"brave of you" ?! Ashley is a driving instructor and the Focus is his school car

Yeh agreed, does seem a solid driver. Harry is pretty decent too.

Thought he had a BMW not Ford.

Hope you had a constructive day and managed to clear all the foliage and tidy up the branches .🙂

@@thomaselliot2257 Thank you for asking Thomas and I did thank you. Everything has been cleared up until tomorrow where no doubt I will removing more leaves from the car

About a dozen at this point 👍

What about the kerb hugging Ford at 15:39 as well? Looks like most driving type were out and about for that hour

A very good question and hopefully Ashley or other instructors will be able to answer 👍 As for me, when I learned to drive at the turn of the century we had ABS and was taught using ABS and to trust the car. However, the vehicles I owned very early in my driving life didn’t have ABS and at the time had quiet country lanes I could use for braking so I took advantage to learn hard, heavy braking without ABS and also not locking up the road wheels by performing slight pumping actions manually. To this day, even with ABS, I do not rely on the technology purely because, as you say, it can fail. I know someone that had to perform an emergency stop but the ABS valve unit had failed resulting in the pedal immediately hitting the floor instead of vibrating with the system. Thankfully they knew to release and reapply. Worryingly even with that happening there was no ABS fault light on the dashboard 😱

the scenario my instructor proposed is to imagine if a child has ran out onto the road infront of you, slam on the brake as hard as possible and come to a stop as soon as possible

The emergency stop is still taught and is still potentially asked to demonstrate on test. Time for an up to date video on the subject I think 🤔

@@ashley_neal Thanks, Ashley 😺Going off on a bit of a tangent, as I often do, I remember my motorcycle test, also in the 80's. Back then it was so easy, you just rode around the block while the examiner observed you from the pavement. When it was time for the emergency stop, he just stepped into the road and raised his hand, and you were expected to stop. Which I did, no problem, but I did hear a story (it may have been apocryphal, but it's so silly it could well be true) that one day, an examiner stepped into the road to stop a bike.... You guessed it, wrong bike 😯🤣

@@unimagin2ble If you've got ABS, fine. If you haven't, however...

Because the last pupil didn’t want the last video going to everyone this is a replacement!

@@ashley_neal thanks, was just replying to your other comment 😅 will enjoy this video now as a nice consolation prize 😅😊

​@@ashley_nealI had assumed it was your intention not to keep the last video up permanently since it WAS for members only.

I was going to let everyone have access as it showed a lot. Anyway Harry’s lesson is a good contrast and a different teaching requirement.

​@@ashley_nealI think Harry did very well, few little mistakes, nothing he can't master in no time, well done Harry 💯

i've got a hire car at the moment with auto hold, my students like it. It doesn't stop you from rolling the car or creeping forward at all, it just replaces the hand brake so it's one less control to use while trying to work everything else out

Modern cars are mostly equipped with this feature, so obviously students need to be taught how and when to use it

This is the first time I’ve come across it on a manual gearbox car. I came across it on my current T Yaris hybrid, and use it most of the time. It also has auto parking brake as well (can be disabled when the weather results in potential freezing on). When the car stops dead, it holds it on with the associated display, then releases it when the accelerator is moved a tiny bit, so it crawls forward at walking pace straight away. Need to be careful about that, but useful most of the time. As with all traction motors, it can churn out max torque at zero speed, so can be a brisk starter from rest (and no risk of stalling, unless the road is iced over).

Appreciate this isn’t a short video but how long do you think driving lessons are? I would happily watch a double lesson on here as there is still lots to learn and freshen up on 👍