Decisions at roundabouts and junctions. When should you go?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video I explain how to improve your decision making skills at junctions including roundabouts. I include advice on where to look, what to look for and what to do if you are unsure.
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00:00 Intro
00:11 Decision timing
02:48 Closed junctions
04:27 Using signals
04:53 Where to look
06:01 Roundabouts
14:27 More advice
17:37 Outro
To stand on the bit between lanes, not caring what people think, just to make a video for learners is unbelievable. Much respect. Thank you so much for doing that.
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Guys just passed my test with 0 minors. Instructor nearly died from shock 😂
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That's fantastic! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
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Can I just say, hands down you are one of the best driving instructors I came across online. So many helpful tips,words of wisdom and encouragement from you. They are all so important especially when you’re a beginner. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I know I’m commenting on a 3 years old video, but it just goes to show that so many years laters I found them still very useful .
This is just what I needed, I always hesitate, miss opportunities, screw up my lane position in the meanwhile and sometimes misjudge. And all that right before my test
I recognise your picture next to your name, you've commented on quite a few videos now. Thank you for watching so many, I hope your test goes well.
@@ConquerDriving I think I can literally remember some videos by heart haha you are always in Reddit recommendations on driving threads even from. Americans! Im a Russian in UK re learning how to drive from scratch and you are very helpful. Keep it up you will hit a million!
Did you take the test? How did it go!?
Your videos are a blessing! I've held my license for over a year and I still benefit from your videos. You never stop learning.
And I've been driving for years, but these are good videos with good information clearly put ... and one can always learn something and one should never stop learning.
Definitely agree Pete
Passed my test last week - I hated my instructor but your videos really got me through it!! Thanks
It's great to hear the videos helped! Congratulations on passing!
The anxiety I have about roundabouts being a new driver has kept me up at night. Thank you so much for your content, it really has helped SO much 🙏🏽💜
Hey Richard, roundabouts do freak me out after had some dangerous mistakes made hence I have been watching so many roundabout videos and this is the one! Very clever concept! you really are one level above the other video creators! thanks for all this free help!!! You are an amazing human being!!!!
This is exactly what I needed.
The main problem is not being really confident with the exams car.
I hope the video helps you be more confident, believe in yourself and do what you think is right.
This has been a big help. I don’t trust people to indicate when they should so I sometimes miss safe opportunities to go because I worry that the person might be turning. Thanks for the clarification
This is by far the most useful video I have come across. I've infuriated a few instructors by not understanding what they are saying. I really needed someone to just show me like this. Makes perfect sense now! It can all be going too quick to fully understand when you're in the car
Everything you showing is common things present in youtube videos. But the way you put in you video is making a big difference for learners like me... Keep going. Thanks a lot...
I had my license 5 month and now I own a car but I can't stop watching your driving instructions. Every day I watch one of video and refresh my learning . These videos will never be old for me .great effort in bringing these videos ❤
I was a student when I was in Colchester some years ago and I never realised how confusing the roads were when I was there. However, I heard from friends and acquaintances who owned cars complain about how much they hated driving on roundabouts near the campus.
I am learning to drive in another part of the country at the moment and started looking at Richard's videos and demonstrations and I can truly say I completely agree with what my fellow classmates said about Colchester being a city-planning chaos as it has roundabout after roundabout, especially the road near the Greenstead Tesco, pure nightmare for learner driver, I could imagine.
Your videos have been helping me a lot in easing the anxiety that I have when it comes to driving. I wish I had an instructor like you who is so understanding of learner drivers' nerves.
Thanks bro and keep up the good work.
10:20 Damn those three roundabouts seem so complicated!!! Thank god I didn’t have that on my practical test last year!
Do you not always get a roundabout on a test?
Truss when I am going left my instructor keep saying I'm entering wrong lane or not giving Cars room enough on a roundabout it's so annoying 😂
That roundabout is right near the test centre. Quite unlikely to avoid it. I certainly had it and so did the Mrs
@@mattcampbell5941 i had one of those 4-5 lane roundabouts on my test. I absolutely hate those. First time i ever managed to get it right was on my test. Felt amazing aha. driving 2 years now and i still dislike any roundabout though tbh
I’ve held a driving’s license in the United States for five years, driving both auto and manual, and your videos are still useful for me. Driving isn’t just a skill you learn once and never improve on (like most think). We can constantly improve on this skill. Thanks for your content
Richard Thank you for the great job. i watched the video before my test today and i passed with the help of this video.
I just passed as well, and when I was training this video in particular helped me a lot
From Ghana. Thanks for this. Keep on.
I’d like to say a BIG THANK YOU for all the advice. I was really nervous but felt calm watching these videos and I passed today! Keep up the videos.
Congratulations on passing! I'm happy to hear the videos helped 😊
So keep hands on steering wheel probably in all times.
this is SO helpful thank you and much needed. im very indecisive, i'd need to plan half an hour before making a decision lol.
if i think i can go, i'll be wrong and then my instructor will have to step in and brake sharply
if i think i need to stop, i'll be wrong and then my instructor will ask why i've stopped when its perfectly fine
This is a common problem, I find a good solution is not to say when my pupil should go, I give a commentary on what I can see so my pupil can learn how I read the roundabout. It's up to my pupil when they want to go, but I will stop them if it's unsafe.
indecisiveness is one of my biggest issues too, i'll almost always miss an opportunity because i'm trying to work it out in my head
It's so strange seeing people using indicators at roundabouts it would be so helpful if that was the norm. This is really great to watch since in my country our roads are the same as this but on a much smaller scale.
this guy is so committed to helping people learn about driving. I love it
I can’t tell you how grateful i am for your videos!
You are so precise with your information, explain it well and appreciate your filming style. I can that little bit feel more confidence going into my lessons now :)
I have just started driving lessons again after a five year break. Great to have these videos this time around and fingers crossed I pass my next test!
I passed my driving test on the 30th of Dec but I still go through your lists because your videos are so entertaining, informative and helpful. Good work and huge thanks, your videos helped me a ton, even though I'm from Finland :)
Thank you so much you are so calm and concise with your information you are putting across, love the way you've broken everything down ❤️
Your concept of shield in roundabout is absolutely lovely. Will definitely practise this in my next drive!
Your videos are extremely helpful for people who are new to the UK!!!
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Great video! This really helped, even though I can't drive. I cycled to school before it was closed again (smh my head) and there is a fairly busy roundabout that I have to cross on my way to school. Now I know when to set off better!
Thank you for this video! I always struggle with these decisions and your advice is great. 💪
Your videos are so helpful. Your energy is so positive and light hearted. I feel like these videos will help me pass more than any other instructor I've had.
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I think you explain everything so well so everybody can understand what you need to do especially when you talk about gear changes it's been a massive help thankyou so much ☺️👍
Always challenging for learners to know when to slow down and judging that correctly. Very practical
I can honestly say this is the most useful video I have seen to help me with roundabouts.
Thank you so much!
Thanks, this was really helpful, learner driver from Australia. Getting out and showing the cars coming and looking at the positioning was what I really need to see :)
love your videos, managed to pass my test last monday, just before lockdown 3, and they helped me alot, and still helping me as a new driver now
My method is looking at peoples wheels if they’re straight then you can go, works very well and I learnt it from you and other driving channels ages ago
I'll try this as well when I have my driving tests.
That does certainly help, I find a combination of everything the most reliable.
@@ConquerDriving Your videos will really help when it comes to my testing.
A big Thanks for your dedication and efforts. You're a brilliant teacher who explains everything in detail with real life practical examples. Hope you reach your 1M subs soon as you deserve it.
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Thanks for taking your precious time out to do these amazing videos. I am a Driving Instructor and I always send your links to my pupils and when they see and view what you have to say. I get really good results. I agree with the other comments people have made and yes you are adorable ☺️
That's really nice to hear! Thank you.
I’ve always had a problem with the decision when to go this was incredibly helpful now it’s much more clear to me thank you
You explained this brilliantly.
This channel is a gem! I came accross these videos only few days ago while seeking for some help online since I couldnt get much of my own instructor explanations - your videos have helped me a lot.
Please keep the content
The video is sooooooo useful when facing complicated roundabouts and busy traffic. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much for your video. You have been giving hopes to me as a learner. Wish you well and blessed always.
Amazing guy thank you for showing us with your eye and expertise. Much appreciated.
Thank you for explaining everything so clearly! My test is coming up and I’m focusing on targeting those weak areas like hesitation on roundabouts, I cannot stress how helpful this was
I’ve got my test tomorrow and I’m so nervous my driving instructor hasn’t been very helpful but your videos are really helping my confidence, fingers crossed for tomorrow! Thank you for these videos 😊
Brilliant explanation! Please make more of these videos with upto date versions as well. Thank you.
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I’ve got my test tomorrow afternoon in Birmingham. Your vids are really helping me to prepare and be more relaxed because I feel like I know what to do now.
This is the best video for me to watch just before my mock driving test. Thanks so much.
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This is a very useful video! Once a car behind me beep me when I took a bit long to judge at roundabout, It was very stressful. This video let me know it’s right thing to take time to make sure it’s safe to get into roundabout. Your videos are always the good supports and help for beginners. Thanks
Always remember, you are in control of your car, not the person behind you or next to you. They are responsible for their own car, not yours. You only go when you know it is safe for you to move. If the car behind you beeps, then you go and cause an accident, you will be ruled at fault for the damage. Remember you are in control of the vehicle, no one else.
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This is what I needed before lockdown I had a problem with this and was looking for a video thanks 🙏
so helpful thank you! this is one of the main struggles i have with driving and i get anxious about it
This was very helpful to understand signalling at roundabouts. Thank you!
Thank you for this amazing video about roundabouts Richard, they were always a problem for me. It took a very long time for me to get good at them. I passed my driving test yesterday
Your advice about slowing down early and going into 2nd gear a few seconds in advance really helped.
It was also very nice to see you talk about blockers
I’m learning to drive after not being on the road for a wile since I had a bad motorcycle accident. My confidence was knocked and I had a fear of being on the road as driver and a passenger. I have managed to overcome my fear and I have been learning to drive a car. These videos have helped massively with my confidence. My lessons have so far gone so much better than I expected. I have one goal of being a safe driver on the road and I seem to be on track with my instructor and the help of these videos! Thank you for making them. They do help massively.
Hats off to you for continuing, confidence can be a very difficult thing to gain after such an incident, it can require a lot of perseverance. Keep it up.
I just passed my driving test after my 4th attempt. Your videos really helped keep me calm. I had your advice playing in my head and I’ve never felt better on the road. Thank you for your help 🙏
Thank you for this video sir, you are awesome. Hopefully I'll do better at roundabouts now as I keep on making mistakes.
Great video! I'd like to point out a danger moment at 8:16 where there's queue of vehicles in the outer lane of the roundabout, none of them signalling right, so it looks safe to go. You can't see, at this point, that there's a black Audi waiting to come out from the middle lane of the road on the right - but it's blocked by the queue in front of it.
However, at 8:17 a silver Audi in the queue stops to let the black Audi in - and it comes through quite briskly, heading for the inner lane of the roundabout and going around to the right (but not signalling right, as far as I could see!). So, had you moved out, at 8:16, going into the middle lane to turn right around the roundabout, you'd be going straight in front of the black Audi. Bang!
Here's what I think about it: NEVER do what the silver Audi does, and stop to let someone in from the left, who doesn't have priority. Also, never do what the black Audi does, and take advantage of this tempting invitation, to move out through priority traffic. Apart from the risk I've just explained, I doubt the black Audi driver could see clearly past the vehicles in the outer-lane queue, to see anything coming around the inner lane he's driving into!
I'm only a learner driver, but this seems like common sense to me. Does anyone agree?
Sorry but I disagree, it's good driving from the silver Audi to not block the entrance to the roundabout. That queue can be there for 2 hours sometimes! You're expected to leave entrances and exits clear when in queueing traffic. I understand your point about the danger but that's the responsibility of the driver about to enter the roundabout, you should be fully expecting the black audi to come from between the cars in traffic. If you can't see very far you should do what's known as peeping and creeping into the junction to check it's safe. There will be a video on that soon. But in the case of the black audi, I would have just gone before I could see the black audi as I had time to make it. By the time you see the black audi you don't have time so will have to wait. If you think about it, you're both starting from stationary and going at the same time so you should have time. New drivers who can only accelerate very slowly will struggle with this but that's why it's important to learn to accelerate well before attempting big junctions.
@@ConquerDriving Thanks for your very thoughtful comment! I stand corrected - what you say makes perfect sense; especially the point that if you decide to go before seeing the black Audi you should be safe, because both cars are starting from stationary, and you're well ahead of him. Or her. I'll keep in mind the point about letting people through a queue; I've not yet had that experience on a busy roundabout, but it's bound to crop up sometime - possibly, when I'm taking my test!
I passed today and this video (along with many others) really really helped with my hesitation at roundabouts!! Thank you so much!
That's fantastic news, congratulations on passing!
this is just what i needed! i always struggle with roundabouts and this has been a big help, i have my theory in a few hours so it’s only the next big step until the big scary practical thank you so much, recommending you to all my friends! love from scotland 🏴
I hope it went well!
@@ConquerDriving sure did, i passed first time!
This video was so so helpful, thank you very much. I couldn't turn right for so many years because I would feel extremely anxious, I never knew where to look and I couldn't judge when to turn across traffic, but your tip about looking left more than right is all I needed to know. I would always turn left even if i needed to go right, then I'd go round doing left turns over and over till i got where i needed to go! Since I watched this a few weeks ago I've managed to turn right a few times, I've been practicing when there isn't too much traffic.
I'm very happy to hear the videos are helping 😊
Your videos are brilliant. Thank you!
Very clear Instructions Richard. Thanks
your videos are so helpful! thank you
Thank you soooooo much for your videos!!! I watched so many of them and they helped me pass
Your advice is very useful and especially to increase the confidence of students
Yeah cheers M8 I jus went through junction part this week I'm on roundabouts next week 👍
I really like your approach with that camera because we can see when you look at the mirrors and on the road on different directions. It helps so much to understand your explanation about the decision making! Thank you for all those efforts!
Another really helpful video thank you so much.
Excellent advice. I wish I saw your video a week earlier !
Got my test in 2 days... I'm watching all your videos to calm me down!
Hi. I live in a small town in México where everyone learns to drive from their uncles, dads, mothers or older siblings lol. You actually don't even have to take a driving test here in order to get a license. It's kind of insane. The point that I'm trying to make is that your videos have been such a help! There's basically no one around to teach me how to properly drive, but your videos have given me so much confidence and understanding, and I just feel sooo much safer while driving thanks to your advice.
That's really nice, it's brilliant to hear I'm helping you.
Very helpful. Helps make the right decision everyday.
You're welcome.
Hi Richard 👋🏼 I passed my theory test today, next the big driving test 😬😬😬 your videos are so informative & I thank you for that, I will take all the information into my lessons. X
Congratulations on passing your theory test!
Very informative video Thank you so much 😊
thank you very much for your vedios beacuse they rally helped me to pass my exam , now iam a new driver but iam still watching your vedios you are a fantastic teacher 🥰💞
Hi Richard, I just passed my driving test today. Thank you very much, I watch your video lots of time and it's help me lots. I hope you are well and always healty and happy :)
That's great news, thank you and congratulations on passing!
Passed my test today with only 2 faults thanks love your videos helped me a lot x
That's great news, congratulations on passing!
Great video. This is helping me pass my Class 1 licence failed on being to slow on roundabouts.. going back to basics now
I'm sorry to hear that, keep up the practise and I wish you the best of luck for next time.
Very useful video uncle, thanks for sharing
I watched most of your video during last week and 7hrs on my Sunday the day before test.
I'm pleased to say, due to your greatly detailed videos and break downs of each Q&A. Was an absolute blessing, I can't thankyou enough!! Greatly appreciated, all your editing and time haven't gone unnoticed. Anybody would be super lucky to have you as their personal teacher! Again thankyou!!!
That's great to hear, thank you. Congratulations on passing!
This video was really helpful, especially your 'shielding' technique - thank you! I have my test tomorrow, second attempt, and very apprehensive about failing again.
Good luck with your test!
@@ConquerDriving thank you! I passed with just two minors! ☺️
Judging which way people are going on roundabouts would be far easier if they signalled (which they almost never do). Though this video has helped I still don't like roundabouts. Apart from the 'which way are they going/are they going to cross my intended path' thing I am also concerned about side-swiping anything to my sides. I'm OK with small roundabouts but big busy ones I hate.
Generally it's easier on bigger roundabouts as the exits are much further apart so you get more time to see where people are going.
@@ConquerDriving Yes there is that, but I still hate them. Last year I returned to a car after 23 years on motorcycles, and on a bike I was fine. But not so in a car. It's something to do with a car being wider and with far less visibility. And less manouverable.
I love your videos, they're crystal clear . Even the right hand drive is in sync with the system in india. Grateful to you mate👌
Thank you.
just passed my test and watched this the morning before thanks again for all your help :)
Congratulations on passing!
I'm not a driver yet but my test is so close, thinking about it makes me so anxious that I can't sleep but your videos make me so confident and like I can drive without being in the car, which is good as my main issue when driving is my confidence 😊
Believe in yourself and do things at your own pace. I wish you the best of luck with your test.
This was a really great tutorial! Just what I needed
Do you have any tips for learner drivers with ADHD (who are not medicated)?