Avenue of Failure

Driving in avenues can be fun. They are wide, they have traffic lights, and usually those traffic lights are synchronized to give you a green wave. However, during a driving test, very stupid mistakes can happen. In my driving test guide there is a full page about avenue mistakes. Here is an article I wrote about it.

Pass Your Driving Test - Avoid Deadly Avenue Mistakes

Avenues are a wider variation of streets. They have two or more lanes going in each direction, and they are usually separated by a barrier, which makes driving easier for drivers and walking easier for pedestrians. Avenues have a high speed limit, and with their high capacity they make the second most efficient road type after freeways. However, avenues bring some difficulties with them, and during driving tests they cause students to make horrible mistakes.

One mistake is not noticing pedestrians. Avenues are wide roads, and they usually have barriers. As a result, pedestrians often have to cross the two parts separately. When they stand on the middle, the barrier sometimes hide them, and the driver can't notice that the pedestrians are starting to cross. If that happens during a driving test, the student driver will fail for not yielding to pedestrians.

Avenues with no barriers are bigger trouble for driving students. Since there is no barrier, the pedestrian has to cross a very long crosswalk. If the pedestrian is on the far end of the road, a student driver is unlikely to notice the pedestrian. If the examiner notices that the student did not stop for a pedestrian, the student can say goodbye to his driver's license for a while.

Left turns are very difficult for some people when done on avenues. Avenues are wide, so a driver making a left turn has to yield to cars in several lanes, sometimes over three. Some driving students, especially during driving tests, are too nervous, and they wait until the road ahead of them is completely empty. Usually, avenues have a high traffic volume and the road is never empty. This will cause those student drivers to get marked as diffident and sometimes fail.

Turning left, without a traffic light, into an avenue is extremely difficult for many drivers, and some driving students rather drive a few blocks just to make their turn on a traffic light. When turning left into an avenue, drivers must watch for traffic on both sides. However, the turn can rarely be done at once, and must be made in two parts: first advancing quickly to the middle of the avenue, and then merging with traffic. Many driving students don't know how to do that, and if it occurs to them on a driving test, they fail.

The only way to drive well enough for the driving test and safely enough for other avenue users is getting a guide. Not every driving test guide is good enough. Only a driving test guide that shows exactly what to do for the driving test can do the job well.

You can get such a guide at the Pass your Driving Test area of my site.

It's quite long, I hope you made it so far.

Enjoy,
Nadav

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