@CRTSte I once reported an old Seat overtaking me in Brummie land with blues , looked like a fake , so I reported him to police. Police called back, " Sir , this was one of our undercover unmarked cars of DRUGSQUAD"! 😅
And dodgy cyclists going through lights and pedestrians just walking straight onto a road not a crossing at night in black clothing..not even considering if a car has seen them.
with OFSTED its the receptionists who call the schools up and warn them. Same with retail, they get alerted to a inspection. My sister works in a nursery and OFSTED showed up early this year to do a inspection and thats how I know they get told by the OFSTED reception via a phone call. I worked in retail for 15 years and some change, whenever the area manager would do a random inspection, his office would phone all the stores in the area and say "Darrell is styaing at the hotel in your area. Expect a surprise inspection in the next three days." For that time, managers and the store manager would rotate watch by the main doors and bark orders at everyone like a 1940's German PoW camp. "Put that there! Make sure every lable is facing forwards! Faster faster!!"@@PedroConejo1939
5:03 I think I would have also cycled on the pavement here. Temporary lights are rarely timed to allow for the slower speed of a cyclist, nor are the lanes made wide enough for safe overtaking. I usually take to the pavement or ride in the coned off area if it is safe to do so. With no pedestrians about by the looks of it, the pavement wins!
Agreed. Temporary lights are simply dangerous for cyclists. I've tried riding through them as I should and I'm always met with head-on traffic, even once had someone get out their car and try to hit me because I "Ran a red" despite the fact I went through as soon as the light turned green. This is on an electric bike that's actually pretty quick, too.
Agreed, and, to look at it in a positive light, the cyclist was also being considerate to the traffic in general by not slowing the flow when the lights changed. Good all around.
I appreciate that you don't do what other driving channels have done when they film teaching someone and either purposefully let them drive like an idiot (under the guise of them learning when they know full well how to drive) for views. All your videos have been professional, educational moments in yours or other day to days with teachable moments, there is always a teachable moment being recorded by yourself or your community so great to see you use that instead of putting others at risk!
I think so many people ignore temporary lights because they are massively overused and dreadfully slow to change, but it doesn't make it right. Ashley needs to do a trackday edition. brake on the way in, ride the apex and power out.!
@@LukeTR2000 I was waiting at a set in Gloucester once, and after about 5 minutes or so on red, a police car came up behind, After a few seconds he put his blues on and gestured at me to move forward so he could pass. I thought he was on a shout, so I got out of his way as best I could. As he passed me, he stopped and wound the passenger side window down. "Those lights have been buggered for ages, just carry on..!" So I did 🤣
As a cyclist I don't blame the cyclist for ignoring it. I've sat at a temporary light for 15 mins before it changed, and I suspect that was only due to a car coming up behind me. They haven't been designed to account for cyclists - we are too small, not bright enough, or whatever it is to trigger the sensor. On a different occasion there was traffic backed up for miles blocking two roundabouts. Naturally I cycled past all the vehicles, giggling as they were stuck in traffic, got to the front and bam temporarily lights. Waited about 10 mins, before asking the person at the front how long they have been waiting. She said about 15 mins before I arrived. Noticed that it seemed to have cycled through two phases but not ours, being a three way set up. Knowing how bad the traffic was, I just cycled through the red light. Told people to wait even if they had a green due to traffic backing up for miles. Gestured for them to come forward and revealed some of the congestion. They were clearly broken, and something needed to be done.
Not an unusal situation, if you ring the 0800 number on the light base, they can often reset them in minutes from their office. The temporary lights that really get my goat are the ones that they have set up outside all of the hs2 sites around me, so that their lorries don't have to wait to pull out. It's a bloody cheek@@stephenjamespayne6131
I see some junctions like that where signs are up stopping you from doing just that, so I assume at any other junction it's legal. Though if you're trying to save time, putting the foot down a little, not the safest thing to do.
theres a staggered junction near me with a no right turn. EVERYONE who wants to turn right go into the left only lane, filter through the no traffic light part, then ro a sharp 90 degrees right and go straight across (where you cant turn right, is then a straight line for them). While not illegal, its a bit cheeky. @@alastairward2774
Another tip is if the left lane to a roundabout is backing up (and you want to turn left), use the right lane, go all the way around and skip the queue, of course ensure everything is done safely.
The second clip of the white duster was my mate. He actually stopped as the woman was already in the road and she wasn't moaning she was thanking him 😂😂
6:48 I'm a delivery rider on an acoustic bike in the Netherlands and recently started to train new colleagues. I work for a platform (dispatched to multiple restaurants) in an employed fashion, hourly pay and limited order bonusses. The payment structure gives very little incentive to hurry, so I totally don't feel pressure to break traffic law, or even exhaust myself. And everything related to the behaviour in traffic in my instruction as a captain who trains and evaluates new and existing couriers is to downplay the incentive to hurry as much as possible. We tell them to ignore the forecasted times the app displays, most of the time a delay is not a couriers fault or in the couriers power to correct. We always tell them to favour safety over speed if they want to save time by ignoring some traffic rules. However the cycling speed is something that we have to evaluate, but I interpret that as the speed one achieves on a straight and absent of danger. So there is a focus on speed, but we do everything to make sure that speed comes from efficiency off the bike and from a decent enough inherent cycling speed, not from violating traffic laws. However the barrier for couriers being denied or fired for traffic violations alone is kinda high. We will not be as strict or even knowledgeable as a driving examiner has to be. This is off course all from the perspective of one company. And admittedly a meal delivery company that wants to do better on things like this than the rest of the industry. I know many restaurants who hire their own driver/riders do put pressure on their personnel and I think it's noticeable on the road. Moped riders often are between 16 and 18 years old when they are employed there and still highly susceptible to let pressure from supervisors make them cross their boundaries. Though not every restaurant is the same off course. I've seen a pizza place print their phone number including the line "Not happy with our riding? Call this number" on the delivery box. I've ridden for UberEats and Deliveroo as well, in their "sham" freelance model (sham because they act like an employers, but only pay per order so putting all their business risk on their workers). I can highly imagine couriers for them feeling the pressure if they're in that model and needing to survive. What makes it worse is that that model is basically gambling. You put your time in and investment in your vehicle as an ante, and hope for a prize. You feel elated when you earn a lot, some get addicted to that feeling and go on to blaming themselves for bad days, making bad decisions to make up for it, etc.. I never felt that pressure too much because I wasn't as dependent on that income at the time, but that somewhat addictive nature of the business model and the somewhat gamified apps I did feel. I've heard it resulting in life altering accidents in my city, but also seen it turn into almost violence towards restaurants workers when the orders aren't there. TL;DR: I am not put under any unreasonable time pressure, but I know my company is the exception.
I'm absolutely binging your videos now that i've passed :) I'm looking forward to being a safe, happy driver with your continued videos and really great calm explanations. I hope you know you help learners just as much as those who have recently passed continue their education.
I did, in 1983. Although maybe it depends on whose car it is. I took my test in my dad's Austin Metro 1.3HL, lovely car it was, bought one of my own later in my driving career. But I suppose if it's the instructor's car, he can say no. Although why they would I don't really understand.
Mine told me that young lads who had just passed their test tended to get a bit over excited, and he wanted to live to retire some day!@@TestGearJunkie.
The reason for that is quite straightforward : having passed the basic test of competence to drive , they cease to be a student driver and therefore no longer covered by the instructor's insurance . Many instructors have that restriction on their insurance .
4:16 I have to admit, I have done this kind of thing in the past. My favourite trick though is using a roundabout to get past loads of cars in the left hand lane by taking the right hand lane and going around it.
Nowt wrong with that, I do it all the time. You're a fool if you know you can do it but don't because you're worried about upsetting others. Its the same mentality as when people don't zip merge.
Re the delivery driver at 6:50 ish - I've had deliveries from various takeways, and the routes it takes riders sometimes is madness. There's a bollarded off road near to mine, and it has been that way for 8+ years - still tells riders to go that way; even seen riders effectively doing circles - imagine the app's not giving them alternative routes some times.
We got pizza the other day for my brother's birthday, and my dad (who ordered it) was confused why the driver went down a certain road... Well simple explanation is that Google thinks its impossible to turn into the first 2 driveways in our street unless you come from around the nearby lake. If you come into our street from our end, it wants you to not just go down about a kilometre to turn around, but to go around the block to do it, putting you onto the road that goes around said lake, before returning to our street again.. The street is big enough to turn a full road train around in - which happens from time to time. It's about the width of a 6 lane road but is only actually 2 lanes. I sent feedback to google about this multiple times years ago, but nothing has changed. Deliveries and visitors still all come the slow way.
3:56 On the shortcut past the lights. If it's legal and available. I would not see the issue. However I wonder about the legality of that shortcut but also the speed was not appropriate also.
Yeah, as long as it's done safely, I see no issue with it. However, with that speed, I doubt it was actually very safe. What if someone came up from the left? Would they have been able to stop? Also, in this case, with the left arrow on the road, is turning right even legal? I don't know about the UK, but here in the Netherlands, you have to follow the direction of the arrow.
Circumventing red traffic lights is illegal. I recall one or two instances where people were charged after driving through a fuel station to avoid lights. I know cause I googled to see if I could do the same thing lol, good job I didn't do it first, before finding the news articles.
14:42 I might be wrong but it looks like the tractor driver is using a walkie-talkie rather than a phone. This is pretty normal in the world of tractor driving. Some tractors have in-built systems for comms but as a contract owner, you’re often at the mercy of whatever systems are on the site you’re working. Handheld walkies should not be used on a public road though, but have some thought for the crap this lad may have to take from the site manager when he puts down the radio on that 20m of tarmac. H&S is hard when your gaffer makes out you’ll be fired if you don’t do as you’re told.
5:02 controversially, I don't really see anything wrong with this. Indeed by using the path and not waiting, he is actually aiding best flow of traffic. Me though, I would wait and then go through the coned area so that cars could pass me safely.
@@brantnuttall his point is that inside the coned area is not necessarily safe. in my opinion, the path was the safer option, as it appeared to not have any pedestrian traffic at the time, assuming he went at a safe speed, in case a pedestrian did a "sudden sheep" appearance.
@@brantnuttall and where I am, he may suffered getting ticketed for being inside the cones on a construction area. the purpose of the cones is to divide where the public is allowed to be, from where the public is not allowed to be.
I think the bike at 4:30 did a sensible thing. Cautiously looked the works and decided not to use the narrow section and use the pavement instead. I dont condone cycling on a pavement but avoiding the section past the works removes them from the risk of meeting red light jumpers or other impatient motorists.
7:24, in fairness the VW changed lane just as the road sign on the left came into view but they were to close to the van to see it, so may not have known they needed to go left when the got to the next sign by the traffic light. This can happen if the passenger is giving directions.
I've only ever done that traffic light dodge at 4:15 once, when my clutch cable had snapped on my bike and I wanted to get home without stopping - I had a pillion too. Changes on the move were mostly no problem, but from a standstill and from first to second, wasn't very nice. Wouldn't do it in normal circumstances, and to be honest, it wouldn't have surprised me if I'd been pulled over for it (I wasn't).
when I was young, my dad had a clutch go bad from a defect, and for a short stop, he could put the pedal to the floor, and heel and toe the brake and throttle; but for a long stop or to change direction, he needed to shut the motor off. fortunately, he had a strong starter motor, and the shop was good about getting him in promptly.
@@kenbrown2808 Yeah, this was about 1990, and I can't remember my exact reasoning, but I think it was along the lines of the starter motor being far more expensive than a clutch cable - it was a BMW K100, a dreadfully unreliable machine.
@@PedroConejo1939 my dad's was in the early 80s. with a GMC, which were pretty much bulletproof at the time. once the defective clutch was replaced, I don't think it had any transmission work in the 300,000 miles he drove it.
I used to be a delivery rider for a large pizza chain. They provided a 110cc Honda Vision, and the manager would threaten vague disciplinary action if you took too long. Realistically though, a lot of these riders are "self employed" through Deliveroo or Uber Eats, where the incentive is to get deliveries done as fast as humanly possible. More deliveries in an hour means a higher wage, and more chances to get a tip if it's very quick... So they take risks.
Congratulatuons to Josh. 13:28 is Lord Street in Southport, if you ever need to practice dealing with unexpected pedestrians everywhere it's a prime location. Often you'll get them exactly half way between the many crossings stood in the middle of the road because they didn't want to walk one way or the other. Definitely need your wits about you!
I work as a delivery driver. Sometimes, you can end up behind schedule depending on traffic and other things such as people not answering their doors, etc. But, you're not penalised for falling behind with who I work for. It's just "one of those things."
The other day I got beeped and overtaken by a dick in a smart car and then nearly got rear ended by the lorry behind him just because I didn't run a red on some temporary lights that were taking a while to cycle through. It obviously wasn't stuck as we'd been through a cycle already. The light went green about 10 seconds later, and I caught up with the smart car at the next set of traffic lights. Real stellar choices there lads.
Only certain marques of German. I switched from a very old Jaguar to a newer BMW once (my wife got fed up with my 18-year-old Jag breaking down so often). Other drivers reacted with shock and suspicion when I indicated, respected speed limits and courteously gave space for other drivers. 😂
That time with an instructor could be vital to notice surroundings, keep phones away and be educated even if you’ve passed. Insurance can be sorted later
Totally wrong Philip. One of the reasons why many instructors often drive back after the test is because concentration has finished. (Another reason this can happen is because on a private policy, there has been no chance for the novice driver to change the insurance to them then being a full licence holder. No issues regarding this with an instructor policy.) The excitement is obvious to get his car insured and phone use as a passenger is totally fine.
@@ashley_neal I remember my instructor saying they drive back as there is a strong chance the pupil will be too excited if they pass or too distraught if they fail. Rather than make a judgemental call on whether someone can or cannot drive it is best to just not allow them to drive back and takes away any ambiguity
@@ashley_neal I also passed in January, and the instructors in that driving school drive their newly passed students come pass or fail, as the mindset is affected. If they fail, there's a chance they'll feel dejected and not 100% concentrate, and in my case (and others who passed) you get a bit hyped up - I was rambling and babbling the way back, when we got close to my place I apologised for rambling on and he just said "that's why we drive you back after" haha.
@@ashley_neal I think perhaps you’re misunderstanding me ash, it’s better to learn a life lesson with intuition rather than experiencing one of life’s lessons. Perhaps put your pupil or ex pupil in their instructor’s shoes and ask them what can see outside and what they expect from other drivers. Ask the pupil to give a running commentary. Try and not let the ex pupil get too excited for their new car until they’re at home, college, work etc too. Think of it as free advice
i do shopping deliveries for tesco and the time pressure we have is no way near as bad as it is for fast food or parcel deliveries, can drive in a sensible manor and not have to worry about skipping queues of traffic to get to the next address in time
In the UK, we get videos of drivers making allowances for others, and avoiding collisions. In America, they barrel through every intersection, and wonder why they hit things.
I'm sure the effect is so much greater with L plates on, but I noticed it even just driving a smaller car for a while. My car is a Skoda Superb - not enormous but a relatively big estate. When it went in for a repair I was given a Ford Fiesta as a courtesy car for a couple of weeks. I couldn't believe the number of people trying to force their way past me in that 2 weeks even though I wasn't going any slower than I usually do. And sure enough when I got my car back, it all stopped.
Seems like a "I've got a better car than you, I'm more important" kind of attitude. Though I do see it more when I'm at work driving a bus than I do when I'm in my car. So I think Ashley is possibly correct that it happens a lot more. I suspect it's possible that it feels like 1 in 2 cars are being more aggressive towards learner vehicles. I definitely have seen some poor attitudes towards learner drivers even from passengers. I just tell them that I know how the learner is feeling so I allow them extra time/room to manoeuvre and I try to have a policy not to pull out in front of a learner (unless I'd be well away and gone before affecting them)
@@LukeTR2000 Yep, It's not just learners that get aggro. If you drive a small / lesser brand car, you get people in bigger / more expensive cars, trying to intimidate you. Just bloody pass me, if you think doing the speed limit is not fast enough.
My grandson was knocked down by a car that went through a red at temporary traffic lights, he was 4 years old, he is 20 years old now, he is blind and in a wheelchair the driver was 24 no driving licence, no tax, no mot, no insurance, he was caught about 2 weeks later after he told his girlfriend and she told her father. the father called the police and reported him if he hadn't he would have gotten away with it. he was sentenced to 16 months in prison, he served 7. my grandson is blind and in a wheelchair for life because of this young mans impatience. if you are waiting make sure the light is broken before you go on red, and please go slowly just in case.
I basically just said the same thing! Happens every day round by me and not just once either. The amount of people who can’t (or won’t) steer round corners correctly amazes me.
You've aided and improved my driving, and I past my test 36yrs ago. I wonder what your students pass rates are, and how many have accidents (their fault) within a year of passing their tests. I know the latter is a daft question but, you're tuition has to lead to better drivers. Thank you Ashley
I love how the first one would have been on their way sooner had they taken the corner properly and without needing to reverse yet somehow, I suspect they will be blaming you for rushing down the road and forcing them onto the pavement 🤷🏻♂️
At 04:00 I think it's a legitimate move. No laws broken. But a bit risky. If traffic had been coming up from the left the driver would have been stuck. Also, if you are doing something a bit different, you have to watch out for other road users not expecting it and allow time and space for avoiding action.
I work for a DSP delivering parcels. Currently on average drivers get 178+ stops in a 9 hour work block. Roughly 20 stops expected per hour. Very heavy for most, about 25% of drivers finish around 8-9pm
I discovered this channel a few weeks ago and I've been watching numerous videos which I find extremely interesting and educational. I've had my driver's license for 29 years and zero accidents so far. I consider myself a responsible driver with a lot of experience, having driven millions of kilometers. Despite always driving various BMWs, I don't fit the stereotype of someone who drives this brand of cars. Nevertheless, I have been learning a lot from these videos and from the channel in general. We are always learning until we die, and driving is no exception. Let me tell you that I'm speaking from Portugal. The traffic rules are identical in every aspect, and the layout of the streets as well, only the driving side changes, lol. Some of the habits of aggressive driving, such as tailgating, pressuring, or using the vehicle as an alter ego, are also things that happen here. However, not as frequently as I have seen in these videos. In a way, I am surprised that there is so much rage and even violence on the roads of the United Kingdom. Keep up the good work Ashley
11:58 I have to say, I do agree, but its the same for L plates too, not just roof boxes! It's learner abuse in general, never mind the fact you're not actually a learner, however other people dont seem to much care about that when they've held their licence for multiple years!
Delivery drivers: i now deliver with shipping containers, probably the slowest and heaviest there is on road ( beside tanks and wide load and others needibg special permissions and escorts), i think its fair to say " the smaller the package , the more deliveries there are on board. Some parcel vans have 150 drops a shift , and thats why parcels get lost , stolen and damged in process. The smaller the profit margin per unit , the less care and the bigger the total volume of work ro make money. My job is easy, 2 major customers a day , any delays, cutomer gets informed and either waits or cancels. Tipper eagins and food / fridges can be under pressure , 2- 6 places to go in a shift. Planning is the main challenge for the company, and drivers are subject to more regulations than staff in an office witgout qualifications .
10 years as a tesco driver. You are encouraged to speed, jump lights and hog the road. The mentality is "Whose gonna argue with you, you're in a big van."
@2:43 I figured you beeped a) warn other road users (officially) b) (unofficially) catch the eye of possible police officer on your 1 oclock ahead parked up (was it the Po Po or a yellow top light ?)
4:46 regarding TM. I work in this sort of sites, and its terrifying the attitude people have towards them. Putting myself and my work colleagues in the working zone at risk just because its an inconvenience to wait.
in the states, we use live flaggers instead of temporary lights, and i had a run in with a particularly poor one. coming from a quarter mile away, I could see he had 3 waiting in the opposite direction, so I let off to allow him to pass them, but instead he kept gesticulating at me to hurry up, so I gradually increased speed, to not make the three who could easily have been through before I got there wait any longer than necessary. and then when I reached the roadworks, he stuck his lollipop out and yelled "slow the F' down" at which point, I did what any good driver would do: stamped the brake, (deliberately) stalled the motor, and yelled back, "make up your F'ing mind."
4:11 I would expect blue lighters to do this - makes sense. However if everyone considered it normal there would be an unacceptable risk to pedestrians and other road users.
watch out for anything German, LOL. I totally get your comments about having a roof box on. It does make me wonder whether having P plates on also has a similar effect.
6:15 Some of these motor scooter delivery drivers think they're untouchable. There's one who appears to do some sort of "round" in Broadgreen about 6-7am, he's all over the pavements, even riding behind a bus stop. He's had near misses with both cars and pedestrians on Thomas Drive, but keeps on doing it. He's going to injure somebody one day. And by the way he waits to move until he thinks he's out of my sight, he absolutely knows he's doing wrong.
2:20 this is a great example of a cyclist treating a red light as a give way in a safe manner, all-ways crossing phases are great for this. Yes, it's illegal, but actually not dangerous at all - especially uphill where the cyclist is travelling very slowly. I do hope the UK addresses this and makes this use of red lights legal, as they have done in some areas of the USA and Europe. Why the use of the horn though? No imminent danger.
Making excuses for illegal and potentially dangerous road use and then criticising someone who is trying to look after the person in danger. Standard from you.
If this behaviour is acceptable, would it will be fine for me to do the same thing in my car then? I'll slow down enough and make sure no one's coming!
@@ashley_neal it would not be acceptable to do this in a car, because motorised vehicles pose far greater risk to pedestrians than a cyclist. Also, when you are in a car, the risks other motorised vehicles pose to you are much less than if you were on a bicycle. So, there are not the same increased safety benefits that you get as a cyclist moving through on red. I never feel the need to drive a car through a red light (only very rarely when it's clear the lights are broken). I certainly never feel it would make me safer. Yet, I have cycled through red lights many times and felt it was the right thing to do to improve safety all round. As for the horn, there was no imminent danger. There was no crossing traffic and whilst I understand you thought there might have been crossing traffic and they may have benefitted from your use of the horn, the risk is it distracts the cyclist and also pedestrians, who were actually looking and paying attention, as you could clearly see from their head movements and actions at the previous set of lights where they slowed down for the runner.
I've yet to hear of anyone making this legal at red lights. I know of a few places in the US where stop signs, typically used in place of yield anyway because of the national obsession, are allowed to be treated as yields for cyclists, but not red lights.
The time pressure and payment styles if defiantly a big issue with delivery drivers encouraging reckless driving, its the same with some dump trucks drivers that get paid by the load, more you deliver more you get paid
Look at the overhead signs. Ashley's lane is used for taking the next exit, but the silver car is staying on the main road. Also, we just saw the silver car move out of the first lane, meaning the probability is very high that the silver car does not intend to take the next exit.
@@groundcontrolto To pass on the right is to overtake. To do it on the left is to left is to undertake. If the road only has a single lane as in most single carraigeways or in some dual carraigeways you have to come from directly behind. A car moves into lane 2 to overtake. It passes multiple vehicles in both lanes. Are you trying to say he is *undertaking* lane 1 but *passing" lane 3? Let's ask Ashley what to undertake means.
@@mikehunter2844 Clearly you don't drive in the UK? The closely spaced dashed lines indicate that the lane is part of a junction. It effectively means "get in lane, these roads will separate soon". He's not in a "Must turn left" lane because we don't have those on motorways in the UK, because effectively all exit roads act this way - there is no way he can continue straight on in the lane that he is in. Look at the road markings.
4:15 i would say a fail personally, not knowing the road there i will assume he hasn't done anything illegal, however, look at his driving, speeding into the corner, late braking, no indicator and then speeding off, it may have been "legal" but the driving is too erratic. 4:30 I want to start by saying i'm not excusing this, but in answer to the question, i think it's because temporary lights are always set to much longer than is needed to get through them (maybe to allow for this or heavy traffic) so people will just go through because even if another couple went through after him the other set would still be red on the other side, again, im not excusing this. 6:50 I'm not a delivery driver but i am a private hire taxi driver, the time pressures on very busy nights are real, i know taxi drivers and others get a bad wrap and most of the time there are stupid things that are done, after watching your videos i feel like i have improved a lot but i'll be honest there are times where i will probably do questionable moves when trying to get to a customer especially if i'm already late when i receive the job. I have been making a real effort recently to just ignore that fact, i will get to them when i get to them and then just apologise when i do.
Definate fail at 3:57, there could’ve been anyone ignoring red signals around that junction not expecting a car to make a half u-turn without really slowing down. Did they look or just do?
I'd have said that the Focus hooking it around the lights @3:58 was merely bloody cheeky if he'd done it at a speed that he could have made proper observations during the manoeuvre. However he was going way too fast to take in all that might have happened so I'm going to say that he was bloody stupid.
I had a mate some years ago tell me with all sincerity that you could go through temporary lights on red if you could see it was clear. People honestly believe the rules are different for temp lights at roadworks.
@5:50 He didn't give way to the pedestrian because he didn't think the the driver of the car on the right was going to give way... I wonder if the driver of the car on the right used the same rationale. Two people in the wrong doesn't make them right. Would he have made the same decision if there was a vehicle approaching from the right and the driver of the vehicle in the right hand lane didn't look like they were going to give way? If it were a zebra crossing would the same logic be valid? What about a pelican crossing? Or a level crossing? What if it were a cliff, should they both just drive off it? If he had stopped to allow the pedestrian to cross safely, as is their right, he would not have been holding up traffic - the motorists in the right hand lane, denying the pedestrians their right to cross safely would be the ones responsible for holding up traffic.
My driving instructor today told me to continue on even though there was a pedestrian waiting to cross the side road I was turning out of 🤔 I correctly gave way and he said I had priority as The Highway Code says I should only give way when turning into the road...
I really don't understand the logic of people like the one at 10:40. You wanted to get past the learner car, but didn't speed up enough, so the learner hasn't even got in the way. If they had just got on with it, they could have got past, but just didn't put their foot down.
I'm not convinced that a cyclist going through an all way pedestrian phase creates more danger than a cyclist being a sitting duck with a stampede of cars behind him that just got green light. Personally on a push bike I think waiting on the roadway for green light is just not an option. It is suicidally dangerous. On an electric bike it is sort of ok if you can immediately gun it to 20mph or so. As a car driver it is also way less annoying if that cyclist already moves on in the pedestrian phase. Did you notice the cars parked on street a bit further ahead (at 2:50)? That makes it even more dangerous. That sort of situation is how cyclists actually die.
The very first clip... it's amazing how many drivers are surprised to find other cars on the road (never mind the incorrect position and lack of observation)
Firstly they can park on one side of the road only. If that really isn’t going to work then the council can make an exception by painting parking bays on the pavement (which they can do already). The solution is not to just let people park on the pavement everywhere!
We're going to keep having stupid problems like this with car parks as long as nobody gets over the taboo of charging money for parking. Because that in turn means that, if there is a shortage of parking spots, nobody is going to spend the £££££ to build more of them. They can park like this, as long as they accept that people will walk in the roadway. And that you can only drive at walking pace because the cars block so many sight lines.
I was on the bus to Dudley on Thursday a skip driver cut the corner and gave the bus driver 2 fingers cuz he didn't move 😂 i looked at the truck driver and laughed what a tw*t 😂 I love your videos Ashley! Keep it up
That's normal around Dudley, nobody knows how to drive up there. A few drivers reckon it's the change in altitude compared to some other places but I'm a little more concerned that it's a disease of bad driving that's spreading... It could be worse. Could be a disease of disrespect flooding the UK
Hi Ashley, nothing really to with this video but i have a question to ask you. What would your advice be to someone like my self whos had a broken foot and has been off driving for over a month now, when going out to drive again for the first time, i know to take it steady but is there anything else you would advise me to do because i know its going to feel strange and my concentration might not be as good as normal.
hey man, im obvo not Ashley but I'd advise a quiet drive in a nearby car park. Like a Tesco or Asda after hours when its empty just to test your foot. Then a short drive around the block the next evening if your foot felt ok. Build up to driving again. Talking from experience after i had a 6 weeks off driving with a broken foot.
I've had many football injuries over the years where I've had to lay off the driving for a number of weeks. The comment above mine is a good one. Have a practice in a quiet area first and make sure you have the range of movement and pain is manageable to drive safely.
@@neiltill having a backup driver would be the advice I'd give. the Mrs has had a long recovery from foot problems, and yes, the backup driver is the biggest tip for a person recovering from a foot injury.
I still think that food delivery drivers should have passed there test no matter what mode of transport they use. They should also have some type of mandatory insurance (and yes I do mean cyclists in regards to working on the roads). Any other driving job would require these.
I think the red car felt entitled to be in front rather than behind because as the lights changed he was slightly ahead. However the van made good progress and he likely expected the white car in his lane to make faster progress but didn't and left him staggered begind you. He didnt like this for some reason and started waving. What a biff.
I hope data is being collected on delivery driver accidents both employees and contractors...if punishments/ incentives are leading to accidents the employers need to be held to account for their part.
R.E the delivery time pressure. Most delivery drivers, PH drivers etc. are self employed and as such are paid a fixed cost for the journey. So the quicker they are the more wages coming in.
It looks to me as if that first case of the pedestrian crossing the road and gesticulating towards the drive of the white Dacia was taking place at the junction with pedestrian crossing lights. Surely the new pedestrian priority rules do not take precedence over pedestrians correctly following the crossing lights?
I thought at first the pedestrian was in violation of his lights, but then remembered ashley had the red, which means on a US crossroads, both the pedestrian and the dacia would have a green - at which point, the priority favors the pedestrian. I understand some of your junctions do give the pedestrian their own phase of the lights instead of sharing with traffic running parallel, though.
On time pressure, just my perspective. I'm delivering for Amazon, and drivers are partially at fault. There're times when you smash your route, you can finish earlier than 9 hours, BUT what that does it's just shows Amazon that WAIT hold on, we gave too little work for this guy and he finished early, let's give him more, more and more, and it's becomes unsustainable and dangerous. Right now every shift I finish in over 9 hours, driving safely, but running with parcel like a mad man. It won't improve anytime, hope it doesn't get worse.
Ashley have you ever considered why other 'idiot' drivers always seem to notice the roof box but not the car badges??? I guess they assume the driver is a green learner rather than an instructor or very advanced learner that knows what the right pedal is for and how to use it when appropriate!!! Nicely done by removing the problem with the red car when entering the motorway and getting out of the way of other traffic on the motorway, all by using the right pedal. Many problems can be solved by accelerating instead of braking.
it preserves the recording. dashcams record continuously, and when you press the button, it shunts the previous amount of video to permanent storage. so you can press the button after an event happens, and it will be saved.
Great clips as always Ash. Just not sure about the Dacia vs ped. Hard to say if the Dacia did no shake his fists at the ped for crossing there - which may have been what started the argument.
@@ashley_neal Yes, I can see traffic lights may not be the best place to apply the pedestrian priority rule at junctions. I think it's best used at junctions of major and minor roads where we not normally expect a car to turn. And peds should always wait until given priority, hold back if need be.
The first PDI in the clips is my favourite by a long stretch! He is so incredibly eager to learn and despite english not being his first language!! As a fellow arab I commend you Sir! Ash! Do you do anything different when communicating with non native english speakers? I grew up bilingual and then learned English and it’s bloody hard learning the road rules in a third language!
Maybe the police should drive undercover with L plates. They would catch so many terrible drivers.
That’s actually a great idea
That works in a lot of industries. I've always said OFSTED would see what a school is really like if their inspectors went in as supply staff.
@CRTSte I once reported an old Seat overtaking me in Brummie land with blues , looked like a fake , so I reported him to police. Police called back, " Sir , this was one of our undercover unmarked cars of DRUGSQUAD"! 😅
And dodgy cyclists going through lights and pedestrians just walking straight onto a road not a crossing at night in black clothing..not even considering if a car has seen them.
with OFSTED its the receptionists who call the schools up and warn them. Same with retail, they get alerted to a inspection. My sister works in a nursery and OFSTED showed up early this year to do a inspection and thats how I know they get told by the OFSTED reception via a phone call.
I worked in retail for 15 years and some change, whenever the area manager would do a random inspection, his office would phone all the stores in the area and say "Darrell is styaing at the hotel in your area. Expect a surprise inspection in the next three days." For that time, managers and the store manager would rotate watch by the main doors and bark orders at everyone like a 1940's German PoW camp. "Put that there! Make sure every lable is facing forwards! Faster faster!!"@@PedroConejo1939
5:03 I think I would have also cycled on the pavement here. Temporary lights are rarely timed to allow for the slower speed of a cyclist, nor are the lanes made wide enough for safe overtaking. I usually take to the pavement or ride in the coned off area if it is safe to do so. With no pedestrians about by the looks of it, the pavement wins!
agreed. Plus with those lights too, cars both ways have a habbit of jumping the lights wih no room for manouvering. Safer to go on the path.
Agreed. Temporary lights are simply dangerous for cyclists. I've tried riding through them as I should and I'm always met with head-on traffic, even once had someone get out their car and try to hit me because I "Ran a red" despite the fact I went through as soon as the light turned green. This is on an electric bike that's actually pretty quick, too.
Yup, even if one doesn't have a head on situation you have a 90% chance of an impatient motorist on your back wheel.
Agreed, and, to look at it in a positive light, the cyclist was also being considerate to the traffic in general by not slowing the flow when the lights changed. Good all around.
Yeah wouldn't begrudge the cyclist there or ones taking a cheeky left if they can and do.
"He didn't! He never did! He never did!" 😮 Had me rolling 🤣🤣
A missed opportunity for “dey do dat do dont dey”
"I hope he's going to the hospital..." Driving like that it's only a matter of time.
I appreciate that you don't do what other driving channels have done when they film teaching someone and either purposefully let them drive like an idiot (under the guise of them learning when they know full well how to drive) for views. All your videos have been professional, educational moments in yours or other day to days with teachable moments, there is always a teachable moment being recorded by yourself or your community so great to see you use that instead of putting others at risk!
I think so many people ignore temporary lights because they are massively overused and dreadfully slow to change, but it doesn't make it right.
Ashley needs to do a trackday edition. brake on the way in, ride the apex and power out.!
They also get stuck on red almost all the time around the West Midlands
@@LukeTR2000 I was waiting at a set in Gloucester once, and after about 5 minutes or so on red, a police car came up behind, After a few seconds he put his blues on and gestured at me to move forward so he could pass. I thought he was on a shout, so I got out of his way as best I could. As he passed me, he stopped and wound the passenger side window down. "Those lights have been buggered for ages, just carry on..!" So I did 🤣
As a cyclist I don't blame the cyclist for ignoring it. I've sat at a temporary light for 15 mins before it changed, and I suspect that was only due to a car coming up behind me. They haven't been designed to account for cyclists - we are too small, not bright enough, or whatever it is to trigger the sensor.
On a different occasion there was traffic backed up for miles blocking two roundabouts. Naturally I cycled past all the vehicles, giggling as they were stuck in traffic, got to the front and bam temporarily lights. Waited about 10 mins, before asking the person at the front how long they have been waiting. She said about 15 mins before I arrived. Noticed that it seemed to have cycled through two phases but not ours, being a three way set up. Knowing how bad the traffic was, I just cycled through the red light. Told people to wait even if they had a green due to traffic backing up for miles. Gestured for them to come forward and revealed some of the congestion. They were clearly broken, and something needed to be done.
Not an unusal situation, if you ring the 0800 number on the light base, they can often reset them in minutes from their office.
The temporary lights that really get my goat are the ones that they have set up outside all of the hs2 sites around me, so that their lorries don't have to wait to pull out. It's a bloody cheek@@stephenjamespayne6131
4:15 a little cheeky but i dont think its wrong as long as all lights passed are green and theres nothing saying he cant U-Turn after the junction
I do the exact same thing all the time
Yeah it struck me as the roundabout slingshot of these junctions! It's not actually illegal if done safely. But it is a bit cheeky.
I see some junctions like that where signs are up stopping you from doing just that, so I assume at any other junction it's legal.
Though if you're trying to save time, putting the foot down a little, not the safest thing to do.
theres a staggered junction near me with a no right turn. EVERYONE who wants to turn right go into the left only lane, filter through the no traffic light part, then ro a sharp 90 degrees right and go straight across (where you cant turn right, is then a straight line for them). While not illegal, its a bit cheeky. @@alastairward2774
Another tip is if the left lane to a roundabout is backing up (and you want to turn left), use the right lane, go all the way around and skip the queue, of course ensure everything is done safely.
3:00 not sure if a reference or tongue in cheek but the graphic in the bottom left clicking the like button from -1070 to -1069 gave me a chuckle 😄
I was about to make exactly the same comment :D
Who watches youtube with the - timestamp 🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@JohnSmith19282 What?
The second clip of the white duster was my mate. He actually stopped as the woman was already in the road and she wasn't moaning she was thanking him 😂😂
6:48 I'm a delivery rider on an acoustic bike in the Netherlands and recently started to train new colleagues. I work for a platform (dispatched to multiple restaurants) in an employed fashion, hourly pay and limited order bonusses. The payment structure gives very little incentive to hurry, so I totally don't feel pressure to break traffic law, or even exhaust myself. And everything related to the behaviour in traffic in my instruction as a captain who trains and evaluates new and existing couriers is to downplay the incentive to hurry as much as possible. We tell them to ignore the forecasted times the app displays, most of the time a delay is not a couriers fault or in the couriers power to correct. We always tell them to favour safety over speed if they want to save time by ignoring some traffic rules. However the cycling speed is something that we have to evaluate, but I interpret that as the speed one achieves on a straight and absent of danger. So there is a focus on speed, but we do everything to make sure that speed comes from efficiency off the bike and from a decent enough inherent cycling speed, not from violating traffic laws. However the barrier for couriers being denied or fired for traffic violations alone is kinda high. We will not be as strict or even knowledgeable as a driving examiner has to be.
This is off course all from the perspective of one company. And admittedly a meal delivery company that wants to do better on things like this than the rest of the industry. I know many restaurants who hire their own driver/riders do put pressure on their personnel and I think it's noticeable on the road. Moped riders often are between 16 and 18 years old when they are employed there and still highly susceptible to let pressure from supervisors make them cross their boundaries. Though not every restaurant is the same off course. I've seen a pizza place print their phone number including the line "Not happy with our riding? Call this number" on the delivery box.
I've ridden for UberEats and Deliveroo as well, in their "sham" freelance model (sham because they act like an employers, but only pay per order so putting all their business risk on their workers). I can highly imagine couriers for them feeling the pressure if they're in that model and needing to survive. What makes it worse is that that model is basically gambling. You put your time in and investment in your vehicle as an ante, and hope for a prize. You feel elated when you earn a lot, some get addicted to that feeling and go on to blaming themselves for bad days, making bad decisions to make up for it, etc.. I never felt that pressure too much because I wasn't as dependent on that income at the time, but that somewhat addictive nature of the business model and the somewhat gamified apps I did feel. I've heard it resulting in life altering accidents in my city, but also seen it turn into almost violence towards restaurants workers when the orders aren't there.
TL;DR: I am not put under any unreasonable time pressure, but I know my company is the exception.
"Acoustic bike" lmao
Do you watch CityNerd too?
@@frafraplanner9277 I've seen some of them yeah. But I think I got the term from Not Just Bikes actually.
WTF is an acoustic bike..?
@@TestGearJunkie. non-electric
@@frafraplanner9277 I've seen it, but I believe I got it from Not Just Bikes. Or possibly Shifter.
I'm absolutely binging your videos now that i've passed :) I'm looking forward to being a safe, happy driver with your continued videos and really great calm explanations. I hope you know you help learners just as much as those who have recently passed continue their education.
Lol memories of 1986, instructor: "i don't allow my pupils to drive back from the test centre".
Mine too, in 1975!
I did, in 1983. Although maybe it depends on whose car it is. I took my test in my dad's Austin Metro 1.3HL, lovely car it was, bought one of my own later in my driving career. But I suppose if it's the instructor's car, he can say no. Although why they would I don't really understand.
Mine told me that young lads who had just passed their test tended to get a bit over excited, and he wanted to live to retire some day!@@TestGearJunkie.
when I passed my motorcycle test my instructor told me to ride it back to the training school. Said I had an hour. It was less than a mile away 😇
The reason for that is quite straightforward : having passed the basic test of competence to drive , they cease to be a student driver and therefore no longer covered by the instructor's insurance . Many instructors have that restriction on their insurance .
6:56 passed his test and immediately on his phone.... is he insuring a BMW as his first car?!
Only joking, congrats Owen!
4:16 I have to admit, I have done this kind of thing in the past. My favourite trick though is using a roundabout to get past loads of cars in the left hand lane by taking the right hand lane and going around it.
Known as the Slingshot maneuver.
@@iluvgsds is it really, makes sense.
Nowt wrong with that, I do it all the time. You're a fool if you know you can do it but don't because you're worried about upsetting others. Its the same mentality as when people don't zip merge.
15:30 red lights mean that red cars can go, duh.
Re the delivery driver at 6:50 ish - I've had deliveries from various takeways, and the routes it takes riders sometimes is madness. There's a bollarded off road near to mine, and it has been that way for 8+ years - still tells riders to go that way; even seen riders effectively doing circles - imagine the app's not giving them alternative routes some times.
We got pizza the other day for my brother's birthday, and my dad (who ordered it) was confused why the driver went down a certain road...
Well simple explanation is that Google thinks its impossible to turn into the first 2 driveways in our street unless you come from around the nearby lake. If you come into our street from our end, it wants you to not just go down about a kilometre to turn around, but to go around the block to do it, putting you onto the road that goes around said lake, before returning to our street again.. The street is big enough to turn a full road train around in - which happens from time to time. It's about the width of a 6 lane road but is only actually 2 lanes.
I sent feedback to google about this multiple times years ago, but nothing has changed. Deliveries and visitors still all come the slow way.
9:05… staggered formation on the roundabout - [excellent]…
give yourself space and an escape route ready for the things that can go wrong.
3:56 On the shortcut past the lights. If it's legal and available. I would not see the issue.
However I wonder about the legality of that shortcut but also the speed was not appropriate also.
Dunno about UK, but in my country avoiding set of lights is illegal, even when you get past them by driving into a parking lot or something lol.
Yeah, as long as it's done safely, I see no issue with it. However, with that speed, I doubt it was actually very safe. What if someone came up from the left? Would they have been able to stop?
Also, in this case, with the left arrow on the road, is turning right even legal? I don't know about the UK, but here in the Netherlands, you have to follow the direction of the arrow.
Yep, they clearly rushed through which could be classed as careless driving.
Circumventing red traffic lights is illegal. I recall one or two instances where people were charged after driving through a fuel station to avoid lights. I know cause I googled to see if I could do the same thing lol, good job I didn't do it first, before finding the news articles.
14:42 I might be wrong but it looks like the tractor driver is using a walkie-talkie rather than a phone. This is pretty normal in the world of tractor driving. Some tractors have in-built systems for comms but as a contract owner, you’re often at the mercy of whatever systems are on the site you’re working.
Handheld walkies should not be used on a public road though, but have some thought for the crap this lad may have to take from the site manager when he puts down the radio on that 20m of tarmac. H&S is hard when your gaffer makes out you’ll be fired if you don’t do as you’re told.
It was definitely a phone, not a walkie talkie
@@ChaimU1 Fair enough. I couldn’t make it out myself.
2 way radios with PTT are exempt from mobile phone legislation .
5:02 controversially, I don't really see anything wrong with this. Indeed by using the path and not waiting, he is actually aiding best flow of traffic. Me though, I would wait and then go through the coned area so that cars could pass me safely.
and onto wet cement, or into a consealed hole or into a piece of machinery under a black cover incase of rain....
@@AzguardMike and your point is what?
@@brantnuttall his point is that inside the coned area is not necessarily safe. in my opinion, the path was the safer option, as it appeared to not have any pedestrian traffic at the time, assuming he went at a safe speed, in case a pedestrian did a "sudden sheep" appearance.
@@kenbrown2808 and that is no point at all. it's all down to the cyclist. he suffers or not as his actions dictate. nobody else would be involved.
@@brantnuttall and where I am, he may suffered getting ticketed for being inside the cones on a construction area. the purpose of the cones is to divide where the public is allowed to be, from where the public is not allowed to be.
I think the bike at 4:30 did a sensible thing. Cautiously looked the works and decided not to use the narrow section and use the pavement instead. I dont condone cycling on a pavement but avoiding the section past the works removes them from the risk of meeting red light jumpers or other impatient motorists.
12:15 that road is absolutely awful! The roads in the Uk are just getting worse and worse
7:24, in fairness the VW changed lane just as the road sign on the left came into view but they were to close to the van to see it, so may not have known they needed to go left when the got to the next sign by the traffic light. This can happen if the passenger is giving directions.
Is that a timewarped Jim Royle from the Royal Family with you at 12:33? 🤣 "He never did. He never did. I hope he's going the hospital."
I want him as my instructor
I've only ever done that traffic light dodge at 4:15 once, when my clutch cable had snapped on my bike and I wanted to get home without stopping - I had a pillion too. Changes on the move were mostly no problem, but from a standstill and from first to second, wasn't very nice. Wouldn't do it in normal circumstances, and to be honest, it wouldn't have surprised me if I'd been pulled over for it (I wasn't).
when I was young, my dad had a clutch go bad from a defect, and for a short stop, he could put the pedal to the floor, and heel and toe the brake and throttle; but for a long stop or to change direction, he needed to shut the motor off. fortunately, he had a strong starter motor, and the shop was good about getting him in promptly.
@@kenbrown2808 Yeah, this was about 1990, and I can't remember my exact reasoning, but I think it was along the lines of the starter motor being far more expensive than a clutch cable - it was a BMW K100, a dreadfully unreliable machine.
@@PedroConejo1939 my dad's was in the early 80s. with a GMC, which were pretty much bulletproof at the time. once the defective clutch was replaced, I don't think it had any transmission work in the 300,000 miles he drove it.
9:48 nice considerate driving by the black cab there.
I used to be a delivery rider for a large pizza chain. They provided a 110cc Honda Vision, and the manager would threaten vague disciplinary action if you took too long. Realistically though, a lot of these riders are "self employed" through Deliveroo or Uber Eats, where the incentive is to get deliveries done as fast as humanly possible. More deliveries in an hour means a higher wage, and more chances to get a tip if it's very quick... So they take risks.
Congratulatuons to Josh. 13:28 is Lord Street in Southport, if you ever need to practice dealing with unexpected pedestrians everywhere it's a prime location. Often you'll get them exactly half way between the many crossings stood in the middle of the road because they didn't want to walk one way or the other. Definitely need your wits about you!
I work as a delivery driver. Sometimes, you can end up behind schedule depending on traffic and other things such as people not answering their doors, etc. But, you're not penalised for falling behind with who I work for. It's just "one of those things."
The other day I got beeped and overtaken by a dick in a smart car and then nearly got rear ended by the lorry behind him just because I didn't run a red on some temporary lights that were taking a while to cycle through. It obviously wasn't stuck as we'd been through a cycle already. The light went green about 10 seconds later, and I caught up with the smart car at the next set of traffic lights. Real stellar choices there lads.
Smart Car 😂😂
“Always German” , made me chuckle as it’s very true
Only certain marques of German.
I switched from a very old Jaguar to a newer BMW once (my wife got fed up with my 18-year-old Jag breaking down so often). Other drivers reacted with shock and suspicion when I indicated, respected speed limits and courteously gave space for other drivers. 😂
@@R04drunner1nah they didn’t.
Need to stop this myth. There are bad drivers everywhere driving cars built by pretty much every manufacturer.
7:52 Ashley, you missed the 20 mph speed limit sign on the right! Whoever put that there is barking!!!
I spotted that. Everyone including Ashley was well over 20 mph.
@@jamielee-hill449 aye, I actually think that sign reduced road safety
Congratulations Owen 🎉🎉
Never stop learning while you are out on the roads 👍
That time with an instructor could be vital to notice surroundings, keep phones away and be educated even if you’ve passed. Insurance can be sorted later
Totally wrong Philip. One of the reasons why many instructors often drive back after the test is because concentration has finished. (Another reason this can happen is because on a private policy, there has been no chance for the novice driver to change the insurance to them then being a full licence holder. No issues regarding this with an instructor policy.) The excitement is obvious to get his car insured and phone use as a passenger is totally fine.
@@ashley_neal I remember my instructor saying they drive back as there is a strong chance the pupil will be too excited if they pass or too distraught if they fail. Rather than make a judgemental call on whether someone can or cannot drive it is best to just not allow them to drive back and takes away any ambiguity
@@ashley_neal I also passed in January, and the instructors in that driving school drive their newly passed students come pass or fail, as the mindset is affected. If they fail, there's a chance they'll feel dejected and not 100% concentrate, and in my case (and others who passed) you get a bit hyped up - I was rambling and babbling the way back, when we got close to my place I apologised for rambling on and he just said "that's why we drive you back after" haha.
@@ashley_neal I think perhaps you’re misunderstanding me ash, it’s better to learn a life lesson with intuition rather than experiencing one of life’s lessons. Perhaps put your pupil or ex pupil in their instructor’s shoes and ask them what can see outside and what they expect from other drivers. Ask the pupil to give a running commentary. Try and not let the ex pupil get too excited for their new car until they’re at home, college, work etc too. Think of it as free advice
i do shopping deliveries for tesco and the time pressure we have is no way near as bad as it is for fast food or parcel deliveries, can drive in a sensible manor and not have to worry about skipping queues of traffic to get to the next address in time
12:00 also happens about 10 times as often when you drive a wheelchair van compared to a regular car
4:15 I don't mind this. Only thing i'd say was the speed was a little fast. Overall I think it's good for everyone one less car sitting in traffic.
In the UK, we get videos of drivers making allowances for others, and avoiding collisions. In America, they barrel through every intersection, and wonder why they hit things.
I'm sure the effect is so much greater with L plates on, but I noticed it even just driving a smaller car for a while. My car is a Skoda Superb - not enormous but a relatively big estate. When it went in for a repair I was given a Ford Fiesta as a courtesy car for a couple of weeks. I couldn't believe the number of people trying to force their way past me in that 2 weeks even though I wasn't going any slower than I usually do. And sure enough when I got my car back, it all stopped.
Seems like a "I've got a better car than you, I'm more important" kind of attitude. Though I do see it more when I'm at work driving a bus than I do when I'm in my car. So I think Ashley is possibly correct that it happens a lot more. I suspect it's possible that it feels like 1 in 2 cars are being more aggressive towards learner vehicles. I definitely have seen some poor attitudes towards learner drivers even from passengers. I just tell them that I know how the learner is feeling so I allow them extra time/room to manoeuvre and I try to have a policy not to pull out in front of a learner (unless I'd be well away and gone before affecting them)
@@LukeTR2000
Yep, It's not just learners that get aggro. If you drive a small / lesser brand car, you get people in bigger / more expensive cars, trying to intimidate you.
Just bloody pass me, if you think doing the speed limit is not fast enough.
My grandson was knocked down by a car that went through a red at temporary traffic lights, he was 4 years old, he is 20 years old now, he is blind and in a wheelchair the driver was 24 no driving licence, no tax, no mot, no insurance, he was caught about 2 weeks later after he told his girlfriend and she told her father. the father called the police and reported him if he hadn't he would have gotten away with it. he was sentenced to 16 months in prison, he served 7. my grandson is blind and in a wheelchair for life because of this young mans impatience. if you are waiting make sure the light is broken before you go on red, and please go slowly just in case.
12:31 i love that reaction! :D
Those cutting the corner clips lol, happens all the time, people are incapable of turning into a side road properly it seems and never look ahead
There's a notorious corner for that near me. I sit near the middle line even though I'm turning left just to make people take the corner properly.
I basically just said the same thing! Happens every day round by me and not just once either. The amount of people who can’t (or won’t) steer round corners correctly amazes me.
You've aided and improved my driving, and I past my test 36yrs ago.
I wonder what your students pass rates are, and how many have accidents (their fault) within a year of passing their tests. I know the latter is a daft question but, you're tuition has to lead to better drivers.
Thank you Ashley
passed mine 15 years ago with change, and still learning new things thanks to this channel.
I love how the first one would have been on their way sooner had they taken the corner properly and without needing to reverse yet somehow, I suspect they will be blaming you for rushing down the road and forcing them onto the pavement 🤷🏻♂️
See this all the times on school runs lol
At 04:00 I think it's a legitimate move. No laws broken. But a bit risky. If traffic had been coming up from the left the driver would have been stuck. Also, if you are doing something a bit different, you have to watch out for other road users not expecting it and allow time and space for avoiding action.
1:00 maybe the lights weren't red for pedestrians and driver was arguing
I work for a DSP delivering parcels. Currently on average drivers get 178+ stops in a 9 hour work block. Roughly 20 stops expected per hour. Very heavy for most, about 25% of drivers finish around 8-9pm
I discovered this channel a few weeks ago and I've been watching numerous videos which I find extremely interesting and educational. I've had my driver's license for 29 years and zero accidents so far. I consider myself a responsible driver with a lot of experience, having driven millions of kilometers. Despite always driving various BMWs, I don't fit the stereotype of someone who drives this brand of cars.
Nevertheless, I have been learning a lot from these videos and from the channel in general. We are always learning until we die, and driving is no exception.
Let me tell you that I'm speaking from Portugal. The traffic rules are identical in every aspect, and the layout of the streets as well, only the driving side changes, lol.
Some of the habits of aggressive driving, such as tailgating, pressuring, or using the vehicle as an alter ego, are also things that happen here.
However, not as frequently as I have seen in these videos. In a way, I am surprised that there is so much rage and even violence on the roads of the United Kingdom.
Keep up the good work Ashley
11:58 I have to say, I do agree, but its the same for L plates too, not just roof boxes! It's learner abuse in general, never mind the fact you're not actually a learner, however other people dont seem to much care about that when they've held their licence for multiple years!
Ashley's vibe in the first clip funniest thing because it's been everyone at one point in the winter .
Delivery drivers: i now deliver with shipping containers, probably the slowest and heaviest there is on road ( beside tanks and wide load and others needibg special permissions and escorts), i think its fair to say " the smaller the package , the more deliveries there are on board. Some parcel vans have 150 drops a shift , and thats why parcels get lost , stolen and damged in process. The smaller the profit margin per unit , the less care and the bigger the total volume of work ro make money. My job is easy, 2 major customers a day , any delays, cutomer gets informed and either waits or cancels. Tipper eagins and food / fridges can be under pressure , 2- 6 places to go in a shift. Planning is the main challenge for the company, and drivers are subject to more regulations than staff in an office witgout qualifications .
10 years as a tesco driver. You are encouraged to speed, jump lights and hog the road. The mentality is "Whose gonna argue with you, you're in a big van."
@@AzguardMike That explains a lot
@2:43 I figured you beeped a) warn other road users (officially) b) (unofficially) catch the eye of possible police officer on your 1 oclock ahead parked up (was it the Po Po or a yellow top light ?)
4:46 regarding TM. I work in this sort of sites, and its terrifying the attitude people have towards them. Putting myself and my work colleagues in the working zone at risk just because its an inconvenience to wait.
in the states, we use live flaggers instead of temporary lights, and i had a run in with a particularly poor one. coming from a quarter mile away, I could see he had 3 waiting in the opposite direction, so I let off to allow him to pass them, but instead he kept gesticulating at me to hurry up, so I gradually increased speed, to not make the three who could easily have been through before I got there wait any longer than necessary. and then when I reached the roadworks, he stuck his lollipop out and yelled "slow the F' down" at which point, I did what any good driver would do: stamped the brake, (deliberately) stalled the motor, and yelled back, "make up your F'ing mind."
Learner at 5:12 is going to be a good driver thanks to his ability, mentality and instructor.
4:11 I would expect blue lighters to do this - makes sense. However if everyone considered it normal there would be an unacceptable risk to pedestrians and other road users.
watch out for anything German, LOL. I totally get your comments about having a roof box on. It does make me wonder whether having P plates on also has a similar effect.
What was exactly wrong with the first clip? The road layout made it confusing.
The pedestrian discussion at 5:12 is interesting. Would that have been an issue in a test?
6:15 Some of these motor scooter delivery drivers think they're untouchable. There's one who appears to do some sort of "round" in Broadgreen about 6-7am, he's all over the pavements, even riding behind a bus stop. He's had near misses with both cars and pedestrians on Thomas Drive, but keeps on doing it. He's going to injure somebody one day. And by the way he waits to move until he thinks he's out of my sight, he absolutely knows he's doing wrong.
2:20 this is a great example of a cyclist treating a red light as a give way in a safe manner, all-ways crossing phases are great for this. Yes, it's illegal, but actually not dangerous at all - especially uphill where the cyclist is travelling very slowly. I do hope the UK addresses this and makes this use of red lights legal, as they have done in some areas of the USA and Europe.
Why the use of the horn though? No imminent danger.
Making excuses for illegal and potentially dangerous road use and then criticising someone who is trying to look after the person in danger. Standard from you.
If this behaviour is acceptable, would it will be fine for me to do the same thing in my car then? I'll slow down enough and make sure no one's coming!
@@ashley_neal it would not be acceptable to do this in a car, because motorised vehicles pose far greater risk to pedestrians than a cyclist. Also, when you are in a car, the risks other motorised vehicles pose to you are much less than if you were on a bicycle. So, there are not the same increased safety benefits that you get as a cyclist moving through on red.
I never feel the need to drive a car through a red light (only very rarely when it's clear the lights are broken). I certainly never feel it would make me safer. Yet, I have cycled through red lights many times and felt it was the right thing to do to improve safety all round.
As for the horn, there was no imminent danger. There was no crossing traffic and whilst I understand you thought there might have been crossing traffic and they may have benefitted from your use of the horn, the risk is it distracts the cyclist and also pedestrians, who were actually looking and paying attention, as you could clearly see from their head movements and actions at the previous set of lights where they slowed down for the runner.
Lol.
I've yet to hear of anyone making this legal at red lights. I know of a few places in the US where stop signs, typically used in place of yield anyway because of the national obsession, are allowed to be treated as yields for cyclists, but not red lights.
Brilliant piece of driving by that ford and allowing your pupils to to turn, surely they’d seen you and hadn’t changed their route
Some undertaking in that first clip!! Becoming more common now as well!!
The time pressure and payment styles if defiantly a big issue with delivery drivers encouraging reckless driving, its the same with some dump trucks drivers that get paid by the load, more you deliver more you get paid
11:16 Ashley undertaking🤣 I've had to watch this a dozen times to believe it.
Passing traffic on the left (in this instance) isn't undertaking.
Edit: Didn't think I'd have to caveat that statement.
Look at the overhead signs. Ashley's lane is used for taking the next exit, but the silver car is staying on the main road. Also, we just saw the silver car move out of the first lane, meaning the probability is very high that the silver car does not intend to take the next exit.
@@FlavourlessLife Taking the next exit "ahead". He's not in a Must Turn Left.
@@groundcontrolto To pass on the right is to overtake. To do it on the left is to left is to undertake.
If the road only has a single lane as in most single carraigeways or in some dual carraigeways you have to come from directly behind.
A car moves into lane 2 to overtake. It passes multiple vehicles in both lanes. Are you trying to say he is *undertaking* lane 1 but *passing" lane 3?
Let's ask Ashley what to undertake means.
@@mikehunter2844 Clearly you don't drive in the UK? The closely spaced dashed lines indicate that the lane is part of a junction. It effectively means "get in lane, these roads will separate soon". He's not in a "Must turn left" lane because we don't have those on motorways in the UK, because effectively all exit roads act this way - there is no way he can continue straight on in the lane that he is in. Look at the road markings.
great video. thanks Ashley!
4:15 i would say a fail personally, not knowing the road there i will assume he hasn't done anything illegal, however, look at his driving, speeding into the corner, late braking, no indicator and then speeding off, it may have been "legal" but the driving is too erratic.
4:30 I want to start by saying i'm not excusing this, but in answer to the question, i think it's because temporary lights are always set to much longer than is needed to get through them (maybe to allow for this or heavy traffic) so people will just go through because even if another couple went through after him the other set would still be red on the other side, again, im not excusing this.
6:50 I'm not a delivery driver but i am a private hire taxi driver, the time pressures on very busy nights are real, i know taxi drivers and others get a bad wrap and most of the time there are stupid things that are done, after watching your videos i feel like i have improved a lot but i'll be honest there are times where i will probably do questionable moves when trying to get to a customer especially if i'm already late when i receive the job.
I have been making a real effort recently to just ignore that fact, i will get to them when i get to them and then just apologise when i do.
00:34 Croaky Neal? Sore throat eh!
Definate fail at 3:57, there could’ve been anyone ignoring red signals around that junction not expecting a car to make a half u-turn without really slowing down.
Did they look or just do?
the beautiful man at 12.10 is my father . he is so funny 😂
Hi Ashley, I have recently got the A139 pro, could you do a quick video on the settings you use. And also how like the parking settings work.
9:47 I was waiting for "dey bombed our chippies..."
I'd have said that the Focus hooking it around the lights @3:58 was merely bloody cheeky if he'd done it at a speed that he could have made proper observations during the manoeuvre. However he was going way too fast to take in all that might have happened so I'm going to say that he was bloody stupid.
Because they think that temporary traffic lights are not legal. I have heard people say that.
I had a mate some years ago tell me with all sincerity that you could go through temporary lights on red if you could see it was clear. People honestly believe the rules are different for temp lights at roadworks.
@5:50 He didn't give way to the pedestrian because he didn't think the the driver of the car on the right was going to give way... I wonder if the driver of the car on the right used the same rationale. Two people in the wrong doesn't make them right. Would he have made the same decision if there was a vehicle approaching from the right and the driver of the vehicle in the right hand lane didn't look like they were going to give way? If it were a zebra crossing would the same logic be valid? What about a pelican crossing? Or a level crossing? What if it were a cliff, should they both just drive off it?
If he had stopped to allow the pedestrian to cross safely, as is their right, he would not have been holding up traffic - the motorists in the right hand lane, denying the pedestrians their right to cross safely would be the ones responsible for holding up traffic.
My driving instructor today told me to continue on even though there was a pedestrian waiting to cross the side road I was turning out of 🤔 I correctly gave way and he said I had priority as The Highway Code says I should only give way when turning into the road...
I really don't understand the logic of people like the one at 10:40. You wanted to get past the learner car, but didn't speed up enough, so the learner hasn't even got in the way. If they had just got on with it, they could have got past, but just didn't put their foot down.
I'm not convinced that a cyclist going through an all way pedestrian phase creates more danger than a cyclist being a sitting duck with a stampede of cars behind him that just got green light.
Personally on a push bike I think waiting on the roadway for green light is just not an option. It is suicidally dangerous. On an electric bike it is sort of ok if you can immediately gun it to 20mph or so.
As a car driver it is also way less annoying if that cyclist already moves on in the pedestrian phase.
Did you notice the cars parked on street a bit further ahead (at 2:50)? That makes it even more dangerous. That sort of situation is how cyclists actually die.
That focus doing a left then a right, done it safe enough to be considered fine if say
The very first clip... it's amazing how many drivers are surprised to find other cars on the road (never mind the incorrect position and lack of observation)
What on earth are they going to do in that housing estate you started the video in if they do outlaw parking on the pavement?
That's why it will never happen in some cities. There is not enough space.
Firstly they can park on one side of the road only. If that really isn’t going to work then the council can make an exception by painting parking bays on the pavement (which they can do already). The solution is not to just let people park on the pavement everywhere!
@@ashley_neal Or too many cars.
We're going to keep having stupid problems like this with car parks as long as nobody gets over the taboo of charging money for parking. Because that in turn means that, if there is a shortage of parking spots, nobody is going to spend the £££££ to build more of them.
They can park like this, as long as they accept that people will walk in the roadway. And that you can only drive at walking pace because the cars block so many sight lines.
9:25 wot kind of parking is that on the left 😆
I was on the bus to Dudley on Thursday a skip driver cut the corner and gave the bus driver 2 fingers cuz he didn't move 😂 i looked at the truck driver and laughed what a tw*t 😂 I love your videos Ashley! Keep it up
That's normal around Dudley, nobody knows how to drive up there. A few drivers reckon it's the change in altitude compared to some other places but I'm a little more concerned that it's a disease of bad driving that's spreading... It could be worse. Could be a disease of disrespect flooding the UK
Hi Ashley, nothing really to with this video but i have a question to ask you. What would your advice be to someone like my self whos had a broken foot and has been off driving for over a month now, when going out to drive again for the first time, i know to take it steady but is there anything else you would advise me to do because i know its going to feel strange and my concentration might not be as good as normal.
hey man, im obvo not Ashley but I'd advise a quiet drive in a nearby car park. Like a Tesco or Asda after hours when its empty just to test your foot. Then a short drive around the block the next evening if your foot felt ok. Build up to driving again. Talking from experience after i had a 6 weeks off driving with a broken foot.
I've had many football injuries over the years where I've had to lay off the driving for a number of weeks. The comment above mine is a good one. Have a practice in a quiet area first and make sure you have the range of movement and pain is manageable to drive safely.
@@ashley_neal thanks, I will do that I'm hoping to have a go driving tomorrow when someone can come with me to take over if needed.
@@AzguardMike thanks for the advice.👍
@@neiltill having a backup driver would be the advice I'd give. the Mrs has had a long recovery from foot problems, and yes, the backup driver is the biggest tip for a person recovering from a foot injury.
Is cutting a T-junction when turning right a new thing now?
I still think that food delivery drivers should have passed there test no matter what mode of transport they use. They should also have some type of mandatory insurance (and yes I do mean cyclists in regards to working on the roads).
Any other driving job would require these.
I think the red car felt entitled to be in front rather than behind because as the lights changed he was slightly ahead. However the van made good progress and he likely expected the white car in his lane to make faster progress but didn't and left him staggered begind you. He didnt like this for some reason and started waving. What a biff.
That junction in the last clip. I know it so well, and yet I've never been there...
I hope data is being collected on delivery driver accidents both employees and contractors...if punishments/ incentives are leading to accidents the employers need to be held to account for their part.
That'd be far to sensible
R.E the delivery time pressure. Most delivery drivers, PH drivers etc. are self employed and as such are paid a fixed cost for the journey. So the quicker they are the more wages coming in.
It looks to me as if that first case of the pedestrian crossing the road and gesticulating towards the drive of the white Dacia was taking place at the junction with pedestrian crossing lights. Surely the new pedestrian priority rules do not take precedence over pedestrians correctly following the crossing lights?
I thought at first the pedestrian was in violation of his lights, but then remembered ashley had the red, which means on a US crossroads, both the pedestrian and the dacia would have a green - at which point, the priority favors the pedestrian. I understand some of your junctions do give the pedestrian their own phase of the lights instead of sharing with traffic running parallel, though.
@@kenbrown2808 I'm thinking that the pedestrians have their own lights.
New transition effect? Any others worth testing?✌
At 9.40, personally I'd have let the cars out from the right, am I wrong ?
Yes, you should wait until 10am
On time pressure, just my perspective. I'm delivering for Amazon, and drivers are partially at fault. There're times when you smash your route, you can finish earlier than 9 hours, BUT what that does it's just shows Amazon that WAIT hold on, we gave too little work for this guy and he finished early, let's give him more, more and more, and it's becomes unsustainable and dangerous. Right now every shift I finish in over 9 hours, driving safely, but running with parcel like a mad man. It won't improve anytime, hope it doesn't get worse.
Ashley have you ever considered why other 'idiot' drivers always seem to notice the roof box but not the car badges??? I guess they assume the driver is a green learner rather than an instructor or very advanced learner that knows what the right pedal is for and how to use it when appropriate!!! Nicely done by removing the problem with the red car when entering the motorway and getting out of the way of other traffic on the motorway, all by using the right pedal. Many problems can be solved by accelerating instead of braking.
Whats the button press do?
it preserves the recording. dashcams record continuously, and when you press the button, it shunts the previous amount of video to permanent storage. so you can press the button after an event happens, and it will be saved.
Great clips as always Ash. Just not sure about the Dacia vs ped. Hard to say if the Dacia did no shake his fists at the ped for crossing there - which may have been what started the argument.
The walk out started things 👍
@@ashley_neal Yes, I can see traffic lights may not be the best place to apply the pedestrian priority rule at junctions. I think it's best used at junctions of major and minor roads where we not normally expect a car to turn. And peds should always wait until given priority, hold back if need be.
Look again, pedestrian is thanking the driver. Nice to be nice
Temporary lights are usually setup with ridiculously long delays. Its no excuse but thats why people do it.
Didn't young Josh do well at 14:00 - no wonder he passed!
7:10 sometimes we just get lost
The first PDI in the clips is my favourite by a long stretch! He is so incredibly eager to learn and despite english not being his first language!!
As a fellow arab I commend you Sir!
Ash! Do you do anything different when communicating with non native english speakers?
I grew up bilingual and then learned English and it’s bloody hard learning the road rules in a third language!
Effectively I have to give this PDI English lessons also. His commitment to improvement is amazing!
Thank you for another good vid