Driving Fail Viewers Edition 24 | Driverless Cars 

As much as I enjoy fails on channels like UK Dash Cams, I enjoy them more on Ashley Neal since you also learn something from watching them.

I've witnessed two 'driverless cars' while conducting lessons over the last few years. The first, a guy was turning right into a side road, saw a car rolling towards him, and sat there sounding his horn until it hit him. (Tip: Empty cars are deaf.) With nothing behind him, he had plenty of time to reverse out of the way. Second incident, the rear of a Golf appeared gently from behind a hedge. Immediately I recognised the slow gentle movement as an empty car. (Spent too much time out and about, need to stay in more) No time to explain so gently stopped the car using the duals. Golf rolled gently across the road and rested against the opposite kerb. I knocked the house door. The woman answered the door, and surprised that her car had moved, asked, "How dit it get there?" "Gravity" was my only reply.

Education...... that is what makes Ashley's channel stand out from the majority of others which tend to sensationalise poor road use. Keep up the good work, Ash. Stay safe everyone 👍

8:56 On his phone I’ll bet. Thanks for another great compilation Ashley. You’ve really helped my driving to improve and I’m sure that’s true of others too!

As a retired HGV driver I am disheartened by so many incidents of poor driving by pro drivers

One thing I’ve learned while driving is that any vehicle with DPD on it is going to do something dangerous or stupid!

Had to laugh at the driver of the Audi convertible who was in & out of his car at the roundabout in the road rage incident. What was he going to do to the other driver I wonder….??? Classic 😆

8:44 this kind of attitude towards cyclists (for no other reason than them being vulnerable road users) is ridiculous. There should be harsh punishments, what if it wasn't just cold water in the balloon?

Clip 14 - this is actually from Quebec, note the "ARRET" sign instead of "STOP", one of the rare examples of this. France uses English on their road signs, Quebec uses French.

The laugh at 8:24 had me in stitches

3:01 Totally thoughtless. I don’t know about everyone else but I find dual carriageways to be much more troublesome (and sometimes scary) places to drive than motorways. Cars go nigh on as fast as they do on motorways but still treat the road like it’s a little local road with “guidelines instead of rules” and do some very casual things they’d never do on a proper motorway. Example roads I can think of include the A30 in Cornwall and the A303 in Wiltshire.

Did you notice two of the three lorries/big vans between 3:00 and 3:30 were from the same firm. Always a bit of a danger sign as they were worrying more about each other than everyone else.

I was once distracted by an aux cable that had 'spilled' into the footwell and drove into a double kerb at 30mph, not dissimilar to the last clip. Thankfully no peds were around. I don't put any music on while driving anymore.

One thing I definitely will do in future is the merge in turn. Previously I have been guilty on occasion of being one of those merge police you refer to, out of a sense of fair play since everyone else was queuing. However you have made some interesting points, you've changed my mind and changed my attitude for the better. We _all_ have things to learn from these videos. Keep up the good work :-).

7:20 was brilliant, got to love how the grey Audi A3 mugged off the upset car by just driving away and mostly ignoring the other car.

Clip 22 is my favourite by far. The red car's behaviour was ridiculous, but the guy's laugh absolutely made it. I've honestly reacted like this once or twice at truly ridiculous scenarios. It certainly feels better than getting angry. 😆

2:38 what do you mean the bmw was not overtaking, it's literally overtaking a lorry in the left lane?! yea it should move left, but only at about (2:57) this point, else it still has a lorry right behind...

Just found your channel and I am really enjoying how informative it is. Also your voice is so calming which is a bit of a juxtaposition with the hectic content. Thank you.

8:25 sometimes you just have to laugh at the idiots around you instead of stooping to their level! Rather than retaliating or initiating road rage, just belly laugh at their idiocy instead 😂

The last driver had read his driving licence "tear along the dotted line"

If it wasn't for the copyright rules, the Benny Hill theme would've fitted nicely dubbed over the clip at 7:24 ! When you do your 2022 compilations, can you make "pointless overtake" a category? The clips at 5:50, 6:31 and 8:24 are all very early contenders for the title!

Clip 20 with the Audi convertible. I can just imagine that scene being played out to the theme tune of Benny Hill. Do folks realise just how ridiculous they look when they engage in this kind of behaviour? And it just would have to be an Audi! Ok ok, New Years resolution: No stereotyping of vehicles for 2022. I'll try my best! What would have been even funnier is if both cars kept going round and round the roundabout.

Hi Ashley... I have only just discovered your Channel... love your calm analytical approach to driving... I wish everyone gave it this much thought, the roads would be far safer and accidents and collisions reduced greatly.... thanks :)

Happy New Year to you, you've helped me so much with my driving, for me the best reaction in all thoughs clips was the driver that laughed

2:14 brilliant - no shouting, no chasing, just a fairly universal gesture we all understood :)

Clip 19 - honestly, this boils my piss more than most bad driving examples. The Renault is in the wrong on so many levels and you know they're proud of themselves that they're preventing others from getting by. And last clip 24, guaranteed he was on his phone, in hand texting or scrolling thru social media. That poor woman with the buggy. Imagine if she'd been trying to cross the road and stood at the curb.

I am not so sure the BMW driver is doing anything wrong at 2:47. I always thought it good practice to give vehicles being overtaken plenty of room, ie not to pull back in the left lane close in front but to leave plenty of space. For me, based on what is shown, it is clearly the tailgating lorry behind the car that is at fault.

Clip 5; They also passed the second exit with their left indicator still on. I don't know if they did that the whole way around but that's lethal when combined with staying in the outermost lane for a full lap.

You got me with the cycling down the wrong side of the road downhill at night 🤣🤣 this video is bordering on a comedy show. Thanks for putting this out there to help make our roads safer.

That laugh at 8:24, sounded like Jim Royal, from the Royal Family 😁

Re. Driverless cars ... they will only work as long as *every* car is driverless, all "talking" to each other, knowing where everyone else is going etc. The moment you introduce a human driver the system goes tits up. Btw - that clip was just up the road from where I live!

0:30 I have some sympathy for the 5 series trying to get away from its owner

7:22 That’s Bicester! Love it when I see my town on here lol

Looks like that fiesta paid the price of the driver no paying attention, looked like the suspension collapsed on the left side after it got violently jolted like it were on a rally course.

Yesterday night on the motorway (A55 around 9pm), I saw 5 cars zoom pass me, going above 90mph. 2 minutes later, in the distance as I was approaching the roundabout I saw a car with hazard lights on. As I got closer, they were all stopped after an accident, absolute idiots.

Open to opinions. In clip 8 at 2:43 Ashley implys the BMW driver should complete their overtake and move back to the left hand land. In my opinion the BMW driver was no where near far enought infront of the lorry to move back in. I very much doubt they could see the lorry in the rear view mirror (I was taught that once you can see both headlight in the mirror you could be sure you where safe to move back over). Further, I always think you should be most of the way to creating a two second gap before pulling back in. That's 62m or 4 lorrys (3 lorrys at 50mph). Obviously maybe a little earlier to account for the different speeds

I am amazed by some clips. I must admit I sometimes also forget to go from lane 2 to 1. But nowadays I think more about it.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ASHLEY.

Happy New Year Ashley.

These help me be more aware

American cars can't go round corners on dry roads, forget about driving them in the snow.

Clip 19. Ah yes, our old regular favourite of merge in turn "resentment" is back! Although I've never experienced a self appointed blocker like that, it must be supremely annoying to the driver who is doing the correct thing and maximizing the road space. To me this is worse than middle lane hogging, where at least you are still able to continue your journey at more or less motorway speeds, as opposed to being deliberately brought to almost a standstill for no good reason other than misplaced resentment. In this particular video, it's also rather ironic that the blocker wanted to prevent the cam car from using Lane 2...but in the process, created an opportunity for another car in Lane 1 to undertake it and head out into Lane 2 anyway. Well, I guess you can't block both lanes at the same time!

Driverless cars :) I was fitting a reverse camera to an 8 seat mercedes mpv I had bought, one of the ones with the awful parking brake that is applied by foot and released by hand. I had it in neutral as I couldn't get the radio out with it in park. My son was in the car playing a game crawling under the seats whilst I was head under the dash, legs out the passenger door running the cables. Next thing I knew my car was rolling down my drive dragging me with it. Luckily it isn't a steep slope so I was able to stand up without getting run over and make a futile attempt to slow it down. The drivers door hit a lamp post exactly on the handle so no dent but it slammed it shut, luckily my son was fully inside the car so didn't get anything trapped by it. It rolled across the empty road, bumped into the kerb opposite and stopped. I hadn't noticed by my son had crawled to the drivers seat and, of all the knobs and levers decided to pull the parking brake release 🙈 I've always hated having kids around me when working, you have to have eyes in the back of your head and double think everything you do. Another example. My mum had parked in the local village to do some shopping. She walked around the corner and there was a car parked on double yellows right on a junction, she thought to herself what a thoughtless person to park there and carried on up the road to get in her car. When she got there she realised her car had gone. Suddenly it added up and she realised it was her car at the bottom of the hill. She was just about to get in when a policeman appeared to give her a parking ticket. She said well I didn't park it there, it must have rolled down. The policeman went to the back of the car and tried to push it, wouldn't budge, same at the front, wouldn't budge. At that moment a local shop keeper came out and explained that the car had been rolling down the hill and he had jumped in and put the hand brake on. My mum never used to lock her car so it would've been easy to do. She had had an operation on her wrist so couldn't pull the hand brake on as hard as she needed to. The policeman gave her a ticking off then let her go. Except she had to shout him back over, the hand brake had been pulled on that hard she couldn't get it off 🤣

Ayy another local place around where I live. 3:56 is Winwick road in Warrington, notorious road for impatient parents driving their kids to school.

The same as walking on two feet down the high street on a Friday night ..there will always be louts who want a fight....they carry on their same mentality when inside a car! These videos help to teach us its simply best to be aware of these type of people, the vehicles they drive and keep out of their way the best you can!

That "road lane police" car was doing about 15mph in a 50mph limit. Shocking.

I feel like I would really love a merging turn bumper sticker

Love the channel Ashley, every episode contains another lesson. What video editing software do you use? Best regards Mark

Driving standards have gone completely downhill! If these morons watched your channel then maybe it would help them drive a little better. Some of these are completely unbelievable. I am currently teaching my daughter to drive and I really do fear for her safety once she’s passed.

One thing I’m not looking forward to when I start to drive on my own for the first time is coming up to a roundabout to use an exit after 12 o’clock and a car has been to the right of me all the time and continues straight on when I want to exit. Never had it happen on my lessons but I’m guessing I will have to be patient,let them carry on and then makes sure it’s safe to exit. To me it’s a driver who hates roundabouts and sticks to the safest lane unaware of the confusion they’re causing to other road users

Number two, an actual laugh out loud. It was like something from a Buster Keaton movie.

I encountered a not-so-futuristic driverless vehicle myself recently. In a queue of traffic when a work truck parked on the right suddenly starts edging in front of me. From the angle I was at I couldn't see there was no one in it, but there was nothing anyone could do anyway and it rolled into the rear corner of the car in front. I got out and put the truck in park (it was in neutral) while someone found the owner nearby.

I had an incident with a driverless car, mine. I parked it at the side of the road and walked twenty yards down the road to the cashpoint. When I turned round after getting my cash, my Metro was gently rolling past me. I walked round got in and drove off. The Policemen in the Panda car coming the other way were boggle eyed. I left it in gear with the wheels turned towards the kerb after that.

Happy New Year Ashley & everyone watching; thanks for sharing the clips as always. Can we have clip #20 again please but this time with the music from 'The Benny Hill Show'?

8:45 and 6:35 I know those people, they are soo lovely! It amazes me that someone would be throwing balloon filled with water at them, or purposefully blocking them. But the situation at 6th minute isn't surprising at all. Happens often enough. As you have said Ashley, poor planning with a mixture of "me first" attitude.

The USA one, mostly rear wheel drive, automatic gearbox cars - never a great mix in slippery conditions.

Why do i giggle every time i hear you say "Here's a clip from john" :) And i'm not even british xD

4:48 this is late now but this was in Quebec, Canada. The cammer had drifted into their lane and that's why they were hit. They were probably 10 feet past the stop sign. Although if you pause at 4:55 you can see the truck didn't have their headlights on, only ticked once so just the taillights were on.

driverless car jokes are a blast from the past. when I was young, we'd have enough instances to be noteworthy of cars that had gone off the road and nobody in them was driving. last night's example of bad judgement was somebody walking with their back to traffic, and either right on the fog line or in the lane, wearing hide-in-the-dark colors.

R.E. Clip 8, whilst I agree that the BMW should move over eventually, I wouldn't do so at that point as I prefer to leave a good distance before pulling back in front of a HGV so as to maintain their braking distance without them needing to slow down on my account.

Clips 17 & 18 - I get that regularly, often they pull in front only to have to stop, blocking my path where I could have kept going. Complete lack of understanding or consideration. Re- driver les car, I think electric handbrake and delay brake release have a big part to lay in these instances.

I was always told off my driving instructor that if the lorry in front of you If you can't see the wing mirrors then they won't be able to see you

Clip 14; Possibly was expecting the dashcammer to keep going and therefore started to steer towards the back of their car, ie, the gap that would then have opened up had they continued. Although, with the width of their roads, they can have some quite aggressive camber, so simply locking up (much more common in the US/Canada as ABS wasn't made compulsory until much later than the UK) could see you end up in the kerb, ditch or stationary vehicle at the side of the road very quickly, especially if you're driving on the wrong tyres. I think this was the case as after they hit the dashcammer you can see they're on full left lock.

5:13 thats why the hard shoulder should stay as other than breakdowns and emergencies, it serves other important purposes. But dont stop there if you want to rest.

8:32 OMG that's Blackpool where I live!

the dudes laugh at #22 omg love it.

That Fiesta is me .. in a driving game, online - when I feel like not being fit to be behind the wheel in the real world. Oh wait .. was it just a notification from a social media app? I can relate to the cyclists; not one of us wants our heads under a wheel if we fall..

My partner outright refuses to wear a helmet while cycling, his argument is that he can ride on the path...

@4:30 based on the Arret sign, I would guess, Canada, in the province of Quebec and not the US

First thing I noticed about #14 is that it's *not* in the US. Notice the stop sign reads ARRÉT - a feature unique to Quebec province, Canada. Even the actual French aren't *that* anal-retentive about their language heritage; there the signs read STOP, like anywhere else in Europe.

Not sure if it's been mentioned already, HGVs are allowed in 3 rd lane of dual carriageways just not on motorways.

The van overtaking the bike at about 6:00 - very much a case of 'must get in front of the cyclist', which as a cyclist myself I notice A LOT. It's even more prevalent than 'must get in front of the learner car". On the other hand, if I were that cyclist, I would have taken primary position while passing the parked cars and on the approach to the queue of traffic, and possibly stopped behind the last car in the queue. Safer for all.

Clip 18 is 100% illegal to overtake anything in a pedestrian crossing, in the zig-zag lines are there to indicate it.

Great to hear Ricky Tomlinson reprise his Jim Royale role in clip 22😂

The fiesta at the end was just testing the suspension that's why he got out :)

That one with the removal vans prompts a suggestion for a future video: examples of how to best recover from a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time: they get into the wrong lane, they miss road markings, the traffic light or sign is hidden by a high-sided vehicle, etc. I've done it, you've done it, everyone's done it. So how about a 'best recovery' video?

For anyone wondering "What's that strangely familiar tune in clip 3...?" It's "Under the Milky Way" by The Church. You probably heard it from Donnie Darko.

Some belters here. 🤣 It does make you wonder how they passed their tests.

I think your snow bound USA truck had probably lost grip, jammed his foot on the brake and become a skateboard. I say this as someone who has done much the same and only narrowly avoided a collision. Nobody really teaches you how to drive in the snow and taking your foot off the brake and trying to drive out of the slide is very hard to do once you are sliding and the terror mounts.

Most overtakes of cyclists are more accurately described as "punishment passes" for them daring to take up any space on the road.

Regarding Clip 5 (starting at about 1:24) - clearly what the blue car did here was incorrect. However, given that there appear to be concentric lanes marked around the roundabout, would it have made a difference if there had not been direction arrows in the lanes approaching the roundabout, ie could the blue car pass the first two and say take the third exit? Personally, I find unmarked concentric lanes like this on the roundabout (as opposed to lanes that spiral, or lanes that specify a destination) confusing, as it gives the impression that one could drive all the way around, without changing lane, by staying in the left lane.

Hi I have not seen all your videos, but can/have you done a short one one merge in turn and what merge inturn means... and who has right of way ... Everyone i ask thinks it mean you have to merge in turn and that the one in front has right of way to move over to the lane moving forward. Thanks Ashley...

Happy New Year

5:12 perfect example of hard shoulder being essential

In clip 15, I'm not surprised that the lorry is DPD. At work, we have several DPD deliveries every day, all the drivers ignore our instructions.

5:03 - also note that said arrant driver also hit the kerb whilst pulling in... I guess VERY icy, not just snowy.

The Mercedes manoeuvre (clip#16), I've seen exactly the same where I live. However, in my incident, the driver performed several other "disrespectful" manoeuvres towards other road users beforehand.

First time I've ever had two clips featured on here (first and last one). the green fiesta in the last clip was left there for two days after that, with nearside wheel pointing to the back of the car, that could of been nasty if he'd of gone off road earlier with the bollards there and the person in the mobility scooter.

8:38 if we all reacted this way the roads would be a lot calmer place 😂😂😂😂

Yes, the emerge in Clip 12 was poor, but I'm surprised you didn't call the cammer out for maintaining speed simply to make a point. If they'd braked sooner, they could have probably rolled through at 30 mph, instead of almost coming to a stop. They'd have maintained better visibility too. "If you're not part of the solution,... " right?

7:03 People who act like this genuinely think they're doing the right thing.

02:25 - i am not 100% sure why there are 'no overtaking' signs but no solid lines which are more affective? there must be a difference in how these are applied?

4:45 is probably target fixation. Can't think of something else. You stare at the thing you don't want to hit instead of where you want to go...

06:40 I think this is a classic case of the driver performing the right turn as they normally would, muscle memory if you like but with no regard for the cyclist as they wouldn't normally be there. I wouldn't ride as close to the kerb hopefully putting me more in the eye line of the driver and also giving me more room to escape.

Clip 14; *Canada, French Stop sign. 4:46

I have no words... i really don't! 🙈

Using all the road space in this situation does slow traffic though. People also only do it to be impatient, which is something you go on about all the time.

I was shocked when my step daughter was taught to park in neutral. I've done my best to convince to park in first or reverse and chock the wheels against the kerb. I have never trusted a handbrake alone. Admittedly, my first cars in the 80s did have appalling brakes!

Best comedy video on RU-vid.

04:45 Clip No. 14 Looking at the *"Arret"* Stop sign it appears that this might be France or just maybe somewhere in Eastern Canada