100% I use that bitch in parking lots.
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I've never understood how a simple hand motion can be beyond anyone's skillset. It's just part of driving.
Usually I use them, but not if I'm the only car on the road, and not in my city's roundabouts.
The roundabouts are abnormally small, so using a blinker to exit is confusing for everyone because I'd be signalling to turn for the exit I need, but the roundabout is so small that the wrong cars will think I'm exiting before them and pull out in front of me. When really, I'd be signalling for the exit immediately after them while trying to provide time for that exit's car to see my intentions.
Also people in this city don't understand roundabouts. I see people enter the wrong way semi-regularly, stop in the middle of the roundabout to let people in, use a left blinker to enter a roundabout that only goes around to the left, and treat every empty roundabout as a 4-way stop. Its pretty frustrating sometimes.
Sorry, we were talking about blinkers and, in some roundabout way, I got off topic lol
I don't drive anymore because I live someplace with transit and sidewalks, but when I drove I always signalled turns. Low effort, high safety.
It's actually easier to just use it every time. Deciding whether you need to is cognitive load that's better spent on other things.
This. It should be automatic, and you can't have perfect awareness to always know with 100% certainly if there is another vehicle or pedestrian around which may benefit from that information.
Use your blinker, return your cart to the corral, and mind your business
I'm sure I've missed it sometimes over the years, but if you make it a habit it's harder to forget or ignore
Let them make fun. People who don't use theirs are the reason why the system is failing.
Only sickos don't use their blinkers
It's normal to use it pulling out of a driveway and in parking lots, don't worry about peer pressure and other people's bad habit
Oh I’m very happy to also use it in a turn only lane at a red light for 3 minutes
I've been made fun of, signaling while offroading.
Well, that's really a special case. If you're literally alone in the middle of nowhere with nobody to care, the only reason to blink would be to keep the habit intact. Other than that, any situation where it might be useful for others to know what your intentions are, the blinker is a useful tool, on or off the road.
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Yes what the fuc
Just use it all the time including turn only lanes. Deal with the clicking, it’s fine.
My old house was one of a row of housing with assigned parking spaces in front, perpendicular to the road. Like in front of a store.
I was going to turn into my parking space. This behemoth of a truck was in front of me, going slow as molasses. I mean like 2 miles an hour. I could have stopped my car and walked home faster, but I was in the middle of the road.
The truck in front of me veered left, towards the parking spots on the opposite side of the road. I said "fucking FINALLY" and darted past them on the right.
Turns out they had finally found the spot they were looking for and had just swung wide to turn into the spot. On the right, not the left. They turned straight into me as I tried to drive past.
Ever since then I make sure to use my blinker even if I'm just turning into my driveway.
No, I ran out of blinker fluid and the price is too high from the tariffs now.
Always. Drive predictably it helps.
Predictability is so much more important than being nice. Just follow the rules.
I don't drive a BMW, so yes.
There are specific directives for Audi, BMW and Mercedes which void their warranties should you ever even think such scandalous thoughts as using the indicators individually; not using them to say that you know you're parking in a stupid place, angle across a pavement but you're only buying some chocolate from that corner shop.
My car has lane detection such that my steering is 'corrected' if I don't use an indicator. It gets confused on country roads and often tries to steer into the hedge or ditch. Fucking thing. It can't be turned off long term, but only ever time one turns on the ignition.
that sounds dangerous. My mom's car, a minivan which is big and scary to me, has a thing where it tries to stay in the lane for you automatically which was very scary the first time I tried to drive it lol
That's the thing I'm taking about!
It's a bit scary tbh. If you don't do (steer) what it says it shakes the steering wheel as if a wheel was seriously unbalanced or broken.
It's my first new-to-me car in a while. So I'm enjoying most of the new tech but not quite this bit!
Yikes. Lane correction legit freaks me out. I thought it could always be turned off long term but I guess not.
It would be a disaster using that in the city I live in (Pittsburgh). Like I'm sorry that our roads are based on deer trails from the 1800s that go through woods and winding up and down hills. With all the city traffic to go with it.
Downtown can be even worse. Like you legit have to break traffic laws to get around, there's no other way. If one of them cars "corrected" me on a tight narrow street when I go over the double yellow to pass someone on a bicycle, that could end terribly for everyone.
It's like the people that designed these cars only ever have to drive on perfect grids with multiple lanes or the highway.
Well said! Blighty here.
There were so many complaints on the forums about it that I thought it was going to be a nightmare, but it's not quite as bad as I was expecting TBF. I just have to be very careful on road merges and those funky country lanes.
Didn't get to visit Pittsburgh so far but would love to, country is a necessarily shrinking resource here these days.
Pittsburgh's great! I've lived here my whole life, bought an old home from 1890 here during covid that's right along the Allegheny River. I can see it from my front stoop. I'm also surrounded by woods and have only one neighbor who's about a hundred feet away. But I can still walk around the city or bus most places pretty easily.
I'm currently renovating the home slowly as I go, but I love it to death. This is me and my fiance's forever home for sure.
Pittsburgh is a great mix of Appalachian country, rust belt, and small city all in one. Like I can drive maybe 15 minutes up the road and I'm in the sticks, or I can bop around the city. There's also the suburbs of course, but I have no reason to go to them unless I'm driving thru them.
I've worked in factories for the past 10 years or so in electrical manufacturing of control and power systems for the big steel mills around the country. I love that the industry is still here if you can drive. Like I get to work in 20 minutes, can't beat it. Most industry is quite a drive outside other cities.
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It’s better to use your blinkers all the time than 90% of the time.
I don't use turn signals when driving around a roundabout unless I'm exiting because I'm not psychotic.
But seriously, they are for signifying intent, not blinking idly, and they should be used plenty.
I put a turn signal on when I back into my underground parking spot when I'm literally the only person down there. Force of habit that I'm totally cool with.
I ride a bicycle. I always signal by hand. It pisses me off when cars don't see me and dont signal. Almost been hit that way.
Let people know when your massive death machine is going to be changing direction.
Only if I don't run out of blinker fluid.
I use them 100% of the time. Which yes, includes my own driveway.
You should train yourself to use them automatically instead of a manual step. Like a reflex.
And if you're at a light and you plan to turn, you have that blinker going. Even if it's a long red light, even if you think no one is around.
I use it even in my drive way. Good habbit is a good practice that makes operating any system easier and honestly just more fun. I know cars get a bad rap these days but it's an amazing technology that's fun to be a part of.
If it makes a difference to someone, yes. Otherwise I don't bother.
Yes. Don't listen to people who tell you not to.
The indicator is for communicating your intent to change the position (which lane you're in) or direction (turning in or out of a road, parking space, etc.) of your car.
The safest thing you can do as a driver is to be PREDICTABLE to other drivers. The indicator communicates necessary information for other drivers to predict your actions.
Not using one when changing the position or direction of your car is inconsiderate and dangerous to other road users. It is also illegal.
Use them. Please.
Not just to drivers.
There's nothing more annoying as a pedestrian than a vehicle whose driver has seemingly decided to run into you because they 1) didn't think to use their signals and 2) mostly just checked for car traffic until you're right in front of their bumper.
Very much this.
I was hoping to imply that with the phrase "road users" but I wasn't explicit about it.
Cyclists too. If you can't keep a cyclist safe you shouldn't be allowed in a car.