we're here at mirabooka driving test center i'm going to demonstrate one of the most common
driving test routes around here so the best way is to reverse park in one of the bays and as you're
leaving it's going to be a lot easier for you to get out and you're not going to be stressing too
much about how you're going to reverse now make sure you get here early to be able to catch one
of these bays here because sometimes it can be packed so we're going for a drive and i'll be
showing you one of the most common routes here in mirrabooka make sure you indicate everywhere
so we've got a couple of speed bumps here just make sure you don't go too fast over them
just make sure you do your observing correctly because there might be cars coming pretty fast
the distance behind the stopped vehicle must be adequate you've got to be able to
see the bottoms of the tires clearly of the car that's in front of you
so if you continue down this way there's a school zone which goes
pretty much for about a couple of kilometers if it's between 7 30 a.m and 9 a.m during the
school days obviously if it's school holidays it's not going to apply or in the afternoon 2 30 p.m
to 4 00 p.m so make sure if there's any road works as well and if it states that you know the speed
limit is less than 60 you've got to adhere to that speed limit so we're coming to traffic lights
which is a flinders street intersection be careful about the merging traffic after the traffic lights
we will have to merge so we indicate and mirror as the street gets more and more narrow if there's no
line dividing the two lanes that are expiring you would then need to check your blind spot
this is the area where you might be doing your uh exercise left something behind okay any of
these treats around you might be doing the exercise left something behind okay
so if the assessor asks you to stop on the side of the road or park on the side of the road you've
got to make sure that you park in the spot where it's not too close to the intersection so we've
got a street a bit further up probably about 25 maybe 30 meters from here so i'm going to switch
off my indicator if i'm parked on the hill i'm going to have to turn the steering towards the
kerb now this action is performed before the car fully stops because that way you're not going to
be doing the static turning the assessor is going to ask you to remember this spot here
where you parked and then to drive off and at some point to come back to the same location
so once you've been given the instruction to leave then you will check your rear view
mirror so just to establish if there's anyone in the process of overtaking you if there is a
vehicle about to pass you don't indicate so if it seems that there's nobody we indicate right
checking the blind spot and off we go now you don't know when the assessor is going to ask you
to come back make sure you're driving within the speed limit so this is a 50 zone here so if they
say for example if they ask here okay i'd like you to go back to the house you left some behind
so i'm going to have to find a suitable spot so i'm going to indicate right and i'm going to use
one of these driveways so this driveway is still far enough from that intersection up there and
i'm going to drive maximum up to the letterbox line but as long as your vehicle is inside of
the driveway you don't need to go any deeper because you can't cross the property line
which is a letterbox line reversing so you don't need to indicate in this situation i've got a
car coming from behind so i've got to wait for it now it's just gone okay and i'm going to continue
okay so the next step from here is the same as before we're checking
your design and passing as if there's nobody we indicate right looking over our shoulder
and then off we go again we've got a car parked this time so i've got to do this again so as much
as it seems unnecessary we've got to do this in the test there was no driver in the car clearly
but we still need to check if the car started to move i'm referring to indicating left and checking
the blind spot on the left after right past the vehicle so that's the house that we've stopped by
so i'm going to use a next door driveway i can use this one here just making sure that i've indicated
in time up to the letterbox line maximum no need to indicate i've got a car coming from
behind so i'm gonna have to wait okay now it's gone turning making sure i don't go too wide
stopping when i'm parallel from here same procedure so mirror if there's no one passing
i can indicate looking over my shoulder off i go and i need to indicate left again and stop in the
same spot where i first started so now i'm going to show you one of the commonly used car parks
so this is a 70s zone so wanneroo road is 70 zone so the next intersection with turning left
which is amelia street in balcatta people report they struggle exiting that car park because it's
really steep and there's a pedestrian crossing and the bus stop which can potentially block your view
you may need to use your handbrake regardless whether you drive an automatic or a manual car
some automated cars don't have very powerful engine so for that reason you may need to use
the handbrake in order not to roll backwards so now we're going to be turning right
into the shopps here you can cut into the painted median strip in order to get inside
okay so this is very steep like i've mentioned before so i'm actually going to go straight
ahead down here so we're going to reverse park in one of these bays they're not going to let you
use the rear camera if you you know if you've got one in your car so you're best off
checking everything and frequently just making sure that nothing slips your eye okay
and then we straighten up once we've got in there so the spot where the exit from this car park is
can be a bit of a challenge for everyone coming here to do the driving test
so again just be mindful of the pedestrian crossing and don't cross any white solid
lines okay so this time i'm going to turn left let's see it's very steep okay so extremely steep
you might need to use your hand brake okay here i'm in the right lane because i didn't want to
interfere with the car that was coming from behind it was lining up to the left so for that reason
as i'm going straight ahead here i'm going to have to merge left so whoever's got their nose
in front they have prioritie so that person's going a bit faster than me i'm indicating left
checking my mirror as the line runs out i check my blind spot on the left do not deviate just
continue straight because the street will get more and more narrow a lot of times we have people who
feel that they've done well up until a certain point in the test and get ahead of themselves a
little bit and start to celebrate a little bit too early and as a result they potentially do like 70
kilometers in the 60 zone so you know just make sure until you're back in the licensing center
parked turn the engine off that's when you can do your analysis do not do any analysis before
you finish your driving assessment so if there's two lanes we always line up in the left lane
if you're coming from one single lane now we're turning left it's gonna wait for that car because
it's turning into the driveway so clearly here i've got to give way to people from the right
hand side but also from opposite direction i can clearly go but i can go straight across to the
far right lane because there's only one single turning lane we're back in the licensing center
always double check what's happening
and they're going to usually ask you to park forward just make sure you do that
correctly as well when you're parking next to a car it's good to sort of
pay attention if there's anyone inside of that vehicle to see if there's any sort of
any motion in there and once you become more experienced all of these things
will be your second nature so thank you for watching and we'll see you in the next video