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So, today we're going to talk about highway driving and try to give you some highway driving tips. We'll start with what is usually the most difficult part for a beginner, and that would be actually getting on the highway. The reason that's more difficult is because the cars that are already on the highway are going at a greater speed than you are merging in.
This is where the use of the lane to merge becomes most important. You have to use that lane to build up your speed and try to get your speed up so that then it would be easier to blend in with the cars that are already on the highway. So, you don't want to come to the end of that merge lane and then stop. At that point it will be very difficult to get on. You have to use the merging lane to accelerate, build up your speed, and keep checking your mirror on the left and turning your head to make sure you've got a good safe distance to merge onto. Then, when that occurs you move onto the highway.
Once you get on the highway my recommendation is that the best lane to usually drive in would be the middle lane. The left lane is generally used for passing. The problem with staying in the right lane is that you've got to deal with those cars getting on the highway at every single exit. So, my recommendation is stay in the middle lane.
The speed is greater on the highway which means that things can happen much more quickly, so that space is so important in highway driving. You need to have space in front of the car and behind the car, to the left and right at all times.
If you're going to make a lane change you're going to do so by putting your signal on and indicating the way you want to make that pass whether it be to the right or to the left. Then you're going to look and make sure it's real safe to do so. Then move your car from one lane to the other.
When is a good time to get back into the lane that we came from? The answer to that is that we need to see the vehicle that we passed in our rear view mirror. When you can see that entire vehicle in the rear view mirror it is then okay to move back to that right lane.
So, those are some tips that you can use if you want to have some safe, comfortable highway driving.
Whenever you feel drowsy while driving, park your vehicle immediately at a safe spot, lock your doors, crack a window, set your alarm if needed and take a quick nap. Never fight back drowsiness.
PERIOD 🗣
cap, i drive drowsy on long hauls on the regular and you can usually fight it away in 25-30 minutes 🙏🙏
True. I do notice the times I've made mistakes that could've got me in an accident I was a little drowsy. It doesn't take much as safe driving takes a lot of constant attention and good fast decision making.
The highway is the worse for this because your going at one speed for a long time not really braking or changing lanes. I see how people fall asleep on the highways.
Yes, even 15 minute nap helps! They say drowsy driving is as dangerous as drunken driving!
I don't have a problem getting onto the highway. I just have a fear of trucks.
MacyPooh196 that's good, try not to be behind them (because you have no visibility), between them (because if accident happends you will be a sandwich if they don't keep proper distance) or in front of them (again distance). Be safe!
Same here . Those big huge trailers.
Truckers are some of the best drivers on the Road, theres nothing to fear
Me too!
@@nyc6769 Usually the best*
Good advice. So many people don't seem to know the left lane is for passing!
xIsrael92x
that's what the left lane is for..and slow fucks need to get the fuck out of the way
Boyz N Acne
agreed.
I hate that! so does my dad! its the lane were you can go fast! and so many people drive slow on it its annoying (even though i cant drive yet)
so true
not in new england. We don't use the left lane for passing
Left lane is for fast travel/passing, Mid lane is for normal speed , and the Right lane is for slow drivers/cars.
RandomJunk 1254 right lane is really true?
I've been researching into ways of beating the fear of driving and found a fantastic website at Fergs Driver Dismay (check it out on google)
Eeyyyy just like running
In SOUTH AFRICA all lines are for high speed in the high way!!
@@sophiashcherbakova2867 Thank you. Im gonna check it. :)
1. Use the merge lane to build speed in order to merge without affecting traffic
2. Drive in the middle lane in order to avoid the passing lane on the left and the merging cars from the right.
Left Lane is for *passing only*
On a 2 lane highway, you should drive on the right lane and pass of the left. Once you passed, get right back in the right. If you see a car wanting to merge onto the highway on the ramp, merge to the left lane to let them safely merge in the highway, once it's all clear, get right back in the right lane. Varying in some justifications, if you see a cop pulled over on the right shoulder, merge towards the left lane and once you pass the cop, get right back in the right lane. If you are unable to merge left, which you should, slow down!
On 3+ lane highways, you'll be fine on the middle lane, but if you're traveling very slow compared to traffic flow, you should then be on the rightmost lane.
Regardless of you are exceeding the speed limit or not, if you are slower than traffic flow, keep right, be courteous and let faster traffic pass.
This video is helping calm my nerves a bit about driving on the highway & freeway
Last Saturday I drove for more than three hours on a highway which is considered very _"dangerous"_ here in my country.
We call it BR 101 (I am from Brazil, by the way) and I followed the instructions from the video.
My trip was a *BLESSING* both when I went to my destination and when I came back home.
Thank you for the tips
Greetings
Also when checking blind spot I put my right hand on above at 12 so I don't accidentally move it side to side
This is good. Coz often times I end up drifting to whichever direction I'm observing to move into.
Y’all need to get a blind spot side mirrors
It is not a good idea to ever put your hand at the 12 position. I have heard stories where upon collision, the air bag deployed knocking the drivers hand into their mouth with force. This knocked out several teeth.
@@marknc9616 in this case, putting your hand at twelve is to prevent a collision
I don’t mind getting in a highway, just that there’s to much cars surrounding me
My dad and I were driving on the highway. He didn’t tell me that we were about to come into one. It is pretty easy. Don’t worry.
I learned how to drive from a driving instructor and the first thing we did once I was familiar with controls was to drive on a highway.
Done thank you for excellent video
When doing lane change to pass a slow car, it’s safe to move back to the lane (in front of the car you passed) once you see the car you passed in its entirety in the rear view mirror. Don’t forget your signals.
I had my license for around 8 years now and I never got on the highway, sucks because my mom is a nervous wreck and traumatized me with it 😂
Now I'm looking up video for one day I eventually get on 😅
Me too lol I drove on the highway 2 times in 8yrs. I don’t like driving highways because I’m scared I’m going to miss an exit. I just try to avoid it as much as possible but the longer you drive the more you see that it’s important someday.
@@kentaurus9610 it really is important especially when a job makes you travel and u need to get there on time or if u want to take a road trip to a different state or something 😅. Still haven't yet tho lol
Same😂
U can always you use back roads it will lead you to other states instead of the highway@@HMPRODIGY
Thank you for the help driving on the high way for the first time today. Scared out of my mind, wish me the best of luck!
How is it now
@@LAce. oh man I drive like a pro now it’s crazy that I forgot about the video. Thanks for the tips.
wowwww you inspire me
I’m going on the highway tomorrow morning. I’m most scared of exiting and entering. 😭
Taking driving lessons now. My fear is the highway
Yess I’m gettin on it Thursday 😭
How did it go?
Ironically, fewer fatalities occur on the highway.
The only way to face your fear is practice. The first time I ever drove on the highway, I was terrified out of my mind. But I just had to it. The more I practiced, the better I got. Now I can take a road trip no problem!
@@icecreamjunkie6790which lane did u drive on? I driving the first time I am nervous. 🙏🏾
Right lane is the cruising lane. Middle lane is the passing lane for the right lane. Left lane is the passing lane for the middle lane.
im excited to start driving on highways. what was and still kinda is a great fear of mine, I feel assured that I will succeed and overcome by God's Grace
Thank you so much!! I don't know anything about driving besides turning on the car and putting in gas but this really helps!!
Same here. Just started drivers ed 2 weeks ago but I've never gotten behind the wheel
I drove on the highway today and I was scared sheetless :0 felt like my vehicle kept moving side to side! Ugh I was sweating too cause I was nervous
Is it still scary?
Today was my first driving on the highway and I felt that too like my car was moving side to side
@@olivia-jc7iy 7 years later is not scary.. I just get nervous as I’m unsure about other drivers
@@abenaamponsah1068 keep practicing! It’ll get better :)
@@jnot_lo2067 It's cool to see that you replied after 7 years :)
Am 17 and learning how to drive
+Trusted not anymore :(
JEDI MASTER YODA My parents don't want me driving on the highway but I do it anyway all the time. I been driving on it for the past 8 months behind their back and they don't know it.
Alex Jamerson you’re such a savage
JEDI MASTER YODA can you drive now
Are you still 17??
I got my license a week ago and i am going to get more familiar on the highway with my parents because i only went on highway three times and i never tried it alone before.
Andrew Genus Same here
I need to learn because my job is an hour and a half away avoiding highways
I have went on the freeway twice only, my biggest mistake is slowing down too often, taking foot of the gas as to not stay too fast, also slowing down while steering with the lane, hopefully I overcome these mistakes with more practice on the road to get my license 🤞
Watching this after my first highway drive. It was scary but I hope to overcome my fear.
If i ever did a driving tutorial series :
Lesson 1 : how to start a car
Lesson 2 : how to park
Lesson 3 : how to rev match while driving at the nurburgring and try to do a time below 8 minutes in a civic at the same time
That 3 one is such a valuable skill that would make American highways so much safer.
thank you you made my day cause people really confuses us about the lane yu should stay in... thank you for the middle lane talk....great.
DO NOT ENCOURAGE MIDDLE LANE HOGGING.
In most European countries it is illegal to stay in one lane the whole trip. We have to use the rightmost lane unless we want to pass a slower vehicle, usually trucks because their speed is limited to 55 miles an hour. Passing on the right hand side is illegal too, and the tickets are expensive. It makes no sence sticking to your (middle) lane like an idiot. If there is a exit/merging lane coming up, you can make way if need so.
+Kris De Craemer (Kross Coole Kip) very true indeed but who follows this? only Germany. Been driving almost everywhere in the world and they all enjoy wasting lanes on the right, leaving them empty for nobody.
I stay out or the left lane because that's the lane you will mostly likely be pulled over for speeding
Drive in the right lane. Use other lanes for passing. Don’t drive in the middle lane unless you are passing someone in the right lane.
I guess people use these lanes anyway they want huh?
Floor It LOL
Lmaoo
It’s the bad drivers you should also watch out for and the ones who won’t let you change lanes.
Why can't I find a consensus on this: if you are passing someone slower than you do you go back in the original lane you were in(given that it is safe to do so)? Or do you stay in the left lane the WHOLE time? I understand if you end up staying there because maybe the innermost lanes really are slow and you end up having to pass everyone but if there were to come a point where your speed could be maintained do you usually switch back?
Today is going to be my first day on the highway and I'm scared shitless
Me too. Im soo scared.
@@sunnyavirmed9861 Stay calm and you got it. Trust me, I know how ya feel. Just did a personal 2 hr driving class. My biggest issue was oversteering and stopping a bit to early. But with patience, you can do it 😉
How’d you do ?
Chronorust Hi Chronorust, Thank you very much for the advice. 🌞😊
Now im driving on high way every morning and evening. Im still have a fear when i drive on high way. Because most of the experienced drivers dont give the notice to the other drivers that they are going to switch lane. They just give signal at the same time they switch to another lane.
This is very dangerous action for these drivers and for beginner like me and other drivers.
@@sunnyavirmed9861 Good to hear! Just got my license last week. Just gotta watch out of yourself. Good luck!
What happens when your on the merging lane and the vehicles don’t let you in on time and I can’t slow down because someone else is also on the merging lane behind me❓
The only thing I hate about the highway is rush hour within a city and not doing anything driving for long hours. Like in the city you are constantly moving your feet and hands on the highway you set the cruise and then it’s like you just steer and maybe hit the signal once and a why’ll. I see why many fall asleep on the highway.
i love to drive in the highway in massive storm. its basically like my mazda 2 going through a car wash.
I’m going to drive on the interstate tomorrow by myself. Trying to get some tips to calm my nerve here.
In my opinion, its not safe for beginner, like me, because when i drive on Round, S .... shape road, its hard to keep high speed like Experienced Drivers do. I always have to slow down when i enter or drive on it. So i always keep the right lane, so that not to block high speed drivers. :)
Haha and my teacher told me always to stay on the right side
In Europe, that's compulsory. The other lanes are only for passing.
By the way, that’s pretty good advice
Or like, you get your Model S and have it do it for you.
Very helpful, thank you for the great explanation
Still frigging scared to merge
Am I the only one afraid of going on high speed?😭
Ahh ur not
Its like that in the first but when i drive alot i got used to it, actually i love driving,
No your not the only one 😭
Not at all
If there is a constant traffic when you are in the merching lane, you eventually have to stop at the end of it :-/ And some cars can overtake you from bhind after that and that can be very dangerous. Any tip how to prevent it pls? Do you really have to be some kind of agressive to merge into higway? Thanks :-)
no....you do NOT have to be aggressive unless this works for you...Slowing down is not as bad as these videos make it seem...
Best way for you to merge onto highway traffic is to drive all the way to the end of the merging lane, I mean RIGHT TO THE END OF IT ! With your blinking signal on , of course !
This way, cars behind you do not overtake you and the cars on the highway lanes WILL notice you
nice...but the real difficulty is when you look behind or near you and you find closing cars...how should a person react?
Good one
Around here, the on ramps have stop signs and at least half the exits are off the left side.
To be honest, I go to the end sometimes and just wait til I have a clearing. Don’t wanna just jump into it and not clear lol even tho people should let you come on
I m from Australian, and i like those tips...😊
Who's from drivers ed too? :')
I’m 16 and I’m tryna learn early
Thank you for the helpful video.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Appreciate the tips.
Hey Thanks For This, Very Helpful.
That, and people shouldn't be lingering in the fast lane. Traffic gets extremely terrible because there's always that one person in the fast lane that doesn't want to get over. It's common courtesy to get over, if it's safe, when you see someone coming up on you when you're in the fast lane. Or at least that's what I've been taught.
Common courtesy is no longer a thing in 2023
It is "his" recommendation to stay on the middle lane, wow, right after you get your license, simply make your own recommendations, and to the hundreds of cars traveling faster than you, just give them one lane on the left to fight over.
I have a huge driving anxiety problem. it's almost becoming suicidal
it’s the merging for me
Me watching this not even knowing how to drive 🥲🥲🥲
I ALMOST DIED YESTERDAY I HATE HIGHWAYS! D:
me too
U have bf
Joseline Castillo ikr. Makes me very nervous.
NO WAY WHAT HAPPENED??
Nice
Nice good and nice
What if there's no middle lane?
Sean Gillock Stay in the right line and just take left line to pass a slow drivers
this really helped
Is the highway and freeway the same thing?
Yes🥰🥰
👍
I'm never driving.
Have you driven yet?
What about now?
he must be from either New York or New Jersey :D
New York :D just found, I have good ear for accents :D
My God I'm scared 20 is really fast for me I'm currently in driving school now 😭😭 no experience at all and my instructor always shouting at me 💔 i don't know if I can do it 😭
Yes, he does 0:50
Driving Highways at Night in the Rain......................................NICE.....?
another thing: in america they are practically handing drivers licenses to anyone, driving lessons are done much better in most of europe.
The Highway speed is nothing compared to the Autobahn in Germany😂
Tailgaters, oh tailgaters. Why are thou in this world?
*Rocky Balboa giving driving tipps . .*
I’m here in 2020😭😂
So, my driving instructor has scheduled a highway drive tomorrow morning, and I have had no practice on the highway at all since my last drive with my instructor, which was early April, and I haven't driven since. I am unable to change my schedule, and I am freaking out. What do I do?
How to exit when the slow line has. Truck
omg i have that same problem it feels like my car keeps moving from side to side when i drive on the highway
I love freeway i ride like boss
Awesome
I'm 13 and i drive 🤣
good
Haha @KissMyClawsTV my car WAS moving from side to side... On the regular road I drive perfect! On the highway is a different story
The left lane is not for passing it's for driving faster on long car trips
no it is for passing
But the left lane really IS for passing. #1 lane is the passing lane or the fast lane as some call it. Middle lanes are for thru traffic. #2 land should be used when people are done passing in the #1 lane to be courteous to anyone else going higher speeds in the fast lane. Right most lanes are typically used for slow traffic, merging off, and merging on. But the sole purpose of the fast lane isn't for people going great distances at great speeds. People use the fast, passing lanes quite a bit and they aren't going on long trips.
+chanel taylor its for people who are going faster 😂😁
Ughh Experience this today with my boyfriend and Boy was I sweating he was talking to me strictly for my ownn right he said he doesnt want me learning like a little girl he wants me to learn like a man 😂😂🥺😩
Lmao at the old man
Is this Bobo from Howard Stern?
he looks him
Mike Rogers looks like the american from mighty boosh
And I still hate the highway 😂
I love you.
No, this is real life and if you are as irresponsible here you don't get a bad note, you get hurt.
super
And if you where in Denmark you Will fail from this video Many things Can say fx why are the hands on top shod be 2 oclock and 10 oclock so fail...the Way he do look fail the Way he chance Lane fail and on and on..
If it was for passing it would be called the passing lane duh
why is he holding a knife?
Where did you get knife from..?
This isn't school
His voice gives me anxiety