Driving lesson videos

Driving lesson videos

Driving lesson videos are one of the best ways to learn when you aren’t on a driving lesson.

I have spent hours making over 400 free driving lesson videos for my YouTube channel which have now had over 10 million views!

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My YouTube driving lesson videos can help you learn to drive and take away the fear of the dreaded driving test by showing you what a test is really like.

I was one of the very first driving instructors to make videos for YouTube with my channel launching in May 2008. You can check the date on the about page of my channel.

All of these driving lesson videos are filmed in Birmingham by me. Visit my YouTube channel to see them all.

You’ll see many driving instructors copying my videos but I was on YouTube before any other school.

Driving lessons videos in Birmingham with pupils

I’ve filmed many driving lessons with pupils over the years. Here are some of them:

  • Charlie visit Birmingham to film a show me tell me video and a mock driving test
  • Emma had never driven before and started from the beginning
  • Ella had taken some lessons and started with some experience
  • Archik had already passed his driving test a while ago and took another test
  • Claudia took a lesson after failing a driving test with another school
  • Lucy filmed every single lesson with me from start to finish
  • Adam took a mock driving test in Birmingham the week before his real driving test
  • Prisca had a full driving licence and wanted to improve driving on country lanes
  • Jennifer filmed a mock driving test with me
  • Kelly filmed her first driving lesson with me
  • Aaron was the first pupil I ever filmed a mock driving test with

Driving instructor standards check videos

My videos aren’t just for learner drivers, there are hours of video for driving instructors too.

Idiots on the road

It’s not all serious stuff however. There are lots of funny videos showing the crazy things that happen to me when I’m out teaching. If you thought being a driving instructor was boring then you might change your mind after seeing my videos.

Just have a look to see some of the crazy things that can happen while driving in Birmingham.

  • Members of the public coming up to my car for all sorts of reasons
  • Crazy crashes and road rage
  • General chaos on the roads of the UK

How I got into making driving lesson videos

People often ask me why I make these videos and how I got into it all. It’s because of something that happened to me in 2010.

I was involved in a stupid car crash during a driving lesson in Birmingham. We were sitting at a junction waiting to go and then the car behind drove straight into us. The car behind them drove into the back of them and the car behind that one drove into the back of them!

It was the other drivers’ fault because they were all racing each other. Two of the cars were full of boy racers and the other had a pensioner (that had never grown up) in a souped up car. They all tried to make up a story to somehow make it my fault because they knew they were to blame.

The other drivers got together and started making up a story that the damage was already on my car. They were going to pretend that they hadn’t even been there and this hadn’t happened. Then a woman walking past started screaming and saying she’d been hit by us because she wanted to get some compensation money.

This went on through solicitors for over two years. Because of this I decided I’d had enough and so I invested in my first camera system.

My YouTube adventure begins

I started out using my car CCTV system for protection purposes only. It was just there to make it easier to resolve crashes by proving exactly what had really happened.

I started to put a few funny videos on YouTube. Maybe people might get a laugh from them and it would make my website look better.

I started to get comments saying I should make more videos because they were great. A few subscribers turned into a few hundred and then into a few thousands. After a year or so I was getting thousands of views per day and that’s when my video work really took off.

I started filming tuition videos in Birmingham showing people how to drive and later I started making more funny videos as well. I made more because they were so popular and it grew from there.

One of my first YouTube videos