It's so lovely to follow Emily's journey, I'm thankful to her for sharing her experience and it helps me a lot as a learner seeing a different perspective
Honestly we have plenty of fantastic Driving Instructors doing TH-cam also. I know I am 7 months late but - Hidi Gábor and KreszTV are absolute bangers, the latter also has a public school I believe.
I struggled a lot with this when learning even though my learner car had hill assist, now I don't struggle at all without assist. Definitely one of the scarier parts of learning when you're on a hill and there's an expensive looking car a foot behind you on a steep incline.
I passed my test today with 3 minors. I've been following your videos ever since I passed my theory test. Really appreciate the effort behind each of them. They were really helpful.
3 solid years of driving experience and I never knew or noticed that pushing the footbrake hard could help release the handbrake... Thanks for teaching even us experienced drivers how to drive better. Keep up the good work, Rich! :)
When I thought about it too, it makes sense as the foot brake takes away the tension that is on the hand brake cables. Think of the brake pad as a rocker arm, when one side is pressed a lot more, the other side will give from its tension. In this case, the tension that is against the ratchet teeth in the hand brake leaver.
My (ex) instructor didn’t take me through hill starts the way you have beautifully done. She just threw me in the deep end and was shocked to see me roll back/stall so much out of panic. Not to mention she had terrible arthritis so every time I made the car jerk she would cry out in pain, making me feel terrible. Wish I had had an instructor like you to teach me manual!
I wish had you as my instructor, my first lesson he brought me to a busy road, I had to go through 3 roundabouts and the only thing that he showed me was the accelarator, brake and clutch, that's it!!! He didn't explain to me that the brake and the accelerator were more "sensitive" than the clutch, he didnt explain to me that I had to release the clutch up to the biting point and then give a little bit of gas, and he didn't tell me how to brake...but thanks to your videos I knew what to do and I never stalled, my driving was smooth, but I was pissed at him.
I wish I was in Colchester and was able to take lesson from you Richard. Every time my call rolls back on a hill my instructor only yells “Don’t let the car roll back.. DO YOU GET THAT!” And it panics me even more 😢
Please change instructor. I had the same experience and tried to put up with it but after a year, I changed instructor and passed. It still has left me with driving anxiety even though i passed a year ago and i feel like i can hear the other instructor still shouting at me
He's great, isn't he? I passed a month ago in a 2022 Seat Leon diesel, and bought a 2008 Ford Fiesta 1.4 petrol. Massive difference. But Richard's channel is a brilliant resource for knowing what to do (and much more importantly, what NOT to do lol) in virtually every stressful situation.
ive been driving over 20 years myself and yet im drawn to this channel so much recently, its good to see somebody with your attitude and knowledge enjoying sharing that knowledge and the young lady is clearly progressing very well under your tuition. I find im watching the video's and im jumping ahead saying to myself why has he not told her this or that and 30 seconds later you say what i was thinking, gives me a smile and makes me feel like i could teach somebody just as well but then you will say something that makes perfect sense in the moment that i realize i wouldn't have said and thats why im not an instructor lol enjoy the content, good to see some pupils are happy to have their progress uploaded and i hope she see's that she is doing well and people enjoy seeing her grow in the car.
You guys have become my favorite youtubers.. just got my very first manual. Been driving automatic for 17 years.I kept stalling and your videos have helped me understand better my new car. Thank you..
Yessss! One more video with Emily!! I love it how she's getting more comfortable with the camera, joking around and the cheerio in the end is just lovely
Stationed in japan and just bought my first manual transmission. I have had somewhere around 6/7 hours behind the wheel stateside so not a total newbie. However i have been watching all of your videos making sure to grasp as much as i can to be confident to face all the hills here, and they are quite a few. Doing great so far.
1st step Left leg on the clutch and right leg on the brake . 2nd step left leg on the biting point for a second and the right leg on the accelerator... To know the biting point of your car put gear 1 and slowly release the clutch and when the car starts vibrating a little more than usual that's the biting point.. At the biting point the car will start moving even without accelerating on a flat surface but you need to accelerate if it's on a hill.. I hope it helps
My father was the one who taught me manual when I was 14 lol I learned in an 86 merkur xr4ti 2.3 turbo and he was very patient! Good teachers create great drivers 😅
Every learner is always anxious and nervous, concerned , worried and frightened - However, that is always a continuous feeling you will have throughout learning to drive, even when you feel confident and had 80 hours of learning/practice in the car with your instructor - I personally still feel the above emotions ... these emotions continuously will eat you alive. You will face different scenarios every lesson. there are more than a thousand driving scenarios - and you can not cover all those scenarios in 80 hours of driving lesson practice. But as long as you learn and keep practising your confidence grows enough so you can pass the actual driving practical test.
Another absolutely class lesson, Richard. I passed my test with no marks on the 3rd of October on the Isle of Man. I conquered the hill start, but I remember the nerves of "am I going to roll this?". The first hill start is the most nerve wrenching, after a few successful and consistent starts its practically second nature. Well done to the student too! Not a panic and very receptive to what you were saying.
I passed my test a year ago with automatic transmission (we are not required to pass with manual in my country anymore ) but your videos are so INTERESTING and I am kinda thinking of going back and getting a manual license. Keep up the good work!
If you have *separate* license for manual transmission, you have the same logic as here in Finland. If you get your driver's license with manual transmission, you can drive all cars. If you get the driver's license with an automatic gearbox, you're allowed to only drive cars with automatic gearbox.
I'm starting driving school soon at 29 for the first time, I'm quite anxious about it but these videos reassure me a bit and you can also learn so much even just watching. Hopefully I don't drive on the left side the first time I actually sit behind the wheel, it would be unfortunate since we drive on the right 😁 Thank you Emily and Richard and please keep making these videos!
Just love my previous car, Mazda 6. It was a manual but with hill assist so it kept the brakes on for me until i used the clutch to go away. REALLY nice, especially with a heavy trailer on a steep incline. My car now, automatic, have even better version. There is literally ZERO rollback, even in steep hill with trailer on. It keeps the brake on, i slowly rev engine more and more until it just starts slowly to roll forward. It is Amazing!
I did exactly what you said at the start with learner drivers 😂 My instructor took me on the main roads Wednesday and just before the end of the lesson, he said he wanted me to do a hill start 😅 I almost burnt the clutch out as I panicked when we rolled back and floored the gas, the car was growling and smoke everywhere, the smell was horrid 😢 I almost chucked in the towel with Manuel but I'm willing to keep trying. This video has helped MASSIVELY! If only I watched this before 😂 Thank you both 🙏🏻
Emily is so great with her pedals! It's a real pleasure to watch somebody with a natural gift pick up a skill -- it's heartwarming and inspiring to see the rapid improvement. But I also loved the thorough explanation given at the start. I know I do like knowing a lot about the thing I will have to do beforehand, even if it's a physical skill that really gets aquired only through practice. As for the steering, it's a pity that learners can't be taken to a place like a racing circuit where -- just as they can practice drive control by experimenting with application and dosage of throttle and clutch on any kind of road -- they could safely experiment with their steering freely, using the whole with of the track, going over the curbs, etc. Emily would have benefitted immensly from something like that probably.
I think it would be good for all new learners to practice some racing first in a sim to learn to steer the car more accurately. A proper sim such as Assetto Corsa Competizione with a direct drive wheel should get you pretty far already.
@@MikkoRantalainen To an extent, yes. But I think it's something of a half-measure. Obviously, getting a ride on a sim is much cheaper than an excursion to a real-life race course, but I think that while a modern sim does go a very long way in recreating the physics, it is doesn't quite reacreate the feel of the car (all kinds of bumps, jolts, accelerations, deaccelerations) and the view of your surroundings out of the windows of an actual car. Even if you get the full VR set-up, which, mind you, is pretty expensive and many people get motion sickness from using. The thing is, the environment you'd want for the learner driver doesn't need to be anything fancy -- all you want is a piece of closed-off, treeless road with well-defined, clearly visible curbs that wouldn't hurt the tires when driven over.
@@barsorrro Sure, going to real track would be even better but if everybody started with a racing sim, they would already have much better wheel control and you don't need to make it really complex with moving platforms and VR stuff to make it worth doing. If they had learned to steer the car and use the pedals in the sim, the time in real car could be used for more productive things like how to interpret the behavior of other drivers instead of trying to learn how to use clutch in hill start.
@@MikkoRantalainen Well, again, I totally agree with you in that an experience in a sim certainly wouldn't hurt and that many things can be safely tried out and explored there... to a certain degree. And I agree that my idea of getting learner drivers onto a circuit (of some sort: probably a purpose-built one would be more viable than organising learner-driver sessions on a racing circuit) is pretty much a fantasy. However, I'm sure you realise that some of the most important things about the basics of driving are impossible to explore through your regular "racing-game" sim, like IRacing or Asseto Corsa. Starting with the view out of the windshield: in the sim your virtual neck and head position are absolutely fixed, so that once you've established a reference point on your bonnet, your dashboard or whatever piece of car visible ahead of you, you know exactly where the corners of your vehicle are. In a real-life car, your head and neck move, so you have to train yourself to compensate for that -- often, you will even lean in your seat to get a better view in a specific direction, and then your reference system needs to be able to accomodate for that. That's my main point. Another important thing is that while learning to drive a real car, you're learning to process and to deal with a lot of sensory input, like the bumps, the jolts, etc. -- they all convey some information about the car's position, speed, etc., but they are also a quite a bit intimidating in your early days behind the wheel. In a sim, your exposure to these aspects of the driving experience is practically non-existent, not to mention the fact that some things are portrayed different than in "nature" (force-feedback on the sim wheel is far richer than even what a real-life racing driver would sense through the steering wheel). Finally, you can't really learn clutch control in a racing sim, because real-life clutch is more nuanced in its feel: in a way, that's also realistic in terms of racing simulation, since race cars have an extremely thin bite point, and you practically don't get much of the half-clutch on them -- you can't go smoothly at low speeds in a race car.
@@barsorrro Great points! You could use something like BeamNG which can simulate multiple different types of clutches. And of course, you should have a pedal that has non-linear force for the clutch pedal, just like in normal car.
Richard, you are great. I'd love to have you as my instructor, or even just a mock test, I've been learning now for about 6 months and my test is end of November, watching someone start from the beginning reminds me how fun driving is
I’ve seen a lot of videos from your side of the pond, (french driving instructor here). It seems a lot of british students lift their whole leg when finding the biting point, the heel lifts with the whole foot. Here we teach the student to keep the heel on the floor as much as possible so the ankle controls where you stop the pedal and not the hip. Lifting the pedal from the hip compared to lifting the pedal from the ankle is like trying to write using only your shoulder instead of trying to write with your wrists. Of course if the person is small they can’t not lift the heel, but on most students i found it better to keep the heel down.
He's literally explained in so many videos that he doesn't teach to keep the clutch down with heel because that way the foot will get off center after several press-release cycles. I can defo believe you're French😂
@@valentine8161never happened to my students tbh. Also you don’t keep the foot on the clutch, once the clutch pedal is up, your foot goes on the rest. That way, you don’t have press release cycles on the pedal.
Man, wish I had someone as patient, kind, and great at teaching as you... Thanks so much for these videos, they'll definitely suffice :) Cheers and hope all's well with you.
that footbrake tip when the hand brake is high is a good tip learn something new everyday! i have a tendency to rip the handbrake up so my poor mother cant get it down when she drives lol
I kinda lost my count but I think I'm on my 13th driving lesson, had a two week break cuz my instructor was on holiday and in the midst of it I stumbled up on your channel searching for this content, I knew a few things but the way you explain things and what's happening while you're doing it has given more insight and understanding of how it works. I'm from Portugal,here we can't use the hand break technique,we have to know how to properly use the clutch, usually it's in a diesel car and we have a little easier but I've been trying some petrol cars apart from my lesson cuz they're more sensitive and you really have to be skilful..and that's what I'm aiming for. Cheers mate!
I love Emily's little salute at 42:19. Thank you, Rich, for these wonderful lessons. I was watching this video, and after 20 minutes, I thought I had learned everything there was to know about this topic. But you kept teaching, and before I knew it, I was hooked and had to finish the entire video! 😂 Thank you.
I had a great instructor overall but I had to convince him big time to teach me hill starts. For whatever reason they don't have to teach it where i'm from but from watching your videos I knew I had to learn it from practice and the knowledge from those vids helped a lot
Just came back to this channel to say that I had my test today and have passed with 2 minors. I defilently think your videos have helped keep my judgment and skills sharp so thank you. You help so many people you might not even realise.
Richard I love your way of explaining things and watch every video 2 years after passing really enjoying watching Emily's journey she's doing better than she believes she is. Pleeease can you do an in depth video on hill start assist apart from starting from stationary like how can I drive without activating it, stop start give way situations, just bought a 2013 renault clio with it and it's driving me mad i can't press accelerator until brake releases and if I do it will just stall, also I can't take my foot off the brake to test if its an incline and it activated and then put my foot back on brake so if the situation has changed and I nee to wait j have no brake its been really dangerous a few times now. I already have bad driving anxiety and I'm now avoiding going anywhere unless I absolutely have to and can avoid all hills I don't want to keep being like this its not the freedom driving can give you. I appreciate all your videos and knowledge
I drove in a low traffic parking house and asked to stop at every level ramp. Afterwards I was skilled in parking house driving and hill starting. Enjoyable driving lesson.
This is how things like this should be teached. I learned in a really well kitted Audi Q3 with HSA, Autohold etc. and did'nt learn to hill start without these assistants. After I got my licence, my first car was a 25 year old Golf mk4. It was horrible, driven it maybe 500km in total before I gifted the car to my mum as she needed a car. Now I drive an automatic transmission, its obviously much more relaxing to drive, but sometimes its annoying to not be able to choose the gears myself.
Gotta say, Richard is a very great instructor! Very thorough on different scenario and patient with his students. Also like his name as I got the same, Richard.
Hill start and hill clutch control used to be a nightmare for me but now it's easy... I can relate to all the new drivers who struggles with hill start and clutch control.. Remember one thing hold at the biting point for a second and accelerate hard or light depending on how high the hill climb is...
Emily's right, hill starts without handbrake are more fun! I've been prefering them to handbrake starts from the very beginning and even though I didn't have the hill hold assist. Now I do handbrake starts almost only when I'm driving a car that I'm not used to its clutch :)
Modern cars don't even have the mechanical handbrake handle any more. My "handbrake" has been electric for over 10 years in the past two cars I've had. Not sure if this is only an automatic thing or not. It will release automatically with a bit of gas applied.
I'm a PDI and when I was training it was all about passing the part 3. I wish it was more like learning how to actually do the job and pass on knowledge and not having to rely on these TH-cam videos although I'm grateful that they're available.
I think the training can be more centered around teaching people normally. There is too much of a coaching approaching in driving instructor training and not enough knowledge to help learners in my opinion.
Here in the country of Rooski we're being taught to hill start using clutch only, given that nearly all cars are equipped with a computerized fuel injection, albeit it reacts differently, some react rapidly when the engine load changes, some let the engine run tight for a whole second. Despite how bad it may sound, it doesn't damage the engine beyond normal use. It is enough to raise the clutch so that the car either doesn't start rolling back or doesn't roll as quick. However, in some cars it's easy to do, you can even do it really quickly, while in others it becomes a game of bargaining with the engine for the added revs before you can go up the hill, and that takes a while
Hill start with modern cars is so easy. I learned with my moms old early 80s model Ford Fiesta 1.1 liter and like 45 or 55 hp. The clutch on that thing was terrible and the bite from none to full was quite short. Stalled it a few times in the years after I got my license.
I got my driver's license first try this week. Thank you for the many tips. I still watch your videos cause I want my driving to be smooth as butter. Still a tiny bit bumpy in shift changes.
This was a great lesson Richard! Fun little story about hill starts my old instructor back home (I moved and had to get a new one for uni) his car had a clutch where you essentially could clutch and footbrake it up the hill. That might have something to do with the car though
A great lesson that helps offering the entire picture at dealing with hills for our learners, especially following the detailed instructions via several sections in the hill series vedios. The rythems of the vedio is also comfortable for me to review what I learned from the previous hill series vedios. THANK YOU SO MUCH, Richard. THANKS, Emily. 🌹💕
Great pedagogy in this video! I think telling the student to imagine bending her toe upwards or downwards to do minor corrections to pedal movement will help accurate controls even more. If you do coarse pedal movement by moving the whole foot and minor adjustments with toes, the overall control will be more accurate.
I remember, back when i was taking driving lessons, i used to ask my teacher to challenge me with all kinds of different scenarios just so I'd get used to driving in all kinds of conditions. Rain at night, hills and narrow backroads, complicated freeways and the like. One time, while i was running a fever, i called and told her i wanted to take the car out. Just to have some experience in case i ever needed to drive while sick.
Lovely talk through and explanations. Another skill being lost with modern electronic handbrake/hold systems. I tried using the electronic handbrake before I really understood how it worked and burned my clutch - learned through what could have been an expensive mistake.
That was really good Emily, you can do it! Hill starts used to scare me!! Keep up the good work, looking forward to your next video. Tomorrow I'm going to fiddle with my foot brake and handbrake, because I didn't know that about making the handbrake easier to release!
This video and all your other content around clutch control saved me from a serious in my test yesterday (stalled on a steep hill, had to re-centre myself, take a breathe, remember this video and take it step by step. I had only ever learned with hill start assist but was using handbrake start for only the second time ever - manage to get off fine after taking it slow) and I'm so happy to say I passed first time. I cannot thank you enough for your content: you've helped me fill in all the gaps in my knowledge, build confidence and learn to truly love driving. Watching your videos after passing is next level feel-good.
This is so incredible!! I wish my instructor was this meticulous when teaching. Need to keep in mind to check if the car I'm driving has that 2 second break hold time when y9u release the break. It would definitely be nice, but I don't think it has that function.
Not sure if it’s a rule there but when parked on an incline/decline “curb” the wheels (i.e., turn the wheels in the direction of the curb) so if the handbrake fails the car doesn’t roll into the street. I never trust the handbrake alone so also was taught to put the car in gear on a incline or reverse on a decline
I've probably watched 4 of these videos all the way through now and I can't wait to turn 17 in June and start amazing my Instructor with my knowledge (I probably will stall a lot 😂😂) Really enjoy the videos though! Keep it up 🙌🙌🙌
If this instructor was in my local area I would be ringing up for a lesson his information and knowledge is spot on
If only all/most Insrtcutors were as informative and understanding as Richard.
It's so lovely to follow Emily's journey, I'm thankful to her for sharing her experience and it helps me a lot as a learner seeing a different perspective
Class lesson, Richard! I wish we had such pleasant and meticulous tutors in Hungary - maybe my partner wouldn't be terrified of driving.
You have him in Hungary, it’s just he is on TH-cam 😁👍🏽
There's only one Richard in any country, I'm sure other Brits think the same thing when they watch his videos 😂
Honestly we have plenty of fantastic Driving Instructors doing TH-cam also.
I know I am 7 months late but - Hidi Gábor and KreszTV are absolute bangers, the latter also has a public school I believe.
Emily has gotten so much better with her clutch control, the progress is really good!
Anyone else notice Emily doing the little salute with Richard at the end? 😂
Hehe she is such a cutie.
I struggled a lot with this when learning even though my learner car had hill assist, now I don't struggle at all without assist. Definitely one of the scarier parts of learning when you're on a hill and there's an expensive looking car a foot behind you on a steep incline.
10 mins in and can already tell this entire video can effectively teach the basics of clutch control on hills. Love your vids man, 100% helped me pass
I passed my test today with 3 minors. I've been following your videos ever since I passed my theory test. Really appreciate the effort behind each of them. They were really helpful.
That's great to hear! Congratulations on passing!
i love emilys confidence, really nice to see her back on the channel!
I drive for the past 12 years... i don't know what i am doing in this channel but i love it.
3 solid years of driving experience and I never knew or noticed that pushing the footbrake hard could help release the handbrake...
Thanks for teaching even us experienced drivers how to drive better. Keep up the good work, Rich! :)
Ditto. I love watching these videos as I'm learning new things too.
Same here, I'm going to try with mine tomorrow!!
When I thought about it too, it makes sense as the foot brake takes away the tension that is on the hand brake cables. Think of the brake pad as a rocker arm, when one side is pressed a lot more, the other side will give from its tension. In this case, the tension that is against the ratchet teeth in the hand brake leaver.
True ❤
Haha same here I've always thought it was just my car being wonky.
My (ex) instructor didn’t take me through hill starts the way you have beautifully done. She just threw me in the deep end and was shocked to see me roll back/stall so much out of panic. Not to mention she had terrible arthritis so every time I made the car jerk she would cry out in pain, making me feel terrible.
Wish I had had an instructor like you to teach me manual!
Sounds like a nightmare
I wish had you as my instructor, my first lesson he brought me to a busy road, I had to go through 3 roundabouts and the only thing that he showed me was the accelarator, brake and clutch, that's it!!! He didn't explain to me that the brake and the accelerator were more "sensitive" than the clutch, he didnt explain to me that I had to release the clutch up to the biting point and then give a little bit of gas, and he didn't tell me how to brake...but thanks to your videos I knew what to do and I never stalled, my driving was smooth, but I was pissed at him.
this is probably already the hardest part of driving a manual... once you nail this you're pretty much good to go by yourself 😅
I wish I was in Colchester and was able to take lesson from you Richard. Every time my call rolls back on a hill my instructor only yells “Don’t let the car roll back.. DO YOU GET THAT!” And it panics me even more 😢
Change instructor. You deserve better
I'd be taking my money elsewhere
Instructor sounds like a ****. Get a new one.
Please change instructor. I had the same experience and tried to put up with it but after a year, I changed instructor and passed. It still has left me with driving anxiety even though i passed a year ago and i feel like i can hear the other instructor still shouting at me
I have passed on Thursday the 5th of October using hand controls as a disabled person. You got this Emily
Congratulations on passing!
Yeyyy Emily is back with some progress 🎉❤
Thank you Richard, just passed today with 2 minors! Honestly don't think I would have passed without you and DGN driving. Thank you so much.
He's great, isn't he? I passed a month ago in a 2022 Seat Leon diesel, and bought a 2008 Ford Fiesta 1.4 petrol. Massive difference. But Richard's channel is a brilliant resource for knowing what to do (and much more importantly, what NOT to do lol) in virtually every stressful situation.
That's fantastic news! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
ive been driving over 20 years myself and yet im drawn to this channel so much recently, its good to see somebody with your attitude and knowledge enjoying sharing that knowledge and the young lady is clearly progressing very well under your tuition. I find im watching the video's and im jumping ahead saying to myself why has he not told her this or that and 30 seconds later you say what i was thinking, gives me a smile and makes me feel like i could teach somebody just as well but then you will say something that makes perfect sense in the moment that i realize i wouldn't have said and thats why im not an instructor lol
enjoy the content, good to see some pupils are happy to have their progress uploaded and i hope she see's that she is doing well and people enjoy seeing her grow in the car.
"If you ignore the hill, the hill will hurt you; if you listen to the hill, the hill will help you."
-Lao Tzu
You guys have become my favorite youtubers.. just got my very first manual. Been driving automatic for 17 years.I kept stalling and your videos have helped me understand better my new car. Thank you..
You got this, Emily, keep it up!
Thx for the vid, Richard!
Yessss! One more video with Emily!!
I love it how she's getting more comfortable with the camera, joking around and the cheerio in the end is just lovely
I love those endings, too! This humourous, half-mockery of Richard's trademark sign-off gesture (which I'm a great fan of, incidentally) is so funny.
Stationed in japan and just bought my first manual transmission. I have had somewhere around 6/7 hours behind the wheel stateside so not a total newbie. However i have been watching all of your videos making sure to grasp as much as i can to be confident to face all the hills here, and they are quite a few.
Doing great so far.
1st step Left leg on the clutch and right leg on the brake .
2nd step left leg on the biting point for a second and the right leg on the accelerator... To know the biting point of your car put gear 1 and slowly release the clutch and when the car starts vibrating a little more than usual that's the biting point.. At the biting point the car will start moving even without accelerating on a flat surface but you need to accelerate if it's on a hill.. I hope it helps
How come I learn at least one new thing every time when I watch a video of yours. You are such an amazing teacher ❤
My father was the one who taught me manual when I was 14 lol I learned in an 86 merkur xr4ti 2.3 turbo and he was very patient!
Good teachers create great drivers 😅
Every learner is always anxious and nervous, concerned , worried and frightened - However, that is always a continuous feeling you will have throughout learning to drive, even when you feel confident and had 80 hours of learning/practice in the car with your instructor - I personally still feel the above emotions ... these emotions continuously will eat you alive. You will face different scenarios every lesson. there are more than a thousand driving scenarios - and you can not cover all those scenarios in 80 hours of driving lesson practice. But as long as you learn and keep practising your confidence grows enough so you can pass the actual driving practical test.
Why on Earth do you need 80 hours for dude? You do realise you can and probably should be able to do the driving test and pass after 40?
Best Instructor I have ever seen on net.👍
Another absolutely class lesson, Richard. I passed my test with no marks on the 3rd of October on the Isle of Man. I conquered the hill start, but I remember the nerves of "am I going to roll this?". The first hill start is the most nerve wrenching, after a few successful and consistent starts its practically second nature.
Well done to the student too! Not a panic and very receptive to what you were saying.
I passed my test a year ago with automatic transmission (we are not required to pass with manual in my country anymore ) but your videos are so INTERESTING and I am kinda thinking of going back and getting a manual license. Keep up the good work!
what country is this
Is that in the US
It is in the UAE
@@skinnynotlegend Ahh I see
If you have *separate* license for manual transmission, you have the same logic as here in Finland. If you get your driver's license with manual transmission, you can drive all cars. If you get the driver's license with an automatic gearbox, you're allowed to only drive cars with automatic gearbox.
Passed my test with 4 MINORS today !!! WOOO , your videos were quite helpful thank you Richard !
That's fantastic news! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
Today I did my first hill start just by having the theory knowledge by watching this video. Thanks for all that you do Richard!
you deserve a nobel prize. such a damn good teacher and narrator for these videos.
I'm starting driving school soon at 29 for the first time, I'm quite anxious about it but these videos reassure me a bit and you can also learn so much even just watching. Hopefully I don't drive on the left side the first time I actually sit behind the wheel, it would be unfortunate since we drive on the right 😁 Thank you Emily and Richard and please keep making these videos!
Just love my previous car, Mazda 6. It was a manual but with hill assist so it kept the brakes on for me until i used the clutch to go away. REALLY nice, especially with a heavy trailer on a steep incline.
My car now, automatic, have even better version. There is literally ZERO rollback, even in steep hill with trailer on. It keeps the brake on, i slowly rev engine more and more until it just starts slowly to roll forward. It is Amazing!
The synced chrio at the end is AMAZING! really proud of Emilys progression well done Richard!
i have been driving manual for years, for some reason I still love your videos. I am also very glad my newest car has hill assist.
Your leg stops hurting after a while of driving, I had problems with that too! Leg would shake like mad XD
Elvis leg! Keep your heel on the floor.
I passed my driving test today with 3 minors 🙂 thank you for your videos, they've helped me so much
That's fantastic news! Congratulations on passing!
@@ConquerDriving thank you 😁
I did exactly what you said at the start with learner drivers 😂 My instructor took me on the main roads Wednesday and just before the end of the lesson, he said he wanted me to do a hill start 😅 I almost burnt the clutch out as I panicked when we rolled back and floored the gas, the car was growling and smoke everywhere, the smell was horrid 😢 I almost chucked in the towel with Manuel but I'm willing to keep trying. This video has helped MASSIVELY! If only I watched this before 😂 Thank you both 🙏🏻
Emily is so great with her pedals! It's a real pleasure to watch somebody with a natural gift pick up a skill -- it's heartwarming and inspiring to see the rapid improvement.
But I also loved the thorough explanation given at the start. I know I do like knowing a lot about the thing I will have to do beforehand, even if it's a physical skill that really gets aquired only through practice.
As for the steering, it's a pity that learners can't be taken to a place like a racing circuit where -- just as they can practice drive control by experimenting with application and dosage of throttle and clutch on any kind of road -- they could safely experiment with their steering freely, using the whole with of the track, going over the curbs, etc. Emily would have benefitted immensly from something like that probably.
I think it would be good for all new learners to practice some racing first in a sim to learn to steer the car more accurately. A proper sim such as Assetto Corsa Competizione with a direct drive wheel should get you pretty far already.
@@MikkoRantalainen To an extent, yes. But I think it's something of a half-measure. Obviously, getting a ride on a sim is much cheaper than an excursion to a real-life race course, but I think that while a modern sim does go a very long way in recreating the physics, it is doesn't quite reacreate the feel of the car (all kinds of bumps, jolts, accelerations, deaccelerations) and the view of your surroundings out of the windows of an actual car. Even if you get the full VR set-up, which, mind you, is pretty expensive and many people get motion sickness from using.
The thing is, the environment you'd want for the learner driver doesn't need to be anything fancy -- all you want is a piece of closed-off, treeless road with well-defined, clearly visible curbs that wouldn't hurt the tires when driven over.
@@barsorrro Sure, going to real track would be even better but if everybody started with a racing sim, they would already have much better wheel control and you don't need to make it really complex with moving platforms and VR stuff to make it worth doing.
If they had learned to steer the car and use the pedals in the sim, the time in real car could be used for more productive things like how to interpret the behavior of other drivers instead of trying to learn how to use clutch in hill start.
@@MikkoRantalainen Well, again, I totally agree with you in that an experience in a sim certainly wouldn't hurt and that many things can be safely tried out and explored there... to a certain degree. And I agree that my idea of getting learner drivers onto a circuit (of some sort: probably a purpose-built one would be more viable than organising learner-driver sessions on a racing circuit) is pretty much a fantasy.
However, I'm sure you realise that some of the most important things about the basics of driving are impossible to explore through your regular "racing-game" sim, like IRacing or Asseto Corsa.
Starting with the view out of the windshield: in the sim your virtual neck and head position are absolutely fixed, so that once you've established a reference point on your bonnet, your dashboard or whatever piece of car visible ahead of you, you know exactly where the corners of your vehicle are. In a real-life car, your head and neck move, so you have to train yourself to compensate for that -- often, you will even lean in your seat to get a better view in a specific direction, and then your reference system needs to be able to accomodate for that.
That's my main point.
Another important thing is that while learning to drive a real car, you're learning to process and to deal with a lot of sensory input, like the bumps, the jolts, etc. -- they all convey some information about the car's position, speed, etc., but they are also a quite a bit intimidating in your early days behind the wheel. In a sim, your exposure to these aspects of the driving experience is practically non-existent, not to mention the fact that some things are portrayed different than in "nature" (force-feedback on the sim wheel is far richer than even what a real-life racing driver would sense through the steering wheel).
Finally, you can't really learn clutch control in a racing sim, because real-life clutch is more nuanced in its feel: in a way, that's also realistic in terms of racing simulation, since race cars have an extremely thin bite point, and you practically don't get much of the half-clutch on them -- you can't go smoothly at low speeds in a race car.
@@barsorrro Great points! You could use something like BeamNG which can simulate multiple different types of clutches. And of course, you should have a pedal that has non-linear force for the clutch pedal, just like in normal car.
Hi from prestige driving school in uganda.this is so challenging but nice when mastered,thanks Richard for adding to me a very big step to my learning
Richard, you are great. I'd love to have you as my instructor, or even just a mock test, I've been learning now for about 6 months and my test is end of November, watching someone start from the beginning reminds me how fun driving is
I wish I had a teacher like you… I am a very new driver who has to drive in very very busy traffics.
Your videos are helping a lot!!
I’ve seen a lot of videos from your side of the pond, (french driving instructor here). It seems a lot of british students lift their whole leg when finding the biting point, the heel lifts with the whole foot. Here we teach the student to keep the heel on the floor as much as possible so the ankle controls where you stop the pedal and not the hip. Lifting the pedal from the hip compared to lifting the pedal from the ankle is like trying to write using only your shoulder instead of trying to write with your wrists. Of course if the person is small they can’t not lift the heel, but on most students i found it better to keep the heel down.
He's literally explained in so many videos that he doesn't teach to keep the clutch down with heel because that way the foot will get off center after several press-release cycles.
I can defo believe you're French😂
@@valentine8161never happened to my students tbh. Also you don’t keep the foot on the clutch, once the clutch pedal is up, your foot goes on the rest.
That way, you don’t have press release cycles on the pedal.
Man, wish I had someone as patient, kind, and great at teaching as you... Thanks so much for these videos, they'll definitely suffice :) Cheers and hope all's well with you.
@Conquer Driving , I passed my test yesterday and I would like to say your videos definitely helped me so thank you.
That's great to hear! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
that footbrake tip when the hand brake is high is a good tip learn something new everyday! i have a tendency to rip the handbrake up so my poor mother cant get it down when she drives lol
The best tutor....respect from South Africa 🇿🇦
I kinda lost my count but I think I'm on my 13th driving lesson, had a two week break cuz my instructor was on holiday and in the midst of it I stumbled up on your channel searching for this content, I knew a few things but the way you explain things and what's happening while you're doing it has given more insight and understanding of how it works. I'm from Portugal,here we can't use the hand break technique,we have to know how to properly use the clutch, usually it's in a diesel car and we have a little easier but I've been trying some petrol cars apart from my lesson cuz they're more sensitive and you really have to be skilful..and that's what I'm aiming for. Cheers mate!
I love Emily's little salute at 42:19.
Thank you, Rich, for these wonderful lessons. I was watching this video, and after 20 minutes, I thought I had learned everything there was to know about this topic. But you kept teaching, and before I knew it, I was hooked and had to finish the entire video! 😂 Thank you.
This is a fantastic lesson. Actually giving her time to build the new pattern as well muscle memory. More instructors should do this.
I had a great instructor overall but I had to convince him big time to teach me hill starts. For whatever reason they don't have to teach it where i'm from but from watching your videos I knew I had to learn it from practice and the knowledge from those vids helped a lot
The synchronised cheerio salute at the end made my day.
This series is so amazing and this video is something all learners should bookmark! 👏🙏
Such a brilliant channel. Learning to drive at the moment and you and DGN have been a blessing.
Just came back to this channel to say that I had my test today and have passed with 2 minors. I defilently think your videos have helped keep my judgment and skills sharp so thank you. You help so many people you might not even realise.
That's fantastic news! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
All your videos were so helpful and continue to be helpful. I passed first time last Friday. Thank you for your great videos!
That's great to hear! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
What a brilliant teacher you are Richard.
Richard I love your way of explaining things and watch every video 2 years after passing really enjoying watching Emily's journey she's doing better than she believes she is. Pleeease can you do an in depth video on hill start assist apart from starting from stationary like how can I drive without activating it, stop start give way situations, just bought a 2013 renault clio with it and it's driving me mad i can't press accelerator until brake releases and if I do it will just stall, also I can't take my foot off the brake to test if its an incline and it activated and then put my foot back on brake so if the situation has changed and I nee to wait j have no brake its been really dangerous a few times now. I already have bad driving anxiety and I'm now avoiding going anywhere unless I absolutely have to and can avoid all hills I don't want to keep being like this its not the freedom driving can give you. I appreciate all your videos and knowledge
I drove in a low traffic parking house and asked to stop at every level ramp. Afterwards I was skilled in parking house driving and hill starting. Enjoyable driving lesson.
This is how things like this should be teached. I learned in a really well kitted Audi Q3 with HSA, Autohold etc. and did'nt learn to hill start without these assistants. After I got my licence, my first car was a 25 year old Golf mk4. It was horrible, driven it maybe 500km in total before I gifted the car to my mum as she needed a car. Now I drive an automatic transmission, its obviously much more relaxing to drive, but sometimes its annoying to not be able to choose the gears myself.
It was really effective for me. I learnt a new thing how to move safely on uphills. Thanks❤
I used to drive in Afghanistan, but here in England it was a bit difficult for me, but as you can see, I am learning a lot, thank you.
Emily has a great clutch control which I like a lot keep learning I'm loving the sessions.
Gotta say, Richard is a very great instructor! Very thorough on different scenario and patient with his students. Also like his name as I got the same, Richard.
Hill start and hill clutch control used to be a nightmare for me but now it's easy... I can relate to all the new drivers who struggles with hill start and clutch control.. Remember one thing hold at the biting point for a second and accelerate hard or light depending on how high the hill climb is...
Emily's right, hill starts without handbrake are more fun! I've been prefering them to handbrake starts from the very beginning and even though I didn't have the hill hold assist. Now I do handbrake starts almost only when I'm driving a car that I'm not used to its clutch :)
Modern cars don't even have the mechanical handbrake handle any more. My "handbrake" has been electric for over 10 years in the past two cars I've had. Not sure if this is only an automatic thing or not. It will release automatically with a bit of gas applied.
Just past my test today was absaloutley bricking it but managed to pull it off with zero minors so many thanks to you 🎉
What an achievement! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
@@ConquerDriving only hit 2 pedestrians this time as well
I'm a PDI and when I was training it was all about passing the part 3. I wish it was more like learning how to actually do the job and pass on knowledge and not having to rely on these TH-cam videos although I'm grateful that they're available.
I think the training can be more centered around teaching people normally. There is too much of a coaching approaching in driving instructor training and not enough knowledge to help learners in my opinion.
@@ConquerDriving I agree with you, I appreciate the response.
Here in the country of Rooski we're being taught to hill start using clutch only, given that nearly all cars are equipped with a computerized fuel injection, albeit it reacts differently, some react rapidly when the engine load changes, some let the engine run tight for a whole second.
Despite how bad it may sound, it doesn't damage the engine beyond normal use. It is enough to raise the clutch so that the car either doesn't start rolling back or doesn't roll as quick.
However, in some cars it's easy to do, you can even do it really quickly, while in others it becomes a game of bargaining with the engine for the added revs before you can go up the hill, and that takes a while
You have...driving lessons...in Russia?
I've seen the videos!
Girl is becoming popular with this channel huh.
I am struggling with the same thing now a days. And your instructions are really helpful. 👍
Thank you ❤
Hill start with modern cars is so easy. I learned with my moms old early 80s model Ford Fiesta 1.1 liter and like 45 or 55 hp.
The clutch on that thing was terrible and the bite from none to full was quite short. Stalled it a few times in the years after I got my license.
I got my driver's license first try this week. Thank you for the many tips. I still watch your videos cause I want my driving to be smooth as butter. Still a tiny bit bumpy in shift changes.
That's great to hear! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
He is a smart teacher I saw a lot of videos
This was a great lesson Richard! Fun little story about hill starts my old instructor back home (I moved and had to get a new one for uni) his car had a clutch where you essentially could clutch and footbrake it up the hill. That might have something to do with the car though
A great lesson that helps offering the entire picture at dealing with hills for our learners, especially following the detailed instructions via several sections in the hill series vedios. The rythems of the vedio is also comfortable for me to review what I learned from the previous hill series vedios. THANK YOU SO MUCH, Richard. THANKS, Emily. 🌹💕
She’s doing a amazing job ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great pedagogy in this video! I think telling the student to imagine bending her toe upwards or downwards to do minor corrections to pedal movement will help accurate controls even more. If you do coarse pedal movement by moving the whole foot and minor adjustments with toes, the overall control will be more accurate.
Your teaching skill is amazing sir
This video helped me a lot, even after getting my license, I still struggle doing quick 1 second stop and goes on hills.
Good on you Emily! I haven't used a handbrake in years, so I would probably mess it up. Keep going, you're doing really well.
I remember, back when i was taking driving lessons, i used to ask my teacher to challenge me with all kinds of different scenarios just so I'd get used to driving in all kinds of conditions. Rain at night, hills and narrow backroads, complicated freeways and the like. One time, while i was running a fever, i called and told her i wanted to take the car out. Just to have some experience in case i ever needed to drive while sick.
Lovely talk through and explanations. Another skill being lost with modern electronic handbrake/hold systems. I tried using the electronic handbrake before I really understood how it worked and burned my clutch - learned through what could have been an expensive mistake.
Richard you are a Genious❤I wish I had a Teacher Like you🥰 Watching Your Videos and learning from Pakiatan❤
That was really good Emily, you can do it! Hill starts used to scare me!! Keep up the good work, looking forward to your next video. Tomorrow I'm going to fiddle with my foot brake and handbrake, because I didn't know that about making the handbrake easier to release!
This video and all your other content around clutch control saved me from a serious in my test yesterday (stalled on a steep hill, had to re-centre myself, take a breathe, remember this video and take it step by step. I had only ever learned with hill start assist but was using handbrake start for only the second time ever - manage to get off fine after taking it slow) and I'm so happy to say I passed first time. I cannot thank you enough for your content: you've helped me fill in all the gaps in my knowledge, build confidence and learn to truly love driving. Watching your videos after passing is next level feel-good.
That's really great to hear! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
your videos are so useful for learning to drive your videos help me learn thankyou
Very nice Richard and Emily for today’s video.
Good revision for Learners 😊
You're the best instructor
What patient teaching! 👍
This is so incredible!! I wish my instructor was this meticulous when teaching. Need to keep in mind to check if the car I'm driving has that 2 second break hold time when y9u release the break. It would definitely be nice, but I don't think it has that function.
Not sure if it’s a rule there but when parked on an incline/decline “curb” the wheels (i.e., turn the wheels in the direction of the curb) so if the handbrake fails the car doesn’t roll into the street. I never trust the handbrake alone so also was taught to put the car in gear on a incline or reverse on a decline
chillest instructor ever
Hi From Hk, I really learnt a lot from this !!! thank you!!
Very impressive progress! It helps to have a great instructor.
I've probably watched 4 of these videos all the way through now and I can't wait to turn 17 in June and start amazing my Instructor with my knowledge (I probably will stall a lot 😂😂) Really enjoy the videos though! Keep it up 🙌🙌🙌
Absolutely brilliant tutorial!
Am in love with manual cars