Driving on a motorway doesn't bother me, it's the merging onto the motorway that gets me

2 years ago i was inches away from what would have been certainty a fatal crash. Its put me off mororways so im going binge watch these and get back to it.

Just stick behind the lory and enjoy stress free drive, make sure he can see you in his mirrors lol.

I’ve passed my test about 2 months ago but I’ve never done a motorway ... this video has helped me massively , thank you !!

Last week was my first motorway drive and it was long as hell. 3200km and I drove about 1300km. At first I was so nervous, but with experience you get to know what your job is. My advice from my experience is to for sure have an experience driver who can teach you the basics.

I just passed my test and soo worried about driving on the motorway. I can literally feel my worry level rising! Thanks for the video

so right about judgement of speed when coming off a motorway.

cheers past my test ages ago and got a car. i have driven on dual carriageways before but this video was very useful and gave me lots of tips.

Most drivers on the M4 NEED to watch this video!! Every single time there is a huge queue of cars in the overtaking lane and not a single car in the left most lane. If they just used the correct lanes the traffic would improve significantly.

Thanks for this I just recently passed my test so needed a reminder how to drive on the motorway. 🖒

I live in the USA and I never will drive in the UK but here I am watching this

Going on the motorway for first time next week your video has been really helpful thank you.

Thank you for putting this together! I passed my test three months ago, and am hoping to head out onto a motorway soon, in the excellent company of a friend who helped me practise when I was preparing for my test. I'm 39 and only started my driving journey at the end of last year. Sometimes I think the age is a hindrance - I'm very aware of my own mortality!

I’ve driven on the M54 motorway for the first time alone, I was so nervous and my mouth was dried bone!😂 this video is really useful and it really helps!😊 I’m planning to go on a long journey but I’m really really nervous going on motorways as some motorways have no hard shoulders which is really dangerous if I broken down suddenly in the fast moving traffic. I have drove on dual carriageways quite a few times and I’m pretty much familiar with slip roads and leaving the carriageway.

Driving examination should involve motorway

Your videos are fantastic. Clear concise just amazing

4:20 good thing you changed lane because that truck is also changing lanes because the left lane is exiting the motorway. Otherwise it's better to let the truck go because he/she cannot see you can can cause an accident.

Checking radiator water level , oil, brake and clutch fluid as well as the level of your windscreen washer bottle and tyre pressures is a good idea especially if you dont use the car much on motorways, make sure your wipers and washers are working too. A can or two of car tyre repair foam approx £8 a tin can come in handy for a quick tyre punture repair especially for women on their own, finally don't forget to check you've got a pumped up legal spare wheel that fits the car with a wheel brace that actually fits the wheel nuts and a jack with handle.

Thank you.I love your lessons.

Great video's, I've been looking for a channel that covers driving rules and tips your is by far one of the best. I'm not a new driver, I've got all classes on my licence, car, motorbike and trucks. One area that I think you guys can cover is SMART MOTORWAY Driving I feel that this area is not getting out there and there is so many problems on Smart M/ways. Keep up the good work.

Should always use the left lane unless overtaking. Stays in lane 3 after passing lorry by a mile...

Superb ! You guys always have that we need to know amazing helpful video

Went on my first motorway yesterday and drove 150 miles today (had dad with me though) with a break in between. I'd say don't get too close to the car in front because of stopping distances and overtaking etc. And change lanes so traffic merging can do so more safely. The driving diagonal to other cars is a good idea.

One thing they forgot to mention about change lanes (and I know it's obvious) is relative speed. For example, if you want to move from lane 1 to lane 2 and there is a sufficient gap, the gap will be closing quickly if the vehicle behind you is travelling much faster (which is very likely if you're stuck behind an HGV at 55 or so). In cases like that, it's usually safer to let the car pass you first.

Buying my first car tomorrow and having to drive it back on a motorway for over an hour. First alone drive! Wish me luck

Thank you😁

👍 Great video and easy to unerstand! Thank u! :)

Very helpful video. Thanks

Great video for the begginer, thaks a lot for the information.

Aahh yes, the "Mirror-Signal-Maneuver" routine, also known in the Netherlands as "Inside-outside-shoulder-Signal, Inside-outside-shoulder-Maneuver, Inside-signal off"! Rolls off the tongue, just like that!

Good video. Especially now that its legal for learners to drive on motorway, its worth learner's to have that experience to make them safe on motorways

Well done ADS: another great video ! However, I do think the section @ 9.50 - Leaving The Motorway was a little under par. Firstly, the exit chosen was not really a motorway exit; it was where the M11 motorway diverges onto the M25 (another motorway). It would have been better to choose a more common exit where you leave a 3 lane motorway onto an off ramp slip road where there is a sign telling you the point where motorway regulations no longer apply. These types of exits normal have large signage on the motorway at 1 mile and 0.5 mile from the exit as well as the 300, 200 and 100 yard marker posts. I find the best strategy is to make your way safely to the left hand lane before you reach the 0.5 mile sign. Then at the 300 yard post, start indicating left of your intention to leave at this exit. Maintain your speed until you're on the slip road then cancel the indicators and brake smoothly for the forthcoming junction/roundabout at the top of the slip road. Hope this helps. Keep up the good work ADS !!!

Hello! Thanks for this video and all the others. He helped me a lot during the test and now the same!

Just passed my test, donegal bound 🤙 4 hour drive

3:08 unless directed by road markings or signs, not just overtaking in the middle or right hand lane but right hand lane can be useful when overtaking lorries

Great and helpful video

love your videos ever so helpful. can I ask where you got your external speedometer please? thank you

Very useful let’s go 🚘

Great video, learnt a lot thanks! Just one quick question at 2:40 why are you signaling right? Does the slip road that you use not merge into an extra lane on the motorway as show in the sign at 2:03?

I’ve had a refresher lesson on the motorway , I was not as anxious until I tried to go at the correct speed & I put a little pressure on my break pedal ! . I feel like I will lose control if I go over 50 ! I just can’t seem to beat the fear … I need to . Not being able to go on it is making my work journey twice as long . It’s sooo frustrating

This is a tip for you If we drive when we are to tired it can be danger as we are tired and you can cause danger to other drivers

Driving on British motorways looks like a dream! Here in Western Australia people just think they can use any lane if they're doing the speed limit, trucks go the same speed as cars and often sit in the overtaking lanes, there's no education on sitting in others' blind spots, too many people enter the freeway well below the speed limit. They have no idea how to drive here.

I am going on the motorway for the first time today with my instructor, i have passed my test of course but im so nervous

Thank you (:

Can you buy them digital speedo things or do you have to have them wired up etc?

I've missed exits/went the wrong way on a couple of occasions by not getting into the correct lane in time, and then its too late to change with all the other cars

Thanks

Nice video. What model of Kia is this? I like the look of it 😁

Great video, which gps speedometer your using on this car, I love its reflection on windscreen. Could you please put the link here? Massive thanks!

Top stuff and a nice clarification about blind spots in the comments. Would only add that a quick left wing mirror check when passing a joining slip road can alert you to someone flying up your inside at 90mph!

Some slip roads merge as soon as it begins, is this normal? A lot of crashes happen around there, I haven’t yet been in an accident but I was worried about these roads. Thanks, id appreciate any help.

Good. Video

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it would help if this was shown to every foreign driver entering our road system ,i drive in the USA a lot and it is in many ways a free for all lane wise on the continent it is even worse

3:19 is that really a safe lane change back into the right hand lane? I know lorries wouldn't usually as they are not allowed to be in the 3rd or 4th lanes, change lanes but you're changing lanes into the lorries blind spot no?

Tomorrow is my first day of driving on motorway 🛣️ and I ..... No words

Different from driving in the highway in China and USA! In China,we may always driving on the innermost lane if your speed is fast enough, but if there are some car behind you and want to overtake you should yield other car, while in USA the innermost lane are HOV lane (High occrpancy lane), which means that you can only drive on this lane if there are at least 2 people in your car. Also, the speed limit of highway for light vehicle in China are usually between 100km/h and 120km/h (62mph and 75mph), for truck and bus are usually between 80km/h and 100km/h (for truck) or 110 km/h (for bus) (between 50 mph and 62mph or 70 mph), but you may driving as 110% of speed limit in highway of China, but in America, the actual speed is depend on traffic flow, for example, in Los Angles, the speed limit of highway are usually 65 mph, but the actual speed of traffic are usually 85 mph. The other difference like the color of road sign of highway in China and USA are green and in UK are usually blue.

The video was very helpful, however it is also important to check blind spots when changing lanes as cars in your mirrors look further behind than they actually are. Not checking blind spots could also cause fatal accidents.

Great video, thanks! May I ask, where did the driver get that digital speedometer that was sitting on top dash? Cheers

Hi sorry I'm just wondering at 4.18 ish he moves in to the right lane to let the tesco lorry out but he doesn't so a shoulder check? Am i wrong or did he not need to do one?

Nice video

Passed my test a month ago and I’m driving on the motorway for the first time on Friday. I’m so nervous.

This is helpful...do you have similar for night driving...

First time I drove on the motourway, it was at night, pitch black😵

Can a Restricted Driver who has just passed their test use the motorway? if so what is the speed limit they have to go by? (Northern Ireland)

3:19 not a good move to go back into lane 3 at this point. You can tell by mirror configuration on the off side door of the lorry that it is a left hand drive, and you are in it's blind spot! Better to wait a few seconds till you are just ahead of the cab then come in.

I found it hard to believe that my instructor never took me on the motorway, I always thought it was an essential part of the learning to drive process

wondering if you turn on the hazard light at hard shoulder, do we leave on the car ignition ? or turn off the engine ? if i have to wait for 2 hours for recovery, will my car die out coz i turn on my car engine for 2 hours without moving ?

check blind spots for bikes. Was driving company van once and a bike was sitting in my blind spot. Nothing happened as I change lanes slowly and he had time to react.

Do you have to keep the overhead speed limit up until the next overhead speed limit comes up

Thought it might help watching this cause I was confused about the lanes. I stay on the left hand and only move to the right when I need to overtake however I notice that I’d be the only person on the left hand lane and everyone else would be in the right hand lanes but I’d catch myself undertaking everyone but still only going 65-70mph so I’m never sure whether it’s me in the wrong for undertaking or whether theyre all hogging the middle lane

Can someone help in the video it says can’t Hog the middle lane I honestly don’t know what the middle lane is for if you can’t drive in it. Far right is overtaking and left lane is where your meant to be driving so what is the middle used for ?

Advise please…I stay in the left lane as much as possible but during rush hour, all lanes are full and it’s quicker to stay in lane 3 or 4. Especially with slow moving vehicles in lane 1 and 2. When I have overtaken and moved back to lane 1 I’m stuck behind another vehicle doing under 70mph and constantly overtaking and moving back to lane 1 when possible hence why I now stay in lane 3 and 4. Any advice how to navigate this during rush hour? TIA

I drive a lorry and if there are people on a narrow pavement and nothing is coming the other way I have straddled double white lines because I want to give them some room. Would this be OK or do I run the risk of being nicked?

Remember drivers every 2 hours take a rest break. That's what they're there for. Safe driving everyone. I will soon be driving on motorway, really nervous and scared, mainly bcoz of fast speed and the mononoty of straight long distance driving. Any tips for anxious worried drivers. I'm fine now on local town roads bcoz of the stopping n changing n the variety of traffic lights etc. But it's the motorway, I think my dad jinxed it after I passed my driving test n scared me for no reason. It needs to be unjinxed so I can overcome the unnecessary fear he put him me. Which was wrong of him to do that as I'm a very good driver.

I had a car stop not on hold shoulder suddenly stopped but held me and 6 cars up he just drove away 5 mins later to dangdrous to change lane with a stopping percision was wild like why did he stop wtf

What's that thing on top of the dashboard?

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Hmm When changing lanes I was taught - Mirror, Signal, Quick Check (eg over shoulder) Manoeuvre As you should never solely rely on mirrors due to blind spots, and also due to the speed of cars in that few seconds your situation has changed. This is especially important when joining the motorway.

Can I ask what mirror is it that shows the true distance of how far a car is away from you?

I don’t understand the middle lane (sorry I’m a learner) is it only for overtaking? If yes what’s the right lane for and why would you use that over the middle?

What is the lane called on the left where you cannot drive except in emergency (like breakdowns at 5:40)?

Driving at 70mph instead of 80mph will also reduce your fuel costs by around 20%. There are diminishing time/fuel returns above 65mph.

There is now intro music

On a Smart Motorway, where the hard shoulder is a live lane. e.g. there is a sign on the overhead gantry showing a speed limit where you are in lane 1. Are you able to cross the solid white line to join the traffic on the hard shoulder, or should you wait until you see a broken line before moving over? - Also where the speed limit changes on the gantry, does the speed limit apply from the point you pass the sign (as with normal roads)?

Is giving Signal to change lane in High way compulsory ? Please say and post a video...

Sorry but not sure what you mean by positioning our car in a diagonal position to nearby traffic in other lanes. Surely our car will be roughly parallel?

I’ve never driven on the motorway and not sure what day to go. I’ve planned the journey but just nervous getting onto the motorway.

Coul you give me a link for the head up display speedometer please

Am thinking of going on the motorway for the first time. But them big lorries and changing lanes with Fast speed seem so scary to me at the moment for some reason. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Hi I’m confused why he’s he keeping on the middle late if we should be on left left

What model is that heads-up display?

If I want to slow down to maintain the speed but It doesn't look a bit safe because the driver behind is a little close in front of me 😐

2:33 - **Looks over right should into the pillar** lol

I use to be ok, I have driven lots of times on Mways but get anxious when vehicles flash at me when I'm in the left lane going 55/58 mph, they get up really close and start flashing their lights, especially lorries, one car driver and his passenger were flashing and waving their arms about telling me to move. Where was I supposed to move to? I don't like going fast with kids in the car. This type of behaviour really panics me. Any tips would be helpful, thanks.

got my test on friday, hope i pass but gotta go to Reading in October, bricking it rn.

Just passed my drivers licence and gotta go on the roads😢motorway just passed week ago.

Anyone know the name of that heads up display (HUD)

A couple of comments. Re. separation distance, or braking distance, it appears to me that driving too close is the most common error on such roads. Even where ‘chevron’ markings are provided in an attempt to educate us, they are often ignored. The distance recommended is just about alright at full speed in dry conditions on the level, but if it’s wet and cold, it’s wise to allow more. If you do the sums, you’ll find that the “2 second rule” is a bit tight at 70 mph using the chevron markings; 3 is more like it. As you say, counting the number of seconds is a useful check, but other things that are always available (at least during daylight) are the marker posts, normally 100m apart, and on most motorways in England (but not in Wales) there are “driver location signs”, or “marker posts” at every 500m (normally), with the road name, direction of travel, and precise distance from it’s start. Useful for emergency calls to various organisations (www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/driver-location-signs). Note that these are all metric. Whilst you do mention variable speed limits (VSLI) from around 7 minutes in, you have passed along a lot of it which is fitted with the displays. When this is in use at lower speeds, it is tolerable to pass on either side, especially if there are two or three queues crawling along, so it’s always important to signal either left or right and arrange to change lane properly. This makes sense because it maximise the traffic capacity overall when it’s like that. Do not assume that nothing will overtake on your left these days.