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Driving instructor is telling my mom to actively use the car's rear camera to parallel park, does that sound acceptable? (self.ontario)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Chatotorix to c/[email protected]

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DriveTest.ca website even says the camera shouldn't be used for assisting, but this guy seems to want her to look at the tracing drawn by the rear camera to calculate the positioning and the turns she's supposed to make. That sounds crazy to me. Should she look for another instructor? She was recommended this one by colleagues in her ESL school. This is for the G2 road test by the way.

Edit: I get that it's useful to have the camera, but I guess what you are missing is that she's not learning how to do it, she knows, she wants to know how to do it in the way the G2 tester expects her to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At one point cars didn't have seatbelts, it's now a requirement for cars to have seatbelts and for drivers to use them. The exact same is true for backup cameras. They are required on all new cars and not using them is like not using your seatbelt.

Now it's definitely helpful to know how to backup your car without a rear camera in case you ever need to do it in a car without one, but I'd say there's nothing wrong with instructing new drivers to use a legally required safety feature.

[–] Chatotorix 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, one thing wrong with it is that the organization that certifies drivers explicitly forbids it, and not only on paper, but in practice too, it seems. If it wasn't for that, I'd be open to accept that we can do it this way from now on.