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When I'm driving down a residential street behind another car and they slow down and there's a driveway on the left and none on the right, I normally assume they're about to turn into that driveway and refrain from attempting to pass them on the left. But that's just me.

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[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

When I'm driving down the street, and the car in front of me wants to slow down to turn left into their driveway, I expect them to use their indicator. Oh, but wait, they're American, and probably have a phone clamped to their ear, and don't have a hand free to press that mysterious little stick on the side of their steering wheel, and why did anyone put that inconvenient thing there anyway?

[nothingjerk.livejournal.com]

I hate when u are waiting to cross teh street and u see a car approaching so u wait and wait and then it turns at the corner. I usually scream "Turn Signal asshole"

[jaina.livejournal.com]

In theory people use turn signals, but I so rarely see anyone use them for driveway turns that I would never expect them to do so. In this case, the driver was me. *g* Sure, technically I should've signaled, and I'll make a note to do so next time, but the driver behind me was jumping the gun for more than one reason.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I hate it when I'm waiting to cross and I motion an approaching driver to go but they slow down and there's this minute of staring and I always went to yell at them that it would be FASTER for them to just GO in the first place.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I so rarely see anyone use them

You and a hundred million other Americans, yeah, I know, hence the rant!

There are people in Britain who don't indicate, but in the US it's a freaking epidemic, and I just don't understand why. Is it really so much extra effort to press that stick down? What form of laziness is it that means so few people can be bothered to make that one second single finger effort to let other road users and pedestrians know what they plan to do?

I'd almost say it's more important to indicate for driveway turns. When you're approaching a major intersection, people expect you to be slowing and doing things. Driving along a straight, empty road, they're watching for you less. When someone starts to slow like that, are they turning left into the driveway, or pulling over right because they're lost and want to check a map? I'm not goddamn psychic, please let me know in advance!

I get so infuriated by all the Americans randomly changing lanes on the freeway into gaps that barely exist anyway without indicating, and half the time, yeah, it's because they've got a phone surgicaly attached. And hey, they're in a Dodge Ram, so other people will got out of their way if they don't want to die, right? Grrrr.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Seconded. And it applies just as well when you're in a car waiting to pull out of a side turning, and the car you're waiting for didn't bother to let you know they were going to turn right. Happens all the damn time.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I can only guess that it's because they think of driveways as roads. In actual lanes and real road turns, I do see people signal all the time, though there are a few who don't. For me, I guess it's just because I rarely have anyone around me when I'm pulling into the driveway. I know if I'd hit the chick yesterday, it would've been legally my responsibility, but she was still a dink for a couple of reasons. *g*

[fonny.livejournal.com]

i hate impatient assholes too, and the person in jaina's story sounds like one ... but i gotta agree with you here. my pet peeve is people who feel like they don't need to signal: out of laziness, lack of concern, or just plain rudeness. the cell phone thing pisses me off like none other.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I'm truly fascinated by the way a number of US states have elected to ban phone use while driving for teenagers or people uner 21. Because of course it makes perfect sense for the rest of the population to have 50% of their hands and 2% of their brain in control of a deadly weapon.

As far as I'm concerned, hitting that little stick before you turn or pull over should require absolutely no thought at all - it should be as much an ingrained, habitual part of driving as turning the key or pressing the accelerator. If you stop to think, 'Is there anyone around I need to indicate to?' you're making too much effort out of it. It does absolutely no harm to indicate to an empty three mile stretch of road. It helps a lot to indicate to the pedestrian you didn't see behind that tree, or the car you didn't notice about to pull out from behind an enormous SUV.

[fonny.livejournal.com]

i agree. i pretty much signal out of habit, and sometimes i'll catch myself doing it at 2 a.m. in the morning when i'm about to turn on a deserted street. and i feel kind of silly -- but hey, at least i know it's second nature to me now.