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Not using turning signals...on the increase in my neck of the woods.
Very rude, potentially dangerous too....I want to know what you’re gonna do,
I don’t want to have to guess
Because the situations they mentioned are not the correct time to be using them.
The correct time would be anytime there is a hazardous situation. Rain and construction could be a hazard. Even if it is not the correct time, what does it matter? Has an accident ever been caused by someone using their hazard lights inappropriately? It seems like a pretty insignificant thing to be worrying about.
The correct time would be anytime there is a hazardous situation. Rain and construction could be a hazard. Even if it is not the correct time, what does it matter? Has an accident ever been caused by someone using their hazard lights inappropriately? It seems like a pretty insignificant thing to be worrying about.
It's unwise and depending on state illegal to use hazards just because of rain. Hazards should not be used when moving. They should indicate a stopped car on the roadway.
It's unwise and depending on state illegal to use hazards just because of rain. Hazards should not be used when moving. They should indicate a stopped car on the roadway.
The only points those articles make for not using hazard lights while driving is that the lights can make other drivers think you’re stopped or stalled, and they turn off your ability to use your turn signals.
Well doh, people are only going to think you are stopped if you are in a state where it's illegal to use them while driving. Even then, I would never mistake a moving car for being stopped, just because they have their hazard lights on. I would like to see evidence that even one car accident has ever been cause by a driver who mistook a moving vehicle for a stopped vehicle, just because it had its hazard lights on. I'm not buying it.
The second point is true. That's why I would turn off my hazard lights when I turn on my turn signal.
Where I live, if you leave a big gap in front of you (I drive to work on surface roads - not freeways) everybody will move in to fill that gap. Now maybe you might want to prevent having to continuously apply your brakes so you leave a huge gap between you and the car in front of you.
If you leave a smaller gap, about a car length or half-car length, then somebody will dart into that space causing you to slam on your brakes to keep from hitting them.
Most people ride close to the car in front of them to prevent these problems.
Physics be damned, in other words. Amazing how many people think they are immune to the laws of physics.
If said law enforcement vehicle is parked on the side of the road, there might be regulations about it:
This. I actually got a ticket for moving back over too soon (I was well past everything but one of the officers felt that it was too soon) after moving into the middle lane to pass them. Otherwise, I would have had to slow to 20 mph below the speed limit to pass them. They were enforcing that law stringently at the time because there had been two officer deaths by people hitting them while they were dealing with a traffic situation (accident in one case), and people didn't know the law.
Texas is serious about that law, and most people know it now.
I can't explain what he meant exactly, but I have a variation of it. Here, in Virginia (also Maryland) there are roads where a right turn lane opens up just before a turn. The lane, however, is marked as through or right turn. You can do either. It's marked through because there is another intersection a little ways up. It has a right turn only lane, which is the lane which started prior to the first intersection. I know ir is ega to go straight, but it can be annoying when you need to turn, you can't because you get stuck behind someone who is going straight. Every other state that I lived in prior to these two, the lane would be right turn only. Straight through drivers wanting to turn at the second intersection, can't get right until they are past the first intersection. That leaves the right lane to be right turn only. That's the preferred way.
Unless they know, based on experience, that they won't be able to get into the right lane once they are past the intersection due to traffic. The above is YOUR preferred way.
Dang, we have become a society of people needing immediate gratification and no one had better be in my way ever!
My top 3 biggest pet peeves of other drivers on the road.
#1 - Failure to use turn signals in any situations that call for it.
#2 - Aggressive drivers tailgating in the right lane w/multiple open lanes to the left for passing.
#3 - Timid drivers going under the speed limit in the left lanes.
Unfortunately, all 3 are quite common where I live!
1. Block the right lane of a 2-lane road at a red light, preventing drivers behind them from making a right on red in states that allow it.
I do this in order to get to the front of the left lane soon after the light changes. I do feel a twinge of remorse for doing this when I see that the driver behind me has his directional on.
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...on the increase in my neck of the woods.
