Posted: 6/15/2017 8:29:34 PM EDT
| Every day I see it but why? It really shows a lack for consideration of everybody else. Especially if your are at a stop sign / intersection waiting to pull out and the jerk finally turns while you sit there waiting to see if they are turning or not. And lane changes, forget it we don't need no stinking signals. What say you? Rantings of an old man? It is more wide spread then ever? Does it matter? |
| Meh, 90+% of the people around here use them properly. There's always going to be a few that don't. Not using them is a dick move. It's sort of a regional thing, I think. When I travel, there are areas that use them more, about the same, and a few places where the ONLY blinker you'll ever see has been on for the last 9 miles. |
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Every day I see it but why? It really shows a lack for consideration of everybody else. Especially if your are at a stop sign / intersection waiting to pull out and the jerk finally turns while you sit there waiting to see if they are turning or not. And lane changes, forget it we don't need no stinking signals. What say you? Rantings of an old man? It is more wide spread then ever? Does it matter? |
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It has stabilized on a few per cent of the drivers here in Cali. I think when they stopped teaching hand signals in Driver's Education, people simply forgot that turn signals were a convenient replacement for hand signals, which once were considered important. 
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A trick I have been seeing a lot more these days.
Need to get over but don't want to dare use your signal. Drift over slightly into the other lane, then back. Do this 2-3 times so that the person next to you speeds up or slows down thinking you are an inattentive idiot or drunk. Then put blinker on and make lane change. Also: What is with the urge to tailgate at all times no matter the situation. Had a guy riding my ass yesterday, weaving back and forth about 2in off my bumper. He goes straight through a turn lane to get around me. All this to get one car ahead, nevermind that there is 12 miles of bumper to bumper traffic ahead of that. Just gotta be that one car ahead. And it wasn't like I was leaving a huge gap between me and the car in front of me or dicking with the flow of traffic. |
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What if you drive an older vehicle that doesn't have turn signals ? Nobody knows hand signals nowadays. I didn't really expect anyone to understand, but I usually was driving a stick shift, down shifting, and had my blinkers going also. It was a "how many things can I do at once" feel-like-Dad-must-have-felt moment. 
BTW: You must be into vintage cars, since anything past 1938-1940 should have had turn signals. |