They do it because they are fucking idiots who don’t care about the safety of others. No exceptions.
Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)
Submitted 6 hours ago by dullbananas@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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6nk06@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
People do or don’t do things depending on three variables: motivation to do it, the ability to do it, and the prompt to do it.
- Motivation could be lacking in some cases. People need to understand the purpose of turn signals. However, I don’t think there’s an anti-turn signal discourse going around. At least as far as I know.
- I don’t think it’s ability, because activating turn signals is relatively easy for most people.
- I think prompts could also be lacking.
How do we change this?
The Behavior Design answer would be something like this: We need to patiently and kindly train people to recognize prompts to the turn signals. “When you get to the corner, put your left hand on the turn-signal control and move it up. Then turn right.” We also need to celebrate it the instant they do it. “Perfect”. Of course, you need to have a good relationship with whomever you’re doing this with.
Now, that is not the only solution; there are many. We might have one solution if we zoom in on one person. We might have another solution if we zoom out to a whole city or country.
In any case, if we want to solve the problem with Behavior Design, you could check out Tiny Habits.
mordoko@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It infuriates me too, my mother sometimes forgets to do it, and when we told her, she said she did put them on, so I assume that a lot of people forget to turn them on.
Some other people simply don’t care, “why would I need to do it, it’s not their business” is one phrase I read somewhere.
Personally, I always put them, even in empty parking lots with no soul around, better to always have the habit even when it isn’t necessary, that forget to do something because you actively have to choose to do the task, when it should be automatic.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 hours ago
I’m like you: I don’t care if no one is around. People act like it’s some force of nature to muster the strength to signal.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 hours ago
I’m kinda in between…I don’t signal in empty parking lots and rarely at 3am on the highway
But when I’m not totally alone and I intend to change lanes, my pinky flicks before I think about it or look to see if the land is open - I flick it back off if I realize I’d cut someone off regularly
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Had two girlfriends (in a row!) that hated turn signals because they kicked off their “repetitive noise disorder” (misophonia). My wife hates the regular motion of her windshield wipers, fucks with her head, uses them manually.
We can’t expect this many humans to play together nicely.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This is me. I do it anyway, but I do really really hate it. If I’m sitting at a long light waiting to turn left I will turn it off, unless I am the first or last person in line. I also manually turn it off half way through the turn before the steering wheel action turns it off. It’s like someone is drumming their fingers on my skull.
But for merging, lane changing, etc., I always use it.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I don’t know, but it fucking infuriates me when I’m waiting to turn, and someone turns at the last second next to me without signaling. My brother in Christ, the only reason I’m stopped here is because YOU appeared to be passing in front of me, and I could’ve turned ages ago if I knew you were going to be turning
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 6 hours ago
I use my turn signal all the time so I’m not one of these people, but here’s what I’ve heard from others over the years:
- there’s a video of one woman being asked on a college campus and she said it’s not “manly” for men to use their turn signals
- one cop on Reddit said he doesn’t use it when he “knows” no one is around
- my dad would get on my mom about it and she said it was a bad habit of not putting it on (whereas my dad stressed us to use ours when teaching us how to drive)
- I had a friend who brushed it off because “it’s just me being a girly girl” while making a stupid cute face gesture
laranis@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
The idea that moving your finger slightly to support the smoothe functioning of traffic and the welfare of other humans is not “masculine” enough makes me want to castrate some fuckers.
hera@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Stupidity knows no bounds
MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 6 hours ago
I’m just trying to give you something to bitch about on the internet.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Basically. It comes down to habit and some times laziness.
There are a few times I intentionally don’t use mine, mostly because there’s this one intersection that if you’re turning left, for whatever reason people get into this “no you go first” bullshit that’s hard to read. So I turn it on after they start going.
Other tkmes, I fail to single entry into a roundabout. All the round abouts here are single lane and it’s pretty obvious you’re gonna enter. Also, they’re small so it becomes easily confused with signaling an exit from The roundabout. I do signal the exit appropriately, though.
But in MN the 2 things people don’t know how to do is a zipper merge and round abouts. It’s embarrassing, really.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 hours ago
I think not knowing how roundabouts work is all over the US. Here is my part of the country they put up stop signs at the roundabouts—does it not occur to them that it defeats the entire purpose of having it?
If you ever go to Tijuana though they can be a lot of fun.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
I dunno that stop sign would totally defeat the purpose.
Part of why roundabouts work is that everyone is basically turning right to enter and right again to exit, meaning none of the traffic streams actually cross.
Stop signs would slow it down, but not by much. At least, not for the smaller things.
My biggest issue with people here is the frequency they wait for it to be completely clear before going, or the idiots trying to drift around it because, hey, that’s actually fun.
Substance_P@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
My secret shame, which is bad apparently, is that if I’m in an adjacent lane on the side lane of the road, waiting stationary, trying to merge into oncoming traffic, I don’t indicate until I feel like there’s less cars coming and more gaps. This is where my wife freaks out at my lack of assertiveness, it isn’t a lack of confidence and I’m not hesitating, I feel that having turn signal-fu can be an ace up your sleeve in my opinion.
Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
My friend saves the bulb because it’s not been designed to be replaced, you have to disassemble a corner of the car.