- Hi there, Smart Driver.
Talking to you today about
the Ohio Maneuverability Test,
step-by-step instructions.
This is an awesome
exercise for new drivers
and those learning to drive,
not just for those in Ohio.
Stick around, we'll be right
back with that information.
(upbeat music)
Welcome back.
The Ohio Maneuverability Test,
for those of you there
in the state of Ohio,
if you fail this portion
of your driver's test,
the part that sucks is
that you've got to take
an online course before you
can come back and try it again.
So make sure that you practice this
and are able to do it well.
You practice this a few times,
spend two or three hours
doing this, getting the cones.
It's going to be easy and
you're going to nail this.
First time doing your driver's test
and you're going to be successful.
Four cones, a nose cone.
The two cones are 20 feet apart
and the nose cone is out another 20 feet,
and the cones are nine feet apart.
So if you're taking a bigger vehicle,
this is going to be a bit tougher.
You're going to want to
take it in a mid-sized car.
The next thing I want you to do
is put a piece of tape on the
top of your steering wheel,
so you can keep track of
where your steering wheel is,
and you can see here in the dash cam
that the truck is here,
and will show you where
the center of the hood is.
First thing you want to do,
obviously, put your seatbelt on,
make sure that every
time you change direction
when you're doing your
slow-speed maneuvers
for the purposes of your driver's test,
especially in this day of COVID,
that you signal forward and reverse.
Anytime you change
direction of the vehicle.
So parking brake off,
make sure you apply the
parking brake as well
for the purposes of your driver's test,
every time you stop the
vehicle and are going to leave,
secure with the parking brake.
So the other piece that I learned
from Smart Drivers recently
is that when you come up to the nose cone,
you've got to stop, so
the rear of the vehicle
is in line with the nose cone.
When you back out of the
cones, you have to stop,
so the front of the vehicle is
in line with the back cones.
So let's do this.
So we get lined up, centered up
through the cones here, we move forward,
and basically all you want to do
once you get to the front cones here
is when they're at the mirrors,
and remember, the mirrors
are the farthest part
of your vehicle, they're
the widest part, okay?
Then we signal to the left,
we're going to go left,
and we turn the steering wheel
approximately one revolution
until that cone is right
in the front corner,
then we turn it back and we
straighten the vehicle out
and we come forward and
we watch this cone here.
We can see just in the back corner there,
and we're in line with the back column.
Then we come to a stop,
into reverse, okay?
We're watching, we're going straight back,
we got our piece of tape at
the top of our steering wheel.
We come back until the cone
is about halfway down the vehicle.
We turn the steering wheel one revolution.
We're looking in that mirror,
we can see that cone,
we can see this cone.
We bring the steering
wheel back to straight,
and we go back until the nose cone
is at the front of the vehicle.
Now we bring the steering
wheel to the left a little bit,
we're looking in our
mirrors, we're looking back.
Check your backup camera,
if you have one, okay?
Straighten your wheel out.
Remember, the wing
mirrors are the farthest,
the widest part of the vehicle, okay?
Again, checking back.
We're in line, straight back.
When we back up, and remember,
we have to stop the front of the car
in line with these cones.
So as soon as it comes past
the eighth pillar here,
the post, as I call it,
we just stop right there
and we're in line with the cones.
We're going to go up
and do it one more time,
and we're going to go to the
right of the pylons this time.
So now we back up again,
looking out at the back,
checking our backup camera.
And again, we get centered.
Okay, forward, if you're parked,
you put the parking brake off,
centering the cones, moving forward.
Straight, keeping our wheels straight,
wing mirrors, we're at the
wing mirrors with the post,
signal to the right.
One revolution of the steering wheel.
When the nose cone is right
there in the front corner,
okay, we turn back.
Okay, we're right here.
The cone is about
halfway down the vehicle.
Straighten the wheel out,
and we can move up right there.
And we're in line with the back cone.
Signal to the left, 'cause
we're going to go to the left,
into reverse, looking
back over our shoulder.
We bring the cone
halfway down the vehicle,
halfway down the vehicle,
one revolution to the left,
and we're looking in our
mirrors, we're looking back.
I can see the post here, or the cone here.
I can see it there, I see it back there.
I bring my steering wheel
back to straight, okay?
Tape at the top, right there.
I can see that cone, that
cone in both mirrors.
Okay, I bring my vehicle.
I turn the steering wheel
approximately one revolution.
Right there.
I look forward, I can
see that I'm straight,
and now I straightened my wheel out.
I bring my tape back to the top.
I can see the back cone in the mirrors.
I've gone past nice and slow.
You don't want to rush this,
'cause the slower you go, the
sharper the vehicle turns,
and the more time you
have to adjust the vehicle
in between the cones.
And again, we're backing up,
we're backing up, we look out here, okay?
We're just past, I can see the cone
past the eight pillar here,
and I just come down and I stop,
so it's in line with the bumper.
And that's all there is
to doing the Ohio Maneuverability Test.
Practice this.
For those of you in the Buckeye,
you need to have this,
you need to nail this,
otherwise you've got to do
that stupid online course,
and that's a real pain
in the bunchkin, okay?
Talking about your butt.
Do these practices, it's really easy.
And for those of you in
other places in the world,
other states in the US
and provinces in Canada,
it's an excellent
exercise for teaching you
where your vehicle is in
relation to other road users
and other fixed objects,
and mastery of the primary controls.
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Have a great day, bye now.
- [Girl] Yeah, I know what it is.
- Just a minute, I'm not done yet.
- [Girl] Wait, you should say in this-
- Stop.
- [Girl] No, daddy, this
is the important part
in this study of your video.
You should say also that
people should learn this,
if they think that they
want to visit Ohio.
(Rick laughs)
- It's only for the
driver's test there, honey.
It's not for visiting there, okay?
- Dad-
- So everybody, wait, let me finish.
- No!
- You got to get up here,
you got to come up between the seats.
- I've got a better one,
how about you hit a cone?
You hit a cone, like you're driving,
then you hit a cone, and you're
like, "Oops, I hit a cone."
- [Rick] Okay, so you got to
come up about here, honey.
(kid braying)
Right there.
- [Boy] Why can't we just
do it hitting a cone?
(Rick laughs)
(kid braying)
Why can't we just do the other one?
- [Girl] It's nice to be talking, daddy,
you have to talk.
- Hitting a cone is funnier though.
Shouldn't we do that one?
