Hi there smart drivers Rick with smart drive test talking to you tonight about
road rage and answering any questions obviously that you have about passing a
road test getting a CDL license starting your career as a truck or bus driver or
remaining crash free so you're not involved in a crash so that's what we're
doing tonight I see that Penny's here Adams here Burt's four wheels that's
Corey Corey is the moderator and is really good at getting any videos up
that I refer to when I'm answering your questions
so yes Corey's here and Corey does an awesome job and Hall face is here
Penny's here and Penny's asking how do you impress the driving instructor in
your driving and test drive well that'll impress the driving instructor can I do
a video on parallel parking actually there's an entire playlist penny on
parallel parking there so there we go Adam today somebody passed me on a busy
road while passing isn't allowed I honked at him and he completely stopped
his car in about five seconds I was like oh boy here we go luckily he didn't
shoot me only being half sarcastic so what do you mean your own king half
sarcastic Jeffrey's here Christian's here so does here road rage is funny to
watch yeah funny to watch not funny to be involved in that's for sure excellent
thanks Corey Hall phase you like you see like three hundred plus people do you
think it is safe to be traveling in the roadways Hall face you know these those
huge grips and motorbikes yeah Tommy good evening let me think about that
Hall phase and answer your question Courtney that's great welcome to smart
drivers Courtney it's great to have you here and obviously tonight we're talking
about road rage and you may or may not seen the link for the article that I was
talking about that prompted me to talk tonight about road rage there was an
incident here in Kelowna British Columbia the
Cologne is about an hour south of Vernon British Columbia in Canada here and two
males got out of their cars and had a go at it and one was an older gentleman 54
years old and obviously the other person hit him and he hit his head on the curb
and he is in critical condition in the hospital and if that driver dies in the
hospital the other driver when they catch up to that other driver there is
going to be manslaughter charges that person is going to be charged with
manslaughter because the other person died because of what happened there
Thank You penny Moe sin hips on maintaining your speed
yes I do look at the video on controlling your speed Corey will put
that up for you so without further ado here I'm not going to answer to too many
questions are going to go right over to the video are right over to the
presentation rather and talk about that and get that going so Sam is here
driving lessons by Big Mac Sam Sam works for the rookie auto driving school in
Bronx in New York and Sam has some really good ideas for driving in New
York there are some slight differences about New York State New York State
likes to be different than other states in the u.s. so he's got some ideas about
that so as I said we're gonna pop right over to the PowerPoint presentation and
get going here on that so just bear with me for one sec here
what is going on here there we go okay that and no it didn't work
sorry about that whew zoom in
get rid of that get rid of that all right so here we go okay so road rage so
we're all going to experience road rage at some point in our driving careers
because it is a simple fact of social driving that we truly believe that when
somebody else is going slower than us us their goofball and when somebody's
driving faster than us they're an idiot so it the very fact that it's a social
activity predisposes it to road rage and this will provide you with some
strategies and techniques to remain calm while you're driving and perhaps give
you some self awareness that is going to help you to remain calm while you're
driving and sort of think about working with other drivers so as I said there in
the introduction it's a social activity and you need to ask yourself am i prone
to aggression one of the things that Spurs us to aggression while we're
driving is is that we're in this little metal box we're by ourselves and all of
that causes our emotions to be heightened if we're happy we're going to
be happier in our cars if we're angry we're gonna be more angry in our cars
than those types of things and as well many people drive too close to other
cars and other cars will do something unexpected in them we're not we don't
have enough space to react properly which will cause us to get upset or
excited when we're driving and the other thing about driving being a social
activity and I say this again and again for drivers Drive in the spaces between
the clusters you don't want to be near other vehicles because space management
is the key component to being a defensive driver and remaining crash
free because if you can stay away from other fixed objects and other road users
it's less likely that you're going to hit them so try and stay away from other
vehicles on the roadway now as well think about the way that you viewed the
world is your world black and white is it right and wrong is what the other
drivers doing wrong or right because driving for the most part is predictable
it moose are it operates on a loose set of traffic rules and when other people
violate those or cut you off or make a mistake while
they're driving which most people are going to make a mistake do you get bent
out of shape about it or do you say okay they did that that happened because it's
not a matter of if other drivers are going to make a mistakes around you it's
a matter when they're going to make mistakes around you so think about how
you view the world and if you can manage space and you can sort of know that
other drivers are going to be making mistakes around you and you don't get
upset when they do make mistakes you're going to be a better driver because the
definition of professional drivers and the one that I hold up as the pinnacle
of being a professional driver if you're going to drive a truck or a bus is is
that it's not a matter of if other drivers are going to make mistakes it's
a matter of when and as a professional driver what you need to do is to put in
strategies and techniques that will allow you to compensate for the mistakes
of others and if you can do that then you are a professional driver and
oftentimes we get tips and strategies and and other defensive driving advice
from racecar drivers and let me tell you that racecar driving is very different
from driving in regular traffic on any kind of Road or any kind of light
conditions because stock car racing for example in the picture here they're all
driving the same cars they're all spec to the same specs more or less they're
all driving at the same time on the same track the same conditions and they all
had the same objective when you're on a roadway you're driving with people with
any kind of vehicle in any kind of weather on any kind of road surface with
people who have any kind of ability on a vehicle that you know you have no idea
what it is or it could be anything from you know a bicycle to a motorcycle all
the way up to a tractor-trailer unit in those types of things so it's completely
different when you're driving on the roadway and the other piece in our lives
is that many of us especially in North America Australia Europe and other
places in the world we've become incredibly busy and we're incredibly
stressed out and a lot of times we take that stress that we may or may not be
conscious of in our lives and we take it with us when we go driving so you need
to do some self-assessment about yourself and your own world and
what's going on there in terms of your home stress your work
stress financial stresses and all of those types of things
the amount of time that we're spending in front of screens how much time are
you spending in front of television how much time are you spending in front of
computers your phones those types of things and maybe you just need to take a
little bit of time and just unplug and de-stress all right fatigue is another
thing and when you're driving know that you're going to be tired and when we're
tired we're less tolerant of other people's mistakes and this is going to
lead to bursts of outrage and whatnot and know the signs when you're tired
okay and take note of that say listen I'm tired I need to manage my space
better I need to know that I need to hang back and those types of things and
maybe drive the speeds I'm going to just take my time to get to where I need to
go and this is going to be especially prevalent in the middle the night during
early morning driving or circadian when our biological clock takes a dip in the
early afternoon and early mornings okay so think about emotions think about
emotional impairment did you have a fight with your spouse do you have a
grievance at work as their death in the family are you moving a few years ago I
was moving I was having my first baby not me personally my wife is having a
baby we're having a baby in the family obviously and I was moving and I can
remember I went into a parking lot and this guy took this parking space that I
was waiting for and I just I lost it I got out of the
car I'm like what are you blind you know I'm yelling but it wasn't that
I was mad at that person it was the fact that I was moving and there were a lot
of other stresses in my life and new things coming into my life that I didn't
understand how much stress and anxiety was in my life about these new things
and new changes that were happening in my life but it came out in my driving
and I got upset so oftentimes what were being angry about isn't the cause of why
we're angry and anybody who's been in a relationship with other people knows
that that's very true okay the other thing that leads to road
rage and this is becoming more and more prevalent it's becoming the new sort of
drunk driving is distractions and some of the things that you can do
to avoid distractions so that you're not accidentally drifting into other
people's lanes you're not cutting people off you're not driving slower than the
other traffic around you you're trying to keep up with traffic flow and those
types of things is cell phones in our vehicles and telematics and those types
of things so set your radio stations before you leave set up your GPS units
leave tel Ematic information alone while you're driving because there's a lot of
information in our new vehicles try vomiter x' tire pressures fuel mileage
and other information leave all that alone and then if you need to consult
any of this find a safe place to pull over and consult this technology before
you drive and don't try and drive while you're consulting all of this technology
so phones and GPS if you if you can't leave your phone alone or rather sorry
if you're using your phone as your GPS unit put the device on audio and just
listen to it and if you get lost or you have to get reroute the GPS is going to
do that use hands-free device and if you can't leave these phones and GPS units
alone and those types of things especially your phone which is you know
the number one thing that we're all doing now I mean my mom took a bus trip
the other day a couple hour bus trip and she said while she was on the bus she
counted 27 people who are on their phones while they're driving put your
phone somewhere where you don't have access to it put it in the trunk or put
it somewhere else or just get off the road and then
consult your phone because this is one of the things that is definitely going
to lead to road rage and acts of aggression while you're on the roadway
so if you do encounter road rage and you have another driver that's trying to
force you off the road or they pull up and they stop and they get out of their
vehicle do not get out of your vehicle lock the doors of your vehicle and do
not get out do not engage do not make eye contact do not honk your horn if
you've got another driver do not act aggressively your drive aggressively
with your vehicle because all of that is going to exacerbate the situation it's a
situation in Kelowna with this guy who ended up in the hospital because he hit
his head while the two of them were fighting another story while I was
living in Australia I was working in a butcher shop briefly what part time
while I was there and one of the my colleagues who I
worked with at the butcher I was a butcher and he was stocky fellow he was
probably about 220 pounds and he comes in one weekend and he's got a black eye
and of course we're all egging him on about why he got a black eye but it
turned out that he had a road rage rage incident with another driver the other
driver got out of the car and it was this old season gnarly bricklayer and
the bricklayer didn't even hesitate he just walked straight up to him and he
just drilled him right in the face so know that these people are out of
control and they do not have control of their emotions so do not engage okay if
the situation becomes unmanageable call the police immediately
or drive away do not drive home drive to a police station and as I said do not
you know drive to a public area those types of things and remember that when
people are angry people can only stay angry for a couple of minutes before
they calm down so if you don't engage you don't spur on the person then it's
likely going to abate alright so know that driving is a social
activity know that most of the time the traffic laws that govern actions of
people and drivers on the roadway are predictable it's when they become
unpredictable that we're susceptible to aggression and road rage think about
your attitude is your is your world black and white is it gray do you have a
professional attitude that it's not a matter of you know if somebody's going
to make a mistake or somebody's going to cut you off or somebody's not going to
give you the right-of-way and you're like okay well that happened and now
they can just go on and have their crash somewhere else you're just gonna let
them go you have this attitude that you got to be first all the time if you have
this attitude when you're driving that people who drive slower than you or
buffoons and people that drive faster than you are goofballs so think about
your attitudes think about the stresses and emotions that are in your life think
about distractions while you're driving that are gonna cause you to slow down
that are going to cause you to not pay full attention you're driving and those
types of things and then again with road rage strategies if somebody doesn't
each with you on the roadway locked your doors don't get out of your car do not
make eye contact and do not honk your horn or do other aggressive driving
maneuvers and then finally if you if they continue then you need to drive
away or you need to drive to a police station do not drive home so those are
some strategies and techniques that you can employ for the purposes of being
engaged road rage and those types of things okay so yeah Mohammed in terms of
people that text and drive you are not going to fix that problem the only way
that I see the problem being fixed in terms of people texting and driving is
if there is some sort of technological device in the vehicle that blocks
people's cell phones from receiving messages as long as people's cell phones
are continuing to receive messages in the vehicle you're just not going to
stop this there was a study done it's probably seven or eight years ago now by
the triple-a in the United States and within the last two months when that
study was done sixty-six percent of Americans
admitted to talking on their cell phone while driving and thirty three percent
of Americans admitted to texting while driving so this is not a problem that's
going to go away this problem is actually going to get worse because I
don't know how they're going to police it there are simply not enough police on
our roadways to police people texting and driving so for those of you who are
smart drivers and those are you who want to be professionals it becomes more and
more important for you to manage space around your vehicles and stay away from
other people because these people are going to be on their cell phones they're
going to make mistakes and they're not going to be having their full attention
on driving and it's not just cell phones and it's not just those types of
electronic devices that are in our vehicles but as I said telematics those
screens in our cars all of that information
I mean now many of these vehicles also have access to Internet and they have
access to social media there are people who have video players in their car
there are so many distractions that people are bringing into their cars that
takes away their attention to the task of driving okay Adam question for later
what do you do if someone gets out of this car in a combative manner in a road
rage incident yeah and Adam as they talked about in the presentation there
somebody gets out of their car lock the doors on your vehicle do not engage do
not make eye contact you know get out your phone and use your phone to call
the police or take a picture of them if it becomes too bad then what you need to
do is you simply need to drive away to a police station I mean if you can't get
away from like if you can't drive away without striking them you know you might
have to do something crazy like drive up on the sidewalk or something like that
you need to get away from them somehow okay all right Silas didn't miss too
much oh great yes it is on point Courtney
Sarab can you clarify the concept of courtesy driving so Sarab I wouldn't
really say that it's courtesy driving what I would say is it comes back to
that idea of professional driver and I used that idea professional driver not
just for people who are truck or bus drivers or people who drive for a living
the idea of courtesy driving or professional driver is knowing that
other people on the roadway are going to make mistakes and it's not a matter of
if other people are going to be make mistakes but it's a matter of when other
people are going to make mistakes and when other people make mistakes is your
response to those other people those other drivers and road users on the
roadway making mistakes is like oh it happened okay I've got good space
management I'm paying attention to what I'm doing my attention is on the task of
driving and you simply slow down back off and those are our others skills and
strategies that you put in place that compensate for other people making airs
in there driving and I get this question and here's here's a perfect example of
this people who merge onto freeways or
highways and they say other people will never help me out that's an attitude
about you against the world of drivers who are on the roadway that other people
aren't going to help you out that's completely false other people will help
you out because other people don't want to crash either so it comes down to good
observation you matching the speed of the flow of traffic on the roadway as
you're coming out on the on-ramp as you're coming out on the acceleration
rank Lane you're looking for your space you're targeting that space and you have
good up you have good observation and you have good communication with other
drivers on the roadway in other words you've got your signal on early so many
people that I see on the roadway they don't use their signals to communicate
with other people they use their signals to tell people exactly what they're
doing at the very instant that they're going to do it and you cannot do
something at the very instant you're going to do it and expect other drivers
to have an opportunity to react expect other drivers to have an opportunity for
time and space to make a gap and help you out and get you onto the roadway so
you have to communicate effectively - and that's giving people some advance
notice of what you're going to be doing because it takes other people a couple
two three minutes to react so you've got to give them ample opportunity to
exhibit - to react you got to give them time for that okay all right here we go
there we go Cornie total routes of memory there you
go excellent haul phase the reason I don't answer questions is because I
can't see the questions because when I'm on the PowerPoint presentation I have to
go to another screen and therefore I need another screen on my computer so I
need three screens instead of just two screens that's why I don't answer
questions when I'm doing the PowerPoint
okay there's another way just raise the funds $800 what they could do to battle
cell phones is to have huge punishments huge funnest huge punishments don't work
halt phase they've shown that that when people get
speeding tickets when people get any type of traffic violation it's very
short-term people that speed it only lasts for six or eight weeks and then
people are speeding again so these huge punishments they're also trying to do
deterrence placing they're doing exactly what you said in the province of Ontario
I think the fine is a $500 there's some states and other places in the world
that are exactly the same they have these huge fines and then they do what's
called deterrence placing then they put it on the front page of the newspaper
and when they put it on the front page of the newspaper everybody goes oh my
god I better not you know text and drive because there's a huge fine they try
that it doesn't work it's not theirs when people look at their cell phones
it's that same thing about phones that you need to ask yourself as soon as our
phone rings or dings or we get a text message of those types of things we get
a shot at dopamine it's a little bit of a you know it's not adrenaline but it's
dopamine and we're like oh wow somebody likes us so we pick up our phone almost
immediately and to not do that in a car is really difficult and takes a great
deal of self-discipline to not look at your phone while you're driving okay
soda crazy motorcyclists and you were talking about large group of motorcycles
one of the things soda that I might suggest to you is if you're following
them and they're on the path of travel where you're going you might want to
just you want might want to think about an alternative route so that you're not
confronting them or trying to pass them because if you're talking you know 30 40
50 motorcycles on a roadway I mean that's a lot of motorcycles and you got
to be out on another lane of traffic for a long time to get around those
motorcycles so that may not work for you okay Adam
thanks Cory for putting that in there that's great Adam
my friends use snapchat while driving sending pictures behind the wheel I tell
them to cut it out and they laugh it off as a concerned friend how can I convince
them they're being reckless yeah Adam
that's a that's a that's a difficult question Adam and really what happens to
it is that you know that they're being dangerous while they're driving and what
I would suggest you is if they're being dangerous while they're driving and you
are you're adamant that they shouldn't be doing this my advice to you would be
to simply not ride in the car with them it's kind of like drinking and driving
if you're out with your friends and they've had a couple of beers and they
get in behind the wheel you just say well you either give me the keys and I'm
going to drive or I'm simply gonna get a cab home or I'm gonna walk home or I'm
gonna get somebody to come and get me you just refuse to be in the vehicle
with them because it's unsafe when people are using their phone especially
if they're younger people and they don't have a great deal of experience I'm not
saying that veteran drivers have experience to be talking on their phones
either but there's a lot of things going on and I've talked about this before in
terms of young people especially those young people are just getting their
license and they're 17 18 up to say I would say 22 years old there's a lot of
change going on that young people have inexperienced with distracted driving
dating drinking and driving those four things those are huge huge things in our
lives and you know we're we're distracted driving so we have our phones
and we don't have a lot of experience with phones we don't have a lot of
experience with self discipline of not answering our phone Ian immediately
driving we don't have a great deal of experience with driving we don't have a
huge lexicon of hazard perception our ability to recognize hazards on the
roadway we're dating and that could be all new to us have new relationships we
have high emotions or around our dating and then we have drinking right drinking
or drugs or whatever recreational activity that we're doing we're
experimenting with those types of things and all of those things come together
for young people and they have not a great deal of experience with drinking
and driving I mean when younger and I was drinking I would drink
to the point of excess until I was getting sick now that I hoped her Octus
Lee I know the consequences of drinking what I feel like the next morning but I
also know exactly when I've had enough to drink that if I drink one more
mouthful of alcohol I'm going to be sick and I know that so I have a great deal
of experience with drinking I have a great deal of experience with driving
but when I was younger I did not have that so there's a lot of things for
young people and I think it's important for you Adam and other people who are
riding in cars and their friends are texting and driving or their friends are
drinking and driving that you simply refuse to be in that vehicle with them
because it's it's you it's your life and you're putting your life at jeopardy
because one car crash you can you know it will affect the rest of your life I
mean you may never walk again you may have a brain injury that you struggle
with to go to the toilet for the rest of your life I cannot stress enough how
awful car crashes are and how much this affects people I mean there was a car
crash in Kelowna last week you know this was in addition to the road radiant rage
incident that happened there was another car crash where a kindergarten teacher
who was pregnant was killed in a car crash in Cologne it was an awful crash
but think of the ramifications of that for everybody else in her family and all
of her children that she died in that car crash it's just an awful crash and I
cannot I just cannot stress enough how much car crashes change people's lives
sometimes it's just a fender bender and you get away without too much damage or
too much consequences from that but if people are you know suffered long-term
consequences long-term disability and debilitating injuries from a car crash
or they're killed in a car crash it has enormous repercussions for people who
are left behind okay
okay so soda you almost you'll almost hit a motorcycle okay so how did you
almost hit a motorcycle did the motorcycle swerve into your lane or you
got too close or something like that happened just clarify that for me okay
all right okay Hall phase this analogy between drunk
driving might help you out okay here in the province of British Columbia we had
problems with drink driving so we had a huge in the 1970s and into the 1980s and
1990s and even today we had huge social campaigns against drink driving and we
had enormous fines against drink driving what happened here in Canada was that it
became very difficult to convict drink drivers it became very difficult to
police drink driving it became very difficult to convict drink drivers
because it was such a technicality in terms of driving so what happened was is
that the provincial government the BC provincial government the British
Columbia provincial government here in BC passed a law that increased police
powers and everybody thought that when BC increased police powers what was
gonna happen was it was going to be challenged because in legal terms it's
beyond the power of the province because drink driving is charging to the
Criminal Code of Canada which is a federal law it's not a provincial law
and everybody thought that it was the only be challenged well that was five
years ago now that this was implemented it hasn't been challenged and the reason
it hasn't been challenged is because they couldn't convict people in court
and it's the same thing with what you're talking about in terms of towing
people's cars and giving them fines before they get their car back it's not
going to work they they simply don't have enough police to police this
problem so what they do is they rely on increased police presence which is a
whole other topic that we can talk about or they do what's called deterrence
placing they they they have a police blitz and they give fines up to a whole
bunch of people and then they pub sighs it in the newspapers that's the
way they're trying to deal with it but it's not effective and it's not going to
be effective because what you're trying to do is you're trying to please tens of
thousands of people at any given time in any given space and place on the roadway
it is an incredibly monumental problem that is just beyond the scope of police
forces in North American in the rest of the world okay Christian I'm good how
are you excellent I usually just leave the phone deep in my pocket so I can't
get to it yes that's a good tactic Silas's just put it somewhere where you
can Brian you like school buses he decided to ride the line between me and
another car okay so soda so what happened was is
that the motorcycle there's a term for that that I can't think of it lane
splitting they call it lane splitting where the motorcycle rides up between
the two lanes of cars so in that event so it becomes incredibly important to do
your shoulder checks to check your mirrors and keep track of where those
motorcycles are and know that you know there might not be something that you
can do to avoid the motorcycle but yeah some of the motorcyclists are not
they're not going to be considered to other traffic on the roadway and other
drivers who the big problem in our driving is that we don't think the
consequences of fast driving yeah well exactly we don't think what the
consequences are going to be if we have a crash Liam I agree frequency of an
enforcement is much more important than severity of punishment in New York City
the fine for speed cameras is only $50 but where they being implemented
speeding has decreased by 50% and that's a good point Liam in Australia when I
drove in Australia they had speed cameras they had a culture of speed
cameras and the traffic did not drive more than 100 kilometres an hour if you
were driving 105 kilometers an hour on a highway in Australia you thought you
were going really fast because they had a culture of speed cameras therefore it
overall reduced speeding in the country so that might be something that we can
revisit but it's such a political hot potato that Paul
additions are loath to put in speed cameras because the charge against speed
cameras is that it's just a money grab that they're just out there to get money
and that's why that we don't in Canada we've had them in place and they've been
pulled out because this is a political political leverage for parties getting
elected to office and this is one of the things that they do is they pull out
tolls they pull out speed cameras and they get elected to office okay
so duh I believe speeding is okay as long as you're not too crowded and tell
people what you're doing and and you're right soda speeding is one of the causes
one of the top three causes of car crashes however there are different
definitions of speeding speeding doesn't lend itself to a simple definition so
most people when they think of speeding they think driving faster than the
posted speed limit however driving faster than the posted speed limit
driving faster than me so I'm driving my car and another person is driving faster
than me that's speeding driving faster than the traffic flow is driving is
speeding and then finally driving beyond the conditions of the roadway that the
roadway will allow so there's four definitions for different definitions of
speeding and I tend to agree with you soda that it's not speeding beyond the
posted speed limit as long as you're managing space around your vehicle and
you have control of your vehicle then you're going to be okay but if you're
speeding and you're for example one of the things that I do think is dangerous
if you're speeding beyond the traffic flow so if you're trying to drive faster
than the traffic flow then you're putting yourself in a dangerous
situation and you are speeding but as you said as long as you're managing
space I think you're going to be okay in terms of speeding because we have lots
of freeways and interstates and those types of things particularly in the
states that are 75 to 80 miles an hour and they don't have high accident rates
or high crash rates rather and it's the same thing here in British Columbia they
raised the speed limits to 120 and I don't think they've seen a great deal of
difference in the number of crashes on our roadways because there aren't there
isn't a great deal of traffic and those types of things
okay Silas check your mirrors just need to check
your you need to have a rotating scanning pattern every eight to twelve
seconds so you need to be looking far down the road check your Center mirror
far down the road check your wing meters far down the road
both sides of the roadway come in check your instrument panel and far down the
road and you're doing that constantly every 10 10 to 12 seconds while you're
driving
oh I'm not denying that hall phase that people have been injured and killed from
cellphones while they're driving no I don't I hope I didn't say something that
confused you if I did I'll clarify that
okay Courtney even with knowing your car could get towed it wouldn't make a
difference unfortunately yeah well unfortunately there are still people who
do illegal street racing and they know that they're gonna get their vehicle
vehicle towed so okay so do they have speed cameras in the states yes I
believe there are some states they do have speed cameras in the US Jerry the
freedom of driving no cameras on the road so you can drive as you want yes as
long as the police don't catch up to you mystery I like to know what is the best
way to write you I ask this because I think I send you a message last week and
for my friend okay mystery the best way to send me a message is Rick at smart
drive test comm and you can just send me an email there and I'll answer your
email for you so that'd be great okay there we go okay let's see if I got
everybody so soda you hit a cyclist in Nevada I'm automatically at fault okay
where did you get that information soda that you hit a cyclist in Nevada and you
were automatically at fault because that's not necessarily true I think that
is a misconception that if you strike a cyclist that you're automatically at
fault however cyclists people on bicycles are
road users as well and those road users are subject to the road rules you know
unless you drove in front of them or cut them off or made a turn in front of them
or miss judge the gap it's you know they're
susceptible to there are other road users so it's not automatically the
gorge fault because you hit a cyclist so okay so in Winnipeg in the province of
Manitoba here in Canada court is also saying that there are some speed cameras
there as well so it is kind of hit and miss and here and there there are some
speed cameras around the world but I can tell you that there is a definitive
effect on traffic with speed cameras and red-light cameras in place and I have
seen red-light cameras and there's a lot of intersections that have red light
cameras at them where people run intersections they're going to get a
picture of their vehicle taken to them and they get a ticket sent to them in
the mail now red-light cameras it you know the same charge has been leveled
against red-light cameras that it is a money grab at one in the same time
sometimes it can make the intersection somewhat dangerous because people are
locking up the brakes when they're coming up to the intersection and they
fail to check behind them to ensure that the traffic behind them is coming to a
stop and in those instances where they're locking up the brakes to come to
a stop at the intersection so they don't you don't run into the intersection and
get a ticket from the red-light camera they're putting themselves at risk of a
rear-end crash so there are some challenges with those as well okay Liam
MyLink seems to have being filtered out but if you search higher speed than that
you'll find it okay Liam what did I miss here I don't mean to derail you or
anything but the increased speed limits in the US have statistically led to
increase road deaths has yeah okay but Liam what I would say to you about that
is that that's only one report and the difficulty with those types of reports
is is that they're incredibly detailed and you need to you can't compare apples
to oranges because on mostly what I'm talking about is I'm talking about
freeways and
traffic traveling in the same direction obviously if you have increased Road
speeds in cities and on two-lane highways and those types of things yes
then you're going to get increased numbers of traffic crashes but on
freeways and I mean the auto bond is probably one of the best examples ever
is that they don't have a speed limit on the Autobahn and they don't have crazy
increased numbers of Road crashes and those types of things so yes there is on
one hand there are increased number of crashes with increased number of Road
speeds but you have to look at the type of roads and the many many other types
of conditions that are affecting that but on the other hand if you have
freeways and those types of things you're not going to get increased number
of crashes and you know I would need to look at the report to get more specific
information and whatnot halt phase in the States that is true if you hit
someone with less protection you're 90% to be at fault I don't know whether I
agree with that whole phase or not I would need to do some research on that
Adam on the subject of cyclists what do you do if there's a cyclist in front of
you and cars honking behind you because the cyclist forces you to slow down
in that case Adam you got a you know just tuned the horns out and focus on
what you're doing because obviously you need to wait until there's a place on
the roadway that you can safely get around the cyclist because you don't
want to be you know charging through or plowing through on the cyclist and
unfortunately this is part of road rage is that other people are oftentimes
going to honk and they're going to you know they're gonna they're gonna bring
to bear social pressure that's going to force you to do something that you
shouldn't be doing or make a dangerous maneuver with what soda is talking about
in terms of motorcycles and cyclists and those types of things okay
it's like our pedestrian law almost they see it as the motor should have been
paying attention no matter what and it's kind of not fair okay yeah as doing post
crash analysis in investigation for many of these crashes yeah I'm I'm not sure
that that you can make that Blake in statement in terms of pedestrians and
people on bicycles and other vulnerable road users that that you're
automatically at fault because you got hit if the other Road user is doing
something that's blatantly dangerous or blatantly unpredictable then the court
of law is going to take that into consideration it's not that people are
you know unless the other unless the driver of a vehicle made a blatant err
or wasn't paying attention there's going to become some consideration in a court
of law about all of that Courtney thanks so much I appreciate that yeah well I'm
gonna get some shelves up here as well behind me and I'm going to put some cars
I've got some cars here as well that I need to put up there so I'm gonna do
that as well so thanks for that Courtney I appreciate that
okay Hall phase after you cut someone off or something and they begin to chase
you what should you do okay so Hall phase if you accidentally cut somebody
off obviously you didn't do it on purpose you need to if they're gonna
continue to follow you around what I would suggest you is just drive to the
nearest police station okay roll up your windows don't get on your phone just pay
attention to what you're doing and drive to the police station and then you can
stop and hopefully they're not gonna by that point they've you know broken off
the chase and they've calmed down and gotten a hold of themselves and those
types of things okay bricks for reals but one statistic that may muddled
things with traffic crashing speed limits is the overall increased traffic
volume over time yes and that is another excellent consideration Corey is that
yes in fact there's more traffic there's absolutely no doubt about it there is
more traffic on our roadways there are more Road users on our roadways so the
opportunity in the in chances for conflict on our roadways is
also increasing one of the statistics has been put in place it's incredibly
difficult to prove because one of the things that's incredibly difficult to
collate is traffic statistics because of the you know the people who are
reporting are oftentimes police officers and there's no consistency about pull
about reporting traffic crashes so since the late 1960s when we had just over the
top in terms of number of traffic crashes due to drinking and driving and
other you know not wearing seatbelts and whatnot we still argue and I've argued
in academic papers that we still have the same number of traffic crashes as we
did in the late 1960s we still have the same number of injuries we have simply
only reduced the number of fatalities and we've reduced the number of
fatalities not because people are driving better we've reduced the number
of fatalities owing to better Road engineering better safety features in
our vehicles safety restraints the mandatory wearing of safety restraints
within vehicles air bags those types of things and as well better medical
technology so we have better responses to putting back people back together and
fixing people in surgery and those types of things and most of those better
medical practitioners came out of the Vietnam War the Vietnam War you know
trauma and surgery and those types of things all were a product of that so
that's one of the reasons why we have fewer deaths in terms of traffic okay
Sam I always tell my students to behave on the road because the heat unit will
get them and kit you what is the heat unit Sam okay Hall face see if you got
in a collision with another car but the guy hit you look like he wants to stab
you yeah again Hall phase drive away
Hall phase I would recommend that you simply drive to the police station I
mean you could call nine one and one you know that's gonna be up to your
discretion while you're driving bricks four wheels limited space and
lack of planning there are bike lanes in some places also check how to turn right
with bicycle lanes yes excellent you are most welcome Silas Courtney needed that
link for bicycle lanes as today is my test and be in city with bike lanes yeah
so definitely have a look at that as well okay okay Fuad as an experienced
driver give me one advice that you could help so one of the things that I would
tell you is one of the one of the things that I emphasize this space management
keep space around your vehicle because if you're not near other road users and
you're not near other fixed objects it's less likely that you're going to hit
something so manage space effectively around your vehicle and then bring in
the other three components of driving speed management and obviously speed
management space management go hand-in-hand you need to observe well
and you need to adjust your driving accordingly so that you can maintain
your speed space around your vehicle and then finally communication make sure
that you're communicating with other road users so that they have time to
react and you know that whole social activity works out while you're driving
so if you can communicate in the way that we communicate with other road
users is our signals hand gestures eye contact and our horn but as I say use
your horn sparingly and then the position of your vehicle on the roadway
all of this communicates our intentions to other road users and drivers while
we're driving on the roadway okay heats okay
Oh Silas why don't people have bikes on roadways the reason they don't have
their own lanes for bicycles in most cities is B just because of the
limitation of space we just simply don't have analysis enough space and as well
bicycle lanes on roadways are a recent advent they only come in and you know
late 80s 90s those types of things there are very few countries in the world that
are kind of as progressive as Holland is that has you know raised bike lanes and
those types of things I mean if you want to go cycling in Holland it's an
absolutely wonderful place to go cycling okay another question Hall phase
buh-ba-ba-bah down here okay okay so they have they have a special place
force in New York City that specifically only police's traffic we have the same
thing here I think they call it the inter integrated traffic unit and all
they do is police traffic and those people so the heat unit in layman's
terms as those cops at hand everyone a ticket it actually stands for highway
enforcement for aggressive traffic they all over the state of Georgia okay so
the heat unit and we have them here in Canada they're called the integrated
traffic unit it's the same thing if you get pulled over by these police officers
you were gonna get a traffic violation because these people they're they're
different they're a different breed of police officers they're the types of
police officers they're gonna if they pull you over you're gonna get a ticket
that's not likely that you were gonna get away without getting a ticket from
the integrated traffic unit or the heat unit there in the States
yes and as Sam said there are different types of traffic police in the states as
well okay Adam do you think driving tests are rigorous enough in the States
my local driving my local school has seven to ten minute tests in a quiet
side road and almost everyone passes it seems like many schools are just diploma
mills Adam that is a long-standing question about competency tests for the
purposes of getting a road test and the same accusation could be leveled against
commercial driving schools as well for those getting you
you know truck licenses or bus licenses or whatnot it's you know and it's it's
it's a difficult question it's a complicated subject about whether you
know licensing requirements are preparing people for the roadway and I
would I would argue that they're probably not because there's a very
different set of skills that are required to pass a road test as opposed
to be on the roadway and drive defensively however how we prepare
drivers to drive defensively and beat crash free on the roadway
you know largely comes down to the attitude of the drivers about whether
they're gonna drive defensively and whether they're gonna drive
professionally and make allowances for other drivers on the roadway and
compensate for the mistakes the you know this is something that I have been
studying and I have been you know excited I'm not excited about but
motivated by for a very long time I've been I got my commercial license in the
1990s I went to university I got a PhD in the topic and now I'm teaching on
YouTube and I get questions all the time and I'm always always always considering
these questions and how to make this better and how to help people be better
drivers and state crash free and as I you know I make no bones about passing a
road test and being crash free and driving defensively those are two
completely different things so yeah I don't know the answer to that I don't
have that all phase I didn't skip your question on purpose just a lot here okay
I did it where'd you go where's your question uh
yes so if you think that they are going to injure you someway halt phase yes
definitely Drive away if you think that the person's gonna get out of their car
in an incident of road rage and you're going to be injured then definitely
definitely Drive away okay ah y 3r d oh I failed my road test on the 31st of May
by two points I think I did a good job on the blind spot checks one wide turn
when I exit the D in parking lot that's how I failed okay well we're sorry to
hear that that you you weren't successful but you were
really close so you're definitely gonna get it the next time just a little bit
more practice and what I might suggest y3r is to look at the video on choreo
get this up for you here on learning to drive and go and do the fundamentals in
the parking lot revisit the fundamentals and by revisiting the fundamentals
that'll help you with your terms and mastering the controls of the of the
primary controls of the vehicle and give you better control of that that way
you're gonna have better turns when you go for your next test okay
there you go so definitely so as sam says the heat unit they're cutthroat
yeah so you're gonna get a speeding ticket okay Liam in New York City I
actually got a ticket on my bike a few weeks ago for turning right on a red I
thought it was stupid I don't know of any other city that does traffic
enforcement for bikes yes Liam did you get pulled over by the heat unit is that
what happened there's the MTO in Ontario the Ministry
of Transportation and they do the same as heat yes okay Tim my dad is in the
army in 1974 the last draft and he went in for training but he never made it as
they didn't set his femur right okay
you know yeah I'm sorry you hear that he's so your dad obviously walks with it
with a limp if they didn't set his femur rate that's unfortunate that's very
unfortunate so do I believe those cops didn't make the real police force and it
takes it everyone else sorry I don't meet the laughs soda but you you might
be right you might be right you can get a ticket while riding your bicycle yes
you can get a ticket while riding your bicycle halt face because as I said
before when we were discussing if you hit a cyclist cyclists are road users
they are vehicles on our roadway and if you are not driving according to the
road rules or riding your bicycle according to the road rules you should
get a ticket because I've seen these people on bicycles because I've done a
lot of riding I've done big bicycle tours I've rode my bike through my
bicycle through Scotland I rode my bicycle through Tasmania and I see these
people they're being aggressive they're riding not safely and if they're not
doing any of that then yes in fact I think they should get a ticket so yes
follow the road rules and those types of things okay you're most welcome y3r and
as we said would do anything to give you a hand and what not so okay Gary you
failed my road test on the 31st I was getting out of the ice bees parking lot
and followed that I went for a left turn I just turned on the indicator and
slowly moving okay
okay there might be something missing there Gary that I didn't get but I'm
sorry to hear that you were unsuccessful on your road test but definitely you
know go back and you know do it again because you're gonna be successful
you're gonna get your license okay waiting to merge right that was
considered as a dangerous action okay um Gary woody what I suggest you leave me a
send me an email Rick at smart drive test and I'll get back to you we can
talk about that a little bit more and then maybe we can help that out
Edwin how are you Edwin ok bricks for wheels
yeah that's a possibility that in the states they if you're on a bicycle they
might take you and book you if you're gonna refuse to give them ID which you
might want to do just give them ID next time should be should literally say
rearview mirror y3r know one of the things that you can do on a road test
and while lasts am the same question do you encourage your students to do
running commentary on the road test because I encourage students to do a
running commentary while they're driving because if they're doing running
commentary the examiner knows exactly what you're doing and they know what
you're checking they know where you're looking and those types of things and it
just takes the guesswork out of it so I encourage students especially while
they're practicing to do a running commentary because when you're doing a
running commentary and you're actually doing the activity whatever it is you're
learning whether it's driving or something and also what not it's going
to make you a better driver and it's going to put in skip in place the skills
and abilities and and that you need to drive safely and drive defensively and
to pass a road test okay Hall phase yes so as I said in the presentation Hall
phase for those of you who know that you're prone to anger know that you have
triggers that other things make you angry while you're driving and as I said
we're more prone to being angry world or driving because we're tired we have
stresses at home there are triggers we're upset when other people are
driving faster than us or they accidentally cut us off or they drift
into our lane or those types of things I had a friend some years ago and if you
haven't gone over to the smart drive test website already and seen the Disney
video on you know mr. wheeler mr. Walker where this it's complete Jekyll and Hyde
transformation when he goes from being a pedestrian to being a driver I had a
friend who was like that he got in he was the nicest hesita ever knew who and
he was out of his car but when he get in the car all my god he just transformed
into this this character that's just angry all the time when you get in the
car he's cursing other drivers and swearing at them and
my god you're too slow and this and that it was something else so if you know
that you're prone to anger while you're driving just manage your space around
your vehicle so that you're away from other vehicles and those types of things
and breathe and just you gotta breathe and when somebody else cut you off in
those types of things focus on your breathing focus on what you're doing in
that way you're going to be less prone to driving and whatnot
okay Edwin I have my license six since October I just got to get more
experience behind the wheel do you have any videos on basic car maintenance yes
there are a couple of videos Edwin one of the things you want to do is do a
good pre trip on your vehicle so look at that video on pre trip inspection it's
for road test preparation but it'll help you out with your pre trip inspection
and as well there's another video here on checking the oil and how to change
the oil in those types of things so basically it's just a matter going over
doing a pre trip and making sure everything's right and whatnot okay so
Sam I also do the same sometimes about running commentary I mentioned it to
them when they do the running commentary with me just like I did with my student
Rasheeda on my channel yes so there you go so Sam is in New York and he also
encourages students to do the running commentary and that will help you out
with your driving okay you're most welcome
Dorcas how are you darkus good to see you actually I actually speaking out on
my road test especially when I did write turns on red so that the examiner knows
yes and it's an excellent technique and I really encourage students to be able
to do it and those types of things okay so we're getting near the end here if
anybody else has any questions I always hang around for a little bit at the end
of commentary to answer that and whatnot so I just want to mention I did get the
defensive driving course up over at the smart drive test website Cory I'll put
the link up here for you and for this week the defensive driving
course is on for $10 so you can pick up the defensive driving course for $10 and
it will cover all of these topics of road rage distracted driving medication
fatigue all of this stuff and it will help you and give you techniques and
strategies to be a better driver and for rain crash free as well I talked about
the different types of crashes and strategies and techniques you can put in
place for those so have a look at that over on
the smart drive test website you can pick it up for 75% off for $10 this week
okay ah Adam there's a great book on the subject called traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
yes Adam I have read that book and
unfortunately it is dense and turgid there's some good words for you it's not
very accessible it's it's a tough book to read it's a it's a tough book yeah so
thanks for that but I don't want to discourage people
from not picking it up and having a look at it but I did I did read it I was
gonna do a book review on it but I just found it really tough to get through
okay what about two-lane uncontrolled intersections Mustang man what is it you
want to know about two-lane uncontrolled intersections all right
in my expense and driving there's not much road rage near the including the
city but in the city there's where to go where to go where there's a bit more yes
epic if people are flashing their lights that can be an indication of road rage
they are certainly frustrated with whatever you're doing or they're
thinking that you're in the way people are flashing your lights you do want to
try and get out of the way and those types of things and let them pass Davis
thanks Rick for the help on the videos you are most welcome
Sam the examiner's here always here running commentary with the CDL drivers
because it must be done with them so they're used to hearing it excellent
that's that's an excellent point Sam so again Sam and I both driving
instructors Sam as the driving instructor in the Bronx and in New York
and I am the driving instructor here British Columbia have also been a
driving instructor in Australia and in Ontario the province of Ontario here in
Canada and we strongly encourage you to use running commentary that will help
you to learn how to drive y3r okay I'm going for my second test excellent that
is awesome we're so glad to hear that good luck on that haul phase okay so I
had a road rage driver so I'll tell you one incident that
I had with a road rage driver and it probably most of my road radiances have
been on my bicycle when I've been riding my bicycle in traffic that's when I've
had most of my road rage incidents but a couple of years ago when I was going
through my divorce I was just not in a good emotional state anyway I was coming
back from Kamloops which is about 90 minutes north of Vernon here and I was
coming back and I was coming back to get my kids on Halloween I was running late
which didn't help first of all that was it and I come into the parking lot where
I was picking up my kids and I came around the parking lot and there was a
van parked in the middle of the parking lot and I'm not I'm in the parking lot
and I am just like I'm I'm not even really an emotional control at this
point because I'm late I'm you know I just my wife left me a couple of months
before that I'm picking up my kids I'm a single dad and I get in the parking lot
in this van is right there and he's in my way and I start honking the horn on
the car which you know mostly it's my fault
absolutely anyway he got out of the van he come across he opened the door I'm
like on my car and he put his hand on my arm right here put his hand on my arm
and I looked up at him and I said in a very calm voice I looked at him and I
said you need to take your hand off me right now and he basically took his hand
off my arm and he slammed the door he said something cursing at me and he
walked off so that was one road rage rage incident that I did have a couple
years ago and it you know it could have it could have been worse it really could
have been worse so I just really suggest that you take you know try and calm
yourself down and do not engage okay all right Adam I
admit that I couldn't finish it even as an avid reader yes dance and turgid that
was what I went for with that book yes it was it was a tough read okay
defensive driving course there you go Mustang man the timing when two people
don't go together it messes everything up and I almost got hit yes so that's
excellent Mustang man what you got to do is the
right-of-way is always given the right sorry the right-of-way is not taken the
right-of-way is always given so somebody else wants to go just let them go and
then wait for your turn
there you go halt face great tornado I was Toronto yeah you gotta hate that
autocorrect there you go uh yeah Courtney it really depends as long as
you're ready for your driving you're gonna be fine whether it's a small town
or a big city you know you just got to be good at your driving okay so have a
look at the defensive driving course we're gonna leave it there thank you so
much for showing up and asking questions and engaging it's always great fun and
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