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Missing The Point About Turn Signal Usage
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They're building a bunch of roundabouts around here and the Tesla w/FSD handles them excellently! The human drivers around here, they don't do very well haha. Just a couple weeks ago we were in my BF's Volt and we almost got taken out by a rogue Nissan (not a Nissan Rogue) that didn't stop at the stop sign and floored it into the left lane of the roundabout right in front of us. First they almost t-boned us, then they realized they were in the wrong lane (2 lane roundabout) and almost hit someone else trying to make their exit. Morons!
I usually just forget and leave my turn signal blinking, and can't hear it because I have my music too loud! And like other people have posted if you do signal they'll speed up and block you or just go around you.
I think some people are unsure that it comes with every vehicle, I'm pretty sure they think it might be an added option!
My senses is that we are all Jugheads at one time or another, it just depends on how many people are around you to perpetuate the amount of Jugheads.
I personally find the ones that go 50 miles an hour on the freeway with their signal blinking but they don't do anything, and are looking at their front bumper meaning they're only looking about 3 ft ahead of the road ahead of them. No Forward Thinking or decision making here my friends. These are people that are from third worlds that can't drive bicycles. I digress I'm out.
I think some people are unsure that it comes with every vehicle, I'm pretty sure they think it might be an added option!
My senses is that we are all Jugheads at one time or another, it just depends on how many people are around you to perpetuate the amount of Jugheads.
I personally find the ones that go 50 miles an hour on the freeway with their signal blinking but they don't do anything, and are looking at their front bumper meaning they're only looking about 3 ft ahead of the road ahead of them. No Forward Thinking or decision making here my friends. These are people that are from third worlds that can't drive bicycles. I digress I'm out.
I'm bad, and I know it. Wife always yellin at me when she's in the car. Guess I'm just too lazy to move the stupid directional stick. Always been like that, except at work. I was always towing a small backhoe on a trailer hooked up to the utility truck. I wouldn't leave the yard in the morning until I finished all my lighting checks. 99% of the time it was the trailer harness connection to the truck. They never worked right. Would have to wait for a mechanic to repair it. Boss was furious. LOL... Too bad..Not HIS license...Frig em 
Driving in Boston greater area , turn signal on and moving means they are nudging in.
The point of using turn signals is not just to signal your intentions but to signal your intentions IN ADVANCE (hence the 100 ft requirement) so that someone behind you can change lanes and carry on without being held up. Common courtesy. Let us not try and rewrite the law.
That's what intentions is about, not the fact you are already turning.
I do it for other drivers. I don't want our left turns to wait on each other because we both try to see if they are going straight or left.
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Today it would be “hey Capt Brodozer” - do you really think it’s cute to park in a Compact Car Only spot - bcs the rest of us have to navigate around
That's aprox 1 second on the highway?
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Yep, I said that earlier. I actually checked today how I do it - its habit. Check mirror, check blind spot, signal, move. Is it a full second, likely not, but It is likely close by the time I cross the line.
Exactly.
Two cars reach a controlled intersection at the same time, going in opposite directions. Quiet, lazy suburban intersection.
Car A, with the hidden intent to turn left, fails to signal, until it actually start to move, signals at the last second, and risks a collision with the Car B which, in lieu of adequate notice, thought Car A intended to go straight, allowing both to proceed forward unimpeded simultaneously. Car A, making a turn, still does not have the right of way over Car B, yet tries to force the issue, clearly does not understand the rules of the road, and acts indignantly.
Hades isn't large enough for the number of drivers like those in Car A.
I don't go out of my way to help drivers who don't signal. Here is an example. I am in the right lane and coming up to a red light. The driver behind me wants to turn right as evidenced by him hugging the the right side of the lane. I look to see if he has his right turn signal on, and if he does, I will move to the left of my lane and go as far forward as possible before stopping so that he can sqeeze by me at the red light and turn right.
If he can't be bothered with signaling, then buddy is going to wait behind me till the light turns green.
If he can't be bothered with signaling, then buddy is going to wait behind me till the light turns green.
My peeves are the people who believe their turn indicator is a "license" to change lanes and they expect me to give them the right of way. I believe I have the moral if not legal obligation to the people behind me to not endanger them with an unexpected maneuver or braking to accommodate the lane changer. My second peeve is the driver who turns on their indicator after already being halfway in the lane they want to get into. In both situations if I can accommodate them by moving over a lane without inconveniencing others or allow a safe merge I will do so as a courtesy. They often and conveniently forget that they do not have the ROW but expect it.
I live near a former Air Force base however is used by a tanker wing of 10 planes. We also receive many international air forces and FB lights up if noisy for example when Italian/Brit/German F35 show up or Typhoons. Especially night.
The noisiest thing has to be Ospreys.
lol, I move over slowly and no hesitation they always yield , especially when emergency vehicle with lights is next to slow lane as law in our state.
Judging by some of the replies complaining about other drivers not yielding when they turn on their signals, some folks here think every one else has to slow down and let them come in because they could not be bothered to plan the lane change in advance instead of at the last second.
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I have one situation when my blinker makes the master of the world: on-ramps.
I can talk about drivers that would gladly let you crash at the end of the on-ramp rather than let you merge, not changing their speed one bit so they either have you crash at the end of it, or have you slam the brakes then be forced to merge in from a full stop while the next guy is coming at 80mph.
Not that bad on highways, but a real thing on parkways. I cut these off mercilessly. I'll rather be at fault merging, than following the rules crashing.
This is especially prevalent in NJ. You don't exist there. They'll all drive at say 77.434324mph and won't change speed a fraction of a mile to let you in. In the meantime, you're accelerating and the ramp is ending.
Of the many things I was adamant about when I was teaching the little one to drive this was an important one. If you see someone on the on-ramp - you help. You can help them by slowing down to let them through, by accelerating to let them behind you, or by getting to the left lane if there's no one behind you.
And points off every time I see you driving along some other vehicle for no good reason. Even if you're on two separate lanes - don't stay in the same lateral plane. Assume that next thing that'll happen is that car going to end up in your lane for no good reason.
I can talk about drivers that would gladly let you crash at the end of the on-ramp rather than let you merge, not changing their speed one bit so they either have you crash at the end of it, or have you slam the brakes then be forced to merge in from a full stop while the next guy is coming at 80mph.
Not that bad on highways, but a real thing on parkways. I cut these off mercilessly. I'll rather be at fault merging, than following the rules crashing.
This is especially prevalent in NJ. You don't exist there. They'll all drive at say 77.434324mph and won't change speed a fraction of a mile to let you in. In the meantime, you're accelerating and the ramp is ending.
Of the many things I was adamant about when I was teaching the little one to drive this was an important one. If you see someone on the on-ramp - you help. You can help them by slowing down to let them through, by accelerating to let them behind you, or by getting to the left lane if there's no one behind you.
And points off every time I see you driving along some other vehicle for no good reason. Even if you're on two separate lanes - don't stay in the same lateral plane. Assume that next thing that'll happen is that car going to end up in your lane for no good reason.
You will not run the risk of crashing at the end of the on ramp if you merged in well before the end of the on ramp. Too many drivers floor it on the on ramp to get to the head of the line and then expect every one else to slam on their brakes to let them in.
I agree drivers should try and move out of the right lane near on ramps so that incoming traffic can merge in easily.
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I am talking about the very specific case where the ramp is short enough that I can't merge early, and the traffic is fast enough that I can't merge from a full stop.
When the traffic is fast enough (average way above posted speed limit) - every ramp becomes like that.
This is where NJ becomes a winner - traffic that flows at 85mph and drivers that either genuinely don't know you're there, or consider that a car about to merge at close to their speed but still a bit slower, because the ramp is ending, is an event that has nothing to do with them. It's the oblivion that puzzles me.
In NYC, traffic is frantic, drivers are rude, but most of them are fully aware you're there, and will stay nasty without endangering your life.
Of course nothing beats Connecticut in nastiness - here, they fully acknowledge you like new yorkers do, but will let you die like NJ drivers would
