Everyone who is driving must have used their indicators at some point, because presumably you have to use them to pass your driving test. So at some point in the intervening years, some people stop using them. Why is this? Do you use your turn signals? If not, why not?
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Why do people stop using their indicators/turn signals?
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No. I prefer to leave the enemy guessing as to what I'm going to do with this mass steel speeding down the road at 75.
Can't signal and text at the same time... this is a huge pet peeve of mine... good golly miss molly, is that hard to hit the indicator?
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I use mine... probably annoyingly so. For example, on a freeway when I change lanes, I'll click it on and let it blink 2 or 3 times before I start actually changing lanes, and let it blink until I'm established fully in the new lane. It seems that a lot of people don't use them (they continually nudge over), or turn them on when they're half way done with the lane change 
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I find anymore that I use my turn signals when I want to communicate with other drivers, usually because I'm slowing down to make a turn and I want to warn the driver behind me that that's why I'm slowing down. On the freeways, too frequently, signaling my intention to change lanes is met by the driver in the next lane over speeding up to prevent my lane change, so I don't do that very often. If there's no one near me that and so no need to communicate, no signal.
It's too much work to put my beer into the cup holder just so that I can flip the signal lever.
in the desert it seems that a hard brake check on highway 62 is an indicator that one is about to turn into walmart
My kids will tell you that I was driving like an old geezah 30 years ago, when I was 30. Yes, I use my turn signal appropriately, and yes, I shake my head in wonder at those who don't. I gotta tell ya, I believe that's part of the reason I've never felt the crunch of metal on metal. (So if you need someone to drive the equipment truck...)
People who don't use their signals at all annoy me almost as much as the idiots who only use them after stomping on the brakes first - that's not quite the idea....
That's how it is in Jacksonville. I tend to turn my signal on when I have already started to move over.
I'm at the point now where if a guy in another lane is clearly speeding, and seems like he's going to try to pass everybody without signalling, I just strategically place my car such that he can't pass. I've seen those guys go within six inches of the car in front of them for a good twenty minutes. It may not be particularly nice, but I've found that sometimes being the downright mean guy that keeps people from taking advantage of a situation is ultimately better than being "nice". Plus, you know, basic driving etiquette matters.
edit: when I say place, I mean the car is still moving, but the way it's spaced out between myself and the car ahead of him in his lane, he can't pass without hitting somebody.
edit: when I say place, I mean the car is still moving, but the way it's spaced out between myself and the car ahead of him in his lane, he can't pass without hitting somebody.
People who don't use their turn signals are just trying to achieve a balance from the "older" drivers that seem to have theirs on constantly..
You know what pisses me off?! People who don't stop at stop signs! Arggggg went to the bank this morning and then supermarket and at both places these 2 idiots drove past them like they weren't there.
They get a BMW or an Audi!
It's a huge and infuriating problem here in Ottawa. We're right across the river from Quebec, and apparently up until about 15 years ago it wasn't required by law to actually use them over there. So we get these old-timers (no offense to the old-timers on here) who are set in their ways and will just merge and turn without using them. I can't count the number of times I've almost been driven off the road because some idiot decided not to use them. It's the worst.
Aha! This explains something. I grew up in South Florida, a popular spot for older Quebecois snowbirds, and there have always been a lot of complaints about their driving down there.
I grew up in Montreal, we are terrible drivers. Never signal turns and lane changes, religiously stop our cars a few feet over the white line at lights and stop signs, until recently always honked if the driver at the light didn't set off in the nanosecond following the change to green, terrible highway manners, and a lot of just really poor drivers with no reactions, courtesy, or street sense.
It infuriates me when I visit, but it is part and parcel of Montreal's anarchic soul.
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