- Hi there smart drivers
Rick with Smart Drive Test,
- [Man] The outer limits.
- Yes, today we're going to push the primary controls
to the outer limits,
to learn faster and be a safer smarter driver.
Stick around we'll be right back with that information.
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Welcome back, today we're going to push
the car a little bit
we're going to work with the throttle of the steering wheel
and the brake, and we're going to be aggressive
in the parking lot.
Unfortunately, most new drivers when they learn to drive,
they just drive around all namby-pamby like,
and they don't ever get a feel for what the car does
when you're aggressive on the primary controls,
parking brake off,
always put the parking brake on every time you park
the vehicle, pylon set up here, one at the front,
one at the back,
and we're just basically going to drive forward
and we're going to drive back
and it's raining here a little bit
so my windshield wipers on, around,
and what I want you to do is get up and then focus
and then aggressively accelerate
and brake and try not to hit the pylon
and in reverse,
we're going to back up, looking out the back window,
same thing we're going to reverse,
and we just cleaned up the pylon.
(laughs)
Do that exercise three or four times forwards and backs
until you're comfortable with throttling up hard
and breaking hard, next exercise,
we're going to simulate parking into a parking space
and we're going to drive into the parking space.
And aggressive on the steering wheel
a little bit of space out, approximately one vehicle length,
and then turning hard into the parking space.
and stopping like your parents would.
(laughs)
Okay, backing out, same thing, try not to hit the pylon
and we didn't hit the pylon.
Okay, now we're going to do it in reverse,
and again, be aggressive, okay,
oh, can't see anything so we're going to park on this side,
like that.
That second exercise into the parking lot
forward and reverse and as you get better and better,
you can bring the pylons closer together
and get more aggressive with that exercise.
The next exercise we're going to do is Forward and Reverse
Figure '8', front pylon at the back
where the pylon in the center.
We're just going to go around and get lined up here,
so Forward Figure '8',
we drive in between the middle pylon,
and around,
and again, being aggressive on the steering wheel,
we got to move the steering wheel quickly
and the reason I want you to go faster is I want you to know
that you're going to lose some of your steering
as you get going faster, because the slower you go,
the sharper, the vehicle turns.
So now we're going to make it a bit more challenging
and we're going to back up in reverse.
In the reverse, vehicle comes to a complete stop
and then proceed.
Looking out this side cause this is where the pylon is
looking out that side because that's where the pylon is,
and for the purposes of your driver's test,
you can use the backup camera,
but you can't use it as your primary line of sight.
And I'll put a card up in the corner for you
on, backup cameras and using backup cameras
for the purposes of your driver's test.
And again, I just got near the pylon, but I didn't
and you can't do one hand you saw me pausing there,
you can't do that when you're reversing,
because you're only using one hand
because the other hand's on the back of the passenger seat.
Okay, and as you can see,
your head is moving all the time and you can see I wanted
the vehicle to turn sharper so I slowed down.
So, you can do that two or three times with your Figure '8'
Forward and Backwards, quick points to be remembered,
most drivers are going to be just namby-pamby,
they're driving lessons they're learning to drive
they're just going to go around and they're going to drive
the speed limit, they're never
going to be in an emergency situation
they get into slow speed maneuvers, into parking lots,
and those types of things, they're completely uncomfortable.
Do this lesson, ram up to the pylon, run over the pylon,
do those kinds of things,
and it's going to make you a better driver overall,
you're going to have better awareness of where your vehicle
is in space and place,
and you're going to have better control of the vehicle
via the primary controls of the vehicle, the steering wheel,
the throttle, and the brake.
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