I use it literally everywhere out of habit, I got made fun of for using it when pulling out of my moms driveway once lol
Yes, even in clearly marked turn only lanes. I wish more people were ticketed for not using them.
Do you use your blinker in a car?
Submitted 3 days ago by TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 day ago
anarcho_vroom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yes. You’re moving heavy objects with meat in them very fast. You should always clearly indicate your intentions.
alehel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I always use it because then I’ll never forget to use it.
magikmw@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I don’t use turn signals when driving around a roundabout unless I’m exiting because I’m not psychotic.
But seriously, they are for signifying intent, not blinking idly, and they shouls be used plenty.
I put a turn signal on when I back into my underground parking spot when I’m literally the only person down there. Force of habit that I’m totally cool with.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I got made fun of for using it when pulling out of my moms driveway once lol
I believe the socially acceptable retort is “if you don’t like my driving, you can get the hell out of the car. If you’re staying, you can shut up”
cortex7979@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yes what the fuc
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Just use it all the time including turn only lanes. Deal with the clicking, it’s fine.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I would rather overuse it than under use it. Funnily enough I do use mine in turn only lanes too, it’s just background noise to me at this point, but I never used it while pulling out of a low traffic suburban/rural house.
Papanca@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So grateful to everyone in the comments who use them. Thank you all! Where i live most don’t use them. I don’t get why; aren’t these people annoyed when others don’t use the blinker?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If no one uses it, how will they ever learn what it’s like to be enlightened?
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 days ago
There are specific instructions for Audi, BMW and Mercedes which void their warranties should you ever even think such scandalous thoughts.
octobob@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yikes. Lane correction legit freaks me out. I thought it could always be turned off long term but I guess not.
It would be a disaster using that in the city I live in (Pittsburgh). Like I’m sorry that our roads are based on deer trails from the 1800s that go through woods and winding up and down hills. With all the city traffic to go with it.
Downtown can be even worse. Like you legit have to break traffic laws to get around, there’s no other way. If one of them cars “corrected” me on a tight narrow street when I go over the double yellow to pass someone on a bicycle, that could end terribly for everyone.
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Well said! Blighty here.
There were so many complaints on the forums about it that I thought it was going to be a nightmare, but it’s not quite as bad as I was expecting TBF. I just have to be very careful on road merges and those funky country lanes.
Didn’t get to visit Pittsburgh so far but would love to, country is a necessarily shrinking resource here these days.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
that sounds dangerous. My mom’s car, a minivan which is big and scary to me, has a thing where it tries to stay in the lane for you automatically which was very scary the first time I tried to drive it lol
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 days ago
That’s the thing I’m taking about!
It’s a bit scary tbh. If you don’t do (steer) what it says it shakes the steering wheel as if a wheel was seriously unbalanced or broken.
It’s my first new-to-me car in a while. So I’m enjoying most of the new tech but not quite this bit!
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I use it even in my drive way. Good habbit is a good practice that makes operating any system easier.
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Turn signals are cool. But let’s ignore the fact I live in a very rural area and there is often no one within miles of me when driving. In that case, who am I going to signal to? That suicidal deer in the ditch? That’s the last SOB I want to have any clue about where I’m going. But anywhere I meet or see traffic I do use them. And definitely the once a month trip I make to a real town.
I do not, as a rule, place any great amount of faith in turn signals. And that paranoia has saved me more than once. Far too often I have seen a driver with a turn signal blinking merrily blow past me either straight ahead or turn in the opposite direction. Had I believed those signals, I would have been tee-boned.
The only thing I believe in is the direction your steer tires are turned. Turns out your vehicle will go in the direction they are pointing. Any of you new drivers, this is an excellent safe driving tip. Pay attention to the steer tires. Those tires will tell you the truth about the real intentions of another driver.
In any case always remember-- it’s just as easy to be dead being dead right as it is being dead wrong. Be safe out there…
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t drive often, living in a city and therefore not owning a car. But when I drive in the countryside, I use my blinkers whether there’s someone around or not. Just like I stop at red lights whether there’s someone else or not, etc. I just do what’s supposed to be done. Not having to wonder if there are others is one less thing to thing about.
bluewing@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
If you are wondering if others are on the road with you, you’re doing it wrong.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I use it to pull into my driveway because it’s immediately after a sharp blind turn and I’d rather not get shoved into my own mailbox.
frickineh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve used it in to turn into my driveway when there are other cars around because some of my neighbors and most of the delivery drivers drive like total dicks and can’t seem to figure out why someone would slow down in a neighborhood.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I live in Atlanta so no. If I turn my blinker on that means they need to block me so I just shoehorn my way into every turn and lane change.
elleplaster@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yes, in Texas a turn signal is a challenge to other drivers.
selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yes. Because people are horrible drivers and I want them to know what I’m up to. At least one of us can be informed about the other…
The only time I don’t is when there is no one behind me and I’m turning onto my home street. Or if I’m sitting in a turn only lane. If I’m in a turn only lane, then I’m turning so…
unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
If you habitually use it on simple or clear turns or empty roads you will habitually use it when there are people around. That’s a good habit to have.
Lights on always and signal whenever you’re deviating from your current lane.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 days ago
I ride a bicycle. I always signal by hand. It pisses me off when cars don’t see me and dont signal. Almost been hit that way.
Let people know when your massive death machine is going to be changing direction.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
100% I use that bitch in parking lots.
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Usually I use them, but not if I’m the only car on the road, and not in my city’s roundabouts.
The roundabouts are abnormally small, so using a blinker to exit is confusing for everyone because I’d be signalling to turn for the exit I need, but the roundabout is so small that the wrong cars will think I’m exiting before them and pull out in front of me. When really, I’d be signalling for the exit immediately after them while trying to provide time for that exit’s car to see my intentions.
Also people in this city don’t understand roundabouts. I see people enter the wrong way semi-regularly, stop in the middle of the roundabout to let people in, use a left blinker to enter a roundabout that only goes around to the left, and treat every empty roundabout as a 4-way stop. Its pretty frustrating sometimes.
Sorry, we were talking about blinkers and, in some roundabout way, I got off topic lol
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
I don’t drive anymore because I live someplace with transit and sidewalks, but when I drove I always signalled turns. Low effort, high safety.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Over 15 years driving, here. I use blinkers all the time. I feel weird if I change lanes without a blinker, even if I know for an absolute fact there’s no one around me… Or even any that can see me. And I mean, I’ll even use it when I do a little road rage for people camping in the passing lane and I pass them on the wrong side, cutting a little close when returning. That being said, a driveway is something I’d make a joke about among friends. It wouldn’t make me judge you as a driver. I’d use the rest of your driving as my judgment material.
My 2 cents on a topic you didn’t ask for: Do not hold down the passing lane. It makes me a little irrational, but only with a totally clear line of sight. There’s plenty of dumber morons that suck at it, so camping sprinkles a little chaos into the hierarchy of the lanes. It does not matter how your speed compares to the limit.
HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Only if I don’t run out of blinker fluid.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have never used it backing up. That’s just weird.
mortimer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I use them all the time. Pisses me off when other road users don’t. They’re called indicators here in the UK and apparently if you pass an advanced driving test and get an advanced licence you don’t have to use them all the time, particularly if there’s no-one around to see them. Advanced courses are about thinking rather than being on autopilot, and so indicating out of habit suggests you’re not paying attention to what’s going on around you.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 day ago
I do, but I am slightly discouraged from doing so by the drivers in my area. People are always so terrified of not being the first waiting at the next red light, they see a turn signal as a warning to ‘speed up and go past this car before they can get ahead of you.’
mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I always signal in roads but rarely in parking lots or driveways unless I’m trying to let others know I’m waiting for a parking spot.
Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Been driving for a few decades at this point. I use my turn signals for nearly all turns, and any moving merges. The more information I can give to other drivers, the more likely they are to act rationally… which decreases the chances of miscommunications and accidents.
I don’t always signal while in a turn only lane, as being in that lane should already denote my intentions, and while merging into heavy (stopped, bumper to bumper) traffic…
SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Only when I remember to fill up on my blinker fluid.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My old house was one of a row of housing with assigned parking spaces in front, perpendicular to the road. Like in front of a store.
I was going to turn into my parking space. This behemoth of a truck was in front of me, going slow as molasses. I mean like 2 miles an hour. I could have stopped my car and walked home faster, but I was in the middle of the road.
The truck in front of me veered left, towards the parking spots on the opposite side of the road. I said “fucking FINALLY” and darted past them on the right.
Turns out they had finally found the spot they were looking for and had just swung wide to turn into the spot. On the right, not the left. They turned straight into me as I tried to drive past.
Ever since then I make sure to use my blinker even if I’m just turning into my driveway.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 day ago
Yes even in parking lots and driveways, except sometimes when I’m pulling into a double turn lane and I don’t want people to think I’m changing lanes