Welcome to Driving School WA tutorials we have a lot of questions whether the tests should be
postponed if there's a bad weather if there's a storm and you know thunders and heavy rain
so in our opinion they should definitely go ahead in our experience and in our opinion
people who do their driver training in the winter time benefit greatly out of actually
being taught in the wild weather so they will know exactly how to do things you know how to respond
to any situations when it's raining so we had a question just earlier today by somebody who has a
test on thursday they say it's going to be stormy weather so that shouldn't affect you know
the driving assessment at all so there are only a couple of things that you've got to understand
you've got to make sure that you use your window wipers okay and the demister we're going to have a
separate video explaining how to correctly use window wipers and demisters so keep an eye on this
channel and we'll explain everything thoroughly which sort of setting and what you need to do
when you sit in the car during the assessment and how you should respond to any potential you know
crisis we also have questions regarding the headlights during the heavy weather should we
or should we not have the headlights on during the driving assessment and in general while while it's
raining we definitely should uh you know if you're if your visibility is impaired then obviously if
the visibility out there isn't as good as you know during a sunny day um your vehicle will be a lot
easier to intercept when you have your headlights on it is a huge advantage knowing exactly what to
do when there's a rain and obviously if the conditions require you to drive differently
now a lot of times we also have people asking whether they should go ahead with the driving
lesson that they booked because it's it's bad weather what better opportunity than being
taught by a professional instructor in the bad weather how to turn on demisters how to use the
wipers what are the proper settings and whether we should do it while we're steering and you know
when we're changing gears and all of that so it is a great advantage if people have driving lessons
during the bad rather than just having them during the summer time so the driving assessments will
definitely go ahead in any weather because that way they will they will have even
better opportunity to assess uh if you lack any any skills also we have questions related to speed
whether we should drive slower or whether we should pull over on the side of the road until it
you know gets a little bit easier look we always say drive to the conditions so if if it you know
pours down if it's bucketing down like it is today you would surely you know slow down particularly
if there's a you know a huge paddle of water a lot of times in the left-hand side lane because the
drains are usually near the kerb on the left-hand side and you should certainly slow down going
through the water because uh the resistance of your left hand side you know wheels in the right
hand side wheels where it's dry will be completely different other potential implication is if
you go too fast through the paddle of water um in some cars you know you might get your uh fuses and
you know the ignition system you know flooded and then and that way you might even experience the
engine stalls so look how much slower how much faster what we do what sort of speed of the wipers
it will vary depending on the particular situation like i said earlier we're going to shoot the video
specifically on how to properly use demisters when and why and also on the wipers but just briefly
using the wipers you've got usually three or four settings a lot of luxury cars will have automated
systems where the wipers will come on you know even even if you don't manually switch them on
but manually we've got an intermittent speed and also we have a low and high whether we
should ever stop on the side of the road when it's really heavy rain look occasionally you
might sort of consider you know pulling over for a minute or so definitely not in the situation
where there's a heavy traffic if you're on the freeway so generally the traffic will be a lot
slower in those conditions so just adjust to the conditions most importantly don't panic because
if you follow the car in front of you in heavy sort of traffic and heavy rain you will surely
be able to follow what the person in front of you is doing and make sure you don't get too close
either because the stopping distance will be far greater don't hit the brakes suddenly and heavily
and also when you're starting for example you're sitting at the lights try to be a little bit more
sensitive and accelerator doesn't matter whether you're driving automatic or a manual car just try
to be a little bit more sensitive on acceleration because uh it is very slippery particularly when
it rains the first time after the long dry period specifically at intersections where people are
stopping frequently in one of the next videos i'll explain thoroughly why the intersections would be
a little bit more slippery particularly after the long dry period when it rains for the first time
and why is it less slippery after it's been raining say for example for for days and weeks you
know so just keep an eye on this channel and i'll be explaining a lot more things regarding the um
you know bad weather driving and uh and also how you should satisfy the criteria to pass a driving
test in any conditions we hope that this will make you a little bit less nervous about driving in you
know heavy rain and particularly doing a driving assessment in rain and you'd be better prepared to
drive in any conditions and you would certainly be more competent executing any given task
on a day over driving assessment and particularly after your driving assessment when you get your
license because we always say your real driving test starts when you get your driver's license
we thank you for watching and we will see you in the next video