The Car Ahead: Skills Of Defensive Driving Episode 2.

[@GM645E]

Obviously not too many drivers paid attention to this video, I see rear enders almost on a daily basis.. But great video I watched it for the original cars and old scenes, HQs, XAs etc.. I love it!

[@darioburatovich2240]

And the shirts and shoes 🤣

[@expatmartin]

This film was basically filmed around Mona Vale Rd St Ives near the old Police Motor Cycle Training College. Also shots around the Chatswood and Willoughby areas. Great to hear the late Peter Gywnne as the announcer he had a fine career in Australia as an actor and announcer.

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi Nathan you're right that is also a Film Australia Collection film from 1978. We will post it here eventually.

[@milfordcivic6755]

Even though cars today have much more advanced braking systems than these did, these are a good foundation for being safe on the road. Good luck keeping 5 car lengths between you and the car in front on the highway though.

[@thandermax]

Great information for novice & experienced alike

[@sharongoodsell9341]

Proud to be old car driver, Holden's and Ford's were classics , I know what my ute will do, we have been together 18 yrs , never crashed it

[@wavecentral]

Love these videos - all those wonderful old cars. Especially what appears to be a VG Valiant 2-door Mexicana passing the film convoy right at the end of the clip.

[@freeman10000]

In 2020 I use the Time Lapse Formula : 2 seconds in dry weather and about 5 seconds in the wet. Pure common sense!

[@darioburatovich2240]

....and in 2023.... My car drives itself....and I don't bloody trust the bastard, to say it in 1973 mode..🤣

[@NFSAFilms]

Wow! Not familiar with it but it may be in the collection. Not part of this series though. Will definitely have a look for it.

[@nathanmiller1]

That film is called "Drinking, Driving, Surviving". I've seen it available on the NFSA website.

[@NFSAFilms]

Hopefully these films will help prevent that in the future.

[@MeFrom07]

Ah Yes! I've seen that one in school too! From what I remember, the chalk marker was attached to a Valiant. I think that might have been from the series made about 1978.

[@fordroad]

A great video from the early 70's. The cars are now collectors items. I take note the cars locked their breaks and were stopping on the tyres only, very inefficiency breaking. Its good to look back and in 2012 nothing much has changed with tail gating drivers. The three second rule in the dry allow 4 seconds in the wet, yes current again in 2012.

[@glencooney3139]

5:20 to 6:03 is Wakehurst Parkway southbound coming up hill towards Frenchs Forest Rd. HV power transmission towers still there.

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks Glen, we appreciate the information.

[@TheDarkDresser]

Back then even when the cars were new they looked old. The music sounds like the music to a 1970's black comedy movie.

[@chudiksc]

Thank you

[@toe39]

I try to keep a safe distance ahead of me in the expressway, but when I do that other cars keep on cutting in front of me. What am I supposed to do, slow down every time that happens to keep the distance?

[@raymondsmith3260]

+toe39 yes

[@msnadiak]

I would also love to know where the filming locations are and what these places look like today.

[@jerelmani]

I think it looks like Sydney Northern beaches area.

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

lol probbaly not much diffrent

[@Wickerman713]

The intro song is great, any idea what it is?

[@NFSAFilms]

All of the music in this series was composed by Rory O' Donoghue. He did lots of soundtracks for the Commonwealth Film Unit. Sometimes with his partner Grahame Bond - both of Aunty Jack fame.

[@kingdavidlynk]

Increasing the space so much presents an opportunity for another to slip in and cut the distance by half

[@MadMaXxFx]

Now ABS Plays A Key Feature

[@chiefchook]

The intersection at 6.52 looks like Elizabeth Drive at Mount Pritchard. Some earlier scenes may be Seaforth and Manly. You should post some screen captures to Flickr.

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

I wish the video covered texting and driving :P

[@ericmeechglobalnetwork2273]

cool

[@MrGutfeeling]

1:50 - they would stop a lot shorter if they didn't lock up the wheels, incredible they put this onto an instructional video!

[@bury_the_elite65294]

A bit difficult to know at what point the brakes would lock up, though. Hence today's electronic anti-lock brakes & emergency braking assist. Of course, only the former was used (VERY rarely) for mass production back then. IIRC the only car that had anti-lock brakes (mechanical, not electronic) back then was the Jensen FF. Jensen was a small manufacturer from the West Midlands, UK.

[@shopcrate5687]

Can anyone tell me what kind of test car that was

[@Mercmad]

3:45 Seen that hoon in the holden doing that before in another vid. Lair needs a boot up the jaxie and lose his license. ,, 😁😁

[@brendanwilliams7291]

If you have people coming over for a holiday from America for instance, they might bring their own car with them, they might not be familiar with our road rules compared to their own. Mind you the same thing applies if you go over there for a holiday and take your own car.

[@bethetruth6428]

Lesson from these lessons is DON'T FKN' TAILGATE OR STOP TAILGAITING OK ;-p

[@internezzo]

Kids that run on the road after balls are just contenders for the Darwin awards, no need to be too fussed about hitting them.

[@nicholaslumanyika4957]

I love these 1960s defensive driving videos!!!

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

they are classy

[@darbexcl]

drum brakes

[@MrZillaman73]

The system encourages all this behaviour..Humans are easily lead..

[@SecurityHere]

Please give this to the RTA, get them to pomote this, driver today do not do this, i drive a GTS Sports car, i am not a hoon, but drivers today just dont get it.

[@applemuffin7253]

You own a GTS.... there’s always a touch of hoon in us I too have my HQ GTS from new and although in my 70s I still feel young when behind the wheel !!

[@AGuitarFingerstyle4U]

but,, todays car use abs..

[@speakfreeley4473]

Imperial measurements rule.

[@memberHD]

This is pretty funny. They are dead fucking serious, but we still had not worked out locking up the tyres was the worst way to stop

[@Mercmad]

Actually, Drivers (who drove a lot ) knew how to brake safely.It was called cadence braking and involved stepping on the brake firmly then releasing ,doing that until the car pulled up to a stop. Pretty effective on dirt too.

[@bubbleman2002]

Locking the tyres up with bias ply tyres is very easy. Bias ply tyres are sensitive to not only how much load is being placed on them, but how quickly they are loaded. This is why older cars that would be equipped from the factory with bias ply tyres have squishy suspension, so that drivers who make jerky, sudden inputs had a safety buffer between them and the tyres to keep them from slipping. Also racing drivers knew very well that locked tyres not only increased tyre wear and temperatures, but that it was worse to use the friction of a slipping tyre against the road than a tyre that wasn't under rotating. I agree that it is criminal that limit braking was not an expected skill to have. The primary purpose for ABS now is to let you maintain your ability to steer in panic stop situations. Radial construction tyres are much less prone to losing traction when shocked by a sudden load, as they can flex more, and flex faster than bias ply tyres could. The point of this demonstration anyways is a panic stop, and many people cannot have the fine motor control of the brake pedal necessary to avoid locking the tyres in a panic stop.

[@memberHD]

@@bubbleman2002They could be driving on the rims on ice for all I care. The conditions do not matter as long as they remain consistent. The tests these people set up and tried to gain conclusive scientific data from, was using a flawed method to generate that data, which makes the data as useless as any other anecdote out there. ABS has always been about preventing the wheels from locking up. One of the extra benefits of not locking up is having the ability to steer the car, but that's not it's primary purpose.

[@darioburatovich2240]

What size are the feet?....9?...9 1/2 ?....10?...,🤣

[@bethetruth6428]

Australia Tail-Gaiting Capitol ? Amongst other title genres %'-D

[@geoffreyplasier2796]

Scary that locking brakes was considered a good thing.

[@Edvard.Munchkin]

Somebody's mathematics is wrong

[@freeman10000]

Feet, inches, miles~seriously confused. And I'm an old"ish" fart.