- So we're going to do a
mock road test with Sam.
- Yes.
- Who's a driving instructor in the Bronx.
- [Sam] Mhm.
- [Rick] Very exciting.
See whether I passed or not, right?
- [Sam] Yeah, let's see, let's see how you do.
- Drive in the big city.
(Sam laughs)
Alright.
So we're going, go straight unless told to turn, right?
- [Sam] Yes.
Mhm.
Go straight unless you're told to turn.
(upbeat music)
Alright, let's go ahead and make a left here.
(car turn signal clicking)
Alrighty.
(car turn signal clicking)
We're going to go straight down
or straight up, however you see it.
(Rick laughs)
- [Rick] This is so exciting.
- Yeah.
What's up guys?
Big Mac Sam here.
- [Rick] Yeah, check out Big Mac Sam's channel.
- Yep, look at my, check out my channel guys.
Big Mac Sam.
- The other thing about driving in the city,
there's a lot more
pedestrians and speed bumps.
- [Sam] Yeah, yeah.
(car turn signal clicking)
Alright.
- [Rick] And police and emergency vehicles.
- [Sam] Yes, yes.
- I think last night I saw more emergency vehicles
in an hour - [Sam] Wow, wow.
- [Rick] than I have two years.
- [Sam] Mhm.
- 'Cause last night I stayed in Brooklyn and.
- Okay.
Wow.
- [Rick] Lots of emergency vehicles.
- We're going to go straight.
- And double parking is a thing here.
- Oh yeah.
(Rick laughing)
Big time.
- [Rick] Yeah. - Big time.
And I hate it sometimes.
'Cause when I'm on a two lane road sometimes,
and I'm on the right lane, I'm going straight,
I see double parked cars,
you know, I look like, 15 seconds ahead of me,
and then I just have to move over.
- Yeah and buses parked here
and vehicles coming at you.
You have to slow down and give way.
- [Sam] Mhm.
- And this is very much about, you know,
what we say, all the time.
- Let's make a left.
- [Rick] You can be right.
Or you could be dead right?
- [Sam] Exactly.
- [Rick] You might have the right of way but.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- And you know, driving in the city, we do,
and I talked about this before.
- Yes, yes.
- Sometimes you got to be a little aggressive,
but at other times you got to give it up too.
- Yeah.
Some examiners, they're very, very quiet.
They're just telling you what to do.
Some of them are conversationalists.
They will have a conversation with you.
- Yeah and that's an excellent point.
And what's your feeling, Sam,
about engaging in conversation with the examiner?
- [Sam] Don't, I always tell students,
don't do it unless they start a conversation with you.
- Yeah.
- Because some of them, you know, they,
I remember one time there was a student trying to
have a conversation with an examiner.
Examiner said, "Focus on the road,"
and left it at that.
Let's make a left turn.
(car turn signal clicking)
- [Rick] I was going to go straight but,
- [Sam] Make a left turn. - as you can see here,
you can't go straight.
- Yup, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
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- And at the traffic light,
we're going to make a right turn.
- You have a lot of,
four way stops here, all-ways stops.
- Yes, mhm.
Yes we do.
- [Rick] Pedestrian, I was covering
the brake there. - [Sam] Yeah, Yep.
Always want to cover your brakes.
And look at this guy.
(Rick laughing)
- [Sam] My goodness.
- And this is where you got to change lanes.
- You've got to signal. - [Sam] Yes, yes.
- [Rick] Shoulder check, over -
- [Sam] And it's okay to go over the
solid lines when you see, - [Rick] Doubles.
- [Sam] Goes like this, yeah.
Let's make a right.
- [Rick] Doing auto body work, you fixing the car.
- Whoop.
(Sam laughing)
Yeah.
- Yeah, no that would've got points,
right? - [Sam] Yeah, yeah.
- Because, if it's yellow and I was going to move out
- Yeah, you cannot, you just got to
- [Rick] And then it turned red,
so I lost points there.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- [Rick] Oh no.
- Probably points
or probably would've failed you actually.
Some of these, some of these examiners,
they can be a little too strict
and some of them they'll let it go, you know.
It depends who you have.
- There we go.
Failed my driving test in the big city.
- Yeah.
(Sam and Rick laughing)
- [Sam] You sure have.
- [Rick] Oh my God.
That's so bad.
- [Sam] Yup.
- That is so bad.
- Alright, we're going to go straight down.
This is the area that I was taking a lot of my students.
Yeah.
And we're going to go straight down
until you can't anymore.
And we'll make a right turn.
- [Rick] And I'm also speeding.
- [Sam] Yes, you are.
- 'Cause it's 25, I just saw the sign.
- Yup, yup.
- I'm a terrible driver.
I'm a terrible student.
- Hey when you have your driver's license,
you do what you want.
I mean, it happens sometimes.
We're not thinking about it.
Yeah, we'll make this right turn.
What is this car doing?
- [Rick] Yeah, here you got to be kind of cautious.
Not really sure what they're doing.
- Yeah.
- But, sneak up here.
- [Sam] Well, well, well.
And of course,
look at what the arrow says.
We cannot make a left turn, just keep going.
- And that's the other thing about here,
in the Bronx and in New York City,
is you get these really narrow streets.
- [Sam] Yeah, yeah.
- Really narrow streets.
- Let's make a left turn.
- And you know,
going back to that traffic light,
that's the other thing, is that sometimes,
and I say this, you know,
students that are totally prepared for their driving test.
- Yeah.
- Something like that
in the traffic environment happens,
- [Sam] Let's make a right, mhm.
- [Rick] And you fail your driver's test.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- And it's not because,
you really, you know,
it's just one of those things where it sucks.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- You know,
bad drivers can pass a driver's test
because everything goes right.
- [Sam] Yeah, at that time, yeah.
- [Rick] And there's no surprises.
- [Sam] Yeah.
- But then you get surprised
and something happens
and you react incorrectly.
- [Sam] Exactly.
- And you fail your driver's test
because the examiner, they don't,
allow discretion in those types of things, so.
- [Sam] Did you want to do a parallel parking?
(Sam laughing)
- That'll be fun.
- You want to do it?
- Sure, let's do it.
- All right, let's go around the block.
I found that nice spot over there.
Sometimes even us experienced drivers will
do a little trial and error,
especially when it's a tight, tight spot.
You know, we're just,
going at it back and forth, back and forth.
- [Rick] Yeah.
It's 25.
Didn't get me this time.
- [Sam] Yup, no.
- [Rick] I got 25 this time.
- Yep.
And let's make a right turn.
- And the, you know,
the other thing about the 25 is,
is it, you know,
and this is the thing I say to students
when they're preparing for a driver's test.
You got to practice in and around the test center.
- You want to turn right here?
Parallel parking.
(car turn signal clicking)
Let's see how Rick does, guys.
(car turn signal clicking)
- [Rick] Right into reverse.
Yup.
- [Sam] There you go.
- I can tell you right now.
I'm a little far from the curb.
- That's alright.
Sometimes examiners will give you two tries.
Some of them will give you three tries.
Alright.
Let's see how you did.
Some, of them will open the door to check,
some of them don't.
- [Rick] Yeah.
- I've seen it.
Yeah.
It's not too bad.
I say, it's about 12 inches.
You could be a little bit over 12 inches.
I think I'll give you five points for that.
Not 15, unable to park properly.
- Yup.
- Excessive space for parking too far,
probably five points.
- So five points?
- [Sam] Yeah, five points.
- And what happened was,
I can tell ya exactly what I did wrong.
My 45 degree angle was off.
- [Sam] Okay.
- I should have been a little bit more
of an angle when I came in.
- Yeah.
- I turned in too soon.
- And some people do 45.
I do 30.
I tell my students, 30 degree.
I don't know if you saw my video on parallel parking.
Everyone teaches parallel parking different.
- Yeah.
- Everyone has a different technique to park.
I always tell students, even at the end of my video,
I said it, you know,
it's so many variables in parking, so.
- Oh my God.
Yes. - Yes, yup.
- So many variables.
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