- The challenge for brand new drivers
is differentiating between controlled
and uncontrolled intersections
because these two different types of intersection
have different right of way rules,
and for new drivers it poses a challenge.
Today with Willy, this was what we were working on
and turns at both stop sign and traffic light intersections.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
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- It's good advice though, I was like,
"Yeah, I got to actually move my whole head,
"not just eyeballs."
- Yep.
One of the myths in driving instruction is
is that students can't wear sunglasses.
- Oh yeah.
- That's rubbish, that's not true.
If you need sunglasses,
'cause in weather like this, I can't see.
I'm squinting all the time,
and if I'm squinting all the time, you're not a safe driver.
So you need to wear sunglasses
and you can't just move your eyes and drive,
you have to move your head, exactly what you said.
Okay, so keep some space, shoulder check over,
and then come back around.
And we're going to go right here.
So this is a two-way stop, okay.
There's no little rectangular under
telling you it's something else.
So stop here, stop, stop stop.
Full stop, now you can move forward, and you find your gap.
(car signaling)
Okay, that person switched lanes.
So now you can move out preparational go.
Here you go, one more shoulder check,
and we proceed in the direction you're going.
Wait, I'm going to give you a little demonstration here,
just pull over to the right.
All right, so signal, mirror, signal, shoulder check.
Okay, just before I head out,
another shoulder check, and we proceed.
Okay, this is a park lane over here,
I know it's not really well-defined
but you want to be close to center, okay?
Both hands on the steering wheel,
and if I'm going to turn right here, shoulder check,
and now I move over 'cause it's clear here, okay?
Intersection's clear, shoulder check right here,
I don't have to slow down, okay.
Accelerate, see how I keep my hands in contact.
You don't have to work the steering wheel back.
Left turn, shoulder check.
No cars, intersection's clear.
Okay, right here, shoulder check again, hand over hand.
Let the steering wheel come back through my hands.
Okay, I got somebody on the road,
and I should have shoulder checked there
just before I moved over,
I just didn't want to catch that thing
on the middle of the road.
So now I'm staying back because it's a red light,
and I also have a skateboarder
that I need to figure out what he or she is doing, right?
Okay, left turn, shoulder checking.
Just as this top line
rolls under the front of the car like that,
that's where you stop.
So here, when I go left, they're going to come through left.
Nice and slow here, now I can proceed, okay?
Shoulder check, around, keep my hands in contact
and just let the steering will slide back through my hands.
Okay, shoulder check, head movement, coming up,
stopping just as the line rolls
under the front of the car, right here.
Well, red light, I can go on a red,
shoulder check, creep forward.
It's gone to green now, but I check again, right?
And then one more time before I pull out into the lane,
just hold my hands against the steering wheel,
just that little correction at the end.
Okay, this one's a four-way,
see the little rectangular sign underneath?
Complete stop, nobody else in the intersection,
I can proceed.
So four-ways are different than two-ways.
This one is a two-way.
We know it because there's no rectangle underneath, okay.
Here signal, shoulder check, up.
Stop just behind the line.
Now, we creep up because we've got a sidewalk here,
and we might have pedestrians, right?
Creep up, creep up
just before we get to the intersection, nice and creep.
Nobody coming, shoulder check, boom, we go, okay.
Accelerate, just let the steering wheel slide back.
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Into the left turning lane, just as the line slides
under the front of the car, stop, okay.
Now, here we've got a long line of cars coming at us.
(car signaling)
So when it goes to green, we move forward
and put our front steer tires on that front crosswalk line.
That's where we wait, okay?
So now we move forward,
right here, and we wait here.
And we're anticipating our gap,
so when that car gets near the crosswalk line,
right there, now we can start moving forward
and meet the gap, okay?
Shoulder check, and we proceed,
help keep our palms in contact,
just a little bit of correction.
Nobody in the crosswalk, no one in the intersection,
do your signal, shoulder check,
stopping behind the cross walk, waiting for the gap.
Nobody here, just as they start to come in the intersection
shoulder check, you probably could have waited for that car.
Okay, it was probably a little bit close.
Out here we got somebody on the road, we just slow down.
We let them get closer to the curb
'cause we need minimum three feet
between us and them, right?
And if you're ever unsure on the test, just stop.
(car signaling)
Okay, same thing, shoulder check again.
Contact, over shoulder check again twice.
Right over, put your signal back on, just like that.
Nice, what kind of stop signs is that?
- Four-way. - Perfect.
What kind is this one?
- It's a tow-way. - Perfect.
We're going to go right here.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't get lazy on me.
What'd you do?
- [Willy] Oh I was going to roll through.
- You did roll through.
Don't fail on me because you rolled through a stop sign.
- So is it different with red lights?
- No, red light still have to come to a complete stop,
but I know what you're asking me,
at an uncontrolled intersection.
So when you're going down,
and there's a two-way stop on the cross street
and you don't have a sign, then you can roll around.
Now, I know why you did it.
Okay, we're going to go left here.
So this is what we're going to work on today,
we're going to work on your head movement,
and we're going to work on turns.
So slow down,
so right there now you can move forward and go.
You don't have to stop.
Just slow down, just go nice and slow.
As soon as that car hits the intersection, right?
The front of that car,
then you can move forward and meet that gap,
and then you can turn.
You don't have to stop.
We're going to go left here.
(car signaling)
So when the light goes green,
you're just going to roll nice and slow forward
until that car comes in,
and then you're going to meet that gap.
So what that means is the gap is in behind that car, right?
And that's where you're going to turn into.
So nice and slow, nice and slow.
Don't break, right there, now go.
Nice, nice.
And so we're going to go right at the traffic light,
the next traffic light.
And then I want you to be
kind of around the 10, 15 kilometer an hour
to go around the corner.
Okay, so here you signal, shoulder check, nice and easy.
And then come to a stop just behind the line.
Right here, stop.
'Cause it's a red light, right?
Now you can creep forward and look.
Okay, clear, proceed.
And we're going to go straight,
so get it up to 50 as quickly as you can.
Now, we got the cyclist there,
so you'd probably want to just say,
"I'm going to cover the brake
"because we're not sure what that cyclist is doing, right?"
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