okay it's been a while since we've done a video on the typical pitfalls of the joondalup
driving test but we'll do one today starting off from the joondalup licensing centre car
park and just take you on a typical drive around the joondalup cbd showing you some of the things
that you need to look out for now this video is particularly important for people who are
planning on doing their pda but also for parents who are supervising drivers who are learning
in order to do their pda because a lot of the parents aren't aware of the pitfalls of the
journal up test area either so they can't pass on that information to the people that are learning
under them so this is designed to help you all okay so here we are reversed into a parking space
in the joondalup licensing centre car park about to take off for our driving test
now the first thing that you'll notice here from our side cameras is that we're parked next to some
large vehicles a lot of the vehicles on the road these days are large suvs and four-wheel drives
and they're very hard to see past so when you park in the car park don't park in a parking
space like this where you have large vehicles particularly to your right hand side because
when you drive out of this parking spot you'll have trouble seeing what's coming from your right
okay so we're about to take off now at the start of our driving test
need to drive indicator on to say which way we're
going because there is a decision to make here left right or straight
and away we go looking very carefully to our right and to our left as we drive out
and doing a sensible car park speed out of the car park
just indicating right here and very important you indicate left here so that people coming
into the car park know that you're turning left and not going straight
then we'll head out to the first difficult aspect of the test which is the stop sign at
the exit to the car park so what we need to do is come up here as close
as possible to the white line without going over it and look both ways and
using our knowledge of the road rules we go if we can now in that case there there were no vehicles
coming from our right and left and the only vehicle coming towards us was a fair way away
and it was coming up towards the stop sign so because they were a long way away and coming up
slowly we could reasonably assume that they were going to stop turn left here at the roundabout
that car coming from our right is a fair distance away so we got through quite easily
and then we're going to turn left at this street down here now there's a solid line on the road
here but we can cut this line if it makes our path around the corner more optimal which it does
and then heading up this street this is read promenade in joondalup coming up to
the intersection of davidson terrace now this is a very dangerous intersection but
it has a give way sign rather than a stop sign we must come up here at a very very slow speed
so that we can see what's coming from our right and from our left
again checking right and checking left it's clear so we go
now a lot of people fail at that intersection because they come up there without paying due
caution to the fact that it's a a minor road crossing a busy road and it's a give way sign
giveway says you don't necessarily have to stop but you certainly have to make sure that it's safe
now down here there's an arrow on the road we still need to indicate left
because the pedestrians might not know where you're going
okay here we need to check to our right we can
see a car coming and another one about to enter the road as well
and then we check forward for pedestrians who might be crossing this
road
up here we're turning right so we follow the curve into this turning lane we follow nice and closely
okay if we follow closely then we don't leave room for another vehicle to get through there on
the right and we don't need a blind spot check in that case coming up here there's no arrows so the
cars coming towards us have the same color light okay we wait till it's clear and we go around
as we drive down here it's always busy and people are always on their mobile phones so we don't
drive at 50 down that street we drive it more like 35 but it depends on the volume of traffic
and the volume of pedestrians when we get around this corner the road opens up a bit and you can
get up to the proper speed limit which is 50. now we're going to turn right into this street here
to read promenade we make sure that we turn into the correct side of the road which is
way over here you can see the solid line in the middle of the road here okay the road surface is
made up of concrete brick pavers and bitumen but you must drive on your half of the road which is
half brick pavers half bitumen just so that people can come past in the other direction but you must
also make sure that you clear the parked cars by a meter and a half just in case they open the door
okay i'm coming up here we're turning left we must turn left but we also have to check four
pedestrians crossing in front of us who would have right away now coming down here i want to turn
left we've got this parking area on our left with a bike lane on our left we indicate left we do a
blind spot check we must do that blind spot check because we're moving over basically two lanes this
lane we're in now and the bike lane next to us okay there's the green arrow for turning left
now turning left on this turning lane we just do a quick blind spot check here and come down here
to the giveaway line and we check for cars coming around
from the traffic lights opposite us we also check the vehicles coming down the road
at our right shoulder you probably won't get vehicles coming from both
those places at once because of the traffic lights but it could be one or the other
okay coming up to these traffic lights we've gone from one lane to two lanes
what this means is that on the other side of the traffic lights is going to go from two lanes to
one lane so there will be a merge point when we get past the traffic lights on the other side
so because we're traveling in a straight line while we're merging we don't need to indicate
but when we get across this intersection so we check right we check left on the way across
when we get across this intersection here we check our mirrors and we check
our blind spot very important that you check your blind spot
so whenever you're going through a merge area it doesn't matter whether you're merging or bearing
away from the traffic maybe turning right or turning left in the turning lane the fact
that you're going through a merge area means that you must do a blind spot check regardless
okay coming up to this dangerous intersection again it's got a giveaway sign
but it's an extremely dangerous intersection you look right you look left if it's clear
you go but you've got to take into account the traffic opposite you at the giveaway
sign on the other side so you must know your right-of-way rules for those vehicles as well
now coming down to this roundabout we're going to turn right we don't indicate yet because
we're going past a laneway there now we indicate right so i want to turn right here and i want to
turn left at the end of the next street so we do that by staying in our lane the whole way through
this two-lane roundabout we exit in our lane we exit the roundabout completely turn the indicator
off and now we do a proper lane change check your mirrors indicate and check your blind spot
and then move across smoothly okay at this intersection we're going to turn left
look up the street yeah there's a vehicle coming but it's a long way
away it's at least seven seconds away so we could go now the speed limit here
is still the default speed limit of 50. we can see 60 signs in front of us but they don't apply until
we get to them because they're on both sides of the road now we're in a 60 zone so we can speed
up