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pseyfert@TechConnectify "I needed to floor it to get around that truck"
Sounds to me like something that indicators could* have communicated to the driver in the other lane during the time the lights were red?!?
* Not saying you didn't have the indicators on - you're not driving a BMW - but I find it so frustrating when people who find themselves in the wrong lane and don't indicate to the people behind them "hey, please let me pull over into your lane" during red and pull over just as you accelerate
Z̈oé@pseyfert @TechConnectify I think you haven’t been driving much around in the US. fellow drivers there are often inattentive and/or uncooperative
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✓ i haven't been driving much
✓ i haven't been driving in the US
maybe my frustration about the not-use of indicators also comes from roundabouts (i hear you don't have them as much) where your ability to enter depends on leavers' use of indicators and you keep thinking "oh, i could've gone now had i known that one was about to leave" "i'm wasting my time here because flipping that lever is too much of a burden for some drivers".
bhtooefr@pseyfert @uint8_t honestly, in so much of the US, roundabouts are so new that the vast majority of drivers have never actually been trained on how to use them, so we figure out how to use them based on context clues and signage at the roundabout when we arrive at the roundabout. IIRC my state's handbook for drivers 20 years ago didn't even mention roundabouts. (the current version does, and says to signal to exit.)
I think the only time I've seen anyone other than myself do it is when the first exit is being taken (so at that point it just looks like a normal right turn).
and I've never actually heard of "signal to tell a driver that you want them to let you into their lane when the light goes green" as a thing in the US. I'd even think of rolling down my window and verbally asking to be let in, before I'd think of that.
I think the only time I've seen anyone other than myself do it is when the first exit is being taken (so at that point it just looks like a normal right turn).
and I've never actually heard of "signal to tell a driver that you want them to let you into their lane when the light goes green" as a thing in the US. I'd even think of rolling down my window and verbally asking to be let in, before I'd think of that.