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Posted: 3/11/2014 3:47:34 PM EDT
Heck, you probably didn't take drivers' ed at school.

Do you know what hand signals I am talking about?  And it is not shooting the bird.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:48:42 PM EDT
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Heck, you probably didn't take drivers' ed at school.

Do you know what hand signals I am talking about?  And it is not shooting the bird.
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Fuck I don't even think most people were taught to use turn signals.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:49:56 PM EDT
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Left turn Clyde.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:50:22 PM EDT
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I was taught smoke signals...
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:50:53 PM EDT
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Maybe for 10 seconds in a video. Promptly forgotten by everyone.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:52:51 PM EDT
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Personally, I stopped using them when I lost my Studebaker in the divorce.  If you used them today, no one would know why you had your hand stuck out the car window.
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Fuck I don't even think most people were taught to use turn signals.
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Heck, you probably didn't take drivers' ed at school.

Do you know what hand signals I am talking about?  And it is not shooting the bird.


Fuck I don't even think most people were taught to use turn signals.



Ye gods, this x1000




I wasn't taught them in driver's ed but picked them up from driving shit that didn't have (functioning) turn signals.


My buddy has a sticker on the back of his van "Horn broken:  Watch for finger"
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:54:11 PM EDT
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I just figure it'll confuse them for long enough for me to turn out of their patch before they run me over
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:54:23 PM EDT
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Yeah and I use them every summer because a new turn signal switch for this is like $200

Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:55:58 PM EDT
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Whenever I make a right hand signal, half the people look at me confused and the other half wave back.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:57:13 PM EDT
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Just this one
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:57:54 PM EDT
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Yes and used them many times .
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:58:58 PM EDT
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I took drivers ed and have never heard of using hand signals. Care to elaborate?
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 3:59:30 PM EDT
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Yes.

Except today, the "hand signals" I use are generally not the ones they taught us.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:01:14 PM EDT
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They probably weren't paying attention.  Like you when they went over the word "whipper" in spelling.




Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:01:56 PM EDT
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Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:03:02 PM EDT
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Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking
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I took drivers ed and have never heard of using hand signals. Care to elaborate?


Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking


Graduated in '83 and had to learn them all.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:03:17 PM EDT
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I was taught hand signals in drivers-ed at age 14, but I already knew them because grandpa taught me when I was 12.  Had to use them for a few days when the signals on the buggy stopped working (age 12). I grew up in such an awesome time. Today sucks.

Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:03:56 PM EDT
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yep




Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:04:45 PM EDT
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Geez, it was so long ago I don't remember, summer of '76. But I think so. I certainly knew them from bicycle riding.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:05:14 PM EDT
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There are hand signs you're supposed to make when your wagon wheel gets wobbly or your horse takes a shit.  
Jesus, how old is OP?  
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:05:17 PM EDT
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Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking
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I took drivers ed and have never heard of using hand signals. Care to elaborate?


Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking


Or could be you just threw some McDonald's wrappers out the window too.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:05:32 PM EDT
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Yep
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:05:47 PM EDT
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Yes.

I'm 24, took driver's ed as offered by my high school.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:06:12 PM EDT
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I have these nifty things that blink in the direction I'm turning.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:06:13 PM EDT
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left, right, brake? yes. 28.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:06:15 PM EDT
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I was taught hand signals in drivers-ed at age 14, but I already knew them because grandpa taught me when I was 12.  Had to use them for a few days when the signals on the buggy stopped working (age 12). I grew up in such an awesome time. Today sucks.



http://www.lonestarstreetrod.com/images/buggy_2.jpg
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Speed Buggy!!!!



Did you makes sound/talk like him?



 
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:09:44 PM EDT
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Got my liscense last year. Hand signals are still part of the driving test in MA
 
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:14:22 PM EDT
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Every kid in my era knew his hand signals from bicycle riding.

Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:14:59 PM EDT
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Yes took drivers ed 20 years ago
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:15:36 PM EDT
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Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking
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I took drivers ed and have never heard of using hand signals. Care to elaborate?


Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking

Nope...never heard of that before, and I've never seen anybody use them
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:15:45 PM EDT
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Geez, it was so long ago I don't remember, summer of '76. But I think so. I certainly knew them from bicycle riding.
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What he said.

But then I graduated to bicycles that had hand-controlled brakes.  I went so fast at times that I was sometimes able to keep up with traffic.  I surely needed two hands to slow down.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:17:39 PM EDT
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Yes.  It was, I think, around 1971.



Neither of my kids (the two who took driver's ed) learned them.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:20:22 PM EDT
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I learned them in drivers ed (6 years ago). Or atleast knew of them by then dont remember.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:20:56 PM EDT
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IIRC there was a quick blurb about hand signals in the booklet that we got for the class, but they weren't actually taught.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:21:30 PM EDT
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Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking
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I took drivers ed and have never heard of using hand signals. Care to elaborate?


Driver's arm held straight out to the side:  left hand turn

Driver's arm held straight up at the elbow:  right hand turn

Driver's arm held straight down parallel to the door but not touching it:  braking


Hand circling ear with index finger extended.........you're a crazy arse driver.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:24:08 PM EDT
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I was taught them in DE and as I remember, way back when, you had to use them during the road test to get your license.

Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:24:48 PM EDT
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These days I'd be afraid some young popo would pull me over for doing something dangerous' by extending my arm out the window.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:25:57 PM EDT
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All you old people are funny, thinking other drivers give a shit about what you're fixin' to do.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:41:10 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:42:09 PM EDT
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Yes
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:43:36 PM EDT
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This is what I was going to say.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:43:40 PM EDT
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No, because I drive a car with those newfangled electric turn signals.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:50:50 PM EDT
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There are hand signs you're supposed to make when your wagon wheel gets wobbly or your horse takes a shit.  
Jesus, how old is OP?  
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I took drivers ed and have never heard of using hand signals. Care to elaborate?

There are hand signs you're supposed to make when your wagon wheel gets wobbly or your horse takes a shit.  
Jesus, how old is OP?  


Or when you are driving a tractor down the road to your hay field.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:52:38 PM EDT
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I only use one finger signal.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:53:53 PM EDT
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Reminds me of a conversation me and my Grandpa had when I was diving his golf cart in palm springs.

[Gramps] You know hand signals right?

[Me] Ya we learned them in drivers ed. Never really thought id have to use them though.

[Gramps] You know when I first learned how to drive electric turn signal weren't around so we had to use them.

[Me] Christ you old.

[Gramps] Your just figuring this out? Kinda slow aren't you?

Haha it was a good day
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 4:57:32 PM EDT
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Stupid question, if you have functioning turn signals on your car, and opt to use hand signals instead of the blinkers, can you be pulled over?
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 5:01:53 PM EDT
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Year 2000, nope.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 5:02:11 PM EDT
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No.
Link Posted: 3/11/2014 5:12:29 PM EDT
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Yes
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