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The thought process of the driver in the final clip is unfathomable. He actually passed through an empty space to park where he did.

10:51 it's nice to have mates. I can't imagine how good the bin's conversations would be. At least you are keeping it safe so it can't come to any harm.

The driver at 1:01 hand gesturing because he’s annoyed your going slow to watch out for the fool on the bike really just emphasises how unaware and unconscious most drivers are. I’m convinced about 90% of our road users understand nothing other than squeezing the pedal more, regardless of the risk around them

I love your facial expressions of bemusement and disbelief in these videos Ashley. They speak a thousand words!

That last one made me smile. If I park my car in a car park miles from anyone else, and am surrounded by car spaces some numpty will park right close to mine every time. 🥴

My top tip for parking in a carpark. 1) ALWAYS reverse in, or drive two through if safe. 2) if you can, park on the edge of the carpark 3) if you can park at the end of a row leaving the drivers door clear. 4) always check for restrictions on time 5) if at all possible park on a nearby street and walk in (n/a for supermarkets).

So, in that last clip, instead of realising that he parked badly and just doing it again, he stubbornly struggled out of his own car just so that he didn't look silly or wrong? Utter genius.

That is some awful -parking- abandonment at the end but a very common sight of “That’ll do” and without car park patrols they get away with it. If anyone is wondering why they didn’t park in a disabled bay. It could be a recent disability and they are still waiting on a blue badge. It can take up to 12 weeks and does require a lot of evidence to support the application. Until then, people have to use standard bays. An application for a family member took longer as we had to appeal the original decline decision

That last clip was magical. The way your prediction came out like that is just awesome! It really adds to it, people can't now just wave that concern away like "sure mate, that's a tiny chance though", because it actually happened! So clearly not that small of a chance.

Nice to see you over this side of the water. Parking at the rock retail is an absolute nightmare, that sort of thing happens far more than it should.

I past my test in 1975 and driving was a pleasure. . .it's anything but now. You have my sympathies as a driving instructor nowadays!!

10:19 im glad you mentioned about the hatched markings in that clip. Too many people seem to think you must stay out if them. I've done what you did and queued in the hatched markings before a turn lane before and then have had people carry on past down the straight lane only to try to turn into the lane when it actually opens. Of course it's easily corrected and i just let them in, but people with this misunderstanding love to block active lanes.

5:40 It's a shame not many instructors point out what *might* happen and how to deal with it. Superb instruction by Ashley there. And something the majority of drivers on our roads are lacking.

Imagine parking like that, right in front of Ashley - You've jusy got to hope their mates get to see it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Absolutely loving the stare of incredulity at the parking.....

That last clip is just crazy to me, i cant imagine leaving my car parked like that cos id be ashamed of my performance or maybe thats just my ocd

Great selection, as always. I would not have been able to get into that Clio at the end, neither could I have climbed over from the passenger seat. Getting stuck like that in a car park with penalty charges would make me come over all litigious. I'd expect the shed driver to pay any accrued charges, especially since it was so unnecessary to dump his heap like that - he drove through an empty space fgs.

Always the best with the driving education Ashley 👍. I passed in March but still like watching these.

Last clip sums up the modern driver, loads of empty spaces available with gaps either side but no squeeze into a space badly and then look back at your bad work and carry on. That clip could make a brilliant TV advert about what not to do.

I just passed on Tuesday with 1 fault on my first attempt. Still have lots to improve on but I've already had a couple of moments driving on my own where your advice has helped me with planning the best flow for everyone well in advance, which also makes it a lot less stressful.

At around 0:18 re "No way in the world". That expression is very much a trademark Ashley-ism.

It does say in very small print at the back of an Audi manual "All information provided by the Highway Code is not to be taken literally"

That parking really grinds my gears... This type of behavior is my pet peeve cause I cannot understand why people do that. No logic, no thinking of others, no care... absolutely baffling

Thank you for including the clip of passing horses safely.

I see bad parking quite a lot as a padestrain. 2 years ago I went up to Sainsbury's up Bentley Bridge Retail Park in Wolverhampton to get some stuff with my mum and my step dad, we was walking accross the car park and this car decided to reverse out the parking bay without using their mirrors! Keep up the good work Ash!

At around 9:50 I hate it when that happens. Namely, you are on a roundabout and have priority and a vehicle approaching the roundabout approaches at a speed that quite reasonably causes you doubt as to whether it's going to give you priority. So to be prudent, you slow down just to make sure and in the process, this delays everyone. I've even had the other driver give me a "Hurry up" signal in this type of scenerio. Well driver, had you approached the roundabout at a more reasonable speed so I could be more sure of your intentions, I would have been out of your path sooner.

A few years ago, I saw a car get a ticket for parking like the one in the last video, in a supermarket carpark.

And that's exactly why I park in furthest parts of car parks.

8:10 - we have a similar corner in Ipswich where vehicles frequently overtake those waiting. And what's worse, the road they're turning right into is 'access only' and probably 9 times out of 10 they're using it as a rat-run.

Hi Ashley, keep it up I really enjoy your video and learned alot from you:)😊

That bin looks in great condition; very surprised you are taking it to the tip unless the lid has failed catastrophically.

im a bit shit at parking but the last clip is just dreadful

Don't even need a disability to struggle with the parking at the end. My wife would be stuck, couldn't get in the drivers side, couldn't get the bairns pram in the back. Can't believe he both drove in with plenty of space to line himself up (and failed) and then looked at it as he left and just disregarded it.

fantastic channel and commentary for picking up driving tips in the UK.

At around 5:24, although it's totally inexcusable in any vehicle, the sight of the back of a little Nissan Micra being impatient and aggressive in an attempt to bully another car is something I found rather humourous. Even funnier that it got them absolutely nowhere.

I do the very same on hatches at Junction Street here in Carlisle next to Kwik-Fit. It splits in to two lanes, if you don't use the hatched area, it causes obstruction to the left turn lane.

For 12:22, I've seen narrower pavements be called a shared use path. As long as they don't ride dangerously around pedestrians.

FWIW, my missus has been in hospital and, as a result, I spent the week haunting the hospital car park and the amount of poorly parked cars was just astounding. Literally, 1 in 5 cars were either parked with their wheels on/over the lines of the bay, parked diagonally or parked straddling 2 bays. I genuinely wonder what's happened to people's attitude to driving over the last 20 years or so.

Had similar happen to me in a supermarket carpark - driver of a Fiesta parked so damn close to my Qashqai that I had to climb over from the passenger side - not the easiest of tasks even with no mobility issues...

Speaking of BMW drivers, i was at a junction turning right onto a main road the other day. A BMW comes from my right and im waiting as she could be driving straight on. No word of a lie, she holds up her hand and vigarously points to her left to let me know she was pulling into the side road and it was safe for me to pull out.

This reminds me, I thought I had seen everything in car parks from dodgy parking to donuts with shoppers around. Until last week that was I saw a car reverse across 3 bays and back up to be close to the trolley bay. You are reading this right, the car was at a 90 degree angle to what it should be taking up three parking spaces. The driver then gets out, opens the rear door to remove a basket and inside was some food, a flask and some cups. Him and his passenger (going to assume wife but never assume anything) decided to have a picnic After that, I am not so sure if I will ever see everything

Can almost guarentee the bloke at the end would be in utter disbelief when his car is dented/scratched.

Had the Nisaan (12:40) parked in the space behind, there were no other cars either side. "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that." George Carlin

Looks like your bright green Focus and my huge blue Volvo have something in common Ashley: the cloaking devices are switched on and won't switch off.

Greetings from Canterbury. I'm actually home for a change!

At around 10:15, I would absolutely do the exact same thing when right turning traffic is backed up past the actual start of the right turn lane. Namely, turn early into the hatched area that's bounded by broken lines, so that I'm clear of through traffic as early as possible. I have to say, there are many junctions where this type of scenerio is a regular thing that I wonder why the authorities don't reconfigure the setup so that the actual right turn lane officially starts further back.

10.15 Yes Ashley. A lot of motorists think that to be driving over or on these arears is illegal (the ones with the broken lines) but having just recently seen a clip with a right turn T junction I commented that the driver should have been on these as not all right turns will have a little space without the diaganal lines, so you should be out to the second line which in turn gives those following the vehicle behind you the vision that a car in front of the que is making a right turn.

I see this too often as a cyclist who regularly rides on country roads. If anyone comes fast the other way, they have to swerve in. An accident waiting to happen. I need to get one of your cams for Christmas!

That last clip... 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼 I don't understand people who choose narrow spaces (even if they park well) when there are loads of spots where they would be able to open the door all the way

that seatbelt wasn't even securing the bin it would have shot straight over the top and into the windscreen if you had to make a sudden stop

At around 1:05 with the right hand lane dual carriageway cyclist... who subsequently decides to veer to the left in front of the cam car and then take to the grass verge. You have to wonder what they are thinking! Agree though, that no matter how daft others are, you still have to watch out for them as best you can.

At around 1:35, love Ashley's Audi comments. Delivered with the characteristic deadpan Ashley humour whereby at first, you are actually convinced he's being serious...until the laughter commences.😊

One thought on the hashed area with a broken outer border (10:15) - if its ok to go into that area just to keep traffic flowing - why have those hashed areas at all? I know I am asking for retaliation from some people on this issue where they will think its ok. My son was taught it was ok to do this too when he was learning to drive (the hashed area was on a 40mph stretch of road so the instructor said it was better to get in the hashed area earlier to reduce braking in the main 40mph lane). I was taught (a long long time ago) not go in hashed area unless I really needed to (and I mean "really" - aiding traffic flow does not count as "really" to me). I often see people go into hashed areas, not turn right but go straight on simply to jump a few cars. Too many people ignore that there is a reason for broken hashed areas.

Excited for the driving fail snow edition soon ❄️

Great video as always, love the colour of this car but I can never get another green car, my family have bad luck with them

At around 10:55, re securing an item in the front seat with the passenger seat belt. Similar thing with all the road trips mum and I do. I actually secure both our overnight cases on the back seat with their respective outboard seat belts. So why not in the boot? I feel having both cases on the back seat gives better weight distribution rather than being "rear heavy" in the boot.

Wrt that first clip, always be aware that the view the driver in front has is not the same view you have. They may be able to see around the bend even when you can’t. Sometimes it works the other way too. You may very well have a better view ahead than the car in front.

10:45 I thought that was a blurred out passenger for privacy until you said it was a bin haha!

At about 13 mins 50 sec in the car park: I have a right leg below the knee amputation and wear a prosthetic. To get in and out of my car I have to open the door at quite a wide angle for better clearance because I cannot turn my foot to get between the front of the driver's seat and front of the door opening. As a result I always try to park at the end of a row or in an empty area of the car park, because people do this ALL the time. My current car is a hatchback, which isn't too bad, but try and imagine what it was like for me when I had an MX5 with it's long doors! Sometimes I had to fold the roof down so I could stand up to get out ... 😆

In a reply to someone, on one of your videos , the other day , i DID say you were psychic👍

I think it does say that in the highway code about the Audi plus the indicators

The parked car would be getting the "keep between the lines drawing" treatment 😂 all jokes aside that is an absolutely horrendous bit of parking that I hope they got a fine for if it's in a private car park. Deffinitely something I've learnt watching your videos is the ability to gain a 6th sense for what people are about to do, just yesterday I held back expecting 2 separate people to suddenly lane merge just before a roundabout and sure enough that's exactly what happened 🤷

I had a driver park like that next to me on the motorway services the other day. But unfortunately for them they were getting out of their car as I returned to mine. I made a comment to the driver that they hadn't given me much room to get in, and with a bit of reluctance the driver then parked their car correctly. 😂

Now that is just God awful parking. The driver just didn't care. Also, with the cyclist who went on the pavement, if he had dismounted, then he could have done that to not wait at the lights. It may be slower, yes, but least it's quicker than waiting a few minutes. This reminds me of one of the Mr Bean episodes where a cyclist dismounts to cross a red light because he is legally a pedestrian, so Mr. Bean exits his car and pushed it. Good thing it was a Mini Cooper.

People in older cars sometimes position their mirrors to better see their blind spot at a glance and then have to lean to see further back into the blind spot. Rather than the other way round where you glance and see further back, but have either look out your window or kinda slam your head down and backwards.

@13:52 this situation happened to me once, I always try to park far away in where it is empty, also the extra walk is always good for you. I parked just like the Clio as I don't have a passenger I left extra room on the driver's side, am a big guy so getting in and out is a squeeze. A guy parked just like the Nissan did, both me and him came to our cars at the same time, I said "Hello, would you mind driving off first as I don't have much room to get in" his reply "A big 4x4 parked next me, so I had to park close". I went into the shop in and out in about 5 mins, had view of the car park, no car parked next to him the whole time.

On the B6194 (between Oldham and Rochdale) at 2:20. Believe it or not. it used to national speed limit back in the early 1990s! 30mph now.

Your face when the guy parked that Nissan hahaha had me.

Funny you should mention the bright green; since driving a bright orange car I’ve had more people pull out in front than ever. On one occasion on a hot day with windows down I even had a chap say ‘sorry, didn’t see you!’ 🧐

Ashley, regarding your use of the hatched area when turning right... I did a similar thinga while back approaching a turn right lane at a busy junction in Dunfermline in order to avoid blocking a through lane. I got called up by the police for doing it, nothing other than a quiet word and I did explain my rational but policeman didn't like it.

Ash is correct, indicators on a BMW are an optional extra that you have to pay extra for. That's why I like to lord it over the paupers in their solid white povvo-spec 1 series by demonstrating correct indicator use.

Selfishness and ignorance is a massive contributor to these driving fails.. I cannot understand how it’s a one driving test and pass for life system. Why there is not enough done to keep standards at the driving test level. Either way, thanks for your videos!

Hi Ashley - I had a question which I'm hoping you would give me your opinions on? Blackbox or Telematics Insurance? Are these policies actually more dangerous than a normal policy? My thoughts behind it are the following; - As a telematics insurance driver, my policy rates me on a traffic light system for each week of driving. If I break harshly or accellerate harshly it will mark me down and if I get 3x RED weeks in a 3 months period then they cancel my policy. My question here is how does this make driving safer? If we need to take evassive action by emergency stop or slamming on the breaks to prevent hitting another car (because of their own driving skills) it would naturally negitiviely impact us so more than likely we'd second guess our own choices we make to prevent our policies from being cancelled. Thus meaning we're not infact safer, but more danergous due to chasing our good score. - A second example, the road speedlimit shows 60mph but the telematics thinks the road if 40 MPH - we will be forced to drive at 40mph to prevent a bad score, meaning we put other people into danger because if we go the speedlimit, they will cancel our insurance. There's loads of examples, but I'd love to hear you thoughts on blackbox insurance and should I, a driver of 1 year and month potentially pay an extra £200 per month for a normal policy?

I hate when people say about BMW drivers not using indicators. We aren't all the same, some of us are sensible and polite.

Remember though, every badly parked car is NOT out on the road. Bonus. 10:30 I once had a learner fail her test for NOT driving onto a hatched area. Having booked her test for morning peak, driving away from the town centre she was asked to turn right. Junction has a small protected turn area, for one car, plus a bit of hatching. One car already waiting. By waiting in the main carriageway, she blocked the traffic leaving town, resulting in many horn parps, and angry shouting when she did eventually move into the protected area. Examiner took the view that she had unnecessarily inconvenienced others, so got a serious fault. He said, she should have used the hatched area. We had already discussed this, and used it on a lesson, at this very junction. Pressure of a test. Always scan for debris in hatched areas, no need to collect a puncture, or at higher speeds, throw stuff at others.

Good point on securing items with seat belts. Even if it's a small handbag, with the acceleration rates of modern EVs things could go flying, and many people are caught out

As an Audi driver myself I can confirm it does say that in the drivers manual. They also don’t come with an indicator stalk.

The last guy parking close and pretty much out of his bay even looked back and thought “yep, perfect” 😂😂. Incredible.

Hi Ash, how you getting on with ST? thinking of one for next year for a full time driving school car.

I've parked well away from other cars and someone still parks against my drivers door . Thought it was just me 🤣

I'm a little obsessed with you just driving with the camera on, you're never technically talking to yourself. I might have to try it 😂

Somewhat unrelated, but the fashion game here is well on point

At around 8:36, a comment / question regarding UK road classification. The road in that particular clip, although quite narrow is still wide enough for a centre white line. Here's the thing: I've encountered some such roads classified as an A road and others as a B road. Furthermore, I've encountered some B roads that are actually better / wider than some A roads. Because of this, whenever I'm planning a journey in advance along roads I've never been on, I make a point of using Google Earth street view to verify the quality and width of the roads. All this leaves me curious to know what criteria is used to classify a relatively narrow two way road as A or B.

13:53 I'm sure we've all done the "mind the gear stick" manoeuvre at some time in our lives.

Why would you drive through a parking space with no cars either side and park like that and risk damage to your own car 🤔. Maybe his 2 brain cells had been banging together on the way to the shops 😂😂

Why must people park so close? A few years ago we were in the Channel Islands and went to this museum. It had just opened and we were the first car in the car park. We came out a couple of hours later, there was only about half a dozen cars were parked. Buy of cause there was one right next to me.

At around 8:11, ah yes the good old "I'm turning right up ahead, I'm not really part of this waiting queue". As tempting as that is, there's a risk of: 1. Vehicle emerging left out of the side street you are going for 2. Pedestrians crossing and not expecting a vehicle on the wrong side of the road 3. A vehicle in the queue you are bypassing suddenly deciding to pull out to perform the same manoeuvre and straight into your path without checking.

4:45 Ashley, your separation distance was also less than 1.5 seconds at that point. I don't know how fast you were going but that doesn't seem like one you could stop well within. According to the AA stopping distances guide you need 23 metres to stop at 30 mph - that's about 1.7 seconds of travel time.

I have just been round my local aldi's . And it was extremely busy But the news on TV said . Don't venture out unless it is absolutely necessary . Because of the snowfall during the night . I do understand it it is only around about 3 weeks till Christmas but it is like this every Sunday , when I walk round . But with the snow being on the ground , then . I wasn't expecting it to be that busy , and looking at the conveyor belt " at the tills the shopping " what some people were buying , wasn't a necessity " either .🤔🇬🇧

At 7:51, the good old merge in turn. At traffic lights where there are two lanes on approach, going into one lane after and you are already ahead of a vehicle in the lane beside you, what does the other driver honestly expect you to do? Too many drivers try to "put the pressure on" in these situations, just like the white van did. One consequence of which is, you have to keep a closer eye on them as their intentions are now less certain.

Nice video all-round!

8.44 if you hadn't been straddling the white line on the bend there would have been more room, we all await an upcoming video about using all the road to help see around corners....

At around 10:41 that was pretty close to the oncoming bus. Just imagine the damage a bus would do to the side of your car in this type of manoeuvre. It's also as well to remember that a bus, by it's very definition, will be carrying passengers...and buses don't have passenger seat belts. Even without an accident, if the bus driver has to brake harshly, there will be the likelihood of multiple injuries. Bear in mind also, at busy times, there may be standing bus passengers, as well as passengers climbing down the stairs in preparation for their stop.

Transition at 7:30 was great

9:21 I bet its a pain living there having to manoeuvre your car everyday out onto that junction. Part of me feels for them a little

How would you deal with someone behind you with their full beams on? Ive had it happen so many times and try tap the brake lights gently a few times or turn on and off my rear fog light but sometimes they just dont get the message. Not sure what else i could do to make them aware

14:10 you were so focused on the poor lady and her wheelchair seeing how the a-hole made it difficult for her that you did not notice the person who was parked next to you pulled out and promptly went the wrong way against the arrow on the floor! 🤣🤣

I like the way, in that final car park, that there's a section for red cars and a section for black cars.

Nice video