How to Avoid Automatic Fails on the Driving Test – Driving Instructor Explains

Jacqueline goes through the most common automatic fails on the DMV driving test and how to avoid making them.

There are a lot of things you can do on your driver’s test that will result in an automatic fail. Automatic fails happen when you make a critical error, resulting in an instant fail. In these cases, it doesn’t matter how you’ve performed up to that point. Learn what the automatic fails are so you can pass your driving test.

In this video, Jacqueline explains the following automatic fails:

• Sliding through the DMV exit
• Not creeping up for better visibility at an uncontrolled intersection
• Failure to yield to pedestrians or other cars
• Failure to check blind spots
• Bumping the curb when parking
• Improper lane change
• Lane violation

There are also minor mistakes. If you make a minor mistake, you will be allowed to continue and may still pass your road test. We will go through these types of mistakes in another video.