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Flashing your lights simply means "I am here" but it's thought of and used as "you can move"
People not acknowledging you if you've let them move first fucks me right off
Poking the culprit in the eye with a red hot skewer is too light a punishment.
Not that I have a strong view on the matter.
Two other Bristolian habits - not unique but more prevalent here:
Signal left when entering roundabout in left hand lane, then travelling around the whole thing and taking the very last exit (this may be local instructors as that's what my son was tought by his nitwit!).
Stopping at mini roundabouts and staring at everyone. I think they're actually checking for family as there's a lot of "close relatives" hereabouts.
My driving instructor taught me "there is ALWAYS someone who benefits from a signal"
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
So, I check the path through is clear, I get halfway along the road and a car pulls out of a side road, straight into my path, sees me coming, sees there is no way through....and keeps going, expecting me to somehow miraculously cede way for them to come through.... Happens every single goddamned day, without fail.
Look ahead! Look at the road you just pulled into! The road is blocked by a vehicle coming the other way? MAYBE YOU COULD WAIT YOUR FRIGGING TURN THEN!
Learners know it's a mini roundabout because the blue circular "obey this" road sign when they get to it shows three small arrows forming a circle.
Proper roundabouts don't have those. As you get to the give way line to enter, you'll see a blue circular "obey this" road sign that has an arrow telling you to go left. It's courteous and informative to indicate your exit when on these to benefit people further round waiting to come on.
Sorry for the pedantry - I'm a DVSA, IAM and RoSPA qualified motorcycle instructor....
Really? I though it meant "buy me a new rear bumper, dummy". Same action, though. :-)
I don't have a problem when queuing in traffic (on a major road) and the car in front lets someone out from the minor road on the left. That might be me next time and it's nice...
I get very upset when I'm doing 30mph in the same road and the car in front slows down and stops to let someone out. Don't obstruct my progress just because you want to - there'll be a gap shortly and they'll get out by themselves. That's why we have give way lines and the concept of minor-to-major turns - so we all know what's supposed to happen.
Grrr.
happens every time I go on the M1.
1 - Flashing your headlights is only supposed to be done to let people know that you're there - sort of like a visual version of hitting the horn. "Common wisdom" is kinda wrong here.
2 - Most people don't bother indicating to exit a roundabout when they're taking the second exit to go straight ahead; rules say you have to. Foxed me, that one, and because I'd learned according to "the rules" I nearly planted the car in their passenger seat.
3 - People are dicks. Even when there's a learner on a dual carriageway doing 70 in the left hand lane, apparently tailgating and flashing their headlights (admittedly in the right context this time, see #1) is the exact right thing to do when there are a couple of cars doing slightly more than 70 in the outside line.
There's a roundabout near me where the only exits are straight on and right, so the only reason you should ever indicate right is if you are actually going right, but loads of them do when they're going straight on - including a police car I was following once, with nearly the same result.
So there are definitely times where indicating is more confusing than not doing. My driving instructor taught me that you use them when you're going to do something *other* than carry on in the same direction, but not when you are. So approaching a roundabout going straight on - no indication. Leaving the roundabout by any exit - indicate left, because 'carry on' is to continue round the roundabout.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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so inconsiderate.