Sick of hardly anyone indicating these days!

[Accy cyclist]

As the thread title suggests I'm sick of having to guess what the driver of a vehicle intends to do, seeing as they they will just not use their indicators these days! The latest incident to rattle my cage happened this afternoon when a 4x4 suddenly stopped in front of me on a narrow one way street. After a minute of thinking what was happening the vehicle started to reverse towards me. That was it, I let rip with a long blast on my horn, causing this vehicle to stop reversing. It then moved forward then stopped again, with me giving it another long blast as if to say what the feck are you doing you thick #@!t! I then realised what the driver was up to. She as I saw when I later passed the idiot, was waiting for a vehicle to pull out then the said idiot intended parking in that spot. Why oh why didn't she when waiting for the vehicle to leave so she could park there indicate right, or even put her hazard warning lights on to let me know she intended to park in that spot! The incident ended with her reversing into the space, still not indicating. After about 4 attempts to park up the driver eventually made it, with me glaring at her as I eventually moved on after what must've been 2 minutes of having to wait, wondering what was happening. I've had cars pull out in front of me without indicating, cars stop at junctions, leaving me guessing if they're turning left, right or going straight on, cars as I'm waiting to walk across a road pull in without indicating, when If they had I could've crossed the road sooner etc etc!!

 

[Drago]

Heading for a coronary there, Accy?

 

[Sharky]

Curious, did you put your hazards on to warn drivers behind you?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Curious, did you put your hazards on to warn drivers behind you?

Funnily enough I did. I forgot to mention it in my first post.

 

[bonzobanana]

I see this all the time and its 95% owners of German cars in my experience. I had an experience a while back of a Mercedes driver who didn't indicate he was leaving the roundabout so was heading straight for me and didn't slow down and only narrowly missed me. I don't know if there is an official name for it but there should be a name for people that fear drivers of German brand cars because I think I have it. They seem absolutely clueless how to drive and dare I say it absolutely clueless how to buy a car too looking at German car reliability and their ridiculous cost of repairs.

 

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[Drago]

I think Accy should relax before he has an aneurysm. Sit down, smoke some crack, enjoy a double Americano, and listen to a bit of Megadeth and you'll be chilled and mellow before you know it.

 

[BigSid]

<rant> Steering wheel operated indicators can be put in the same category. Indicators are for letting other road users know what you're planning to do. Indicating as you're turning is as useless as not indicating at all. </rant>

 

[biggs682]

The general standard of driving is quite scary if you ask me .

Not just lack of indication, but manners and etiquette are also rarely seen in today's drivers .

 

[Drago]

Conversely, you can be fairly sure thet most people who have indicated haven't actually looked properly - it is normal for the former to be an unconscious substitute for the latter.

That being the case a wise road user should be as equally wary around a vehicle that is indicating as they would around a vehicle that isn't.

 

[BigSid]

That being the case a wise road user should be as equally wary around a vehicle that is indicating as they would around a vehicle that isn't.

Best bit of advice I got when I started riding motorbikes wasn't to assume everyone out there are idiots, although a few people gave me that advice. It was to assume that everyone will deliberately try to kill me.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Conversely, you can be fairly sure thet most people who have indicated haven't actually looked properly - it is normal for the former to be an unconscious substitute for the latter.

That being the case a wise road user should be as equally wary around a vehicle that is indicating as they would around a vehicle that isn't.

Absolutely. And again conversely (does that mean we're back at square one?), some drivers look about 2 yards in front of them.
Recently I broke down at some traffic lights in the middle of a busy town. Immediately put hazards on and I could forgive the first couple of people sounding their horn at me, until the penny dropped, but over the 3.5 hours I had to wait for recovery many drivers would drive up behind me, stop, then the lights change, they edge forward a bit (so still haven't seen the hazard lights), stop about two feet from my bumper, (the odd one sounded their horn art this point), then it sinks in and some of them then had to reverse back before they could swing round me. The best one was someone towing a horse box, which caused all sorts of mayhem. Talk about tunnel vision.

 

[Profpointy]

Absolutely. And again conversely (does that mean we're back at square one?), some drivers look about 2 yards in front of them.
Recently I broke down at some traffic lights in the middle of a busy town. Immediately put hazards on and I could forgive the first couple of people sounding their horn at me, until the penny dropped, but over the 3.5 hours I had to wait for recovery many drivers would drive up behind me, stop, then the lights change, they edge forward a bit (so still haven't seen the hazard lights), stop about two feet from my bumper, (the odd one sounded their horn art this point), then it sinks in and some of them then had to reverse back before they could swing round me. The best one was someone towing a horse box, which caused all sorts of mayhem. Talk about tunnel vision.

Brings to mind the old story of the driver of the broken down car walking back to the beeping motorist saying "Tell you what; let's swap. I'll beep the horn for a bit and you can try and start the bastard"

 

[Gunk]

The general standard of driving is quite scary if you ask me .

Not just lack of indication, but manners and etiquette are also rarely seen in today's drivers .

The most frightening habit that seems to have got much worse over recent years is jumping red lights.

 

[Gunk]

Best bit of advice I got when I started riding motorbikes wasn't to assume everyone out there are idiots, although a few people gave me that advice. It was to assume that everyone will deliberately try to kill me.

I ride by the same mantra