- Can't turn right.
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- That's the other piece that's getting me.
- [Sam] Yes, yes.
- So you got to be-
- That would be an automatic fail.
- Yeah, I'm trying to go right on a red,
and you cannot go right on a red-
- [Sam] Yup.
- [Rick] In the Bronx.
- [Sam] Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup.
- That is badass.
- Yeah, yeah.
This is why I'm failing my driver's test.
- Yes, yes, yes. (laughs)
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Yeah, handling the car, you know it's...
Some students they can handle the car fine.
It's just passing that road test, you know.
- Yeah.
- Finding the road rules, regulations, all that stuff.
- Yep.
(indicator blinking)
- Alright, let's go ahead and do a three-point-turn.
I don't see, any, you know.
Nobody around, so...
I seen examiners do the three-point-turn
right here with the students, and they're not supposed to.
(indicator blinking)
There you go.
(indicator blinking)
And I don't know if some of these examiners
watch these videos but...
(chuckles)
Alright, awesome.
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And that is your three-point-turn right there, guys.
- [Rick] There you go.
- [Sam] Yep.
- [Rick] Excellent.
- [Sam] Great.
See what the sign says?
Stop here on red.
I had students pass this go all the way to the, you know,
farther out.
- Yup.
That's crazy and there's no, there's no road marking
that coincides with that sign.
- Exactly, exactly.
I tell students, look at the big picture.
Get the big picture.
It says stop here on red.
- [Rick] That's crazy.
- [Sam] You know, a lot of times
there's no cars in front of us
and they move forward and I say look at the sign.
Get the big picture. Look at the big picture.
- [Rick] Yeah. That's see, and that's one of the nuances-
- Mhm.
- Of a particular driving test center, because,
unless you were with a driving examiner or you knew that.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause I would've pulled up-
- Mhm.
- Because for me the stop line is here.
- Yup, exactly.
- [Rick] Right?
- [Sam] Exactly.
Yup.
- And that's why I always say,
if you're not taking driving lessons,
at least take one with a driving instructor-
- Exactly.
- Because he'd be able to take you around the test center.
- [Sam] Yup
- [Rick] And show you those little things like that.
And this is another thing,
that we say again and again and again, to students.
You speed in a school zone-
- [Sam] Mhm.
- [Rick] Automatic fail.
- [Sam] Yeah. Yeah.
So you got an, again, these are like the-
- Got to be very careful, yeah.
- [Rick] Yeah. You got to know where they are.
- [Sam] Mhm.
Now too bad there is, there isn't any school buses.
When they pull up that stop arm, red's blinking.
And I tell students, if you get um, the amber lights,
the yellow lights blinking on a school bus, what do you do?
You prepare to stop.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- you going to have to slow, start slowing down.
'Cause at any moment they might, activate the reds.
- Yup.
- Ah man I could just see the title-
- See now I understand, because see,
at the last one where I failed-
- [Sam] Mhm.
- [Rick] it wasn't because I was going to run the red.
It was because I was going to turn right on the red.
- Yes. Yes.
- And you cannot right on the red.
- [Sam] Not in the city. Nine to five boroughs.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Sam] Mhm.
Alright.
Okay. You know what? Stay right here-
- [Rick] Yeah I'm going to stay here.
Because there's double parking here so-
- [Sam] Yeah and there's a truck-
- [Rick] And this is the other thing that, you know,
a lot of students ask me ,
who are taking the road test in big cities.
- Mhm.
- [Rick] What do I do?
Well, you got to drive in the left lane, because-
- [Sam] A lot of times there's double park-
- [Rick] there's a truck.
- [Sam] Yeah, exactly.
- [Rick] There's double park.
There's a truck unloading here.
- [Sam] Exactly. Yeah.
- Yeah, this is, no, this is awesome.
This is absolutely awesome.
- [Sam] Yep.
Straight down.
- [Rick] And here, when you get cars
in the intersection like that, you got to be
really careful with people coming left through.
- [Sam] Mhm.
Yup.
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- Awesome.
- And the other thing that's different here
is your bicycle lanes.
- Mhm.
- When you get to the intersection, have dotted lines,
so you can actually cross into the bicycle lane.
- Mhm, yes. Just like the transit buses.
At the end you got dotted lines,
you can cross over to make that right turn.
- Yeah.
That's something that's different from where I live,
because where I lived they're solid
and you have to stay out of them.
- Oh, I see.
- And again, if you know, like I said,
people, students have asked me that.
- Yeah.
- And I say, it's,
The road markings will tell you
whether you can move into the bicycle lane or not.
- [Sam] Yeah yeah.
- Another narrow street.
- [Sam] Yes.
- [Rick] Cars parked on both sides.
And this is another question that I get all the time is-
- About speed bumps?
- Uh, speed bumps.
- [Sam] Yes.
I get a question about speed bumps,
but I get a question about the speed limit on these streets.
And it's like, no, you don't have to do 25 miles an hour
when the space decreases because of parked vehicles, right?
- Yeah. I mean, you just have to be very careful.
Just don't go too fast.
Oh, let's make a left. I'm sorry.
- Nope. That's okay.
- Yeah.
- It's just I can't go straight.
so I'm waiting for you to give a direction
- [Sam] Yeah.
(giggles)
Yeah, and I want to tell you something about speed bumps.
I tell my students...
Yeah, we're going to go straight at the uh,
where that bus is making a right turn,
we're going to make a right turn.
Uh, speed bumps.
Even though it's a yellow speed sign, the number says 20.
Don't do 20. do about 10.
'Cause I noticed when you was going over the speed bumps
you was doing about 10 miles per hour, which is good.
You want to give the examiner
a comfortable ride over that speed bump.
- [Rick] And the, the other thing
that I tell students about speed bumps...
- Mhm.
- Break before the speed bump
and let the car just roll over.
- Yes. Yes.
- That way the suspension is going
to be able to do its work, instead of it
all being like this.
- Exactly. Exactly.
- Because you've got the brakes on.
- Yep.
See how he's going slow?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- It says 15. You could do about 10 miles per hour over.
If you do 25, the speed limit,
you going to hit that speed bump-
(Rick laughing)
- You going to hit that speed bump hard, and land hard.
- That's, yeah, yeah.
- The examiner will not be happy with you.
- No .
- You going to make them jump from their seat.
- [Rick] So this is awesome because I get people from,
students from Dubai and I guess they have
a lot of speed bumps in Dubai
and this will work out for them.
- [Sam] Yes.
- So you slow down to about-
- Slow down on the speed bumps.
- 10 miles an hour, about 12 to 15 kilometers an hour,
let your foot off the brake and then-
- Yes, yes.
- let the car just roll over.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- [Rick] You know that's awesome.
- [Sam] Mhm.
Yeah, 'cause some of these speed bumps,
they do say 20 some of them say 15, some of them say 20.
Do about 10. It's nicer for your vehicle.
It's nice for your body, for your back.
- Yup. Yup.
- Alright.
(indicator blinking)
- [Sam] Move up a little bit. See the line.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Sam] You want to be in the center.
'Cause they'll give you points for that.
And what I mean by that I'll explain.
we'll go straight down.
Well I, I'll explain at the end of the uh,
mock road test here.
- The reason I didn't move up back there-
- Mhm.
- Is because I was turning on her one way
and I needed to turn to the left lane.
Is that correct?
- Some students do make a little mistake.
Sometimes the examiner will not catch it.
- Yes.
And that's the other piece that we say about
driving tests is that, if you make a mistake-
- yeah.
- Just keep going until the examiner tells you to stop.
- Exactly. Exactly.
- [Rick] Because like you just said,
- Yeah. Mhm.
- The examiner may not have seen it.
- 'Cause some things you are doing right now
sometimes I don't even notice if you're looking
at your blind areas.
I know you call it blind areas.
You don't like blind spots
(laughs)
You know, so sometimes, you know,
examiner probably didn't notice that you didn't even
look at your blind area or your blind spot.
- Yeah.
Yeah. It doesn't, it, you know,
it doesn't matter one way or the other,
as long as we're all communicating the same,
we meaning the same thing, right?
- Mhm. Yeah, exactly.
See like this sign right here.
It says "after stop, right turn permitted on red."
It says after stop.
- Yeah.
- So if you have a red light,
you have to stop first before making that right turn.
- Hang on there one sec.
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