How can you signal more? You mean length of time? Both cases you need to signal well in advance of the junction.
Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.
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platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
In the example I gave the car is going straight ahead, past those waiting on the left. Signalling left would signal an intention to turn left before passing them.
If you signal left all the way through that junction, you’re relying on those people not misinterpreting your signal. That is foolhardy and contrary to the Highway Code.
What are you talking about? You said that the car was going to take the left fork. It’s turning left. Are you suggesting that taking the left fork is not turning left?
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Sure it has taken that left fork, but then is going straight ahead. Going straight ahead past a left turn while signalling left is not a good idea.
Please hand in your license platinumsage if you don’t think you should signal left when turning left!!!
liquidindian
Hello
So you don't signal. What happens next?
Ok, so stop the signal the moment you turn if that’s what is bothering you. What’s that got to do with the assumptions being made by a car coming out of a side road?
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
You said lots of things about what a car coming out of a side road shouldn’t assume, but people do assume, so you need to take that into account.
There’s no meaningful time in this example to signal while taking the left fork and then cancel the signal before passing the left turn. One option would be to signal left for the fork well in advance but then cancel it in while you’re slowing to take the fork, so it is unambiguously cancelled by the time you pass the left turn.
Whatever you do it definitely warrants thinking time, and not just an automatic signal throughout that entire length of road. Advanced driving courses teach people to identify who would benefit from a signal and why they would do so before flicking that indicator stalk.
Does anyone know platinumsage in person? Think we should send someone to check on him.
liquidindian
Hello
The solution in this scenario where you absolutely cannot signal left is to signal left.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
If we ban cars all the roads would become cycles lanes - an obvious solution.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Perhaps the anti-car propagandists might consider employing the services of a motorist if they are to be successful, as this thread at the moment is simply serving to highlight the utter lack of understanding of anything to do with cars. It’s a bit like having Jeremy Vine campaign for full communism.
I’ll happily propagandise for the banning of private cars in exchange for a new Volvo. Maybe I should start a gofundme and you can all chip in.
I’ll happily propagandise for the banning of private cars in exchange for a new Volvo. Maybe I should start a gofundme and you can all chip in.
maomao
普費斯
There's no benefit to not signalling, or waiting to signal in that example. It's nuts. A good driver would slow down and stop signalling as soon as they're over the white line but you wouldn't not signal.
When I did driving lessons my teacher told me I would be marked down for signalling when there were no road users around and I shouldn't signal for pedestrians. He was a shit teacher though.
When I did driving lessons my teacher told me I would be marked down for signalling when there were no road users around and I shouldn't signal for pedestrians. He was a shit teacher though.
I think you’ll find we’re probably all drivers actually. And it seems one’s with a hell of a lot more understanding of safe driving than someone that thinks signalling left when turning left might be confusing
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
I think most people on here live in cities which they rarely leave, especially London. This means enjoying public transport and where car ownership means a 2005 Toyota that you use for quarterly trips to dispose of appliance packaging at the dump and to take your kids on holiday to Surrey once a year. This is why beesonthatwhatever isn't familiar with the Highway Code, teuchter doesn't know how a zebra crossing works, maomao wants to kill and ban everyone forever and edcraw can only resort to reposting third-rate twitter footage.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Obviously, because people change their mind, they make mistakes with their satnav etc. Bringing this up as a point is nuts. No idea.
maomao
普費斯
I work outside London in a place with an unreliable train and a bus that takes an hour (plus a twenty minute walk) and it's fine. I don't have to get stressed driving anyway.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
It was literally the opposite position I brought up as a point - giving a signal without thinking that someone might foolishly use it to emerge from a junction into your path. So glad to see you agree this is worth thinking about.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
As my gran used to say, good for you dear.
As a general point because I know nothing your personal life, I get through each week without drinking alcohol. It doesn’t mean I want it banned for everyone else due to the harm it causes - I recognise that other people see value in it that I don’t.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
You sure they weren’t faulty Belisha beacons? I can never tell with you.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Probably signal left although I can’t see all the road markings when zooming into your crappy picture. There doesn’t seem to be multiple left turnings which might cause confusion.
Correct! Because you’re turning left! There’s a clear left turn arrow on the markings even from Google’s crappy picture.
Please can you tell literally every other driver!
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
It’s not. There is no situation where you don’t signal there, someone else could be behind you. You’re a dangerous driver if you behave like this.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
They’re either behind you or they’re not, which is it?
Since when are you taught to check if anyone’s behind you before you signal?
Reckon you must be a teuchter sock puppet account to big up this thread. No one can actually be this clueless.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Oh there's a car behind me, better signal left and confuse those children so they run across the road.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
can someone who's not platinumsage please explain wtf he's on about?
Are you turning left in this bizarre situation?
