10 Defensive Driving Tips for Newly Licensed Drivers

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CHAPERS:
0:00 Introduction
1:18 #1—Observation: Looking & Seeing
2:01 Reversing
2:39 #2—Speeding
3:40 #3—Communication
4:52 Position of Vehicle on Roadway
5:32 #4—Vehicle Comfort
6:43 #5—Left Turns
7:40 Other Drivers' Choices
8:32 #6—Following Distance
9:30 Stay back; Go Faster
10:33 #7—Cruise Control
11:20 #8—Shoulder (Head) Checking
12:13 #9—Distracted Driving
13:31 Impaired Driving
14:01 #10—Emotional Control
15:59 Conclusion
18:40 Outro

The assumption that lessons learned for a road test will keep you crash-free is, unfortunately, driver education will not necessarily keep you safe.

Driving is a dynamic task, and presents many challenges every single day. In this video, there are 10 tips & techniques that will increase your safety on the roadway:

• observation
• shoulder checking
• emotional control
• cruise control
• left turns
• speeding
• vehicle controllability
• communication
• following distance
• distracted driving

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[Zickcermacity]

11:20 - You can minimize "shoulder checking" if your mirrors are set properly.

Unless you are driving a bus, coach, or tractor trailer, you should not see any of your own vehicle in your SIDE-view mirrors

[cc-lyvm]

" let them go have their crash somewhere else." That's savage as hell. Lmao

[ryanmeana]

im an experienced driver but i still love watching videos like this, its a good refresher to be safe

[smarterworkout]

Good stuff. Heres a helpful tip to reduce anxiety and frustration...if you have following distance and somebody cuts you off (does a lane change right in front of you) and you get upset, just say to yourself "with my good following distance I helped that person do a safer lane change". Many of these people will cut you off even if you dont have good following distance. So why not just have good following distance? And when someone cuts you off think of it from a different perspective - a helpful perspective. This will reduce your own road rage and reduce your own distractions. And most importantly forgive others for their offensive behavior as Jesus will forgive yours.

[bananamilk]

I passed my driving test this Thursday! Now I’m watching this video to help me feel more confident and safe on the road as a new driver. Thanks so much for these instructional videos, Rick—we appreciate you!

[Abbastanza-utqu]

Your the dad I wish I had when first learning to drive! After not driving for 6 years, I’m back behind the wheel and confident

[CheriBomzArt]

I think drivers should HAVE to take a refresher course every 5 years!? And I hope they are teaching how to control your rage in schools. Too much violence
Going on!

[christinemarielayne]

I love watching these videos brushing up on my driving skills 💯🥰

[l.c.]

Every now and then I come back to watch these videos, good reminders,

[megantaylor]

my problem is I know how to drive and the rules of the road very well, but knowing and doing is two different stories. My footwork between the gas and the break is very choppy, and that increases my anxiety. how do I fix/get comfortable with that?

[greggpospiel]

Great video; one of my favorites. I run a driver ed program at a local high school in Massachusetts and I show your videos in every class. You do a great job of presenting the material in a clear, concise and fun way. I'm a fan. Keep up the good work!

[dssh]

Speaking of distracted driving, in my high school driver's ed class back in the late 1990s, before cell phones were prevalent or smartphones even existed, our classroom driver's ed instructor bragged about regularly applying her makeup, including mascara, while driving. She had some way of using the rearview mirror to do this. She always looked fine, so she was good at it.

She didn't recommend that we as her students do this, but I found it bizarre even when I was 16 that a driving instructor would either do this much less talk about it to a group of high school students.

I wonder if she has since mastered texting while driving & brags about this to her classes. No, I never did any of this myself, feel most of us were probably intelligent enough to know this wasn't appropriate driving behavior, but you never know...

[gregoryross.]

Thanks for your helpful videos. When I was learning to drive in the 1960s, the rule about keeping the correct following-distance was: for every 10mph you're travelling at, keep back at least one vehicle length from the car in front of you. So that if your are driving at 50 mph, you should be at least five car-lengths back from the car in front of you. At 60mph stay six car-lengths back from the vehicle in front of you... etc.

[Sincerely_Tiffany]

Am I the only one who wants to give him a hug🤗🤗🤗 He's AWESOME!!

[davidpowell]

Advice about difficult or dangerous left turns: Obstruct Traffic!
in a lot of cases bad left turn situations can be avoided simply by going a bit longer by making repeated right turns so as to end up on the desired route. Better than sitting at the intersection through multiple light cycles.

[braxtonbowers]

I really appreciate your videos. I have anxiety on the road, so you help a lot to ease it. Thanks.

[Goldjet]

Hi Rick, Vancouverite here (actually, Surrey). I passed my road test today after watching tons of your videos. I must have watched your mock road test video three times. I can't afford driving school so I'm super appreciative that you've created so many helpful resources for learning drivers like myself. This video will help me to stay safe now that I have my N. Thank you so much! :)

[misyela]

Love your videos, learned late in life, but still watching to improve.Thank you.

[okie]

Thank you very much Smart Drive Test!
This info you provided is like the essential oil - best stuff in an optimal package!

[JVerschueren]

This video resonates with me: if there's one positive attribute to my driving, it's I'm almost unflappable at the wheel. Nothing gets me, much to the dismay of my passengers, who'll frequently pipe up with comments, like, "that guy's is going to cut in, don't let him!" and I ignore them. On rare occasions I've even gotten those guys (and they were/are invariably guys, take that as you will) to admit it was unnecessary to get upset.

As you alluded to in another video, in start-stop driving, try to keep moving at a slow rate, play the "no stopping"-game (i.e. read traffic/traffic lights and try to avoid coming to a complete stop). It will improve your gas mileage, wear and tear on your vehicle and save you time.
A good friend of mine drives a delivery truck, doing fixed itinenaries and he reckons, on a good day, when things work out, anticipating and playing the "no-stopping"-game, shaves 15 minutes of his working day versus just driving along and only slowing down when he really needs to.

Also, for the people going for a CDL career, when running as just a tractor or with an empty trailer: resist the temptation of using the "zippyness" of these configurations. Because trucks can really move unloaded (they're also really tailhappy when there's no weight over their driving wheels, which may be less of an issue in the US or Canada, due to the general configuration of trucks over there).
Heavy hoofing it in those configurations will kill your fuel economy like you wouldn't believe... it's not linear. It's not because you're light you're not able to burn a ton of fuel rushing.