Hi everyone so in this video I'm going to talk about some of the latest changes
to be announced for the new driving test which starts on Monday the 4th December 2017.
If you haven't already seen the page on my websites about the new
driving test, go and check it out now. There's a whole page full of details
about the changes about the new maneuvers and there are lots of videos on
there including one of me driving a full length test route showing you what the
new tests will be like. Anyway, what about this letter I had yesterday from
the DVSA? It told me some little changes I wasn't aware of, well there are
some really important ones. The first one I'd like to mention is that they are not
doing well they call a token system now. In the old days let me explain what a
token system is in when the driver has changed in the past you can always say
well I found my test on the old one I don't want to do the new one you can
kind of use the token as you were to not have to take the new test you could say
well I want to try the old one because I thought that before you can't do that on
the new test the magic clear that if you people files a test before the fourth of
December that won't be taking the new test even if the test is canceled on me
we've got them for any reason like if the examiners ill or we have snow or
something like bad weather then you'll be taking the new test if your test is
put back to after the fourth of December now the independent driving part of the
test we already know it's going to be including a Sat Nav but one thing is
also quite surprised about is that they've said the Sat Nav is going to be
turned on throughout the entire driving test now you won't be following it for
the whole test you'll only be following it for about half of the test about 20
minutes but he will actually be turned on throughout the entire tests in the
screen will be on the sound may not be but the screen will be. Quite interesting.
Leah's world have said that they're not going to be attaching it to the
windscreen they're going to be putting it on the dashboard they've got these
special much you can get so you can put the star nav on a mat and it will just
sit on top of the dashboard now that's probably because they don't want to risk
complete falling off the windscreen and it's quite knowing your food structures
if you have to keep having different sat-nav stuck to your windscreen that
kind of thing because he can leave mark so then window but yeah so that's a
couple of thing I didn't know about before now also I
did know about this but I haven't mentioned this too much
one in five driving tests won't use a sat-nav so the one in five tests no just
say - you can use follow road signs for Birmingham or whatever wherever you're
gonna go so that's the main differences with the sat-nav now it should update
you as well that I have said they're not going to be using traffic alerts because
these these sometimes I have which will be a TomTom start 52 they're not going
to be used in the traffic on them because to do that you have to link it
to a smartphone and they're not going to be doing an tests another thing I'll not
to mention is that this is going to take away the chance of people memorizing
test routes because when Sat Navs take you on the route they alter the
route based upon past performance so what that means is you might pull up in
the same place as you friended and you might figure I've got the same room my
friend had but the Sun that will actually take you a different way
because he works I need the Sun I've kind of learned the roads as he gets
older and she gets used more and he learns which routes the better than
others based upon which ones actually getting you there sooner so the tips
routes we changing pretty much on every test will be quite different the devious
I have also said that you don't have to practice this using the same sat-nav now
this is quite important because he might carve but a built in Sun of which won't
be the same as the one that the examiner uses I probably will get one of those
anyway you can actually get it on your phone for free saying it's quite easier
to get but you don't have to have the exact same one if you are interested
they're going to be using a TomTom start 52 another thing they've said about the
Sun half because the big problem we had with this with the trials if you wonder
why I should point out this without going off point too much a lot of people
keep leaving comments on my videos then I did before saying how come you keep
saying these tests he's coming in 2015 you've got the year long don't you know
what year it is yes I do know what year it is those videos were filmed two years
ago I've been taking part in the trials so I've been doing his tests for the
last two years it's not new to me at all now one of the problems we had with the
trials of these was that the batteries kept running out on the sat-nav
they only last for about one hour which isn't very good at all when you give me
doing six seven hours of tests today so what have
you done knows I've actually decided instead of plugging into the car because
we tried that and they had problems with the power cord kept coming out okay it
wrapped around the gearstick and it was just very messy there no and
I'm still going to be using USB power banks so the examiner will be bringing a
USB battery pack with them they're plugging that in that escribe because
I've got a battery pack now that there can power the sat-nav about 20 times
longer than the built-in battery can so there's gonna be no problem there or
suppose I'll just have one as I can do it for about ten times as long and
they'll plug him in overnight in the office or whatever and charge him but
then already in the morning before the tests begin moving on to next point now
about the maneuvers now I did say before they were going to get to drive into a
car park of a hotel or a pub or a shopping centre and drive forward into a
bay but I have revealed now the Argonaut asked you to go backwards instead so it
could be forwards or backwards they are actually going to ask you to park in a
specific buy as well so the examiner will point out exactly which by the wine
you see use that's going to be quite fun because I know from doing our listeners
we people's it's really hard to point out an exact bag you said that one by
the lamppost what that lamppost no that one though what is fun no that one now
that one this one it's really hard to actually point out an exact buy if you
side the third buy along people often say does that include the disabled one
you say yeah same in the fourth one no the third what the fifth no the second
the third you can get really confusing trying to pinpoint an exact by assuming
I've done in the past as I've said the one where our piece of rubbish is the
one where the crisp packet is and then what happens the wind blows a crisp packet
down the road. Anyway don't worry about that,
it's worth pointed out they will ask you to go into specific bays but I have said
they won't tell you to go next to another car they're not going to do it
next to other vehicles I suppose that's just to keep the peace with members of
the public you don't want their car risking being hit on the driving test
now the show me Tommy car being in the show he's going to be done on the move
we know about that already but they've said they're going to do what I can do
to show me question doing the Sat Nav section so not really a big surprise
beam obvious to what to wash the windscreen
we know to operate the horn or whatever during your drive while the subtle
Navy's been used now most of the things are the same the way the market the
length of the test is saying the cost is the same I think they've kind of missed
an opportunity today because they've often said this the devious are
themselves have said for many years now it's a very negative way of marking so
onto mark so on down I think it would have been nice if they included in e box
on the marking sheet but it could have made a note of a few
things that people did really well so the criticize didn't like you know
you leave enough was really good you park him is good but he just wasn't so
good the way you were speeding towards their lights that kind of thing so it
would be nice if they included some positive things as well now let's talk
about why the sat-nav is been included because a lot of people again it's wrong
a lot of people are saying the one who sees a sad mouth so you can learn how to
use a sat-nav that's one part of it of course but the main reason is actually
because now you can travel much much further afield much more away from where
the test center is now there are statistics that show most people who
have road collisions motion you drivers have collisions it mainly happens on
high-speed roads not including motorized if you just like general high-speed
you're cadres now if you've had lessons with me you'll
know we spend a lot of time on that to try and get rid of a problem but this is
what's and that's been brought in and while the maneuvers have been changed we
don't you want to have to go and quite housing the state so it's quite easy and
we don't people haven't since two maneuvers or three pointers turning the
roads whatever you want to call it we don't do want to be doing that we're
trying to get away from the physical skill of driving a much more towards a
mental side this is something I've spoken about my videos many times before
whenever people sadly good at driving you often ask him why in the salad it's
easy I can move I don't stall and I'm faster I can do everything quick they
often don't even think about the mental side of driving the most new drivers
quickly master the physical side but they don't even start to master the
mental side and that's where most drivers fall down is the thought process
their attitude and many other things so yeah that's the main changes I think
I've covered most of you there just waded through this document now you
decided the examiner will not be using the speed you understand
but the cast be though the sand when we turned off for independent driving if
you choose to and if the Sun that stops working not that it should but if it
does then then yeah god no just carry on giving you directions and normal so yeah
that's about it that's a few more changes if I've forgotten anything come
on put it in the description below so please I've look it up or check out the
page on my website that'll be the best way of keeping up today with it now like
I said earlier on this is not actually in you tested all not been doing in over
two years and there was actually another new test which he's going to be coming
in probably around 2020 so the year 2020 DST changing again how well it's just
been formed at the moment the things definitely things guaranteed but from
next year 2018 learners will be allowed on the motorway so it's been suggested
that maybe the motor I could form pass to the driving test again there are
probably with that like not everyone lives by motoi rocky in Cornwall Scott
and you may have to travel along on my just to get to a motorway so yeah that's
all for now but there is another new test coming in a few years nothing new
it always changes every few years we've got self-driven cars coming in it has
been announced that maybe self-driven cars will have to take a drive and test
themselves sounds a bit weird doesn't it better have said each individual card is
produced by factory might have to be given a driving test before he could be
released to the public so in the future who knows my job might change should
teach people she is sitting in a car I've given a test they'll say no that
cars failed next one that cars passed that might be what my job becomes in 10
years time who knows but anyway I would do more videos about self-driven cars in
the future so I've got a lot to say about those but for now thanks for
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