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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Do you assume everyone around you is fully aware of what’s happening when they are controlling their death machines?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You have to where I live :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't use mine because I'm too preoccupied with my tinder matches to even realize that I'm turning. I coast through(literally) life imagining myself the hero of my unsung story and everyone else is the villain.

why can't these self-centered assholes understand that I'm the good guy?!

uh-oh, I'm getting pulled over again for texting this while driving. another corrupt cop oppressing me!

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Honestly, it's become so much of a habit that I would sometimes use mine when turning around the perimeter of a parking lot without thinking, despite it being a corner where a turn is the only option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, it's what you're taught to do anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes. Habit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At the end of the day there is no reason not to. Not like it takes any effort or costs anything.

That being said, I usually won't the closer I am to home/on my main commute. Why? Because I'm driving next to the same people every day. The same work truck with a giant butterfly on it and that one dumb ass looking cyber truck. Along with the other 100 other commuters the same day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

.....so what? How is that relevant to anything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure. It's not hurting anyone, and especially on a roundabout it can be very helpful to other drivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not between double yellows at a light with a turn indicator, and not when the turn lane is a freeway exit (so I'm actually just going straight), but pretty much all other times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If you don’t then your dashboard doesn’t know to get rid of the speed limit sign

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

yes. there is no stipulation to not use it because of a turning lane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not if I'm already in the lane. If I have to merge into the lane, I usually leave my turn signal on until it shuts off when I make the actual turn. If I'm already in the lane and it's turn-only you don't need it, on the highway anyway. If you're talking about intersections and stoplights like in the city and surrounding areas, I always use turn signals at those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If I'm driving, almost always, the exception being if it's a highway off ramp I'll indicate to go into the off ramp lane, then stop indicating as it should be clear.

If I'm cycling then very rarely, as the position in the lane or lane you're in is far more noticeable than if you're driving, so I'll only stick my hand out to indicate if I have to merge into traffic to turn (eg a right turn from a single lane road, or to get into the turn lane to begin with)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actually I do it sometimes, but I feel like it does not make sense since there is no other way to go xd, but also when I do it it feels like automatic, my brain goes "turn>turn signal"

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