Why do so few drivers indicate these days?

[simon]

People don't have time these days...too busy to indicate, too busy to give way unless they really have to. Buying powerful cars to get ahead....

People don't even like to wait two mins for kettle to boil.

But soon I am sure they will be an app for all this

Herzlos

EdGasket wrote: »

I tried to tell my daughter she should always indicate but she says her instructor told her she doesn't need to if no-one is about! rolleyes

That's what my instructor told me 15 years ago. I still indicate anyway, out of habit, but it doesn't seem to be a requirement.

Marktheshark

Audi A3 is not fitted with indicators, Well it must be true

thebigstillmeister

I live in Basingstoke and there are roundabouts everywhere,.. on the large roundabouts its seems to be ok, but we have lots of small ones in the housing areas where so many people do not indicate,.. so you stop to give way and then they just turn off left without a care in the world,.. that is the one thing that winds me up the most while driving,..

Doesn't seem to be a particular group of people, however I did take a day off work the other week and it happened to me 3 times in one afternoon all by (what I am guessing) were retired couples out for a drive,..

Mercdriver

EdGasket wrote: »

I tried to tell my daughter she should always indicate but she says her instructor told her she doesn't need to if no-one is about! rolleyes

I was told that too. Apparently some have been marked a minor fault for inappropriate use of signals. It apparently shows people doing it out of habit rather as part of observations.

splishsplash

I notice this at roundabouts especially. I don't understand how people turning right don't indicate.
Another thing I notice over the past few years is people who start pulling into traffic from streetside parking and then indicating. That I find really annoying.

Nick_C

Also, people who do indicate to turn right on a roundabout don't cancel / signal left at the appropriate time. The number of times I stop at a roundabout because an approaching vehicle is signalling right but then turns off. Grrrrr

Another pet hate is people parking and putting hazard lights on. Particularly when parked half on the pavement. I can see your ******* vehicle. I'm not blind. You are not actually causing a hazard. But because I can only see your right indicator and not the left until I get much closer I think you may be about to pull out in front of me. ********!

bigadaj

Mercdriver wrote: »

I was told that too. Apparently some have been marked a minor fault for inappropriate use of signals. It apparently shows people doing it out of habit rather as part of observations.

I had this conversation with an instructor on a defensive driving course a few years ago, it's quite misguided.

I think teh instructor was an ex wagon driver, so experienced but wasn't really good at arguing a case. He stated the no signalling rule and asked why this was, I explained that the assumption was that it showed that people were checking their mirrors and surrounding traffic and conditions, I then stated I'd often still indicate.

He looked a bit confused, but my thinking was that I could miss something in a blind spot or elsewhere, and some form of initial indication of a manoeuvre would give warning and possibly allow others evasive action, or to beep their horn.

He didn't agree because that's not how he'd been trained, and he couldn't actually think for himself.

iammumtoone

I am guilty :eek:

Thinking of my local area, there are is an occasion I don't indicate purely because no one else does so it hasn't really crossed my mind before.

On the approach to a roundabout, two lanes right side for going straight ahead and right, left side for going left.

If going straight ahead I get in right hand lane and don't indicate until I am past the turning left then indicate, if going right I indicate right, however if turning left I will admit to not indicating :eek: purely because I am in the correct lane and there is nowhere else for me to go other than left.

Your are correct it is wrong and I should still indicate I will do so in future (but will be the only one!)

bigadaj

Nick_C wrote: »

Also, people who do indicate to turn right on a roundabout don't cancel / signal left at the appropriate time. The number of times I stop at a roundabout because an approaching vehicle is signalling right but then turns off. Grrrrr

Another pet hate is people parking and putting hazard lights on. Particularly when parked half on the pavement. I can see your ******* vehicle. I'm not blind. You are not actually causing a hazard. But because I can only see your right indicator and not the left until I get mush closer I think you may be about to pull out in front of me. ********!

Ah, but if you park with your hazard lights on you can park anywhere, and at any time, it's like a free parking card apparently.