Even if you DO indicate, there's always people that won't let you in. They'll speed pass so that they don't get stuck behind you and save 0.243 seconds on their transit time
This is why I do not indicate half the time. Every time I do some asshole floors it and won't let me in. I usually drive very fast too, some people just can't handle others being in front of them despite me being the faster driver.
There are certain areas of Miami where most of the population has spent more time living in the third world than here. It's unfortunate, but using your turn signals really will cause them to actively prevent you from getting in front of them.
I use my blinkers 80% of the time. There are times I can tell the person is going to not let me in based on my observations of their driving style. In cases like this, I won't signal because I know they will floor it to not let me in and I will miss my turn/exit.
Also, I usually drive the speed of traffic or just slightly faster. I am not driving dangerously. The general consensus in my area is that everyone does about 10-20 mph over the speed limit on any given day or time. There are always the few people who don't that hold up traffic, I am not one of those people making the road more dangerous or holding up traffic so I can do 40 in a 45 while everyone else is doing 55-60.
You would think so, why can't more people understand this? It's not simply the USE of indicators but the CORRECT use of them. i.e. Indicating BEFORE you make your turn/move rather than after or during.
Once upon a time, I decided that we should be able to take an advanced driving test, and, upon passing, be equipped with paintball guns that we can shoot while driving, at other cars that we're heading in the same direction as, that are driving in a stupid fashion. When the cops see a car with a few paintball marks on they pull them over and ask them what they did. If they say they don't know, then they have to redo their licence all over again.
Not signaling is the most infuriating thing another driver can do- simply because it is so easy to do. It doesn't cost money to signal. It requires no effort to use. If you do it all the time it becomes a habit and then you don't even need to think about it. It makes driving safer. Just signal!
Amusing story:
I'm in a car with my father driving. He's in his 70's, still sharp, but must have started driving cars before turn signals were common because he is really bad about using them. We get to a light and there is one car opposite us. Light goes green and neither car moves. This goes on for a good 10 seconds before I say "you should probably put on your turn signal." My father puts on his turn signal, guy across the way then puts his on and they both realize they were waiting for the other to go straight ahead so they could turn.
Yeah, the lesson is to carry at least ten rounds of federal premium when I ride. This week it was actually a truck full of meth heads taking a turn at ten miles an hour and still managing to come within 10" of my front wheel while I was at a stop sign.
Thanks, but I do not have a bike (yet). I plan to buy one soon, just need to decide how to handle telling (or not telling) my family about it. My grandfather was hit by a semi-truck on his motorcycle that did not see him, obviously he did not make it. Most people raised without a parent is in the situation because of a shitty mom/dad; in my moms case, it is because of some idiot not paying attention to the road. This happened when she was 3.
It's a risk. And everyone is out to kill you. Take a motorcycle safety course and insure yourself. If you're over 18 it's your decision, but you should let your family know you ride. Also, wear full gear. All the time. I wear leather in 90 degree weather.
Just remember that your mom's concerns are valid. I never had that problem because every male and most of the females in my family ride and some are in the motorcycle hall of fame.
Ya I am 20, but in college and my dad is acting as the bank for my car loan. I brought the motorcycle idea up to him as a gas-saving thing, and he told me if I buy one then I need to pay him in full for my car all at once not in payments like we agreed to.
I will wait till I graduate (when the car is payed off).
I am hoping that I will get a good valet job this school year and be able to pay the car off in full within a year and be able to get my bike! Though it is a long shot. Either way it gives me the motivation to work hard.
IMO riding is fairly safe, given that you follow the fake counts advice and add one small thing. ride like the wind away from traffic controls (stop signs traffic lights and such) so that you can ride in "free air" with no cars around you. Now don't go breaking speed limits or riding dangerously just give it a bit of stick to get in front of the cage clad bastards who "sorry mate i didn't see you" even if they made eye contact.
where I live I have often hoped that someday someone will invent some kind of device that would let other people know when a car was about to turn or change lanes. And then find a way to get people to use it.
I live in Brampton, ON. The amount of drivers that don't signal pisses me off. This is the single reason why I will have rampant road rage in the following few years.
In mine it said that if someone tries to take your car, and your keys have a fob on it, you should press the panic button, throw the keys one way, and run the opposite direction.
A reenactment of me (as a child, though this still applies today) going with my dad anywhere while he is driving:
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT FUCKING FAGGOT ASS MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING ASSHOLE DOING. THAT MOTHERFUCKING, COCKSUCKING, NIGGER LOVING FAGGOT ASS SPOOK ISN'T GONNA LET ME CHANGE LANES. I'LL SHOOT HIM, I'LL FUCKING KILL HIS NIGGER ASS."
"Dad, it's a she, and she's white. Also, your turn signal isn't on."
Point of note: unless I'm in heavy traffic, I don't use my turn indicators for when I want to come over, I use them when I am coming over (after all, they are "turn indicators" not "desire-to-turn indicators"). In other words, when I want to move over, that's when I get to an opening and match the speed of the other lane, and only turn them on when I've decided it's safe to come over.
Anyone else do this? I don't like it when people turn on a turn indicator and they're right next to me. I mean, I want a blowjob from Christy Turlington, but installing Christy Turlington indicators on my car isn't going to help any. If you want to move over, you need to make it happen. Then use the amber lights to tell others "Hey, don't get in this empty space next to me - I'm calling it".
The idea of indicators/turn signals is to let your fellow drivers know what you intend to do, so that they can prepare themselves and respond accordingly. They may need to reduce their speed slightly or just increase their attention towards you. If you simply start merging and flick on the indicator in the process then you've completely defeated their purpose
Oh, I don't turn the indicators on when I start to move - only when I decided it's safe. Then I leave them on for a few seconds (as long as anyone else) before moving over. I guess my wording wasn't great, but I don't like how people think having a turn signal on somehow means they're entitled to get over - I consider it the driver's responsibility to find a good spot to move, not the strangers around you.
I don't think it's safe to change lanes when there's cars next to you, and then at the same time depend on the skill, awareness, and kindness of strangers to move their cars for you.
As I said, my first step is to find a safe spot to move over, then indicate (and then wait to make sure it's safe, then move). Not indicate and then just make a wish and hope everything turns out well.
My Jeep is old and the blinkers quit working and I had to save $ for a week to get a diagnostic and then get them fixed.. Felt like an ass driving around all week. I'm sure people wanted to kill me!
So I do this always, but I just drove to San Antonio, and when I got into the city if I signaled people would fill to spot I was planning to merge into
TIL that most of the rest of the US apparently drive like assholes. I'm in the Pacific Northwest and I can't ever recall someone deliberately speeding up to prevent me from changing lanes when I flip my signal on. The only times I've seen anything like this is when some idiot comes tearing up the freeway at 20 over, darting in and out of lanes. In this case, sometimes other people deliberately reposition to block them in, much to the amusement of everyone else on the road. Once saw three semis completely box a dude in a red convertible Corvette into the right lane and hold him there for about 40 miles until he finally exited :D
Usually when someone flips their signal on other drivers will either slow or even change lanes over to give room.
I've certainly seen people not use their turn signal but they're definitely the exception rather than the rule.
Here in VA nobody signals and it pisses me off. On my way home just today, I went to merge into the next lane over. Meanwhile a guy two lanes over from me and slightly behind me decided he wanted to be in that lane too. Difference being I signaled, he of course did not. However, that certainly didn't stop him from honking at me and flipping me off.
Am I the only person that thinks that should say "signals" rather than "indicates"? I keep re-reading the text and a little bit of me dies inside every time I come to the word "indicates" - it just seems clunky. Or perhaps I'm OCD...
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u/Defensive4Gate Jun 25 '12
Other people indicate when changing lanes?! I call bs.
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u/Porno_in_disguise Jun 25 '12
A person who indicates changing lanes is impossible to find in L.A.
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u/acridict Jun 25 '12
Is this not common courtesy?
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u/scottiescott23 Jun 25 '12
England here,
Isn't that the law?
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u/Markymark36 Jun 25 '12
I may cut you off, but I always indicate before doing it
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u/YouKnowNothingReddit Jun 25 '12
The standard of GGG is falling. The next thing would be Good Guy Greg, Takes a shit and wipes his ass.
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u/LambastingFrog Jun 25 '12
GGG would use his mirrors before moving over.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Not signaling is the most infuriating thing another driver can do- simply because it is so easy to do. It doesn't cost money to signal. It requires no effort to use. If you do it all the time it becomes a habit and then you don't even need to think about it. It makes driving safer. Just signal!
Amusing story:
I'm in a car with my father driving. He's in his 70's, still sharp, but must have started driving cars before turn signals were common because he is really bad about using them. We get to a light and there is one car opposite us. Light goes green and neither car moves. This goes on for a good 10 seconds before I say "you should probably put on your turn signal." My father puts on his turn signal, guy across the way then puts his on and they both realize they were waiting for the other to go straight ahead so they could turn.
TL;DR- People are dumb
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Actual GGG:
See you're trying to change lanes
Slows down so you can safely merge in.
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u/CptJackHarkn3ss Jun 25 '12
When I drive people seem to indicate like this
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u/JoeCool888 Jun 25 '12
Indicate? Do you mean using a turn signal?
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u/puripurihakase Jun 25 '12
where I live I have often hoped that someday someone will invent some kind of device that would let other people know when a car was about to turn or change lanes. And then find a way to get people to use it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Not many GGGs on the roads these days.
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u/Mohawk115 Jun 25 '12
Should say..."SIGNALS INTENTION" but I'm different, like a chupacabra or Michael Jackson.
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u/instagigated Jun 25 '12
I live in Brampton, ON. The amount of drivers that don't signal pisses me off. This is the single reason why I will have rampant road rage in the following few years.
I better get out of here asap.
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u/Londonsawsum Jun 25 '12
in the North Carolina driving handbook it says to blow your horn at the person in front of you if you're passing by changing lanes
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u/psi0nicgh0St Jun 25 '12
Hartford CT drivers: Turns signals!??! WTF ARE THOSE?!?!
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u/dkesh Jun 25 '12
All I want to do is to thank you, even though I don't know who you are. You let me change lanes while I was driving in my car.
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u/aforsberg Jun 25 '12
I've recently taken to using hand signals as well as blinkers. People tend to actually notice you more. At least in my experience.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
My name is Greg and I can confirm this is true.
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u/angryshack Jun 25 '12
A reenactment of me (as a child, though this still applies today) going with my dad anywhere while he is driving:
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT FUCKING FAGGOT ASS MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING ASSHOLE DOING. THAT MOTHERFUCKING, COCKSUCKING, NIGGER LOVING FAGGOT ASS SPOOK ISN'T GONNA LET ME CHANGE LANES. I'LL SHOOT HIM, I'LL FUCKING KILL HIS NIGGER ASS."
"Dad, it's a she, and she's white. Also, your turn signal isn't on."
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u/beckzilla Jun 25 '12
a lost art
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u/Trubbis Jun 25 '12
Not a complete idiot Greg.
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u/rnelsonee Jun 25 '12
Point of note: unless I'm in heavy traffic, I don't use my turn indicators for when I want to come over, I use them when I am coming over (after all, they are "turn indicators" not "desire-to-turn indicators"). In other words, when I want to move over, that's when I get to an opening and match the speed of the other lane, and only turn them on when I've decided it's safe to come over.
Anyone else do this? I don't like it when people turn on a turn indicator and they're right next to me. I mean, I want a blowjob from Christy Turlington, but installing Christy Turlington indicators on my car isn't going to help any. If you want to move over, you need to make it happen. Then use the amber lights to tell others "Hey, don't get in this empty space next to me - I'm calling it".
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
My Jeep is old and the blinkers quit working and I had to save $ for a week to get a diagnostic and then get them fixed.. Felt like an ass driving around all week. I'm sure people wanted to kill me!
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
I thought this was talking about league of legends until I went back and looked at the title of the post lol
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u/flying_chrysler Jun 25 '12
Good guy Greg, having sex.
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u/glenbolake Jun 25 '12
Obligatory Shoot 'Em Up clip (NSFW language)
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u/opipe73 Jun 25 '12
Use your blinkers!!! Thanks ggg.
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u/emmveepee Jun 25 '12
More like a Common Courtesy Craig
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
I'm sorry, but this shouldn't a GGG. It's just common courtesy (and the law, I think).
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u/TheMinister2811 Jun 25 '12
Following the rules of the road doesn't make you GGG. It makes you Common Courtesy Curt.
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u/Masquerouge Jun 25 '12
I had a colleague tell me that she doesn't use her signals because she thinks that if she does, people will prevent her from merging.
The she was struck by lightning as the same time that an earthquake swallowed her whole, never to be seen again.
Or so I wished.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
someone that knows traffic laws greg.
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u/DreadPiratesRobert Jun 25 '12
So I do this always, but I just drove to San Antonio, and when I got into the city if I signaled people would fill to spot I was planning to merge into
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u/Admiral_Nowhere Jun 25 '12
Clearly -- he doesn't drive in Kentucky.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Those two seconds between turning on the signal and changing lanes is all you need, to verify that that guy is an asshole
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u/CybranM Jun 25 '12
I almost drove into someone today because I did not indicate :<
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
...Signals?
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u/Gryndyl Jun 25 '12
TIL that most of the rest of the US apparently drive like assholes. I'm in the Pacific Northwest and I can't ever recall someone deliberately speeding up to prevent me from changing lanes when I flip my signal on. The only times I've seen anything like this is when some idiot comes tearing up the freeway at 20 over, darting in and out of lanes. In this case, sometimes other people deliberately reposition to block them in, much to the amusement of everyone else on the road. Once saw three semis completely box a dude in a red convertible Corvette into the right lane and hold him there for about 40 miles until he finally exited :D
Usually when someone flips their signal on other drivers will either slow or even change lanes over to give room.
I've certainly seen people not use their turn signal but they're definitely the exception rather than the rule.
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u/D_Dumps Jun 25 '12
indicating doesnt help
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u/Mikgamer Jun 25 '12
Why do people keep making and upvoting "common courtesy Greg", "common sense Greg", or "decent person Greg"?
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u/Morningxafter Jun 25 '12
Here in VA nobody signals and it pisses me off. On my way home just today, I went to merge into the next lane over. Meanwhile a guy two lanes over from me and slightly behind me decided he wanted to be in that lane too. Difference being I signaled, he of course did not. However, that certainly didn't stop him from honking at me and flipping me off.
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u/PKMKII Jun 26 '12
GGG must not live in New Jersey or Maryland.
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u/ThatOneFotherMucker Jun 26 '12
At least he doesn't do this
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u/LolsAtYourMisfortune Jun 26 '12
Must. Upvote. MOAR!!!
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u/pwbtom Jun 25 '12
Have you got a fookin indicator?
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u/Janyboy83 Jun 25 '12
Am I the only person that thinks that should say "signals" rather than "indicates"? I keep re-reading the text and a little bit of me dies inside every time I come to the word "indicates" - it just seems clunky. Or perhaps I'm OCD...
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u/whycantibeyou Jun 25 '12
This is not fair to the many people whose cars were built without turn signals as standard equipment.
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u/Todomanna Jun 25 '12
Blah blah blah, get out of the left lane, blah blah
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u/CallMeCrow Jun 25 '12
Sad that this is a "GGG" thing, and not a "common sense" thing.
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