Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Specialeyes]

Did I Break The Law is a cracking track though. Planet Rock play it a lot


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgq7A_xgrEc

I know... but it doesn't help! I can't get past the name

 

[mustang1]

Pulsing indicators are a solution to a problem still to be found.

Nobody has ever looked at a flashing amber light on the right corner of a car and thought...

"Hang on, what direction is this guy going to lunge? Could be left, could be right, there's simply no way of knowing. If only someone at a premium car company could come up with an expensive and complicated way to tell us, say, by having a computer processor control 26 light bulbs all moving in the direction in which the driver has moved his stalk... then, and only then, will we be wiser as to the directional intentions of this vehicle!"

The most pointless idea ever, for road users.
For car manufacturers and their service departments, probably lucrative in the long run. Hence they're not fine, they're a trival thing which make me annoyed beyond expectations.

I think the problem is how to entice the consumer to buy your product over a competitor's one.

 

[mustang1]

Is the problem that they just look like a steady yellow light (unless you're right up close). That does sound like a disaster ...

For me it's more that on Lexus and RR cars, the indicator is so short in length that by the time it's pulsed, i cannot tell if I saw an indicator or not. On Audis, the indicator is quite long so the pulse looks nice.

BTW, I also see pulsing indicators on lorries. In that case I have no idea why that's there, it can't be fashion can it?

 

[mustang1]

I remember when Mrs V first saw one of those

Mrs V : "Wow!! Did you see that?"

Me : "Yes, amazing !!! An Audi with indicators!!"

Haha, I suppose it entices the audi driver to actually use the indicators!

 

[Andy in Germany]

BTW, I also see pulsing indicators on lorries. In that case I have no idea why that's there, it can't be fashion can it?

Maybe the theory is that horizontal movement makes it more noticeable?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The retirement thread on here.

They keep refusing to let me go.

 

[mustang1]

Maybe the theory is that horizontal movement makes it more noticeable?

The most visible indicators are the ones that do not pulse, regardless of length or horizontal-ness.

 

[neil_merseyside]

Pulsing indicators are a solution to a problem still to be found.

Nobody has ever looked at a flashing amber light on the right corner of a car and thought...

"Hang on, what direction is this guy going to lunge? Could be left, could be right, there's simply no way of knowing. If only someone at a premium car company could come up with an expensive and complicated way to tell us, say, by having a computer processor control 26 light bulbs all moving in the direction in which the driver has moved his stalk... then, and only then, will we be wiser as to the directional intentions of this vehicle!"

The most pointless idea ever, for road users.
For car manufacturers and their service departments, probably lucrative in the long run. Hence they're not fine, they're a trival thing which make me annoyed beyond expectations.

Anything that makes Audi drivers use indicators can only be a good thing? Also the flash appears to be visible for longer so you can blink and not miss it?

 

[figbat]

Online forms that require dates but have no intelligence. Examples:

• booking forms that allow you to pick a date before today
• forms that ask for a start date and then default to today for the end date, even though it is before the start date
• date of birth fields that allow you to be anything from born today onwards - especially those that are for events or items that are age-restricted

 

[figbat]

Website search results that, if you follow a link to an item and then go back, take you to the top of the list rather than where you had got to.

 

[PeteXXX]

Website search results that, if you follow a link to an item and then go back, take you to the top of the list rather than where you had got to.

Or, worse still, reset all the filters to default.. Grrrrr

 

[PeteXXX]

Gritty flour on baps! I have to brush it off before eating them..

 

[Deleted member 26715]

My neighbours conifers that they allow to overgrow into my garden

 

[neil_merseyside]

My neighbours conifers that they allow to overgrow into my garden

Copper nails and wait a bit I'm told works.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Websites that won’t let you use the browser back button to return to your search results, forcing you to remain on their landing page.