THE DRIVING LINE WHERE YOU SHOULD BE ON THE ROAD — Transcript

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1. 0:00okay so what we're going to have a look
2. 0:03at is what we call the driving line when
3. 0:05you're in a meeting situation for
4. 0:08example going downwind High Street where
5. 0:09it's a narrow road or even driving on a
6. 0:12wide road and you meet them oncoming
7. 0:13traffic sometimes it's a bit confusing
8. 0:15as to what one you should take you might
9. 0:17get too close to the curve or pot cars
10. 0:19you might get too close to oncoming
11. 0:20traffic yeah so we're gonna be this step
12. 0:22by step and break it down so just
13. 0:25imagine you're driving down a road and
14. 0:27it's just like a normal residential
15. 0:30street and there's no white line in the
16. 0:32middle yeah where do you think would be
17. 0:35your normal position to drive would it
18. 0:39be near the curb
19. 0:42would it be like that or would it be
20. 0:49any
21. 0:53if there's no one coming drop it yeah
22. 0:55well it doesn't matter Paris or not it's
23. 0:58just a normal residential Road there's
24. 1:00no white line down the middle where do
25. 1:02you think is the natural position for
26. 1:03you to drive B you think it's B what do
27. 1:07you think
28. 1:08I think this fever thought Jose that I
29. 1:09speak no no not see B motors I do 8 I
30. 1:14understand them with it okay what's
31. 1:17wrong I'll explain to you why if we look
32. 1:21at the road yeah there's no white line
33. 1:23our brain should divide the road in half
34. 1:27imagine where the center is and then
35. 1:30what we do we divide that half in half
36. 1:33again and that gives us our center
37. 1:37serves the center of our half of the
38. 1:40road now thing is this should happen
39. 1:44automatically and experienced drivers do
40. 1:47it anyway yeah that's what is it that's
41. 1:49what we call our driving line it's it's
42. 1:50following this imaginary position so we
43. 1:53like that down the road okay now when we
44. 1:59come to a parked vehicle yeah obviously
45. 2:02the road is now booked narrower yeah so
46. 2:05we have to ask ourselves how do we just
47. 2:07that path are driving line without
48. 2:10vehicle
49. 2:12so today Mike
50. 2:14doesn't like lining the road what we do
51. 2:18is we look at the gap from the park
52. 2:20vehicle to the curb yeah we divide that
53. 2:24in half we divide out half in half and
54. 2:30that gives us our driving line now in
55. 2:32this instance we've gone a little bit
56. 2:34over the white line but this is the key
57. 2:36as long as it's safe to do so and the
58. 2:39oncoming vehicles got enough space to
59. 2:41pass as long as both if you can pass
60. 2:44each other safety that's okay you may
61. 2:47need a right indicator because you're
62. 2:49going over the white line and it's a
63. 2:50meeting situation if it's a very wide
64. 2:52road you don't need a right indicator
65. 2:53but if it's a if it's a narrower
66. 2:55situation as long as you can both pass
67. 2:56safely it's important that you indicate
68. 2:59tell the oncoming vehicle what you're
69. 3:01thinking you'll obviously have to move
70. 3:02out before you give you some help and
71. 3:03that's okay as long as there is room on
72. 3:05his side there's all this room for him
73. 3:06to move over or her to move over and
74. 3:08give you some more room yeah so if you
75. 3:12imagine our driving minus one from this
76. 3:14position together yeah that's the
77. 3:18imaginary line that we follow
78. 3:19can you see how
79. 3:22it's important to come out learning by
80. 3:24the time you get to this car you want to
81. 3:28be straight yeah coming up nice and
82. 3:33early you don't want to be coming out at
83. 3:36an angle because by coming out at an
84. 3:38angle it takes you like that that's not
85. 3:42an AP and that's what you would in your
86. 3:43same ik yeah you're swinging out too
87. 3:45wide because this is the way you were
88. 3:48visualizing it you're coming out late
89. 3:49even / cycles in fact I mean coming out
90. 3:51ladies swinging out too wide when you
91. 3:53want to be straight by the time you get
92. 3:57to the back of that vehicle your bust
93. 3:58wants to be straight and have a gap of 1
94. 4:01meter on the lecture if it's a tighter
95. 4:04situation you have to be slower then you
96. 4:06don't need 1 meter here maybe one foot
97. 4:08if it's it's a very very time you know
98. 4:10sometimes one and a half foot maybe two
99. 4:13feet but it depends on your speed speed
100. 4:15and position are linked so the tighter
101. 4:17is the slow you go the wider is the
102. 4:19faster so that's very important so that
103. 4:25gives us our driving line
104. 4:27halten outside of the way
105. 4:29what about
106. 4:35[Music]
107. 4:37the other southern road we're driving
108. 4:40along there's nothing on our side of the
109. 4:42road but there's a vehicle coming
110. 4:44towards us now once again with
111. 4:48experience you guys should realize that
112. 4:50this vehicle is going to come over the
113. 4:52white line the roads wide enough both of
114. 4:55you can pass safely yeah he's gonna see
115. 4:58the opportunity he's gonna see that
116. 4:59you've got room he's gonna come on yeah
117. 5:04so it's important to realize it's not
118. 5:06when you see this vehicle that you have
119. 5:09to think about adjusting your position
120. 5:11it's when you see a parked vehicle
121. 5:15because as soon as you know there's a
122. 5:17part vehicle there you know that
123. 5:18anything coming towards you it's going
124. 5:20to come over the white line so for
125. 5:22example this was on a bend
126. 5:28and there's a vehicle here
127. 5:34you can't see that vehicle yet but you
128. 5:37can see this car here you have to adjust
129. 5:40your position before the bend because
130. 5:41anything coming around that corner will
131. 5:43come over the white line and so what I
132. 5:45would do is I would just come a little
133. 5:47bit to the left not too much and just be
134. 5:50ready
135. 5:50is anything coming around the corner the
136. 5:55both of us to pasture and this is where
137. 5:57I said to you before when you look at
138. 5:59the road we have the near field which is
139. 6:01the area when we're driving about 10 15
140. 6:03miles an hour in front of us we have the
141. 6:05mid field which is when we're driving at
142. 6:07speeds about 30 miles
143. 6:16the near-field the midfield in the far
144. 6:18field we've also got the left-hand side
145. 6:19of the rotor the right-hand side of the
146. 6:21road and what tends to happen is if
147. 6:22you're checking the left no too much all
148. 6:24your focus and intention is on your side
149. 6:27of the road it's on things on the left
150. 6:28it's on things in your in your lane yeah
151. 6:32but what we have to do is we have to
152. 6:33scan the opposite side of the road more
153. 6:35because it's important to see things on
154. 6:37the opposite side of the road because
155. 6:39that's going to affect the oncoming
156. 6:40traffic and push it into our path and
157. 6:42that's where both of you could improve
158. 6:45one coming side of the road so in this
159. 6:50instance we've got the vehicle parts
160. 6:51over there we no need to move over so
161. 6:55that helped the oncoming vehicle to come
162. 6:56through another scenario so in that
163. 6:59situation you slow down as well because
164. 7:01if it's a larger vehicle yeah I miss my
165. 7:03food just repeat the mean point you
166. 7:06don't brake on yeah the the relationship
167. 7:08between speed and position it's really
168. 7:11critical it's moving really yeah there
169. 7:13are only two things you can do when
170. 7:15you're driving you can either move left
171. 7:16or right speed up or slow down there are
172. 7:18only only really two parameters or
173. 7:22either that you're changing all the time
174. 7:24yet if you're letting to fly an aircraft
175. 7:26like helicopter you know what you're
176. 7:27controlling in four or five different
177. 7:29axis actually four axes but you're
178. 7:31drumming in five with the engine speed
179. 7:33you're controlling five different
180. 7:34parameters and you have to balance all
181. 7:36five at the same time here we're only
182. 7:38worrying about steering and speed so
183. 7:40opposition and speed we have to blend
184. 7:43them and that's the art of a great
185. 7:44driver although there are two very
186. 7:46simple controls the art just like a cook
187. 7:49I suppose as a blending blending those
188. 7:52two controls to produce something
189. 7:53artistic this is how we blend them so
190. 7:59you can see that sometimes when you're
191. 8:00braking is a bit heavy or your
192. 8:02steering's not quite right it's a bit
193. 8:03jerky or steering toward you're too late
194. 8:05how that blend
195. 8:07you can see when you go to the meeting
196. 8:08situation and you're too close to the
197. 8:10park vehicle too fast how we're not
198. 8:12blending two controls
199. 8:16so it's just imagine now we've got a
200. 8:18little bit more going on so we have a
201. 8:22parked vehicle here a parked vehicle
202. 8:26here another party vehicle here yeah
203. 8:33typical residential side road meeting
204. 8:39situation yeah so there might be
205. 8:45oncoming vehicles first thing we have to
206. 8:48ask ourselves is where do we want to
207. 8:49meet them yeah you always want to meet
208. 8:51at the widest part of the road so for
209. 8:53example if we were here right and we see
210. 9:02a vehicle here it's better to slow down
211. 9:05let that vehicle coming yeah and we can
212. 9:09meet them somewhere about here before we
213. 9:12actually go in before we go into the
214. 9:15into the narrowing on the road with the
215. 9:17park vehicles are it's always better to
216. 9:19meet at wide spot the road now when we
217. 9:21go down with high street from say from
218. 9:26hospital Bridge Road
219. 9:29we've got lots of things going on but
220. 9:30before we get to Luca Maestri itself
221. 9:32there's a stretch of bird which is quite
222. 9:34wide there there's a key part and then
223. 9:35we have a stretch where there's lots of
224. 9:37cars you look down that road and you see
225. 9:40that there's lots of parked cars and
226. 9:43there's vehicles coming towards you it's
227. 9:44meant to hold back it's bernal to enter
228. 9:46the narrow situation until those
229. 9:48vehicles have come through you work for
230. 9:51a reasonable amount of time
231. 9:52if however after waiting and waiting and
232. 9:54waiting you have to at some point go
233. 9:55than you think right harm another time
234. 9:57this and what we do then is we time it
235. 10:01and this is again important it's an
236. 10:04important it's important that we blend
237. 10:07steering in and speed yeah so he said to
238. 10:11ourselves right because the vehicle
239. 10:13coming towards us yeah you may be coming
240. 10:15out I obviously don't want to need to be
241. 10:18here because the two vehicles and now
242. 10:22going head-to-head yep
243. 10:24he's coming out that way I'm doing so
244. 10:26what I'd rather do I'd rather slow down
245. 10:31pull back here let him get straight yeah
246. 10:35now I'm gonna be going in yeah
247. 10:39and now the two of us can meet like that
248. 10:43so we're steering away from each other
249. 10:45yeah he can steering I can steering yeah
250. 10:47so it's important to time these things
251. 10:49pregnant
252. 10:50so we're blending
253. 10:52speed
254. 10:54so that the vehicles aren't going head
255. 10:56to head who actually steering away from
256. 10:58each other yeah in aviation
257. 11:01they call it deconfliction whenever two
258. 11:03aircraft are heading towards each other
259. 11:04the pilots have to deconflict they have
260. 11:06to take an alternative course to steer
261. 11:08away from each other yeah air traffic
262. 11:10that's the primary over there traffic
263. 11:12controlling here we're D conflicting
264. 11:13with steering away from each other
265. 11:14yeah so timing is important so we've got
266. 11:17to that stage there yeah you're coming
267. 11:19vehicles now passed yeah and we see a
268. 11:24vehicle coming from here now yeah now
269. 11:26rather than slowing down too much which
270. 11:29is sometimes what happens yeah try and
271. 11:31keep the vehicle moving try and get it
272. 11:34into this position here because the
273. 11:37quickly you get into this position the
274. 11:39quicker this vehicle can come to here
275. 11:41yeah he can't come here if you're solare
276. 11:44so try and keep the vehicle moving I'm
277. 11:47not singing accelerate on this it's a
278. 11:48long stretch but try and keep the
279. 11:50vehicle running don't brake too early
280. 11:51and get your vehicle in so now if you
281. 11:53can get to this position here and you
282. 11:55can start to steer out here and that's
283. 11:57why I say to you Sam so to keep it
284. 11:58moving keep it moving keep it moving it
285. 12:00because what you're not seeing is until
286. 12:02you pull your bus in that bus or that
287. 12:05truck can't come out yeah so it's
288. 12:07important to see that yeah and then when
289. 12:09you get to here if you need to stop stop
290. 12:12if you can't keep it rolling keep it
291. 12:13rolling here so again with blending
292. 12:15speed and position does that make sense
293. 12:19yeah okay so you can see what we have to
294. 12:21achieve and obviously lastly we have to
295. 12:23come out and there's another vehicle
296. 12:25coming towards us again don't steer out
297. 12:30your head
298. 12:31right here didn't come to make it a
299. 12:33position
300. 12:35he's much pulled away you can get
301. 12:38straight straight so by the time you
302. 12:43meet him he's going straight and your
303. 12:45gates right here you're not heading
304. 12:46towards each other
305. 12:47remember when we go down hospital Ridge
306. 12:49Road we've got those three bus stops
307. 12:51that we always do the three lane by bus
308. 12:53stops yeah that is a great place to
309. 12:54practice this because when you come out
310. 12:56of the bus stops every time you come out
311. 12:58an angled star and it's not so much
312. 13:00about steering yes you've got to steer
313. 13:02around the pub people steer around the
314. 13:03islands but you could have time it so
315. 13:05that as you come out you're not going
316. 13:07head-to-head with another vehicle yeah
317. 13:09okay
318. 13:10let's just have another look at some
319. 13:12some things to do the driving line going
320. 13:18around traffic islands so we've got a
321. 13:24situation here where we've got traffic
322. 13:27island
323. 13:35a couple of pop calls
324. 13:40now I said to you before that the art of
325. 13:42driving a bus really is the realities of
326. 13:44Melissa's who hold it straight here
327. 13:46after a while you learn how to steer on
328. 13:49corners you learn how to position the
329. 13:51back wheels and your steering improves
330. 13:53but the realize is to be able to hold
331. 13:55the vehicle straight not to wander and
332. 13:57hold that driving line that we just
333. 13:58looked out normally you'd want to keep
334. 14:01the vehicle straight as possible we're
335. 14:02going through traffic ideas but here
336. 14:05that's not possible we've got to park
337. 14:07people to either side if you try and
338. 14:09keep it straight we're gonna get very
339. 14:11close
340. 14:15they're very close the island very close
341. 14:20for the second part vehicle yeah so in
342. 14:24this situation we have to take a
343. 14:26different approach you have to try and
344. 14:29widen the gap you have to try and create
345. 14:32some space now again be aware of what's
346. 14:35coming towards you there's traffic
347. 14:37coming towards you from here you have to
348. 14:39let them pass before you do this but
349. 14:41what I would do here is that I would
350. 14:43look at the gap like this yeah I would
351. 14:46imagine if I go in and diagonally yeah
352. 14:53rather than the gap being very narrow
353. 14:55now the gap is actually quite wide yeah
354. 14:58now in order to do this it means you've
355. 15:00got to slow the vehicle down again
356. 15:01you've got to blend your speed with your
357. 15:04steering yeah I would come out a little
358. 15:06bit wider I would steer in a bit sharper
359. 15:11are we getting a vehicles straight I
360. 15:14would come out earlier and I would have
361. 15:19to go a bit wider here yeah if you get
362. 15:22to here remember to look for the
363. 15:23oncoming traffic if there's any oncoming
364. 15:25traffic let them pass and then come out
365. 15:27but you can see what I've done it
366. 15:28effectively made the road wider yeah and
367. 15:31that's where fast hands slow bus fast
368. 15:35hands are important yeah so sometimes
369. 15:39when you're driving you see a situation
370. 15:41like this and you actually find straight
371. 15:43line it what he was saying about the
372. 15:45roundabouts earlier is absolutely true
373. 15:47as well sometimes you do tend to
374. 15:48straight lines around the battle
375. 15:50remember yesterday when it's they were
376. 15:52now needed the progress check with you
377. 15:54I covet mini one about
378. 15:57exactly same reason
379. 16:00came up surrounded
380. 16:02straight as possible you can obviously
381. 16:04should musician to the right more follow
382. 16:07the shape of the road so you can see we
383. 16:10have to do that it's very real what we
384. 16:12have to exaggerate the steering this
385. 16:13much to steer out of our vehicles but
386. 16:14there's one place and Chizik on the III
387. 16:17route near Chizik school where there's
388. 16:20always part b equals an either side of
389. 16:22assignment and you have to do they have
390. 16:23to bring the vehicle speed right down