- Not shoulder checking when driving
is the same thing as not checking a firearm
to see if it's loaded before handling it.
In Arielle's third driving lesson,
traffic situations presented themselves
to stress the importance of shoulder checking when driving.
And stay to the end, really funny bit.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
(upbeat music)
So you remember last time when we started out
and I said, oh, you didn't shoulder check?
- [Arielle] Oh yeah. - [Rick] You totally did.
- [Arielle] I did?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Arielle] See I told you I did.
- See that's the thing about video.
You can't get away with that sort of thing.
You can't say, hey, you didn't do that (laughs).
I tried, you know, I tried, didn't really work out,
but it's actually pretty funny.
I'll put that in the video.
- [Arielle] That's so funny, and then I was like, sorry.
- Yeah, I'll put a little note at the bottom.
Yeah, even driving instructors make mistakes
every now and again.
- Is that good? - That's brilliant.
- Thank you. (laughs) - That's bloody brilliant.
- You see my face? I was like, oh.
- I get the energy.
Totally get the energy.
So some guy yesterday was on my channel
and I love it when people leave comments.
Because a lot of times when they leave comments,
I search my brain, thinking about things.
He says, "After I get my license,
I won't have to do this crazy shoulder checking anymore."
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- But I mean, you still have to do it.
- I came up with this analogy.
Not shoulder checking is to driving,
what not checking to see if a weapon is loaded
is to gun safety.
- Oh, oh, that's so funny.
- But it's exactly true.
You'd never pick up a firearm
and not check to see if it was loaded.
Why would you move a vehicle sideways
and not shoulder check to see
whether you're going to run into somebody
with a four-ton vehicle at speed?
- Exactly.
Oh my goodness.
There's been like times
where like I'm in the back seat of my friend's cars
and they're going to go and I'm like, don't go yet.
'Cause I look, and I'm like there's someone right behind you
in your blind spot.
- 'Cause that's the first thing that people lose
within the first three months after they get their license.
They stop shoulder checking.
And they only start doing shoulder checks again
when something goes wrong.
- That's why you have to do it.
- For me, it's in terms of observation,
if you don't do anything else, at least shoulder check,
but so many people don't.
Same thing, mirror, signal, shoulder check.
So as soon as you cross that yellow line
move into the other lane,
mirror, signal, shoulder check over,
mirror, signal, shoulder check back.
Or just stop.
If you can't get over to the left
to move around that person,
to give them at least three feet, then just stop.
Wait for them to move and then carry on.
- Sorry, I didn't know what you were talking about.
Wait a second. I was like just stop. I just did. (laughs)
- No, back there.
- Yeah, I know. I figured that out like a second later.
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If you don't understand a direction
that the examiner gives you, just ask them to clarify.
Because if you make a mistake
because you didn't understand the direction
and you didn't go right, because they said go straight.
It's not a big deal.
It's for them to figure out.
We're going to go left again.
Third exit.
Now here, see this guy here.
Wait 'til he commits.
Now go.
Never trust a signal like that.
Because maybe they forgot
and they just left their signal on.
So as soon as you see them,
you kind of notice that they slow down,
then you can go.
We're going to go into the Safeway parking lot.
And as soon as you put the, there you go, perfect.
And shoulder check immediately just right there.
There you go.
I asked the driving instructor, the guy that was teaching
the driving instructor course when I took it,
why do we have to shoulder check on left turns?
The very next day,
turning left into the Ottawa General Hospital, in Ottawa,
making a left turn.
And this cabbie comes around the side of me
and cuts on the inside.
If I hadn't shoulder checked,
I would have drove into him.
All right, we'll go up that next alley.
- Oh, this one?
- Sure. Or that one.
Just that way, somewhere.
- I have no idea what I need to do.
- Oh, just find a spot and park, back into a parking space.
- Back into it.
Should I not go where a car is?
- No, it's fine.
Cars actually make it easier.
So which one are you going into?
- The one with the Audi.
- Okay. Perfect.
- All right. - No, it's all good.
What else you got to do?
(door slamming)
There you go. Parking brake every time.
There you go, left at this intersection.
Right there where that kind of green-yellow post thing
on the utility pole.
Right here.
(signal clicking)
That was a little hot.
- Yeah, I know.
(both laughing)
There's a car coming.
- Turn left here.
(signal clicking)
That was better. Much better.
- Thank you.
- Did you shoulder check coming around there?
- Ah, no, I didn't.
- No, you did not.
You change direction of the vehicle
and you should shoulder check.
- Sorry.
- Don't be sorry.
- Next time.
- Check that loaded weapon.
- Next time.
- Don't shoot your foot off.
- Okay. Three different directions.
Which one do you choose?
- That way.
- Go in the middle. - Yeah.
- Okay.
- It's kind of like the Christmas story.
The kid wanted a BB gun.
His mom kept saying to him, you'll shoot your eye out.
That's a classic Christmas story.
So make sure you stop before the crosswalk here.
'Cause you can't go right.
So make sure you don't block the crosswalk.
Now you can go.
He wasn't really stopping for you.
- That's okay. (laughs)
- He is now.
- Well, he was slowing down.
(both laughing)
C'mon, dude.
- He's out, dude. We stayed at that.
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