Speaking of autos and lights

[$tevie]

To all of you who aren't using your turn signals: I will hunt you down and I will kill you.

[$tevie]

jdc wrote:
Only when necessary = rarely

Even my 9 year old wonders why the guy in front of us has his left turn signal on when they are already in the left turn lane.

Uh, because the pedestrian who isn't in a car has no way to know it's left turn only and doesn't feel like having to run away from your car when you barrel around the corner? How hard is it to hit the turn signal for crying out loud.

[$tevie]

Grateful11 wrote:
Because I just do it, it's became natural after 40 years of driving.

How would one know what your intentions are? I'm not a mindreader.

Using a signal while in the left lane, so what it's my turn signal and I believe if it's the law in NC.

When I took my first driver's test at 15 I was marked for not giving a signal while pulling out of the DMV parking lot.

If you get out of the habit of using them then you have to start thinking while going down the highway,
"well that person is such and such distance away I don't need to signal", I just use it, it's pretty simple to do.

As far as putting too much thought into this I guess I could say the same back to you. I don't have to think
about it it just comes natural.

I consider it common courtesy.

Yes. It should be a habit.

I get angry when someone comes around the corner at me and acts like I should get the hell out of their way because I wasn't psychic and didn't know that they were going to turn. There are people on foot, people on bikes, people who aren't sitting behind the wheel of their car watching YOU and figuring out what YOU are going to do about turning or not turning. This center-of-the-universe stuff makes me upset.

[Rick-o]

Seeing someone not using turn signals is infuriating to me. I've waited at stop signs for cross traffic to pass, only to see them turn down the street I'm on, when I could have continued without waiting, if the rude bastard had used his turn signal before making the turn.

It's simple crap like this that creates traffic jams and makes driving less enjoyable. All because someone is either rude, distracted, or just plain too stupid to understand what's going down.

Besides, why give the LEOs one more excuse to pull you over and possibly get a traffic violation?

Using turn signals aren't that complicated, people! Wise up!! :rant:

[space-time]

The traffic rules are clear, you need to use the signal, doesn't matter if there is no car behind you, or if you are in left lane. show me where it says that you don't have to use the turning signal in the left lane, or if there is no car behind you, and then I will apologize. Until then, I maintain my statement about you and your kid.

[mrbigstuff]

You all must not drive on the east coast....

:-P

[Racer X]

common behavior isn't the same as what is legal.

[jdc]

mrbigstuff wrote:
You all must not drive on the east coast....
:-P

Or the west.

[jdc]

mrbigstuff wrote:
You all must not drive on the east coast....
:-P

Or the west.

[M A V I C]

No one is a perfect driver. I've seen tons of drivers make tons of mistakes, and their use of turn signals have helped me avoid a crash, even if their intentions were obvious to them.

For example, I was driving behind a car who was in the right lane and they put their right turn signal on. I came to a complete stop and watched them look left, then make their right turn as there were no cars coming from the left. I'm sure they would have thought their intention was obvious.

They pulled around the corner and out of sight. I sat there, still stopped. Then they came flying back around the corner in reverse. Had they not used their signal that let me know their intention was to turn the wrong way onto a one-way street, I wouldn't have known something bad was about to happen. Since I knew what was going to happen, I stayed way back, even though they had left the intersection. They could have easily crashed back into the side of my car as I went through the intersection, or into my front end as I pulled up to it.

I've seen plenty of times when a car is in the left turn lane and drives straight anyway. As a pedestrian, cyclist or driver, if I don't see the turn signal it's an indication they may not know what they're doing.

The other thing is - how do you know there isn't anyone to signal to? Most of the time when I'm driving, it's nearly impossible to be in a situation where I can tell there's no one to signal to. We've got five and six way intersections with bike lanes, bus lanes, crosswalks... at any given point, the bike lane might have a green light, a turn lane might have a green light, a bus lane might have a green light... and then there's pedestrians.

If I'm coming up on someone in the bike lane and the light turns, I might be doing 30 and they might be doing 5. They don't even see that they're about to turn over my lane, and thus they think there isn't anyone to signal to. But using that turn signal even if they don't think there's someone there, is a good indication to me that they might be be planning on turning into me.