Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoEven if you and everyone else drive like a maniac, you should use your blinkers. In fact, especially.
Keep in mind, using the blinker isn’t asking permission. It’s a warning.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Enjoy never reaching your destination as other drivers risk life and limb to box you out of “their” space.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Funny thing, as they do, they open spaces you can anticipate and use. Even a roadhog can’t hog the whole road, they’re always moving away from somewhere. You signal and start to edge right, they zoom forward, you ease slightly off the gas and get the front corner of your car into the space behind their left rear tail light, now you’re in that lane and ahead of the guy behind them, and you stay close until you get fully in the lane. Then of course you leave a safe buffer in front of you. Your goal isn’t to be the first in front, but to use the lanes to get where you need to go.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Often, the person behind will also accelerate when they see your blinker, closing your chance. The place 2 cars back might be available now, or taken by someone else. But the option to do as the Romans do and simply merge remains!
In India, using your blinker would solely identify you as a foreigner. I do not recommend accruing infinite tickets.