Thank you for your videos James, passed my driving test 1st time last week!! Im still going to carry on watching your videos and will definately recommend any videos of yours to my friends!! Thanks ☺
Your vids are really great. This is the one thing I need to polish up on according to my instructor. He won't put me in for my test (and rightly so atm) until I improve on my ability to check ahead and making the correct decision at the right time.
Great video I feel like it has helped me a lot. The thing stopping my instructor from giving me the green light to book my driving test is my weakness in anticipation. This has given me a clearer insight in how to improve
Very useful video. One question, when u have a parked vehicle on your left, do you have to check the central mirror with the right hand mirror or just the right hand mirror alone? Thanks
great videos, one question, why did you give way to the white van when it's your priority 2:51 my instructor would have been annoyed at me for that, saying I should have made the van wait and for not being assertive.
Great question. I weighed up the situation and took into account that it is easy to give way then move on rather than go forward and hope the van driver does the right thing. The examiner will look upon it as good sense. Avoiding a situation.
Another great video, James. Cheers. Is it OK (under test conditions) to block one side of a 30 mph road you're trying to turn into if it's very busy? In other words, it's a very busy road, you'd be waiting all day for both sides to be clear at the same time, and you move out half way when there aren't any cars approaching to your right. I've received mixed advice about this.
A good question. You can tell with a variety of ways. The most common is the street lamps. like you mentioned. But say you were on a higher speed road. You could look up road for small repeater speed limits, or look down the next side road, if it says 30 mph, then your road is faster. On a national speed limit sign, if its a single road then its 60 and 70 for a dual.
+James Travis (Driving) I have my last driving lesson tomorrow before my instructor goes on holiday for 2 weeks how rusty do you think I'll be when he comes back I will have done 25 hours of driving
Some pupils pick up after the holiday break like nothing has changed and some return back after the holiday and are rusty. But after an hour they are back to where they were. First thing to go rusty is the approach speed and mirrors then clutch.
Travis, I have a general question for you: I was leaving a busy supermarket car park and preparing to enter a main road and rejoin the flow of traffic. I pulled out and got into the center turn lane, once in there waiting for my 'legal' opportunity to merge back in I checked my surroundings, checked in front of me and behind me, I then preceded to coast in the center lane, gaining a bit of speed, enough to distance myself from another car behind me and managed to successfully but abruptly re-joined the flow traffic....was that a safe enough and legal thing to do OR should I have just remained in the center lane sitting idly patient and waited for a clear and safer alternative to re-join the flow of traffic??? I've seen other people do what I did but I just feel like it wasn't the safest or correct thing I could've done! What are your thoughts???
If that centre lane is there for that purpose, then the rest is ok. If the centre lane is for the purpose of cars turning right off the main road into the supermarket, then that’s different. The description of you emerging with the flow of traffic sounds ok
Learn-to-drive Travis Yeah the center lane is there to turn into and out of places, what I was wondering is, if what I did to merge and re-join the flow of traffic was a safe enough maneuver: was speeding up to distance myself from the car behind me and re-enter a safe idea or should I have stayed in the center lane and waited patiently until it was totally clear???
I just feel like what I did was wrong ya know, a hastily and unsafe way to merge myself back in there and re-join the flow of traffic is all and I wanted to know what your thoughts were and maybe what I can do differently from now on
Would like to thank you for all your informing videos they helped me pass my test
Hey, just wanted to thank you for all else brilliant vids ! I passed first try with two minors, and I thank you so much :)
Congratulations on passing
Thank you for your videos James, passed my driving test 1st time last week!! Im still going to carry on watching your videos and will definately recommend any videos of yours to my friends!! Thanks ☺
Congratulations on passing. Safe driving
Learn-to-drive Jamunah
Your vids are really great. This is the one thing I need to polish up on according to my instructor. He won't put me in for my test (and rightly so atm) until I improve on my ability to check ahead and making the correct decision at the right time.
+CatBearFishing glad the videos help. Good luck
Great video I feel like it has helped me a lot. The thing stopping my instructor from giving me the green light to book my driving test is my weakness in anticipation. This has given me a clearer insight in how to improve
Good luck
Also a camera for interior mirror so we can see whats happening behind. Thank you for your great videos.
Would of been good to see a camera view on the right and left so we can see if its safe to go too x
Very useful video. One question, when u have a parked vehicle on your left, do you have to check the central mirror with the right hand mirror or just the right hand mirror alone? Thanks
Both
Thanks a lot it help me alot
great videos, one question, why did you give way to the white van when it's your priority 2:51 my instructor would have been annoyed at me for that, saying I should have made the van wait and for not being assertive.
Great question. I weighed up the situation and took into account that it is easy to give way then move on rather than go forward and hope the van driver does the right thing. The examiner will look upon it as good sense. Avoiding a situation.
3:36 Miniclipper lorry, lol
Another great video, James. Cheers. Is it OK (under test conditions) to block one side of a 30 mph road you're trying to turn into if it's very busy? In other words, it's a very busy road, you'd be waiting all day for both sides to be clear at the same time, and you move out half way when there aren't any cars approaching to your right. I've received mixed advice about this.
Under test, wait at giveaway for gap.
Hi James how do I understand about the road speed? I heard if you see street lights it's 30?
A good question. You can tell with a variety of ways. The most common is the street lamps. like you mentioned. But say you were on a higher speed road. You could look up road for small repeater speed limits, or look down the next side road, if it says 30 mph, then your road is faster. On a national speed limit sign, if its a single road then its 60 and 70 for a dual.
+James Travis (Driving) I have my last driving lesson tomorrow before my instructor goes on holiday for 2 weeks how rusty do you think I'll be when he comes back I will have done 25 hours of driving
Some pupils pick up after the holiday break like nothing has changed and some return back after the holiday and are rusty. But after an hour they are back to where they were. First thing to go rusty is the approach speed and mirrors then clutch.
Travis,
I have a general question for you: I was leaving a busy supermarket car park and preparing to enter a main road and rejoin the flow of traffic. I pulled out and got into the center turn lane, once in there waiting for my 'legal' opportunity to merge back in I checked my surroundings, checked in front of me and behind me, I then preceded to coast in the center lane, gaining a bit of speed, enough to distance myself from another car behind me and managed to successfully but abruptly re-joined the flow traffic....was that a safe enough and legal thing to do OR should I have just remained in the center lane sitting idly patient and waited for a clear and safer alternative to re-join the flow of traffic???
I've seen other people do what I did but I just feel like it wasn't the safest or correct thing I could've done!
What are your thoughts???
If that centre lane is there for that purpose, then the rest is ok. If the centre lane is for the purpose of cars turning right off the main road into the supermarket, then that’s different.
The description of you emerging with the flow of traffic sounds ok
Learn-to-drive Travis Yeah the center lane is there to turn into and out of places, what I was wondering is, if what I did to merge and re-join the flow of traffic was a safe enough maneuver: was speeding up to distance myself from the car behind me and re-enter a safe idea or should I have stayed in the center lane and waited patiently until it was totally clear???
I just feel like what I did was wrong ya know, a hastily and unsafe way to merge myself back in there and re-join the flow of traffic is all and I wanted to know what your thoughts were and maybe what I can do differently from now on
Do I need to gass of if 3 4 cars infornt of me
Is the video CGI?
+Shiv Kumar no
Learn-to-drive Travis the bobbling is makkng the video look weird
use of speed section
shout out the guy chatting with his girlfriend at 04:09