to get car rage when driving because people don't use indicators anymore

[LilMissSunshine9]

Gawd it can make me so mad. Lately I have been driving a lot more and I noticed hardly anyone uses their indicators especially on roundabouts. I mean how the heck am I meant to know whether I can safely enter the roundabout if I am not sure if the car coming round it is take the exit before me or the exit after me and by the time you realise you could of gone there is another car behind it so you wait to see what they do.

Or the drivers you decide to turn left and suddenly slow down without indicating so you have even less time to react to what they are doing but had they indicated you would already be aware you need to slow down.

Have I missed some mind reading device that is now out there and that is why people don't use indicators no more....

It's a nuisance but I guess I try and stay far enough back to take evasive action if need be. I agree with what you say, surely people had to use indicators passing their tests? Mirror, signal, manoeuvre.

Mind you things do change. I was taught to indicate when moving out to overtake and then to indicate again to move back in. My DCs tell me their instructors said there's no need to signal on moving back in, because that's where you're meant to be when not overtaking.

Yanbu, particularly on roundabouts, people just seem to be oblivious to the stick sticking out of their steering wheel. Droves me mad.

I don't rely on indicators at roundabouts anyway- I'll go if I see them start the turn for an exit and not before.

YANBU! This drives me nuts! And not just on roundabouts, people seem to think indicating ever is optional! There's one roundabout near me that people approach from a turning and don't correct their indicators when they do indicate, so they indicate when they're not turning! So if they're approaching from my right, indicating left, but intending to go straight ahead, and I'm going straight on at a mini roundabout they nearly cause a massive crash! Arrrrrrrrrrghhhh.

I think we could do with some PSAs on TV to remind everyone that indicating is useful. And not to try to anticipate when they can join a roundabout until they're at the front of the queue because if the person in front has a false start you'll ram them.

donkey I'm learning to drive now and have been told to use indicators to move back after overtaking in order to warn the person behind you that you are moving back, so they can slow down if needs be.

See, knew Mum knows best

YANBU, it's so bloody stupid. It's not like indicating takes a huge amount of effort!

YANBU. I don't drive so I'm a pedestrian and I do get in a rage inwardly when drivers expect me to use a sixth sense to know where they're going.

It's not rocket science to use an indicator!

It pisses me right off especially on motorways when idiots are weaving in and out of the traffic and speeding. The air is blue in my car!

I do laugh at the idiots who don't indicate, and are often in the wrong road position for their intended action, who then get pissed off with YOU, because you failed to anticipate what they were going to do.

I'd love to live in their world for a bit, it must be a cosy place to believe that whatever you do is right, and whatever anyone else does is wrong.

There is a road on the route to my old high school that comes off a main road. NO ONE indicates. I was nearly run over about once a week.

Annoys me too. Most people about here do seem to indicate.

Motorway non indicating really pisses me off. Cars just move out in front if you. Idiots.

Whilst on the subject - I really hate when massive lorries indicate to come into the lane you are in when you are only half way past overtaking them. I always think they are going to just go right then and crush me!

YADNBU - it makes me too. Indicating is second nature when I'm driving, even if there's noone else around that I can see.

YANBU. We don't own a car but hired one recently and about 5 times on that one journey we were behind people who didn't indicate before turning. Drove my DH mad!

Why should they bother to indicate? Their time is infinitely important than yours - why on earth shouldn't they make you wait whilst they go around the roundabout/make a turn instead of getting on?? Extending one finger and pushing slightly is far too much like hard work and they are far far too superior and important.

Selfish arrogant twats!! There is a special circle of hell reserved for people who don't indicate.

dont you find the newer a car is the less sensible gadgets its got?

super duper stereo but no indicators!!!

While we're at it, no one seems to know theres an ashtray in the car either.

As a former motorbuke rider, occasionally with visor up, the amount of times Ive nearly crashed cos ash and fag ends have flown in my eyes!!

sorry, going off original subject there a bit, when people learn to drive they should be told ''theses are indicators, you use them. this is an ashtray...you use it!!'

Definitely one of my bug bears this!! My boys keep asking me why people's indicators don't work ....!!! They must have picked it up from me!! It is dangerous and infuriating though!

Indicating to come back into a lane after you have overtaken is not necessary - my dad did an advanced driving course and told me this ... But I always do out of courtesy for other road users .... Which is why I use my indicators in the first place

This seems to be happening more and more often, I've noticed. Intensely irritating, and potentially very dangerous.

This pisses me off too. Indicating should become second nature. You should do it without thinking. I normally swear at the drivers under my breath or fantasise about inventing a loudspeaker that pops out of the car through which you can shout "oi! Red car, number plate GL03 2DK! USE YOUR FUCKING INDICATOR"

Rather tempted to 'extend a finger' myself occasionally Pixieonthemoor in a different sense but am too much of a coward laydee.

Fond memories of my 50-a-day (or was that just instructing me ?) ciggie puffing instructor who, when I'd been cut up by the same lane-jumping fool in a red sporty number for the 3rd time said majestically "And another graduate of the School of I Am An A-hole Driving".
Oh how we larfed.

This really fucks me off as a pedestrian. Makes crossing side roads a regular dicing with death.

YADNBU!

This drives me potty!

I am an uber-indicator, I even do the NZ thing of indicating off roundabouts. I figure that most people aren't psychic, so a vague notion of which direction I'm going might be useful to the person behind me?

I noticed hardly anyone uses their indicators especially on roundabouts

Really

when you invent the loudspeaker Fakebook can I have one? ....this drives me insane too.Very dangerous & lazy driving.Everyone has to stop to wait for their lordships/ladyships to waft off in some vague direction without the courtesay of letting other people know what's going on......rant.

YANBU. Sometimes I wonder why cars have them. What's the point in using them in driving lessons if the driver passes their test and doesn't use them when they're mean't to.

Does my head in because it makes me think that the drivers got their licences by filling in the form on the back of a box of bloody Frosties. Cars have indicators, so obviously they are there to be used .