by your actions? Every case is different and drivers have to quickly judge each based on all kinds of data - which makes it very difficult to write down in the Highway Code. We are all still getting to grips with the recent, often vague changes in the Code, but consistency and predictability of traffic movement is an important road safety issue.
What you did there, stoping before turning left because there's a pedestrian just about to cross the road, now that the law was recently changed giving the pedestrian priority to cross the road, I trained to this standard bank in 1997 in Portugal. This was already the code then. Today, when I do that I often have drivers on their horns at me. They either don't know this is now the law or it's just lack of patience.
0:00 ashleys gandalf corner 0:48 advertiser callout 0:53 intro 1:01 gathering dog 1:37 stop if you have to 2:25 letting someone cross 2:50 advertisement proper 4:32 drifting and straight on from left turn 6:23 driving instructor taking the L 7:12 phone 7:23 red light 7:35 safe some space for others 8:11 multimerger 8:32 stop creep 9:18 wiuu wiuu wiuu 9:59 bad emerge 10:37 thats poor 11:23 pedestrian on road 11:47 incident on M60 (the propane) 12:40 no good looks 13:23 crossing roads 14:06 bad emerge 2 14:52 overtake the learner (maybe) 16:20 close lanechange (police was present) 16:48 overtake the learner (frfr) 17:32 overtake the learner (one more time)
Personally I don't see what the issue with the Nissan Micra pulling out at 10:12 was. He fit into traffic fairly well, it was obvious that you were going to have to slow to join the queue and he read it fairly well. This type of stuff happens to me quite often and I'm 100% fine with it.
At around 7:28, I totally agree that red light jumping is a big problem and I gather it's a big issue around your neck of the woods in Liverpool. I don't know the junction in this clip at all and obviously you would do. But just to ask: All those oncoming vehicles that continued to turn after your lights went green. Were they in fact facing a red light or is it possible their light changed from a right turn green filter to a steady green...and a case of several of them making a judgement call that they could still make it on their steady green before you and others alongside you got going? In fact, does such a light sequence even exist in the Uk? Its quite common in Canada and the USA for this scenario to happen, which is what prompted me to post this comment for the UK.
We sometimes have left turn filters (similar to the right turn filter you describe), but they are not universal. We also sometimes have junctions with right turn arrows which are shown to one set of traffic after the opposing side has gone to red. They can cause issues with traffic that was waiting to turn right from the side that gets the red first is stranded in the junction and they don’t realise that the opposing traffic is seeing a green.
So, the new pedestrian priority at junctions encouraged the pedestrian to cross, but the car coming the other way turned in front of you causing the the pedestrian to have to start running to clear the road.
At around 5:40 good point about using the horn simply to say "Excuse me". Unfortunately (and as discussed on this channel in the past) due to so much hirn misuse, too many drivers will see it as a reprimand and take offence, even when the hirn was used correctly for the situation at hand. Indeed, I've sometimes refrained from using my horn legitimately as a safety warning just to avoid being misunderstood and generating a bad reaction.
I had one recently and think I may have mentioned it previously so apologies to those reading this again… I had someone pull out on a roundabout and partially block the exit where I gave a tal of the horn as I went in behind. It wasn’t a screaming shouting horn use but a gentle pap (as Ashley calls it) to say “I’m coming in behind, please don’t move backwards” They gave me the most awful look as if I was telling them off. I ignored and carried on
You can alter how the horn is perceived by the length of the toot. Leaning on the horn repeatedly is obviously an angry reprimand. Whereas a short toot is more like a ‘have you seen me?’
The clip at about 6:25 of the driving school car at the lights with a flat tyre and over the line. I worked with someone who left to start a driving school, after doing the course to learn how to teach people. The car in the clip was a BSM car, which he used to call Bull S**t Method. He said it seems like the instructors apply for a job, show their driving license to prove they have one and are given a list of clients I regularly see BSM instructors pulling out in front of other cars and forcing their way through when it is not their right of way. The 2 worst ones that I remember seeing were: Coming up to traffic lights as they are changing to red. I slowed down and stopped, the BSM car was slowing down, them I saw the instructor waving his hand and telling the learner to accelerate and go straight through the red light. BSM instructor driving round a roundabout with phone clamped to his right ear with his shoulder, right hand on the wheel to steer, and an A to Z in his left hand obviously trying to find where he should be going.
Had my own personal "oops" moment today, was driving over to a parking area that runs behind a set of shops on the Wirral, hasn't realised that it was one way and entered the exit road by mistake (in my defence the no entry sign isn't visible from the direction I was coming due to foliage). By the time I'd seen it, there was another car approaching me leaving the parking area, and traffic constantly flowing on the main road, so I couldn't reverse back out, so moved over to let the other driver out and carried on. Only to get shouted at hm by someone parked in their vehicle about it being one way and asking why I'd come in that way. I just apologised and explained the sign wasn't clear. Didn't seem to mollify them much though, guess some people never make mistakes so don't understand them in others 🤷
5:21 drivers abroad (maybe not everywhere) use the horn so much better than us. Here it IS seen as an attack; when you see drivers in Turkey, Italy, etc use a horn, it is to say ‘I know this is a 2 lane carriageway, but please know that I’m here making it a 3 lane carriageway *beep*. 😂
A good and absolutely valid toot of the horn there. She was going to drift into you! Yesterday I used my horn to signal to a Taxi I needed to reverse. It was a busy car park at an Airport, I found a spot and wanted to reverse in. Indicated to the left and stopped just past the spot. But this taxi was right up my ass. But a wee toot and he sussed what was going on, gave me a thumbs up and reversed back. It's great when we can cooperate! A pedestrian sadly thought it was a reprimand. But seems to calm down when they saw what was happening.
Hgv , hazardous load: i do that and i alwasy amazed how clise cats dome to my trailer which is clearly markws as hazardous load ( drivers obviously don't understand the exact details of hazard , but there are enough labels to say :" it IS A HAZARD ", orange plate and more. Even when i have " toxic " on board ( white diamond crossbones label) they still come close to my rear bumper. Did you remeber the stories in news last petrol crisis when car drivers followed a POWDER TANKER , thinking it will lead them to a petrol station with enough petrol to fill up? Public seemed had no clue what a PETROL TANKER looks like!
Well, I think learner drivers need all the help they can get, with the madness on our roads at the moment! Glad you're a fan of Ogmios school of zen motoring too!
At around 9:03, your pupil did it correctly (under your instruction) to give priority to the pedestrian when you were turning left into the side street. In sharp contrast, the oncoming VW SUV did a very poor job indeed on several counts as follows: 1. They cut the corner when making their right turn 2. In cutting the corner and being on the wrong side of the road, they came pretty close to hitting the pedestrian who was legitimately crossing and in fact had almost finished. Its as though the VW was aiming for the pedestrian. 3. Due to #2, I very much doubt the VW driver is even aware of the rules towards pedestrians at junctions 4. The VW effectively "stole your turn" since you were making a left turn and the VW was making a right turn. The correct order of priority in this scenario is Pedestrian, Left Turning Vehicle, Right Turning Vehicle.
@@kenbrown2808 Happens at the end of my road all the time, and the worst bit is that parked cars make it impossible to see if it's clear so all those who are doing it are driving into a space they can't see.
@@ianmason. here, it's 5 lanes, and to be fair, they've done it so much they've worn off the center line, which is bright yellow, here, to let them know where the directions belong.
That first clip, where people regularly skip a queue for the lights for a 'quick right' by driving against the traffic, I've got one locally. The problem with it is that the back entrance to the local police station is down the road on the right and a good 50% of the people driving against the traffic are in *_liveried police cars_* ! Whatever happened to setting a good example?
2:24 In this situation I would have been on the other side of the road. You have two kids on scooters going past a narrowing in the pavement. They could trip and fall in front of you, or they could jump off the pavement into the road. I'm not going to take chances with that if I don't have to, especially on what looks like a very quiet road. I would have given them as much space as I possibly could.
13:36. The lollipop man (School Crossing Patrol) was really bad. When I retired as a Driving Instructor, I took a job as a School Crossing Petrol, on the busiest crossing point (both vehicle and pedestrian), I became well known and respected by both drivers and pedestrians a like. We were told to show you wished to cross, wait for the traffic to stop, then proceed into the road. Wait till pedestrians are all off the road before leaving yourself and thank the drivers for waiting. Obviously he didn’t do any of that, it also looked like he was being supervised as well. It was really bad. Before anyone says anything, School Crossing Petrols are allowed to assist any pedestrian across the road not just students/children, otherwise it would be discrimination.
5:10 horn comment - the one and only time ive used my horn was when this insane driver overtook me at about 80 on a chicane on a small B road and almost hit me - i beeped since i had to slam the brakes so they wouldnt cut me off and they stopped in the middle of the road and came and shouted at me through the top of my convertible. I need dashcams asap
At around 6:10, although not the subject of that clip, less than ideal planning by the black Mercedes behind you, trying to change to the right hand lane when everyone is almost stationary and queuing.
Great compilation. The first one with the dog running loose shows the owners have not trained it, or had a lapse letting it escape or not on the leash. Lucky this time! 16:00 Ashley accelerating after the speed limit change probably saved the impatient Micra driver from a poor overtake.
At around 16:00, perfectly timed statement regarding checking mirrors before accelerating. Have to say that two of my pet peeves are being tailgated whilst driving at the speed limit (verified by two gps devices) and the tailgater showing signs of overtaking just as the limit increases, as in this clip. Back to the point of checking mirrors before accelerating, I've really got into the habit of this as a direct result of some of Ashley's previous videos. Including on multi lane roads such as when motorway traffic slows and speeds up again. Especially for any filtering two wheelers.
I check the mirrors as well before turning sharper corners where visibility is restricted just to make sure our 2-wheeled friends aren’t trying to overtake or looking to overtake when the corner is completed. Been useful as well on more than one occasion
At around 9:20, l know this came up before but I will have to remember that tip about left knee in the middle of the speed bump. I will be thinking of the late Patrick McNee ("McKnee") who played Steed in The Avengers. In fact, I think now the theme tune will be playing in my head every time I approach a speed bump.
That doesn’t work where I live as most of our speed bumps have turned into speed craters where they have worn away at the edges to make nice deep potholes. We have to ride them off-centre now until they are fixed, removed or otherwise made more suspension friendly Oh well, so glad parts for my car are cheaper than some out there 🤣
@@smilerbob US speed bumps go all the way across, so positioning is futile. but as a bonus, our lowrider drivers have to cross them diagonally to prevent getting high centered.
@@kenbrown2808 Nice. Reminds me of a time I went out to a sport event and one of the group decided to shownoff their newly lowered suspension for everyone despite everyone advising against it. They had to abandon their car at the entrance to the drive with a half mile walk to the clubhouse as the bumps and hill leading up the drive were too much. Best part was they weren’t much bigger than standard bumps!
14:30 Corsa literally inches away from writing off both cars, then just drives off as though nothing's amiss. Wow, that was a disgrace. Had this happen to me a number of times over the years on the bike but never (touch wood) while driving.😳
I'm really enjoying this channel. I had an impression of English drivers as being really good, maybe a bit officious and self-righteous comparatively, but generally more cooperative and thoughtful than drivers in the countries that I'm used to. It's almost reassuring to see the same silly stuff that you see everywhere else.
On the whole, statistically, they are, but that doesn't equate to perfect. People will be people. It is pretty sad to drive around the UK and realise that with all the awful driving going on, these are still among the safest roads in the world. Makes you realise just how bad some places are.
Great video, apart from the annoying over-selling of the VPN. Unfortunately most VPN brands do the same thing (purposefully ignore the fact that just about any decent website employs SSL encryption). Of course, VPNs do have perfectly valid uses.
Some dashcams have a remote button to be used for that purpose rather than fiddling with camera itself. My cam can be voice activated to save the video but that's not as reliable.
@@economicprisoner But it wasn't a swap it was a button press at dashboard level. I'm assuming...dodgy word in ADI language...that its a remote button, if so, I'd like some details about that. In my school car I have a nextbase (wouldn't buy another one) with a red button that locks the clips, its not a faff but something closer would be good. My personal car has the Viofo 129 bought with @ashleyneal discount code and that has a big triangle to press, again, not a huge issue but something nearer would be good.
The mentality of people who see a learner car and immediately think, Must Get In Front is absurd. We've all been a learner, and I always leave so much space and give learners time as it can put them off driving. Great video Ashley.
I remember going along a 30mph zone which opened up in to a national speed limit (my limit was 60mph) and just as I accelerated, a pick up overtook me as I was accelerating and almost hit a traffic island. I should have checked my mirrors.
10.15 Lovely space, just like I leave to give myself road space, only to find someone sees it as an opportunity to nip across. I have on the M42 left my two second gap only to have four cars nip into it.
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Ah, click bait! I expected to see a propane explosion.😏
You should go to Lancaster County, PA sometime; it's the picturesque heart of Amish Country and the many horse buggies, roadside pedestrians walking on roads without sidewalks and the number of bicycles on the road relative to the rural nature of the area are all fairly high, and that would be worth putting up on your channel in addition to seeing the area as a whole.
Loved that you saw the girl getting out of the car to rescue the little doggo and you cut across the right lane and made her safe.
left the question I didn't hear emergency flashers, so I don't know if they weren't used, or if they are just quiet. that would be a valid place to use them.
@@kenbrown2808 I suppose he could have used them, but I don't think it was entirely necessary in that situation IMO.
@@Reversefilms not necessary, but where I am, someone would have tried to push past.
@Stephen Lake Did you just assume their gender? Disgusting.
@@oyvey304 Stop it and stop it now. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. Gender all you like but that looked like a woman to me. The behavior in rescuing the poor dog reminds me of the activities of my adult human female partner.
It always amazes me how people who are normally perfectly law-abiding in their day to day lives, think nothing about breaking the law once they get in a car.
There is something about driving a car (and travelling in general) that makes people lose their patience, empathy, and respect for others.
Most people drive with an “I should’ve been there an hour ago” attitude whereas I like to remind them “You should’ve left an hour ago”
I would rather be late to my destination than early to my final destination
Every time I cruise down the motorway at my cruise controlled 70mph I think again and again, "Oh, look, all these law-abiding citizens the politicians like to bang on about,,,,,"
What often makes it worse is when the driver knows they are breaking the law, they try to do it as quickly as possible.
I regularly ignore red traffic lights as a pedestrian. Don't know what you're talking about. :)
People aren't perfectly law-abiding in their day to day lives though. They exploit any opportunity that isn't adequately punished. The weaker the enforcement the more people adopt the criminal behavior.
At around 10:22, I just love it when you give a big grin and laugh at a situation and simply shrug it off. So many drivers would be getting hot under the collar but you've taught many of us to just keep calm and shrug it off.
This attitude clicked in my head one day and I've been a safer driver ever since. If it wasn't even close to being a crash, there's no reason to not just laugh at the other driver. The roads can be brilliant entertainment when you get into like this.
That clip about guessing when the car will overtake (and then it tries to as soon as it gets to the 30 limit) is a great learning opportunity and should be made into its own video.
Agreed and quite often you know they are going to try it long before they have thought about it 👍
Tailgaters don't seem to have the wit to actually pass when it would be good to do so. I've just had one get right up close behind me when I'm already doing 60 on an NSL road, like _really_ close, less than a car length. I slowed so that he could use the legal and safe option to pass - thereby leaving me to get on with my life - but he didn't overtake. Neither did he pull back. Instead, he waited until it was marginal to roar past and then slow and turn left off the road. Ho hum.
That is one thing that annoys me. If I'm going at 20 in a 20 zone of 40 in a 40 zone, why do they assume I'm not going to speed up when I pass the 30 or national sign?
@@PedroConejo1939 Agreed. Just this weekend, back roads near my town there is a narrowing off centre with a yield and a single white line lead in. Guy behind me with a good distance until then, I slowed to make sure way was clear and luckily I checked my mirrors before move over to make my way through the narrow section as thats when they decided 'Yeah now it's safe to over take' Ended up behind them all the way to the next town.
have to be ready for the ones behind who 'Have To Get in Front' sydrome; personally i let them, as its safer for me, when they are in front.
14:23 No blowing the horn, just a quick and efficient save, what a driver!
I wonder if Nissan's Forward Emergency Braking kicked in as well avoiding contact - I'm not sure how well it would react to something coming from a wider angle like that but it can be surprisingly effective in situations where you've limited time to react. The driver did well to react and steer away as quickly as they did though.
@@Rroff2 Possibly, and if so, it just shows how much better this technology has gotten in the span of a few years.
16:00 Ashley, imagine speeding up from 20 to 30 when the speed limit goes from… 20 to 30 😂 Shame on you, you must’ve completely caught that Micra off guard! 🤣
Hahaha
Really good discussion on the horn at 5:12. Unfortunately, given how people use the horn, I'm pretty much conditioned to hear it as a reprimand now, when ultimately it should be just about helping the other driver out.
It’s also a lost art when necessary as a warning in blind areas like the single file hump in Melling Road
Agreed- though perhaps the length of horn is a consideration. A quick beep sounds far more polite than a long one.
I was taught "Audible warning of approach or presence" .... nail on the head there.
I was really thinking about that bit, too - I have a danish driver's license, and I'm almost certain that Ashley's little "toot" would cost you the exam attempt, if you did it in Denmark. I was always instructed that the horn is for "giving a warning of an imminent risk of accident, to someone who is unaware." - and specifically *not* a tool of casual communication.
For example; we are not allowed wave at a hesitant pedestrian, to enter a crossing, because we are intending to brake for them. Not acceptable in the exam, because now you are directing traffic, and that isn't something you are allowed to do.
ive seen how people drive pallet jacks in a supermarket distribution centre and thats exactly how they do it, they even do it at regular locations to avoid collision
Well done to you and that other driver for helping that lost dog. The possibilities there don't bear thinking about.
Love to see the ogmios reference at 2:40 , great channel to watch to be a more patient driver, would definitely reccomend
everyone likes a grateful jog✅. Ogmios has a lot to answer for 😁👍🏼
Double wave
11:00 Love the commentary there, kind of reminds me of my favorite phrase, "if you're gonna do something stupid, make sure I don't know you".
Really well done by Luke at 13:25. Stopping nice and efficiently as soon as the problem became apparent. No panic, no drama, just quick problem solving
5:44 Using the horn is only taken as a reprimand now because so many people abuse using the horn. It's NOT for scolding other drivers.
It's taken as a reprimand because there seems to be a UA-cam culture of people that just love to call every single use of the horn a reprimand. I've seen loads of dash cam videos with crashes and near misses where things could have gone much better had the cammer not been afraid to use a horn. Take the clip at 14:25. Do you think that there was a fair chance that the black car would have stopped had the red car used its horn at the same time as the brakes? Do you think that using the horn never even occurred to that driver because British drivers are encouraged and even bullied into not using their horns?
Haha go to countries and the horn is used every second as you do with the gears
@@CristiNeagu the horn is usually taken as a reprimand because they know they’ve done something wrong.
8:15 Can I just say the blue car did very well there. Saw all the danger of the truck, indicated and attempted move over to the other lane. Spotted the danger of the van (who didn't indicate) and backed off, making this whole thing a non-event. Like, we need more drivers like them imo.
I know someone who told taxi driver to stop. Got out and refused to pay as they felt scared to be in the taxi the way it was being driven.
I have done that myself after the driver jumped 2 reds.
If I didn't know better, I'd accuse Ashley of staging that scenario with the Micra for the trainee's benefit. The timing was just too perfect. 😂
8:46 with Sarah was intense bless her, shows also the skill and patience of an instructor in full flow, i really enjoyed that segment. What struck me was that as a learner Sarah was learning to use mirrors and the quick glances she was definitely looking AT the mirror rather than IN the mirror in order to take anything meaningful from what can be seen using the mirror. I have no doubt she is early in her training and she becomes more competent she will have more time in those mirror checks to actually check. Would be really interesting to see more clips like this and how people improve over time though I appreciate that might be another whole level of filming and organisation in terms of editing etc!
When the students have more skill in operating the car the instructor should be asking what they are seeing in the mirrors, and how they are going to act upon it. This is demonstrated in the overtaking car clip at the speed limit change (Instructor Training). When the student is at an earlier level, that extra information about what is there and how they going to act upon it, is often too much to take in.
@@ashley_neal Makes total sense, really thought the video today with all the different clips was excellent.
Thank you so much!
You can tell the quality of a person by the way they treat animals.
True.
I tend to avoid them.
I once had to stop for a ferret... I've had some close calls but I've not hit one animal whilst driving(I live on the edge of the country with pheasants everywhere)
@@antonycharnock2993 'Feathered Skittles' as I call them 😄
We eat animals mate, were anything but nice to animals.
Not entirely sure that having a propane cylinder fire across a motorway and into your car bonnet counts as “lucky” 😊, but as I always say, no matter how bad it gets, it can always get worse.
Anything is lucky if it could have easily been significantly worse!!
@@highdownmartin This is why you should not pass a vehicle fire, even tyres exploding can cause serious damage and even death, especially lorry tyres
If it's the incident I think it is, the vehicle hit was a Nissan Qashqai. It was driven by my neighbour.
He told me there was no warning and no sign of fire. One minute he was driving along, the next he was hammered by a flying propane bottle.
I don't imagine those happen too often.
He's more annoyed with his insurance company dragging their feet and trying to find a similar replacement.
You're ACTUALLY making this world a better place!
I'm just realising you train the instructors too.
Just another level to your work I'm seeing.
Much respect my friend.
And the shout-out to Ogmios for 'the grateful run' is brilliant! 😅👍🏻
8:14 it'd be cool to see a video on this at some point. You've shown more than once how it's good to give other people around you space to switch lanes when you know they're likely to, but at the same time you gotta move back into the middle or left lane at some point. The one thing I personally struggle with the most on highways is when I am at that point where I have to merge back, but there's traffic in the lane next to the one I'm moving back to. I never know for sure whether or not they can see me but at the same time I don't want to tunnel vision focussing on just them either. I try to always merge so I'm staggered behind or in front of them, but when it's a line of cars with no gaps you can't really do that.
Hi Ashley , ive been driving 40 yrs ..i consider myself an above average driver and lets be honest that doesn't mean much .. ive had my class 1 for 30 yrs , ive got my bus test on Friday and i really admire your skills . Great instructor, high five to you mate . 👍
I've got to say, this is the best dashcam content I've come across. your channel in general, not just this video. There are so many people on youtube under the flag of educating other drivers while mostly just spreading toxic attitude and aggressive behavior behind the wheel.
But, you are of course completely mad driving on the wrong side of the road 😀
At around 6:45, yes very valid points regarding to the two faults. Namely the underinflated rear right tyre and stopped over the line. This prompts me to ask: Do driving schools have any guidelines as to how often they carry out a basic routine vehicle check for items such as tyre pressures, lights, fluid levels etc? Actually, in the case of tyre pressures, my understanding is that fir many years now, by law cars hsve to have a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) which will alert of issues on the dashboard.
Well, in fairness, just like with broken lights, the flat could have happened just moments earlier. But yeah, basic vehicle inspection may be good idea for a next Learning Point episode (:
With regards to TPMS, it's not always reliable. We have two cars in our household. I was on the motorway last week on a long journey in one of the cars and the TPMS light came on - stopped and checked pressures, it was all fine.
In the other car, caught a nail in one of the tyres causing it to completely deflate - no light - and had a blowout as well - also no light. Was at the garage for its service and asked them to check it out but they came back with no fault codes found in the system.
@@birgitfischer8031 That's interesting to hear. I was well aware that TPMS is known for giving "false positives" but didn't think that "false negatives" were also an issue. Makes me wonder about the usefulness of these systems, though I realise they have been a compulsory feature for many years now.
@@p.a.1675 Yes that's a valid point re the tyre deflation may just have occurred. Who knows, maybe the owner was even aware of it and on their way to have the issue fixed a short distance away.
Good on you for stopping for the girl and her dog and holding up the cars behind you! 🙂
9:30 nice to see you teaching people to go over the bump straight and level. I see so many people hitting them with only one side of the car. At best that is going to unevenly wear the suspension and in the worst case it will fatigue break the welds in the chassis constantly twisting it along it's length each and every speed bump. I almost feel it's a question you should ask when buying a used car privately, "How do you take speed bumps in it mate?"
if a car is so delicate that the minimal twist taking a speed bump off center is enough to break it, I'm not sure I want to own it.
I'm sorry to say that you're just repeating a myth. Speed bumps are not exactly unknown to the designers of car suspensions, do you think that they aren't factored into the designs? If one's suspension was to get worn out to failure by the occasional bump then it wouldn't be up to the thousands more road irregularities it encounters every day. Until I see several hundred metallurgist's reports citing fatigue or stress corrosion cracking and systematically associating it with speed bumps I'm not going to believe this one.
I very much doubt you're going to damage the chassis from going over bumps unevenly. Now, uneven wear on shocks, bushings, maybe even wheel bearings? Sure. They're consumables anyway, and in some areas they don't last long without a speed bump in sight..
@@kenbrown2808 It's not "a" speed bump, it's 100 of them a day that does it.
I find potholes do the most damage to vehicles and mostly on the bushings and struts which would be the same “damage” as speed bumps but takes longer as you are generally going slower over them. Never heard of chassis damage unless people are driving over them so fast they are grounding out…in which case that is fair warning to really slow down.
If they were doing damage to the chassis through metal fatigue then I think we would be seeing a lot more safety recalls on vehicles as you wouldn’t want to be driving at 70mph on the motorway and then suddenly find the rear or left side of the vehicle drift away from you as it splits
15:55 Wow, that timing was perfect!
Mirror check before speeding up is the one people overlook the most after turning left, in my opinion!
Utterly poor driving from the Micra but a great example of the contempt most motorist have towards the 20mph speed limits that are increasingly being implemented. It does feel slow but there’s no need to be deluded into thinking an old Micra can out accelerate a Golf GTI!
@@awild10 This thought process intrigues me, because being from Puerto Rico, we abide by U.S. rules and they state that when driving in an urban or suburban setting you must assume the speed limit is 25mph unless there's signs stating otherwise; so, in my head, driving 30 in an urban/suburban area is a bit alien.
@@jakescustoms the problem is that in this country its always been the case that unless signed otherwise, all built up areas are a 30mph speed limit. Many are now being reduced to 20mph and a lot of drivers don't like it and are seemingly being triggered into poor behaviour when they come across someone obeying the limit. It also happens on roads where limits are reduced from 60 to 40. Often there's no enforcement to act as a deterrent.
Congratulations Luke, well done 👏👏🎉🎉
Enjoy many years of safe happy driving 👍👍
8:56 I did this once not long ago to let a pedestrian cross and a guy turning right (like the VW in this clip) just darted in like i'd done something wrong. Luckily the pedestrian just finished crossing. I was creeping to show i was about to set off, he nearly hit my bonnet to be honest.
When i was a kid i used to ride my home made "steering cart" down the hill and over the bridge on higher lane by the allotments, of course in those days Higher lane was open all the way from Long lane/Landford avenue past Hoggs dairy and the cemetary and on to Longmoor lane. (Aintree hospital didnt exist then) It was great fun. You wouldnt have had to worry about "Gandalf" corner then either..
Hi Ashley, have you done a video on motorway slip road problems? I'd love to hear your thoughts on merging two lanes of slip road before enering motorway.
That Fiesta driving instructor is the same person I caught using her phone at some traffic lights in Warrington. She said it was legal because she was stopped!!
We have a similar lollipop person where I live who just steps out and even on occasions has said thank you to the drivers and walking back to the pavement while people are coming up to cross…on a pedestrian crossing.
All the locals have learned not to look at what he does but to look at the crossing as if he wasn’t there.
On the otherside of the coin, the others we have where there is no pedestrian crossing, they are 100% perfect and understand traffic flow and vehicle behaviour.
As you say, hopefully it was picked up and remediated before it sets in as the norm for them
Yikes
Im glad there aren’t any like that where i live (but there is one on a traffic light controlled crossing, which i find a little ridiculous)
14:43 ah that was looking to the right, forgetting that there actually is traffic from the left! Happens all the time where I am!
The red car driver deserves a shout out for a good save there 👍
@@p.a.1675 Yeah, perhaps they were using the mind set of 'have they seen me'
There were two cars emerging from that side road. The one turning left goes first, I think maybe hiding the red car. Like Ashley said I think they saw the slow learner car, got excited and just never properly checked to the left
Love the ogmios reference, enjoyed your collab and love his chill commentary!
02:25 I don’t like these new rules whereby you have to stop suddenly at a junction for a pedestrian. I mean in this situation with no other cars around, it would of made a lot more sense for the women to cross after Ashley had gone round the corner.
We could do with more driving instructors like you. You remind me of my driving instructor back in 2000. So many instructors just don't seem to care or teach correctly anymore, it's no wonder standards are slipping when it comes to driving.
How often, when driving up to the stop sign for road works, do you find the sign, essentially, too close to the lights and the exit from the works?
Hazard lights are so versatile. Use them to park anywhere, or emerge in front of oncoming traffic. /s
Yep. A single yellow line means put on your left indicator when parking. A double yellow line means put on your hazards
Yeah. They're amazing what they allow you to do making the illegal still illegal.
I expected the clip at 14:15 to be the BMW aggressively overtaking you after the junction, a positive surprise actually.
6:50 my driving instructor (a very long time ago now), always referred to BSM as the British School of Muppets
That's funny 😂
At 12:50 I apologise on behalf of Jag drivers everywhere. Blind entitlement. Top marks to your driver for spotting that coming and adjusting his speed accordingly.
At 16:00 absolutely LOVED how you assertively accelerated as you had been planning, and didn't hang back. Yet you were prepared to brake if the situation had escalated and the Micra had continued to push past. A little bit of tough love there, helps the other driver get a sense of what is happening and you allowed them space to wise up! 🙂
Ashley Neal, administering tough love to the road hogs and hot heads while helping to keep roads calm and safe. 😇👍
Love the nod to Ogmios with the 'grateful run' 😂
The new rule about giving way to pedestrians at junctions invites someone to drive into the back of you, as the vehicle following might not have seen why you had stopped.
An Ashley and Ogmios cross over/colab episode would wipe out all the bad things that happened in 2023.
2:44 Love the Ogmios Grateful jog reference.
11:30 whenever I see that many pedestrians crossing near, but not at, the pedestrian crossing it makes me wonder if the crossing is in the right place.
At my old university there was an area of grass that had paved pathways in it. It took 20 years of Malcolm the gardener repeatedly reseeding one patch of grass that always got worn away by foot traffic until they finally saw sense and put a paved footpath where the natural one fell. Rather hard to do the same with road crossings as footfall doesn't wear the road out so conspicuously.
I wish every instructor was like you- or mines, he was awesoe! I was coming up a hill on my bike the other day and an instructor done possibly the worst turn on the road I have EVER seen! He basically turned into a side street off of a busy main road and proceeded to awkwardly turn himself around while reversing into a main road, he held up two busy roads, could have went around but given how unfathomable his decision was NOBODY wanted to mess with it. We were all just looking at him and shaking our heads at one another, he stopped 6 directions of traffic for a good 2 minutes- even if there was a student in the car (whch there wasn't) I'd have expected a good instructor to tell them to proceed down that road and find a place to turn (there are many crescents and other great options) I don't know what his thought process was there! I hope that he doesn't teach like he drives when he's alone!
What would you do if you was in the fast lane on the motorway you are over taking because the car was lane hogging and was not going fast enough but then they matched your pace at 70 MPH and another car then was up your arse wanting to get past ? I can't move over the car is still lane hogging and the car behind is to close for comfort would you speed up to get out of this situation or keep at 70MPH ?
My instructor drove me home after passing my test too so I assume it's a common thing, but I am wondering why that is? My hunch says it's just because the emotions would be high after the stress and relief of the test and the results, and so it's a safety thing to prevent nerves causing any accidents, but I'm not sure if there's more to it than that...
That's most of it - some people take the whole emotional rollercoaster of exams quite well, others don't. Since you never quite know either way until it's too late, it's better to be safe than sorry (I'm firmly on the "definitely stay out of traffic" end of the spectrum myself!).
The Highway Code advises against using L plates when a qualified driver is driving, although it is not obligatory. (This does not apply to driving instructors).
I just assumed it was so ashley didn't have to switch seats when the successful driver got home.
Insurance too depending on the policy. You're now qualified.
@@wildefyri hm, my friend's dad is a driving instructor and from what I understand of his policy, his car is insured for any qualified driver, with or without him, with his permission; obviously provisional holders still need qualified supervision
12:37 on the M3 this afternoon They had a line closed to allow emergency vehicles to get to an incident up ahead, but everyone ignored the lane closure sign and didn't even move out the way when the emergency vehicles were behind them. They just sat there in blocking the lane with emergency vehicles behind them. And it wasn't just one vehicle there must have been about 50. One of them was a coach. My mind boggles how people can be so selfish.
10:18 the hazards was hilarious, I always find it funny when people do this
I just thought the same…I couldn’t see anything wrong as they were using the universal “Do Anything” lights 🤣
I initially posted it may have been an ackowledgement or apology for the error of pulling out, but then realised the hazards were on as they emerged. Yeah, defo a distracted driver.
At around 13:05, I wonder how many folks get confused by the one way streets and mistake them for two way. Especially also when following SAT NAV instructions. I would be on high alert for that and as a pedestrian, I would always look both ways before crossing.
Satnav instructions can be misleading. Recently mine told me to make a left turn, but it was merely a sharp left bend in the road, with a minor road joining from the right. It didn't need to tell me anything. It helps to sometimes look at the screen, besides listening to the instructions.
@@Alan_Clark Your comments could virtually have been written by myself! Totally concur regarding Sat Nav telling me to turn left (or right) just because there is a minor road in the "straight ahead" position. I've even had it tell me to make such a turn purely due to a sharp bend and no side street at all. As you mentioned, it pays to glance at the sat nav screen and confirm the path to be taken.
It can be even worse whenever I'm in Canada or the USA (I'm a dual citizen Brit Canadian and I cross the border into the USA frequently). What can often happen is at freeway entrances which unlike the UK, do not have roundabouts but a regular intersection. Sat nav will tell me to "Turn left onto I-5" for example. Even if distance to the turn is mentioned (and that's not always the case), you have to be aware to turn left onto to the second roadway which is the onramp onto the freeway and not the first roadway which would mean getting onto the freeway in the wrong direction via the offramp for the opposite direction. There are No Entry / Wrong Way signs for this but if someone is just blindly following the sat nav instructions and not thinking, it's easy to do. Especially more so at night in the rain and feeling tired. You need to first drive under / over the freeway and then turn. And for the record, I've never made that mistake...but almost!
Ogmios has made me more aware of when I wave or double wave to drivers who let me cross a road.
It always amazes me to see people dangerously overtaking learners. I don’t get it.
I only see it in these vids. Not seen it in real life....yet.
@@markgambrill london in a 20 mph zone :D which had been a 30 for ever
_Why should you check your mirrors before you accelerate?_
Meticulously timed! ;)
This video includes three interesting examples of pedestrians crossing the road, and together they illustrate why there's no simple "one size fits all" rule that applies in every case.
2:25 Zen master Ogmios may call it the "grateful jog" but in this case it was more like the "irritation sprint".
Stopping to allow the pedestrian with the dog to cross was done in a spirit of kindness and co-operation, but it could be seen as being patronising and it didn't actually help anyone. Is that why it's part of a 'Driving Fails' video?
The pedestrian had slowed and was timing her arrival at the kerb so she could safely and easily cross behind the turning car in her own time, with no delay or inconvenience. By stopping, pressure was put on her to change her plan and to cross immediately.
By breaking into a run, the pedestrian is showing that she feels hurried, and in those circumstances danger increases. She could stumble. The dog could get out of control. She might not notice other vehicles. The expression on her face looks more annoyed than grateful.
8:35 : A more complex situation but one that is made worse by hesitation on the part of the inexperienced pupil. But telling her to stop and wait for a pedestrian who is not even at the kerb merely adds to the confusion and actually increases the danger to the pedestrian who, again, breaks into the "irritation sprint" - right across the path of the oncoming vehicle which incorrectly enters the junction. Silly stuff all round.
11:32 A small child stranded in the middle of a multi-lane road? Potentially deadly and absolutely the responsibility of drivers to resolve the situation safely. Top marks!
Different situations demand different responses.
If pedestrians are in a dangerous situation or clearly struggling to cross safely because of the weight of traffic, then drivers can and should help but if they are safely stood on the side of the road, happily waiting for their turn, why interrupt the natural flow of traffic and effectively force the walker to move prematurely? Why be so deferential to the pedestrian that other road users are inconvenienced or even put into danger by your actions?
Every case is different and drivers have to quickly judge each based on all kinds of data - which makes it very difficult to write down in the Highway Code.
We are all still getting to grips with the recent, often vague changes in the Code, but consistency and predictability of traffic movement is an important road safety issue.
Right at the start; how does the Iceland van's move differ from everyday overtaking?
What you did there, stoping before turning left because there's a pedestrian just about to cross the road, now that the law was recently changed giving the pedestrian priority to cross the road, I trained to this standard bank in 1997 in Portugal. This was already the code then. Today, when I do that I often have drivers on their horns at me. They either don't know this is now the law or it's just lack of patience.
0:00 ashleys gandalf corner
0:48 advertiser callout
0:53 intro
1:01 gathering dog
1:37 stop if you have to
2:25 letting someone cross
2:50 advertisement proper
4:32 drifting and straight on from left turn
6:23 driving instructor taking the L
7:12 phone
7:23 red light
7:35 safe some space for others
8:11 multimerger
8:32 stop creep
9:18 wiuu wiuu wiuu
9:59 bad emerge
10:37 thats poor
11:23 pedestrian on road
11:47 incident on M60 (the propane)
12:40 no good looks
13:23 crossing roads
14:06 bad emerge 2
14:52 overtake the learner (maybe)
16:20 close lanechange (police was present)
16:48 overtake the learner (frfr)
17:32 overtake the learner (one more time)
09:00 safer for everyone if you just take the left turn. don't pressure pedestrians to cross in potentially unsafe situations :)
9:51 I think that car took ash' hand gesture as a go
Which dashcam are you using now that supports the bluetooth button? Shame it doesn't support the A119V3.
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Personally I don't see what the issue with the Nissan Micra pulling out at 10:12 was. He fit into traffic fairly well, it was obvious that you were going to have to slow to join the queue and he read it fairly well. This type of stuff happens to me quite often and I'm 100% fine with it.
At around 7:28, I totally agree that red light jumping is a big problem and I gather it's a big issue around your neck of the woods in Liverpool. I don't know the junction in this clip at all and obviously you would do. But just to ask: All those oncoming vehicles that continued to turn after your lights went green. Were they in fact facing a red light or is it possible their light changed from a right turn green filter to a steady green...and a case of several of them making a judgement call that they could still make it on their steady green before you and others alongside you got going? In fact, does such a light sequence even exist in the Uk? Its quite common in Canada and the USA for this scenario to happen, which is what prompted me to post this comment for the UK.
We sometimes have left turn filters (similar to the right turn filter you describe), but they are not universal. We also sometimes have junctions with right turn arrows which are shown to one set of traffic after the opposing side has gone to red. They can cause issues with traffic that was waiting to turn right from the side that gets the red first is stranded in the junction and they don’t realise that the opposing traffic is seeing a green.
So, the new pedestrian priority at junctions encouraged the pedestrian to cross, but the car coming the other way turned in front of you causing the the pedestrian to have to start running to clear the road.
At around 5:40 good point about using the horn simply to say "Excuse me". Unfortunately (and as discussed on this channel in the past) due to so much hirn misuse, too many drivers will see it as a reprimand and take offence, even when the hirn was used correctly for the situation at hand. Indeed, I've sometimes refrained from using my horn legitimately as a safety warning just to avoid being misunderstood and generating a bad reaction.
I had one recently and think I may have mentioned it previously so apologies to those reading this again…
I had someone pull out on a roundabout and partially block the exit where I gave a tal of the horn as I went in behind. It wasn’t a screaming shouting horn use but a gentle pap (as Ashley calls it) to say “I’m coming in behind, please don’t move backwards”
They gave me the most awful look as if I was telling them off. I ignored and carried on
You can alter how the horn is perceived by the length of the toot.
Leaning on the horn repeatedly is obviously an angry reprimand.
Whereas a short toot is more like a ‘have you seen me?’
@@alanmorrison163 Totally agreed and that's exactly what I do re a short toot...and yet still can get a bad reaction. Not always but on occasion.
The clip at about 6:25 of the driving school car at the lights with a flat tyre and over the line.
I worked with someone who left to start a driving school, after doing the course to learn how to teach people. The car in the clip was a BSM car, which he used to call Bull S**t Method. He said it seems like the instructors apply for a job, show their driving license to prove they have one and are given a list of clients
I regularly see BSM instructors pulling out in front of other cars and forcing their way through when it is not their right of way.
The 2 worst ones that I remember seeing were:
Coming up to traffic lights as they are changing to red. I slowed down and stopped, the BSM car was slowing down, them I saw the instructor waving his hand and telling the learner to accelerate and go straight through the red light.
BSM instructor driving round a roundabout with phone clamped to his right ear with his shoulder, right hand on the wheel to steer, and an A to Z in his left hand obviously trying to find where he should be going.
Had my own personal "oops" moment today, was driving over to a parking area that runs behind a set of shops on the Wirral, hasn't realised that it was one way and entered the exit road by mistake (in my defence the no entry sign isn't visible from the direction I was coming due to foliage). By the time I'd seen it, there was another car approaching me leaving the parking area, and traffic constantly flowing on the main road, so I couldn't reverse back out, so moved over to let the other driver out and carried on.
Only to get shouted at hm by someone parked in their vehicle about it being one way and asking why I'd come in that way. I just apologised and explained the sign wasn't clear.
Didn't seem to mollify them much though, guess some people never make mistakes so don't understand them in others 🤷
5:21 drivers abroad (maybe not everywhere) use the horn so much better than us. Here it IS seen as an attack; when you see drivers in Turkey, Italy, etc use a horn, it is to say ‘I know this is a 2 lane carriageway, but please know that I’m here making it a 3 lane carriageway *beep*. 😂
the clip after the propane explosion also reinforces, if fire fighters tell you to get back because it's not safe; get back.
A good and absolutely valid toot of the horn there. She was going to drift into you!
Yesterday I used my horn to signal to a Taxi I needed to reverse. It was a busy car park at an Airport, I found a spot and wanted to reverse in. Indicated to the left and stopped just past the spot. But this taxi was right up my ass. But a wee toot and he sussed what was going on, gave me a thumbs up and reversed back. It's great when we can cooperate!
A pedestrian sadly thought it was a reprimand. But seems to calm down when they saw what was happening.
the taxi driver probably lost his taxi license over being cooperative like that.
Hgv , hazardous load: i do that and i alwasy amazed how clise cats dome to my trailer which is clearly markws as hazardous load ( drivers obviously don't understand the exact details of hazard , but there are enough labels to say :" it IS A HAZARD ", orange plate and more. Even when i have " toxic " on board ( white diamond crossbones label) they still come close to my rear bumper.
Did you remeber the stories in news last petrol crisis when car drivers followed a POWDER TANKER , thinking it will lead them to a petrol station with enough petrol to fill up? Public seemed had no clue what a PETROL TANKER looks like!
Well, I think learner drivers need all the help they can get, with the madness on our roads at the moment! Glad you're a fan of Ogmios school of zen motoring too!
Bit more than a fan. Keep tuned in!
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At around 9:03, your pupil did it correctly (under your instruction) to give priority to the pedestrian when you were turning left into the side street. In sharp contrast, the oncoming VW SUV did a very poor job indeed on several counts as follows:
1. They cut the corner when making their right turn
2. In cutting the corner and being on the wrong side of the road, they came pretty close to hitting the pedestrian who was legitimately crossing and in fact had almost finished. Its as though the VW was aiming for the pedestrian.
3. Due to #2, I very much doubt the VW driver is even aware of the rules towards pedestrians at junctions
4. The VW effectively "stole your turn" since you were making a left turn and the VW was making a right turn. The correct order of priority in this scenario is Pedestrian, Left Turning Vehicle, Right Turning Vehicle.
we have one intersection where people cut the corner so badly they often get their whole car into the oncoming turn lane.
@@kenbrown2808 Happens at the end of my road all the time, and the worst bit is that parked cars make it impossible to see if it's clear so all those who are doing it are driving into a space they can't see.
@@ianmason. here, it's 5 lanes, and to be fair, they've done it so much they've worn off the center line, which is bright yellow, here, to let them know where the directions belong.
That first clip, where people regularly skip a queue for the lights for a 'quick right' by driving against the traffic, I've got one locally. The problem with it is that the back entrance to the local police station is down the road on the right and a good 50% of the people driving against the traffic are in *_liveried police cars_* ! Whatever happened to setting a good example?
If that lollipop man is a driver he's given a good indication of how bad he'd be!
2:24 In this situation I would have been on the other side of the road. You have two kids on scooters going past a narrowing in the pavement. They could trip and fall in front of you, or they could jump off the pavement into the road. I'm not going to take chances with that if I don't have to, especially on what looks like a very quiet road. I would have given them as much space as I possibly could.
I like your "tough love approach" in teaching. Always the best way to go.
13:36. The lollipop man (School Crossing Patrol) was really bad. When I retired as a Driving Instructor, I took a job as a School Crossing Petrol, on the busiest crossing point (both vehicle and pedestrian), I became well known and respected by both drivers and pedestrians a like. We were told to show you wished to cross, wait for the traffic to stop, then proceed into the road. Wait till pedestrians are all off the road before leaving yourself and thank the drivers for waiting. Obviously he didn’t do any of that, it also looked like he was being supervised as well. It was really bad. Before anyone says anything, School Crossing Petrols are allowed to assist any pedestrian across the road not just students/children, otherwise it would be discrimination.
Loved how you went across the lane so they could safely get the dog 14:26 Oh wow that was so close 😱
5:10 horn comment - the one and only time ive used my horn was when this insane driver overtook me at about 80 on a chicane on a small B road and almost hit me - i beeped since i had to slam the brakes so they wouldnt cut me off and they stopped in the middle of the road and came and shouted at me through the top of my convertible. I need dashcams asap
At around 6:10, although not the subject of that clip, less than ideal planning by the black Mercedes behind you, trying to change to the right hand lane when everyone is almost stationary and queuing.
Great compilation. The first one with the dog running loose shows the owners have not trained it, or had a lapse letting it escape or not on the leash. Lucky this time!
16:00 Ashley accelerating after the speed limit change probably saved the impatient Micra driver from a poor overtake.
At around 16:00, perfectly timed statement regarding checking mirrors before accelerating. Have to say that two of my pet peeves are being tailgated whilst driving at the speed limit (verified by two gps devices) and the tailgater showing signs of overtaking just as the limit increases, as in this clip.
Back to the point of checking mirrors before accelerating, I've really got into the habit of this as a direct result of some of Ashley's previous videos. Including on multi lane roads such as when motorway traffic slows and speeds up again. Especially for any filtering two wheelers.
I check the mirrors as well before turning sharper corners where visibility is restricted just to make sure our 2-wheeled friends aren’t trying to overtake or looking to overtake when the corner is completed. Been useful as well on more than one occasion
That last one was utter madness...
6:40 What percentage of Ashley's videos show this crossing?
At around 9:20, l know this came up before but I will have to remember that tip about left knee in the middle of the speed bump. I will be thinking of the late Patrick McNee ("McKnee") who played Steed in The Avengers. In fact, I think now the theme tune will be playing in my head every time I approach a speed bump.
That doesn’t work where I live as most of our speed bumps have turned into speed craters where they have worn away at the edges to make nice deep potholes. We have to ride them off-centre now until they are fixed, removed or otherwise made more suspension friendly
Oh well, so glad parts for my car are cheaper than some out there 🤣
@@smilerbob US speed bumps go all the way across, so positioning is futile. but as a bonus, our lowrider drivers have to cross them diagonally to prevent getting high centered.
@@smilerbob Ah yes, that can happen. Put aside my Patrick "McKnee" analogy then and The Avengers!
@@ibs5080 Keep the ananogy going there, it is a good one and is useful for me (and everyone else) when I venture away from home 👍
@@kenbrown2808 Nice. Reminds me of a time I went out to a sport event and one of the group decided to shownoff their newly lowered suspension for everyone despite everyone advising against it. They had to abandon their car at the entrance to the drive with a half mile walk to the clubhouse as the bumps and hill leading up the drive were too much. Best part was they weren’t much bigger than standard bumps!
14:30 Corsa literally inches away from writing off both cars, then just drives off as though nothing's amiss. Wow, that was a disgrace. Had this happen to me a number of times over the years on the bike but never (touch wood) while driving.😳
I'm really enjoying this channel. I had an impression of English drivers as being really good, maybe a bit officious and self-righteous comparatively, but generally more cooperative and thoughtful than drivers in the countries that I'm used to. It's almost reassuring to see the same silly stuff that you see everywhere else.
even the awkward driving in Ashley's channel is often of a higher standard than the average in the states.
On the whole, statistically, they are, but that doesn't equate to perfect. People will be people.
It is pretty sad to drive around the UK and realise that with all the awful driving going on, these are still among the safest roads in the world. Makes you realise just how bad some places are.
Great video, apart from the annoying over-selling of the VPN. Unfortunately most VPN brands do the same thing (purposefully ignore the fact that just about any decent website employs SSL encryption). Of course, VPNs do have perfectly valid uses.
How have you got your camera set up so you can press the button on the dash in front of you? Another great video @ashleyneal
Some dashcams have a remote button to be used for that purpose rather than fiddling with camera itself. My cam can be voice activated to save the video but that's not as reliable.
Since he makes a habit of sharing clips: he may just swap SD cards.
@@economicprisoner But it wasn't a swap it was a button press at dashboard level. I'm assuming...dodgy word in ADI language...that its a remote button, if so, I'd like some details about that. In my school car I have a nextbase (wouldn't buy another one) with a red button that locks the clips, its not a faff but something closer would be good. My personal car has the Viofo 129 bought with @ashleyneal discount code and that has a big triangle to press, again, not a huge issue but something nearer would be good.
The mentality of people who see a learner car and immediately think, Must Get In Front is absurd.
We've all been a learner, and I always leave so much space and give learners time as it can put them off driving.
Great video Ashley.
I remember going along a 30mph zone which opened up in to a national speed limit (my limit was 60mph) and just as I accelerated, a pick up overtook me as I was accelerating and almost hit a traffic island. I should have checked my mirrors.
14:30 Nearly squashed a quashqai!
What car do you teach in?
How do I get a video to you? I have one of a drunk driver crashing that I would like to submit and possibly get your opinion of my response. Thanks.
People usually upload their footage to Google Drive or similar, and then send me a sharing link to ashleysanalysis@gmail.com
09:49 I'm not surprised you clutched your head, waiting for the crash. That could have been very nasty.
I got in a mini cab once and had two to tell him to turn the football off that he was watching on his phone as he was driving along.
10.15 Lovely space, just like I leave to give myself road space, only to find someone sees it as an opportunity to nip across. I have on the M42 left my two second gap only to have four cars nip into it.