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.
I know what DriveTest says, and I’m sure some or all of the testers follow that rule, but frankly, it’s pretty dumb. Many vehicles are built in a way where it is incredibly unsafe to back up without using the camera. It’s one of many reasons why they’ve been legally required in all new vehicles for more than 5 years. DriveTest seriously needs to modernize their testing criteria.
This instructor is teaching your mom how to drive, not how to pass the road test. I personally think that’s (mostly) a good thing, but you should probably talk to the driving instructor about this discrepancy.