Indicators are a Thing!

[retro]

A bugbear of mine too.

Add to that the British roundabout and you've got the recipe for frustration.

You see a car coming from a junction on the right. They're not indicating. Okay, I'll stay here and wait for you to pass. Oh you're turning left anyway. Thanks for letting me know because I could have gone! When you get several drivers in a row that don't indicate and...

[notalwaysright]

Sometimes I see people turn their blinker on for one second as they turn. Great. Thanks so much for telling drivers that you are turning midway through the actual turn. It's super helpful.

There's a street that ends in a T. So people on the main part either have to turn right, or left. There is no straight. I would say 1 in 10 uses the turn indicator. Which means if you want to turn left onto the main street, you are waiting forever. Extra props to those who stop when they don't have a stop sign. I know you are lost or whatever, but I STILL can't turn because there are drivers coming from the other direction, turning right onto main street. So now two direction are stopped.

Some days I wish I never had to drive, but then I read stories of public transportation.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Here in NC they sometimes use their turn signals but don't turn.

Heh. I've seen them use, for example, their left turn signal but they will turn RIGHT!

[EricKei]

Some days I wish I never had to drive, but then I read stories of public transportation.

No choice where I am -- there isn't any. under 50k people. The town is physically big enough that having a bus system could be useful, tho x.x It seems that someone had tried to get one established in the past, but it never actually happened.

[Chromatix]

Something that seems to work here, in the smaller towns, is an "on-demand" bus. I've seen one which plies a circular route about once an hour, plus some extra fixed circuits in the early morning to act as a school bus. But you can also call it to your front door (outside the early-morning hours), so that it acts like a cheaper, communal taxi.

[sirwired]

Sometimes I see people turn their blinker on for one second as they turn. Great. Thanks so much for telling drivers that you are turning midway through the actual turn. It's super helpful.

Yeah, that one's always baffled me too. What's the point of the blinky-light if you are already turning? It's not like your car will veer off the road if you turn on the durn things ahead of time like you are supposed to.

Fun story; on the way out of my neighborhood, there's a "T" intersection, but 99% of the people on this road turn right (on the way in, vice-versa on the way out.) So much so that there's one of those big yellow signs with a huge arrow on it to point you away from the cul-de-sac "stub" (and keep you from plowing straight ahead into the woods.)

Since it's a "T", and turning left is a possibility, I always signal, even though hundreds of cars use this road, and the cul-de-sac only has about three houses on it. Nevertheless, since it's a turn and the road changes names there, I always signal. My wife gives me a good-natured ribbing about it. We were in the car with my parents and my wife was teasing me about it again. My Dad piped up... "Well, it's not like the turn signal wears out." Well... it turns out I did, in fact, wear out my turn signal stalk, and had to replace it. (DIY, not too horrible once I figured out the magic jujitsu to VW Passat airbag removal.)

Karma doesn't always deliver...