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It's just good practice. If you don't make it a habit you will forget.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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Let them make fun. People who don't use theirs are the reason why the system is failing.
Yes. Because people are horrible drivers and I want them to know what I'm up to. At least one of us can be informed about the other...
The only time I don't is when there is no one behind me and I'm turning onto my home street. Or if I'm sitting in a turn only lane. If I'm in a turn only lane, then I'm turning so...
I live in Atlanta so no. If I turn my blinker on that means they need to block me so I just shoehorn my way into every turn and lane change.
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Audi drivers huh? For most they’re non-optional when about to manoeuvre, except in the turn-only lane situation you mentioned where you don’t need it (it’d actually potentially signal a lane change).
BMWs in the U.K.
I'd group Audi drivers and BMW drivers into the same class of obvious driving.
Just yesterday I saw an Audi swoop from the slow lane straight into the fast last between two tightly-spaced cars in the middle lane. Without indicating.
From a technical point of view, I'll admit it was an impressively small gap to sneak through, but it probably gave the second car in the middle lane a heart attack.
Yeah, I don’t disagree with that in hindsight. The absolute most dangerous piece of driving I’ve seen was from a Transit though…I was in the right hand lane slowly overtaking a car in the left hand lane, and to be fair I’ll admit I was too close to the car in front…. a Transit comes flying up my inside, and somehow fit in front of me.
If I'm in a traffic area or pulling into a traffic area, always. I indicate out of my driveway because I'm going on to a road and there's 2 directions I could go.
my car weighs like 1.6t and people need to know where it's heading.
no because i am an uncouth so and so
I do, but I am slightly discouraged from doing so by the drivers in my area. People are always so terrified of not being the first waiting at the next red light, they see a turn signal as a warning to 'speed up and go past this car before they can get ahead of you.'
I have never used it backing up. That's just weird and confusing.
Obsessively. I've been driving German autos since college, including BMW's and most BMW owners are jerks. The only exception is when I hung out with the local BMW club one summer. They drive crazy fast, but are some of the most courteous drivers on the road.
Yes, i don't even think about it anymore, i just throw my hand on the stick as i turn the steering wheel, even for simple adjustments when i park. It's not as mutch ahead of time at it should be, but still better than most of my country tha might as well not have that stick.
Exactly right, if you make it part of your muscle memory, you don't have to think about it, you just do it. Also, even if "no one's there" 99% of the time you "didn't need" to put on the signal, there will always be the 1% it helped somebody and you never even noticed.
OP should make fun of the people making fun of them.
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I always signal in roads but rarely in parking lots or driveways unless I'm trying to let others know I'm waiting for a parking spot.