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 700 free videos for my YouTube channel which has had over 10 million views!
Hayley’s driving lessons – filmed in September to December 2023
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.
- Watch me teach Lucy from start to finish in Lucy’s lessons – over 42 hours of video
- Hours of expert tuition in my “Driving – the Ultimate Guide” series
- Full-length driving test routes driven by me full of expert tips and funny stories
- Watch pupils taking mock driving tests
All of these driving lesson videos were filmed in Birmingham by me.
Driving lessons videos in Birmingham with pupils
I’ve filmed many driving lessons with pupils over the years. Here are some of them:
- Hayley filmed some lessons with me in the lead-up to her test after 5 years of waiting!
- Charlie visited 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 at 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.
- A one-hour video about SC1: the standards check marking sheet.
- A 3-hour guide to ADI1: the official DVSA-issued examiners marking guide to the standards check
- Watch 23 episodes of Paul’s standards check diary showing me going through a standards check
- Watch driving instructors taking mock standards checks with me
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 because I thought 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 thousand. 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