You would not believe why this young lady failed her driving assessment! What happened,
the assessor asked the candidate to pull over on the side of the road,
okay so she did not want to park across the t-junction in that sort of region okay.
So she didn't want to park there with reason okay. So, it was a long street and there was no
cars anywhere okay. So it's a very long stretch and she had plenty of opportunities. So
he asked her to stop on the side of the road, she missed that spot across the t-junction.
So parking across the t-junction is apparently legal so that's, you know, what the law suggests
but look, gambling is legal as well! But should you do it, if you have any other options
to make make your living? Any reasonable examiner will mark down a candidate who parks on the side
of the road opposite the t-junction for making a poor choice which is how it should be okay. So,
now it will depend on a type of layout of you know streets or the suburb for example,
in West Perth sometimes you have to get fairly close to the t-junction. But this was at
Success licensing centre where the streets are on average about two or three kilometres long without
traffic at all. So why would you stop there? So basically this lady didn't want to park there she
parked a bit further up and she got marked down uh for not stopping sooner. That particular assessor
is not a very experienced assessor so he may have been around only for a couple of years. I'll tell
you why we shouldn't stop near the intersections okay. So if you park right there, alright
and if there's a if there's a vehicle turning
that way. This driver will naturally check that direction, right. So they're not gonna look
you know to see what's coming from there. So, if the driver commits to turning
by checking the right-hand side and then after they, you know, committed to turning they would
subsequently check the other direction. But what if somebody started to overtake that particular
car that's parked on the side of the road? These two would collide as a result, alright.
I've seen it a few times and on one occasion I was a driver that was turning,
and I was naturally checking the right-hand side and you know as I started to turn,
I realized that there's a truck that's just about to collide with me. So he was doing probably,
picking up the speed, you know, he was probably doing about 50 kilometres an hour. So that's fast
okay! So if you collide head-on at 50 kilometres it's a very serious accident, very serious
accident. If you fail for a similar situation you should definitely complain! If you in everyday
life, if you're encouraged to park across the t-junction and the two independent drivers collide
and somebody dies. How would you, how would you sleep at night? So please use your common sense,
so if you are in very congested, you know, traffic environment where there are hundreds of cars,
naturally everyone will travel slower such as West Perth, Subiaco, West Leederville. But if
you're in Cannington or you know, Mirrabooka or you know, Joondalup um some places around Midland,
keep it at least a couple of driveways if possible you know from any type of intersection, doesn't
matter whether it's on the left or the right. So if something's not illegal, it doesn't mean
that we should do it! We should still use common sense, I think it's a perfect analogy when I used
gambling. Gambling is not illegal, it's legal you can you can gamble as much as you want to. They
do tell you gamble responsibly, really, I mean you know, think about it. But look this is so
unfair, somebody might be turning left and not necessarily checking the left side which is not
naturally what we do. The next moment, once they're committed to turning, particularly
where there's a giveaway situation, so they wouldn't stop even for a moment.
It could be very serious, and if that happens I will be the first person to speak to the media
about it. This young lady definitely should not have been marked down for not stopping there!
She's only gone about 50 metres further, she could have potentially stopped a little bit sooner,
but come on, you know. How does that endanger anyone, how on earth does that endanger anyone?
So please let me know if you feel that this examiner should be fired. I personally
believe that somebody should warn him, and the authorities who make the rules should look at it
a little bit differently, you know, from different perspectives. Because generally, people who sit
in the offices make rules, they don't drive very often. Please feel free to share your thoughts on
this topic down in the comments below, thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video.