quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
For you maybe. Doesn't mean it is for everyone in every circumstance.
Drivers who don't indicate at junctions
- Thread starter skyscraper101
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For you maybe. Doesn't mean it is for everyone in every circumstance.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Not the way people drive round my way.
Besides which, why the fuck should the onus be on me (or any other road user, including pedestrians) to predict a complete stranger's behaviour? Especially when, y'know, vehicles come equipped with these handy little doodads for making it clear in advance.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Near misses from wankers jumping Red lights/driving across pedestrian crossings etc (of which I have had many) don't cancel out the dangers of near misses from lack of indicating (of which I have also had many). There's room to criticise both.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Not indicating is way more common than it used to be, just another sign of how fucking selfish people are being these days in all walks of life.
Was all fields in my day, grumble, grumble.
Was all fields in my day, grumble, grumble.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Yup - just this morning for me. I'm glad a taxi driver went the way I thought he was going but I'm also glad I hesitated due to his not indicating as it would have been a collision if I'd got it wrong. The speeds on that roundabout tend to be pretty high.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
title needs amending to BMW and Audi twats that don't indicate at junctions
Actually, buying a BMW was the best way I found to minimise my stop rate. Only happened a handful of times over many years after that - and I did indicate properly/scrupulously!
The most telling one was a stop where a young officer was trying his best to pick the tiniest fault with my bike, whilst his older/more experienced partner leaned against the police car with his arms crossed saying - "I told you not to bother - BMW riders know their machines and look after them. You'll never find anything wrong with one of them!"
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Selfish, lazy or steered that way by all the automatic driving aids in cars there days, like automatic lights and automatic wipers. Or is it because they can't indicate because they are holding a phone in one hand and a drink in the other?
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
There’s a route I use where there’s a slip road off the M8 followed by a junction with lights and two lanes, one for straight ahead and one for turning right. The left hand lane lines up with the right hand lane of the exit road after the junction, because there’s a merge lane from the left at that point. (I’ll draw it if you can’t picture it).
Anyway, if you’re first at the lights and there’s someone in the turning right lane, you obviously can’t see if they’re indicating right (as they should be), but so often they’re not: they’re intending to cut in front of you and make for the right hand lane of the exit opposite. It’s so dangerous, because you also have the traffic merging from the left to contend with. I hate being first at the lights there, because that turning right lane is so misused.
I mean, I get that people can end up in the wrong lane by mistake. But it’s constant. They can’t all be making a mistake every time.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
It's a daily occurance when driving for me as well as "You cunt!"
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Don't be too cocky, the cars used to be that way once. I'm not personally a fan of anything they've made since the mid-90s on the car side.Actually, buying a BMW was the best way I found to minimise my stop rate. Only happened a handful of times over many years after that - and I did indicate properly/scrupulously!
The most telling one was a stop where a young officer was trying his best to pick the tiniest fault with my bike, whilst his older/more experienced partner leaned against the police car with his arms crossed saying - "I told you not to bother - BMW riders know their machines and look after them. You'll never find anything wrong with one of them!"
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Actually, buying a BMW was the best way I found to minimise my stop rate. Only happened a handful of times over many years after that - and I did indicate properly/scrupulously!
The most telling one was a stop where a young officer was trying his best to pick the tiniest fault with my bike, whilst his older/more experienced partner leaned against the police car with his arms crossed saying - "I told you not to bother - BMW riders know their machines and look after them. You'll never find anything wrong with one of them!"
maybe you bikers are a different breed to your car based BMW fan as that lot are twats
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
including cyclists
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
It is, perhaps, true that maybe 80% of Audi drivers are twunts as opposed to the mere 40% rate in all other drivers. But then they're vastly outnumbered by all other drivers. The idea that even a large minority of non-signaling drivers are Audi/BMW drivers is pure fantasy. Yes, they're a high proportion of twunts, but there's utterly no shortage of cunty drivers in all other makes of car.
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
I've been almost wiped out numerous times by cunts indicating to the right while exiting a roundabout. Even if I'm in the car I'm like "For Fuck's Sake dude, I could have entered the roundabout then!".
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Isn't that every day?
I find indicating is a bit of a bastard these days. The control sticks are fucking awful. You'd think there would only be three positions. Left, right and off but the bloody things do so many different things. Sometimes they click off and sometimes they stay on. Sometimes I can move them at the exact pressure for them to turn off without indicating to go in the opposite direction sometimes I can't. Sometimes the bloody things switch off when I move my finger back to the wheel and sometimes they don't. It feels like I do the exact same things but with differing results.
souljacker
innit
Sounds like your indicator stalks are bust because that shouldn't happen.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Or even after commencing the manoeuvreA lot of drivers round here think it's appropriate to indicate as they make the manoeuvre.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Some cars are better than others but it is common.
I'm glad you could finally join us.a random BMW driver enters the thread
