i'm going to explain to you in this video how you can judge whether or not it's safe
to overtake parked cars while oncoming cars are approaching because i know and understand that it
can be difficult for a learner driver to make this spatial judgment this rule is simple and effective
and it's going to make your life so much easier just very briefly before we get into it i want to
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you very much okay so let's get on with the video now so the key question you have to ask yourself
is there enough room for 3 car widths here in the available space for overtaking
because if there is that would mean that it's safe and easy to overtake with oncoming cars
now in this situation i could barely fit a car plus a half maybe in the available space
so the answer here is it's not safe to proceed if there's oncoming cars if there is any
oncoming vehicles of any type i have to stop and yield to the oncoming vehicles here now in
this situation we're going to look at the other extreme if we take the space available to myself
and the oncoming cars on this stretch of road then you can see that we have at least three car widths
to play with look at the space between the white line here on the left and the kerb on the right
there's plenty of room there to fit the width of 3 cars that means it's safe to proceed
and there's plenty of space for two-way traffic to drive safely now what about here as i'm driving up
the hill if we analyze the space here between both vans you'll see that there's just over two
car or van widths here so that's not enough space for myself and an oncoming car to progress safely
that means one of us has to yield because there's park cars or parked vehicles on both sides so one
of us has to yield and i'd probably yield here since i'm on the uphill having a space
of two car widths here between the vans is not enough to make it comfortable for both myself
and any oncoming car to proceed safely that's why one of us will have to yield in this situation
it's a little trickier to make a decisive decision but we must always ask ourselves the question
can we fit three car widths between the green car here on the left and the kerb on the right now
there's already one card here so that means that's the black car so that means that we just
have to ask ourselves are we able to fit two more in the space between the black car and the green
car on the left and the answer would appear to be yes i'm not saying it's comfortable or perfect but
it is safe and practical for me to keep going here in order to maintain progress and if you stay out
in a slightly right of center position in your lane and avoid weaving in and out then you're
going to be in a better position to apply this rule more effectively and more practically as
the video goes on we'll see a similar situation with the black car driving towards me here with
his lights on i could potentially squeeze two more cars in this available space which makes
it safe for me to proceed with enough room for my car plus a door length of safe space either side
that means we can fit three cars in here if we include the black car with his lights on
as one car plus the space that's available for two other cars to fit there and as i said that means
it's safe and practical then for me to proceed on this road now the speed limit on this road
is 50 kilometers but i would not be driving 50 kilometers on this road i'd probably be driving
around a 30 kilometer zone here and this is to make up for the fact that it's not very wide
and it's not exactly comfortable space even though i can go certain roads like this road here for
example you wouldn't exactly be striving to reach the speed limit here you'd be driving maybe 15 or
20 kilometers below the speed limit just to make it safer and just to make it more comfortable for
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i'm going to explain to you in this video how you can judge
whether or not it's safe to overtake parked cars while cars
i'm going to while oncoming cars are also approaching because i know oh my god
coming cars are approaching
because i know
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