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Originally Posted by scho63
I drive about 42-46,000 miles a year locally due to my job. I have driven many miles a year in my life, the most about 62,000 in one year. I've seen tons of crazy things over the last 35 years but I've noticed something astounding during the last 10 years to the point now that it's ridiculous.
The percentage of drivers who use their blinkers to signal a turn, while changing lanes, or exiting a highway is less than 20% and could be under 10-15%. I see drivers come across three lanes of highway traffic and no turn signal, I see someone pull off a highway cutting in front of me at 60-70 MPH and once again no turn signal, I see people at a stop sign in a shopping center and I expect them to go straight but they cut in front of me with no turn signal, I proceed when a light turns green only to have a driver suddenly cut in front of me in the opposite direction making a turn again with no turn signal.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE TURN SIGNAL IN EVERYONE'S VEHICLE!  |
I don't use them if there's no one else around that's going to see them or that it's going to matter to, and sometimes I'll make a sudden lane jump on the freeway and not bother to use them because by the time other drivers see them and comprehend them I will have already made my move. And there are other times when I wonder what's the point in trying to use them when so many other drivers are either oblivious to the light blinking on the corner of your car or flat out don't give a **** about it.