- Hi there smart drivers, Rick with Smart Drive Test.
Today we're going to talk to you about the controls
that you need to know how to get the vehicle moving
for your first lessons steering wheel,
transmission brake throttle, and how to adjust your seat.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
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Welcome back, talking today about the controls
that you need to know for your first driving lessons
so you can get going, start practicing
in preparation for passing your driver's test.
So steering wheel, you need to adjust the steering wheel,
most steering wheels on late model cars
in this day and age are going to have a tilt,
so they're going to be able to move up and down.
Generally what I recommend for new students
is to have the top of the steering wheel
at the top of the instrument panel so you can have good view
of the instrument panel,
and know that steering wheels turn one and a half
in each direction for a right turn, for example,
you're going to turn one revolution
to go around on a right turn.
Most turns on curves and corners,
you're going to turn it about it a quarter of a turn,
that's how much you work the steering wheel.
The seat, put your foot underneath
the brake pedal on the floor,
and then adjust it so you're back and forth,
so you have a slight bend in the knee
and you can comfortably reach the throttle and the brake.
The back of the seat, adjust it forwards and backwards
here there's a lever down here,
so that when you put both hands on the steering wheel,
you have a nice bend in the elbow here, so that's the seat.
Seat belt, the seat belt comes across
and pull it further than you need it,
hold the bottom piece, clip it in,
and then pull the shoulder strap tight,
make sure the bottom piece is across your hips,
and this is across your shoulder.
If this is cutting into your neck, the lap belt,
there's an adjustment here that you can move it up and down
on the side of the car here.
Head restraint, it's not a headrest,
it's not some place to rest your head.
At minimum,
the top of this should be at the top of your ears all right,
and again, you should be 25 centimeters,
or 10 inches from the steering wheel
for some of you that are going to be short
you're going to be a little bit closer
but try and get as far as away as you can,
'cause the airbag in the event of a crash
is going to deploy.
Next thing we want to do,
key is in the ignition or you might have a push start,
you have to put your foot on the brake pedal
for the vehicle to start, put your foot on the brake pedal
and turn it, hold it
approximately two seconds until the vehicle starts.
The parking brake is on,
so the way that we put it into gear transmissions, hold it,
click the button on the front of the selector, pull it back,
as soon as you put pressure on it let go on the button
and pull it all the way down it will stop in drive.
And for the purposes of getting going, you only need to know
park, reverse, neutral, and drive.
It's not R for race, okay on an automatic transmission.
So drive is forward,
neutral is the vehicle is not going to move,
and if you just push this forward, the the gear selector
it'll stop at neutral, it will not go into reverse
and if you want to go into reverse
you got to push the button on the front again,
and then into reverse, and on newer cars
you're going to have a backup camera
and the backup camera will come on automatically
when you put it into reverse.
So we're getting ready to go,
we've got the parking brake on,
you have to put the parking brake on
every time you park the vehicle
for the purposes of your driving test.
Start doing that right from the beginning,
push the release button,
as soon as you put pressure on the transmission
on the selector, let go of the button, pull it down,
it stops and drive, you're still holding the foot brake,
now release the parking brake,
it's either going to be on the floor
and you push it in and it'll release
or it's a handheld one, and you'll put that down.
So now we're in drive, got our foot on the brake pedal,
and now two hands on the steering wheel
looking in the direction we want to go
and we work the throttle and the vehicle will move forward.
One foot is going to work both the throttle and the brake,
work with the ball of your foot,
so make sure the heel of your foot is on the floor,
you have comfortable shoes on
trainers and those types of things,
don't try and work wear high heels
or some crazy heavy work boot or what not,
wear trainers or running shoes,
and then work the throttle with the ball of your foot
or the toes and just kind of put your toes like that
and then work the throttle and have the heel on the thing.
And then you don't move your heel to work the brake pedal,
you just rotate your foot to the left
and apply the brake pedal.
So it should be pivoting
on throttle with the ball of your foot,
and then when you want to apply the brake,
you don't lift your foot out, just move it across
and apply the brake and then back to the throttle.
You cannot two foot drive, (chuckles)
for the purposes of a driving test,
put the foot on the brake the vehicle will come to a stop.
And the reverse for stopping, put it into park
all the way into park you're still holding the foot brake,
apply the parking brake and now the vehicle is secure,
you can turn it off.
So first lesson in a parking lot or low density traffic
steering wheel, automatic transmission, throttle the brake,
the parking brake, your seat belt and adjusting your seat.
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Seatbelt, you're going to adjust the seatbelt,
get going here, comes across,
this be so much easier if I didn't have to pee.