Indicators

[itbloke]

Does anyone know what these are for?? strikes me that the population is forgetting this as fewer people are using them - does everyone have 'Beadle hand' where your fingers are too short to reach the stalk to use them??? Using indicators prevents accidents - can we make an advert to put in the middle of Corrie???

[kaylamay]

I live in the US and i saw a bumper sticker once that read,
"using your indicators is not signaling the enemy"
I thought that was rather funny. I have however noticed that whenever i do indicate everyone else on the road thinks i'm sending out morse code for, quick speed up, or dont let her in.
very aggravating! I have however been guilty of the offense of not using my indicators/signals occasionally for this very reason.
Mikala

[chevrolet1.8]

judging by what i've seen, i was begining to think that maybe they forgot to tell me after passing my test that you don't have to use them anymore.

[tubeway]

Of course they are not needed on motorways - just get in the middle lane and stay there

[boro1986]

One of my pet hates. Seems to me white van man and BMW drivers think like there mirrors are an optional extra it really pi**es me off

[almcd007]

I pull alongside these people, tell them to wind their window down and compliment them on their car and the fact I used to own one (even if I didn't) the difference being - MINE HAD SODDING INDICATORS !!

Oh and for the record - I'm a BMW driver and I always use my indicators and mirrors ! You will mainly find BMW owners do - I find it's the BMW company driver who has the disregard you mention !

It's a dying breed of driver who signals properly and uses their mirrors and has good lane discipline - the amount of drivers you see not sticking to their lanes and using every lane there is expecting you to mind read is very much so on the increase.

[Grunty]

Just one small point almcd007. Who drives your BMW while you are having that conversation with the driver of another car?

[ugly_bob]

Only one thing worse than no indicators - using them wrong. Like the silly old cow the other day at a roundabout. She got there before me, from opposite direction and was indicating right (4 entrances at 12,3,6,9). As soon as she'd passed the first exit, she changed her indicator to left, indicating to me that she was in fact going straight on, along the road I had just come down, so off I went. Silly mare then had the audacity to beep at me because I'd pulled out in front of her! Grrr! If I wasn't in a hurry, I would have gone all the way round and followed her and given her a piece of my mind!!

[almcd007]

Being a BMW driver - obviously I dont need to drive the car at all - it does it itself and I have no regard for other drivers whatsoever Ha Ha !!

No - obviously when I pull up along side them at the lights not as we're travelling at 70mph on the motorway in the middle lane not using my mirrors !!

[bigboots]

the driving standards have dropped in this country due to the fact that most traffic policing is now done by camera,
you used to get stopped for having a light out now you see loads of cars with 1 or more lights out