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It's just good practice. If you don't make it a habit you will forget.
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Yes. Because people are horrible drivers and I want them to know what I'm up to. At least one of us can be informed about the other...
The only time I don't is when there is no one behind me and I'm turning onto my home street. Or if I'm sitting in a turn only lane. If I'm in a turn only lane, then I'm turning so...
Turn signals are cool. But let's ignore the fact I live in a very rural area and there is often no one within miles of me when driving. In that case, who am I going to signal to? That suicidal deer in the ditch? That's the last SOB I want to have any clue about where I'm going. But anywhere I meet or see traffic I do use them. And definitely the once a month trip I make to a real town.
I do not, as a rule, place any great amount of faith in turn signals. And that paranoia has saved me more than once. Far too often I have seen a driver with a turn signal blinking merrily blow past me either straight ahead or turn in the opposite direction. Had I believed those signals, I would have been tee-boned.
The only thing I believe in is the direction your steer tires are turned. Turns out your vehicle will go in the direction they are pointing. Any of you new drivers, this is an excellent safe driving tip. Pay attention to the steer tires. Those tires will tell you the truth about the real intentions of another driver.
In any case always remember-- it's just as easy to be dead being dead right as it is being dead wrong. Be safe out there........
I don't drive often, living in a city and therefore not owning a car. But when I drive in the countryside, I use my blinkers whether there's someone around or not. Just like I stop at red lights whether there's someone else or not, etc. I just do what's supposed to be done. Not having to wonder if there are others is one less thing to thing about.
If you are wondering if others are on the road with you, you're doing it wrong.
Either you use it or you dont. It is good to use it though, make it a good habit. Plus, I want to announce to those around me especially when I am backing up into a garage: I am here, do not stand in my way. If you dont use it, obviously you can cause accidents.
That being said, there is a 3rd group who I absolutely fucking despised:
Those who use it just to show the cops or whoever the fuck around that "look, I use blinkers"
When changing lane or enter a turn, uually this type of driver will go Click-Turn-Click. No head movements whatsoever. Also turning the signal off immediately like the sound of it can cause them brain cancer or something.
I live in Atlanta so no. If I turn my blinker on that means they need to block me so I just shoehorn my way into every turn and lane change.
Yes, in Texas a turn signal is a challenge to other drivers.
Let them make fun. People who don't use theirs are the reason why the system is failing.
I would rather overuse it than under use it. Funnily enough I do use mine in turn only lanes too, it’s just background noise to me at this point, but I never used it while pulling out of a low traffic suburban/rural house.
Audi drivers huh? For most they’re non-optional when about to manoeuvre, except in the turn-only lane situation you mentioned where you don’t need it (it’d actually potentially signal a lane change).
no because i am an uncouth so and so
If I'm in a traffic area or pulling into a traffic area, always. I indicate out of my driveway because I'm going on to a road and there's 2 directions I could go.
my car weighs like 1.6t and people need to know where it's heading.
I do, but I am slightly discouraged from doing so by the drivers in my area. People are always so terrified of not being the first waiting at the next red light, they see a turn signal as a warning to 'speed up and go past this car before they can get ahead of you.'
I have never used it backing up. That's just weird and confusing.
Obsessively. I've been driving German autos since college, including BMW's and most BMW owners are jerks. The only exception is when I hung out with the local BMW club one summer. They drive crazy fast, but are some of the most courteous drivers on the road.