Turn Signal Usage
08-26-2014, 03:12 AM
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Leaving that decision to a "motor vehicle operator" is plain stupid because that operator may never be sure of all the decisions being made by the surrounding vehicles and therefore is never enabled to determine the qualifications for no usage.
California may not have good lawyers but we sure have a lot of 'em.
08-26-2014, 06:52 AM
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08-27-2014, 07:51 AM
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A tad bit off-topic:
Another thing that frosts my whatever is the people who say on the left lane until the last minute when it is clearly indicated that their lane is ending. They then cut you off or wave and gesture like” “WTF you doing?” if you fail to yield and let them in. There is a section on the southbound Hutchinson River Parkway just north of the 287 intersect where the two southbound lanes merge into one. For a good ¾ of a mile there are 4 or 5 signs indicating that the left lane ends. Almost every time I drive that route some idiot stays in the left and then when inevitably their lane starts tapering and is 50 feet from ending, they try to dart in front. If not successful, they start waving and screaming as if it is my duty to let them in. Knowing about the merger I will move over from the left lane to the right lane to anticipate and provide for a no-drama situation at the merge, but these bozo’s have just got to stay put there in the soon to end lane hoping they force me to yield and gain one, maybe two car positions. Idiots!!
Another thing that frosts my whatever is the people who say on the left lane until the last minute when it is clearly indicated that their lane is ending. They then cut you off or wave and gesture like” “WTF you doing?” if you fail to yield and let them in. There is a section on the southbound Hutchinson River Parkway just north of the 287 intersect where the two southbound lanes merge into one. For a good ¾ of a mile there are 4 or 5 signs indicating that the left lane ends. Almost every time I drive that route some idiot stays in the left and then when inevitably their lane starts tapering and is 50 feet from ending, they try to dart in front. If not successful, they start waving and screaming as if it is my duty to let them in. Knowing about the merger I will move over from the left lane to the right lane to anticipate and provide for a no-drama situation at the merge, but these bozo’s have just got to stay put there in the soon to end lane hoping they force me to yield and gain one, maybe two car positions. Idiots!!
I now live in Iowa and find the behavior much less common, it is amazing to see people line up in an orderly and polite fashion.
08-27-2014, 08:00 AM
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But driving in the EU is an art/sport, here in the US it is considered an opportunity to talk and text while you travel from A to B.
08-27-2014, 08:05 AM
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I don't know about other states in the US but in Ca. it seems that there are a lot of incompetent's whose primary aim, when entering a freeway, is to get to the fast lane and then get up to the speed of traffic flow.
I travel in the early hours of the morning and at least 50% of the cars are in the fast lane with nobody within half a mile of them. I wish these people could get a lesson in Germany where it is illegal to be further left than necessary unless you are overtaking.
I travel in the early hours of the morning and at least 50% of the cars are in the fast lane with nobody within half a mile of them. I wish these people could get a lesson in Germany where it is illegal to be further left than necessary unless you are overtaking.
08-27-2014, 08:16 AM
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08-27-2014, 08:52 AM
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We have that law in Colorado now, doesn't seem to get enforced - even after CSP said they would enforce it. Last week I saw a succession of "left lane bandits" parked out there repeatedly passing the variable message signs which CDOT had programmed to say "Keep Right Except When Passing - Colorado Law!" or somesuch.
Here in Ca. we have more laws in the Cal Highway Code than most Countries do in the civil code and enforcement only applies, arbitrarily, to speed limits because it is a source of revenue. Enforcing laws for better, safer driving never occurred to the CHP.
08-27-2014, 11:40 AM
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We have that law in Colorado now, doesn't seem to get enforced - even after CSP said they would enforce it. Last week I saw a succession of "left lane bandits" parked out there repeatedly passing the variable message signs which CDOT had programmed to say "Keep Right Except When Passing - Colorado Law!" or somesuch.
08-27-2014, 12:03 PM
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I'm in NJ. I use signals all the time, 100%. That's what I learned to do automatically more than 20 years ago. I give it no thought, just do it.
I thought it was illegal not to use turn signals, if not, it's at the least dangerous and discourteous. And if someone is having to think about whether or not to signal, then they are spending effort while driving on something that should be effortless.
I thought it was illegal not to use turn signals, if not, it's at the least dangerous and discourteous. And if someone is having to think about whether or not to signal, then they are spending effort while driving on something that should be effortless.