- For your on-road driving test,
your job is to take away the examiner's right to fail you.
Nothing less, nothing more.
In Arielle's sixth lesson,
we worked on strategies for her to be successful
in passing her driver's test first time.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
(upbeat music)
(blinker ticking)
- Okay.
So, what are we doing today?
- We'll drive around,
play in traffic.
- Play in traffic.
- See how your lane mergers go.
(Arielle chuckling)
- I don't think so.
- That's what I was kind of thinking.
I'm thinking,
you haven't seen me yell.
- You've never yelled at me.
(sirens wailing)
- Now often when you do that,
I suggest putting on your four-ways.
- My what?
Oh, this?
Okay.
(siren wailing)
- Your signal, shoulder check and proceed.
Very nice.
I guess he felt that I didn't cover that in the video, so.
- Maybe cause you didn't think that anyone would do that.
- Well I always tell students I say,
listen if you're not taking driving lessons
with a driving instructor,
do a practice driving test with a local driving school.
Hire a driving school to take you out for 45 minutes
and do an evaluation before you go for your test.
Because driving and taking a driver's test
are two different things.
(Rick chuckling)
- Yeah.
- And if you want to guarantee
you're going to pass your driver's test,
get a valuation done with a driving instructor.
That's what they do.
They teach people how to pass a road test every day.
We're going to park along here.
- Right here?
- Wherever works for you.
- [Arielle] Okay, wait.
I can't park here.
- Downhill with a curb.
Every one of them is towards the curb,
except uphill with a curve.
- And then it's the other way.
- Then it's the other way.
- Okay.
- It's like Superman.
Up up and away.
Three in one.
(engine revving)
You weren't going to risk it were you?
- [Arielle] No.
(both laughing)
- [Rick] Get off the throttle.
Get off the throttle.
No, not on the break,
just off the throttle.
You don't have to break.
You just take your foot off the throttle
and let them go in front of you.
Right?
- Yeah.
- Because it's social driving.
We're all kind of working together.
- [Arielle] Yeah.
- [Rick] And even though you're in this lane,
we've all got to get into one lane, right?
- [Arielle] Yeah.
- So that's one of the advanced skills of defensive driving,
is you don't need to break.
You just take your foot off the throttle
and slow down a little bit.
He was that truck was going fast enough
that by you slowing down one or two kilometers an hour
is enough for them to get in front of you safely.
- Yeah.
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- And then here it's the opposite?
- Complete opposite, yes.
So we're going to get into the left lane
and we're going to turn left down there
at that intersection.
- Okay.
- Okay, turn your signal back on
so they know what you're doing.
All right, get over.
Get over.
Get over to the right.
- [Arielle] I don't know.
- [Rick] What's your interests?
- [Arielle] I don't know.
I like lots of stuff.
Hiking.
- [Rick] What are you passionate about?
What would you do for the rest of your life
that nobody, you wouldn't even need to be paid to do?
- Skiing.
I love skiing and snowboarding.
- [Rick] Okay, you're speeding.
Speeder.
You have a lead foot,
you're going to have to watch that for the test.
Unless you have a total brain cramp on your test day,
you're going to be just fine.
Don't second guess yourself.
Just do what you know and you need to do
for the purposes of your test.
You'll be fine.
Focus on what you're doing.
Completely ignore this person
who's sitting over here with their little clipboard.
- I just hope that they're not horrible.
- [Rick] They won't be.
Even if they are just tune them out.
- Just tune them out.
Just find a different station.
Arielle's station.
I know what I need to do to pass,
screw you.
(Arielle laughing)
We can take away their right to fail you.
- [Arielle] Yeah.
So, is that everything that they're going to make me do?
- Everything.
You've seen everything.
There is no surprises.
There's nothing else.
Uphill downhill parking.
There aren't any hills in Colona around the test center.
- [Arielle] Yeah.
- [Rick] Okay, they might pretend.
They might say,
listen, you're going to park downhill with the curb.
How do you park?
- Yeah.
- They might say that, right?
Parallel parking.
And if you make a mistake,
don't dwell on it.
Take a couple of breaths and just move on.
Don't get stuck in a mistake.
- Will they tell you when you make a mistake?
- No, they'll just write it down.
They'll give you a debrief at the end.
Questions?
- I don't know.
I'm scared.
- Do you have any concerns
or you want me to talk you off the edge,
just give me a ring.
- Okay. - You're going to be fine.
- So they're not going to make me do
like a walk around check of my vehicle?
- No they'll do that on the own.
- Are they going to be like,
oh, like turn on your blinkers.
- [Rick] Yes. - [Arielle] Turn on your-
- They'll tell you to turn on
your left signal or your right signal.
- Will they make me do anything while I'm driving like,
oh can you turn on the AC?
- No, they won't make you do it while you're driving,
but they may ask you before
to turn on your windshield wipers.
Right on this car,
it's just a down two.
Defrost.
- Defrost is like,
this one.
Right?
Yeah.
It's the front
and then you turn this.
It's all the way up already.
- Okay.
Defrost.
And they might ask you to turn on high beams, low beams.
- So like that?
- [Arielle] And then you. - [Rick] Yeah.
- That's it.
I don't think they'll ask you to do
anything other than that for secondary controls.
And then just before you go down,
check your signals on the front,
check your signals on the back.
Get somebody check your brake lights,
make sure they all work.
- Okay.
- And registration.
You got the registration, the license and insurance in here.
Make sure you take your license.
Another piece of identification
just as a backup and then take money.
Right?
Show up.
They already told you how when to show up,
but just show up,
half an hour, 40 minutes early.
Make sure when you show up to the test center,
back into the parking space,
- Yes then I can get out.
- Then you can drive out.
- They're not going to make me back in.
- They will back in at the end.
Okay.
- Even if I already backed in?
- Even if you're already backed in.
- Okay
- Okay?
Try and back in beside another car.
That way it's way easier.
And again, don't freak out if you're crooked in the space.
As long as you're between the lines,
that's all it matters.
If you're between the lines and it's a little bit crooked,
big deal.
And the other piece is,
don't back up too far.
Cause usually there's concrete barriers
at the back of the parking space.
You strike that,
that's an automatic fail because you start to fix object.
So it's better to be sticking out a little bit
than it is to back up too far.
But you got your backup camera,
so you know exactly how far you need to back up.
You can have a glance at it, right?
Just make sure you're looking out the back window.
Look first and then back up.
- [Arielle] Okay. - [Rick] All right?
- And other than that, you're going to be fine.
And just remember,
we're not going for perfection.
Okay?
It's never going to be perfect.
You're going for a pass.
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