In this video, we're going to thoroughly explain the exercise left something
behind that you are required to do in the driving assessment those people who have
not heard of it or who have no idea what it what it is and what to do
they are very unlikely to pass their driving assessment
the exercise left something behind consists of a few maneuvers which are mainly low-speed
maneuvers ok so number one the Assessor will ask you to park on the side of the
road make sure that you know what to do now we're going to explain exactly what
to do in that particular exercise and most importantly I'm going to explain to
you why okay so you can implement all of these things in everyday life okay so
when the Assessor asks you to stop on a side of the road if that's the road okay so
if you for example have a street on the right hand side just an instance and
if you stop too close to that intersection okay so what are the
implications here the implications here are if there's a vehicle turning that
way okay and that's a give way situation for an instance okay so this driver I'm
sure most of you will guess this driver will naturally look that way because
that's that direction they're going to look for the cars from that direction
right okay so you might be thinking so what's the big deal they're looking that
way well the big deal is if that driver commits to turn realizing that there's
no one from their right-hand side or they can beat
somebody you know who was at a distance from them so they have plenty of margin
to go but what about if at the same time another vehicle has committed to overtake
this parked car here which is your parked car so if this car is traveling at 40 or 50
kilometers an hour it's almost impossible for them to avoid each other
in sort of this point here so they may collide as a result of where you parked
your vehicle so the old rule suggests 20 meters away from any type of
intersection or a bus stop however they changed that requirement in the recent
years because of some areas such as Joondalup area if you're doing your
driving assessment in Joondalup or West Perth there's not much of a luxury of
like long streets that we can park you know avoiding you know being too close
to any type of intersection or you know or a bus stop for that matter which I'm
going to you know talk about in a minute okay so they've changed to ten meters
okay so in my opinion 10 meters isn't adequate amount of space for the two
independent vehicles to pass each other without interfering with each other's
paths so let's use common sense here so let's park or stop on the side of
the road in everyday life same in the exercise "Left something behind" at a
reasonable distance given the circumstances are allowing to park
at a reasonable distance from any type of intersection okay so that Street
could be here so you shouldn't park there even if you park right there if someone's overtaking
you from there and someone's obviously trying to turn from there same
thing you're going to potentially cause you know two independent drivers to
collide as a result of where you parked okay so let me get rid of this scenario here
so it's not only intersections ok blind Bend is considered as an intersection
for example the road goes that way ok so if we park right there okay and someone's
coming from there and someone clearly must overtake that parked vehicle you know
to get around them at the same time this one can get closer and they can colide
right in the middle there so even though the blind Bend is not considered as an
intersection you need to make sure that you treat it as one when you're parking
or stopping your vehicle okay now the one of the other aspects in the
exercise Left something behind and also in everyday life would be a bus stop so if
you've got a bus stop here okay clearly everyone knows we shouldn't park within the
reasonable distance too close to the bus stop but what about if it's on this side
here okay so there's no bus stop on the left but there's one on the right
okay and you happened to have parked car right there okay so what are the
potential implications here okay so if this is a "timed bus stop" which is
one of those ones with the timetable if you park if this is an everyday
situation and if you park there and someone wants to overtake yeah okay if
there's no bus that's fine they can do that but what about if this
bus driver has a timetable to to adhere to and if he didn't have any traffic on
his way and the bus driver arrived here 15 minutes earlier 7 minutes earlier 3
minutes earlier they're going to sit there and wait and there may not be
enough space to overtake or pass between the two vehicles so if you've parked on
the left and there's a bus on the right you may be towed away if you live in one
of the upmarket suburbs such as Dalkeith, Peppermint Grove maybe you know in
the certain parts of South Perth your car might be towed away in no time so
but the point is in the driving assessment they can terminate your test
for parking near the bus stop ok so what you gotta understand just make it you
know make it a reasonable distance from any bus stop or or any type of
intersection or blind Bend for that matter ok so that's what you're going to
avoid now using driveways so you're gonna be using driveways potentially
in this exercise left something behind so what's gonna take place
ok so providing that you've stopped you know in a reasonable sort of spot the
Assessor will ask you to drive off and at some point to come back to that place
you know choosing your own way how to turn around at your first opportunity
and come back so generally we will use our indicators and mirrors and blind spots
the way our instructors are going to ask you to we're not going to go on that
one that particular issue in this exercise we're just going to cover
what's to be done here so you know we'll have another video
where it explains exactly when and why and you know when we should indicate in
a when should we look at the blind spot and check the mirror and for what which
reasons as well okay so you're gonna drive off okay then you're gonna be
you're gonna be driving and driving you need to pick up your speed at
what ever the speed limit in the area is generally it's fifty kilometers an
hour but do keep an eye on the speed limit it is now at some point the Assessor
will say okay I'd like you to turn around at your first opportunity and
come back to the place where we first parked okay so it is important to
indicate this the only way of communicating with others now you can
use a driveway and it's the easiest way to use the right hand side driveway now
this driveway providing that there's no street nearby would be fine to go into
the driveway providing that you had your indicator for a certain amount of time which
like I said we're going to have a video on that on those specifics and you can
go into the driveway and Reverse out and you can go back the best idea is to
pass that spot where you parked go into the driveway after that reverse out and then
come back into the same spot where you parked in initially so there may be
other options on the way so you might have different options how to do
this particular thing okay so now if there's no driveways and if there's a
street or a roundabout okay so if that's the street and the Assessor asks you around there okay
I'd like you to go back to the house you've left something behind what you
can do you can do this so you can almost overshoot this street turn in providing no one's
coming from opposite direction if there is wait for them make a u-turn
go get the little bit deeper then then for the real turn so you go and make a
u-turn now when you get into this point you
no longer have priority on this street so you would have to give why the cars
coming for me and then you'll proceed again if there's
a driveway behind you can use that driveway
reverse out and come back to where you stopped initially wherever that was okay
so there could be other scenarios as well so if you didn't choose to do this
particular street if Assessor asked you in this sort of region in this spot here
and that happens to be a roundabout you can even use a roundabout to make a
u-turn and turn around so you basically use your indicators and get around and
come back and where you initially started so you know it's as simple as
that so you know the idea is that you will have to execute these things in the
timely manner you will have to do your indicators correctly and and your flow
needs to be you know adequate and also your movement and vehicle management and
and obviously everything that goes goes with it you've got a seven criteria
points which are looking signaling flow movement path responsiveness and vehicle
management so you will have to satisfy all of that in order to pass so you know
they condensed quite a bit in this particular exercise and that's why they
can see a lot about your driving habits in literally three minutes or so okay so
now another important aspect of this particular exercise is that you
shouldn't use the driveway that is too close to any type of
intersection for example if there's an intersection and there's a driveway here
okay it happens to be a driveway there and there's
an intersection right there and if you happened to use that driveway there's a car turning that corner
clearly checking that direction and if you've already got into the driveway the
driver that's turning commits to turn left and accelerates and you would be
reversing at the same time in their direction so again there's not a huge
amount of margin there so we recommend roughly around 20 meters which is couple
of driveways so don't use the first one use a second depending on the
distance you know mostly you know places have a little bit longer street
frontages so you should be fine if it's a second driveway now often we get
asked okay can we use the left-hand side driveways yes we can and if there's a
driveway on the left-hand side it is slightly more complicated though okay so
if you go forward into that driveway you're going the driveway
you're gonna have to end up on the far side of the road so you have two
directions to Give Way to okay so you would have to go straight out of there and
then you would start to turn almost near the center in order to end up facing
that way parallel with that side it is slightly more difficult than using
right hand side driveway but we do teach how to use it you know efficiently
and properly now other way of using the left-hand side driveway would be
basically just a reversing into it you know in my opinion it's much easier okay
so you would basically overshoot the driveway and then you would reverse into
it and you go back forward out so that's a much simpler option you know
a lot of people choose to reverse into the driveway on the left and turn right back out of
it you know if you have enough practice in the area we're going to do a driving
assessment there shouldn't be too many issues on you know whether or not
you're going to be able to complete this exercise to the standard so we we've had
a quite a bit of success with people understanding you know these things when
we when we show them you know why we shouldn't do things rather than just
remembering it because it's the rule okay so generally when we think of any
particulars in the driving assessment as a rule we might not connect well with it
okay so you try and understand why and why is far more important then then you
know simply you know what is the rule so you know just try to understand why okay so
we would always park at a reasonable distance from any type of intersection
or a bus stop so the two or more independent drivers don't interfere with
each other's path as a result of where you parked your vehicle it's very simple
if you ask yourself should I park a lot further than
you know then 20 meters or is it safer not really look you know the simple
way of explaining it is if you if you parked in a spot at about maybe I don't
know 20 or 30 meters if this vehicle commits and turns that way and if you're
at the reasonable distance the vehicle that was overtaking your path car will
have enough time to get back to the left-hand side but also this driver here
will have enough time to intercept any movement that's coming from the left and
they're going to have a lot more time to slow down and to allow this driver to go
back in so two three driveways would be more than efficient enough but you know
if the street is a lot shorter and sometimes you don't have a luxury of a
street that goes for three kilometres sometimes streets are a lot shorter if
you've made an error what do you do if you realize that you stopped where you
shouldn't be stopped okay so this is a question that we you know get asked fairly
often okay so if you park straight across to the bus stop bay okay so and
you've realised you've made that mistake you would say to the Assessor look I'm
sorry I didn't realise there's a bus stop I'm just gonna move a little bit
further and just do it so if you correct that error without too much of a delay
they probably wouldn't even mark you for you know you wouldn't even
lose points a lot of times people make an error that's not even a major error
and as a result of thinking about it for too long they would they would lose
bigger points okay so you know it's important to keep your composure
there's a lot of times if a person's nervous they wouldn't even realise they
stopped across the bus stop if they give you a verbal assistance that could be a fail
on the spot as well so make sure that you don't receive any verbal or physical
assistance because that would be you obviously considered as an intervention
and that's where they terminate the driving assessment feel free to you know
ask us any questions down in the comments below and you can even give us
a buzz during our business hours if you've got any questions about it the
best ways to do some professional lessons ask your instructor what's the
best thing you know in in a particular area where you're going to be doing a
driving assessment it's not that we can sort of pinpoint where they're going to
be taking you to we have a fair idea where you might be driving even if it's
not the exact place exact street you know you can reference things that
you've experienced before and as a result you will know exactly how to
react to certain situations this isn't really difficult but you know you've got
to have a basic understanding of why do they want you to do this well they want
you to do this because they've condensed a lot of things where they can judge you
for seven criteria points that are part of the driving assessment again they're
looking signaling flow movement path responsiveness and vehicle management
thank you for watching and we'll see you in the next video