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Comment by elzbardico

1 year ago

Just out of curiousity, do you signal that you are going to turn left when you slow down compared to the average of the other drivers?

I don’t know about this person’s experience, but there are an overwhelming number of drivers here that don’t notice signals. I can be in the right lane (two lanes in both directions), signal a right turn, slow to turn and they’ll still ride right up on me and look pissed rather than go around.

  • It gets worse, some drivers seem to adopt an adversarial attitude towards the usage of turn signals and will deliberately accelerate or do something else to make things more difficult to you.

    • If they’re behind me, they’re risking their own liability.

      Otherwise (changing lanes, left turn across traffic), I think it’s more “not ahead of ME!” than about the signal itself.

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