Canada's Worst Driver

Episode 1

Start Your Engines!

46 mins

Andrew announces that for season fourteen, the show will embrace all the new technology available to assist people in making them safer drivers, meaning that they will leave such things as back-up cameras installed in the vehicles used on the show. It also means that the nominees will have to use the GPS on their phones to find their way on the 70 km drive to the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre located at Dunnville Airport. The seven nominees for Canada's Worst Driver Season 14 are: Karlene Bowen, a once professional driver who has such high anxiety behind the wheel the result of being hit by a vehicle as a pedestrian as she was walking across a crosswalk thirteen years ago; Brittany Dube, a distracted driver, usually by her phone, and chronic speeder, who failed her driver's exam eleven times; Descy McMurray, a chronic speeder who has written off in the range of twenty cars, and who admits that she should be dead by now from one of her many caused serious car accidents, one those when she was pregnant; Alexis Pratola, who seems oblivious to the effect of her careless driving, despite her infant daughter being in the car during one of her many caused and preventable serious accidents; Ryan Whittier, with all of his several car accidents being caused by using his hand held phone when he's driving; Darris Wilderman, whose reckless driving seems to be a death wish, perhaps due to being in a stolen vehicle when he was twelve, that joyride which ended up killing his partner-in-crime, his cousin; and Brandon Wilkins, who flaunts the rules of the road, while getting overly frustrated to the point of losing focus whenever anything goes wrong behind the wheel. Brandon's participation in the show is dependent on getting a doctor's certificate to okay his participation due to he having broken his arm in a skateboarding accident a week ago, his own personal doctor at home who did not sign such a release. After arriving at the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre, the drive which goes smoother for some than for others, the nominees are placed through an assessment drive which will give the evaluators a first glance at their driving skills or lack thereof. That assessment drive includes a reverse through a curvilinear enclosed course, a maneuvering section through a concrete corral, and a slalom which must be driven at at least 50kph. At the end of this process, the evaluators contemplate doing something that they have never done in the previous thirteen years of the show: graduate someone at the end of the season's first show.