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....

Poppy I was taught to indicate off a roundabout - I don't think it's just an NZ thing. In fact, I'm sure you should always indicate right onto a roundabout as well, then indicate left to turn off just after you pass the junction before yours, unless you are taking the first exit and then you just indicate left.

So people who are going roughly straight over and never indicate really go get on my nerves. Can anyone confirm?

It's the whole 'I'm far superior to anyone else who may be on or near the road and you should all be able to read my mind'. Gits :(

Oh this drives me even more insane when I am walking!

I stood waiting to cross the road today while four cars, one after the other, turned onto the road I was stood on and NOT ONE indicated. Now I'm a driver and I could see the arseholes were preparing to turn right but if I had been a child...

Highway code says you are right wing, but if I did that on my drive into work I would cause a crash!

Sorry YABU to get annoyed because it wont affect them, just you and anyone in the car with you

Some cars don't have indicators though, they have confirmers instead.

These kick into action so that after their car has already cut halfway into your lane, or they have braked and begun to turn, then a little orange light flashes on and off. This is a redundant way of telling you that they have now made the manoeuvre and would like to tell you about it.

WingDefence I think you're right, the Highway Code suggests that, but I don't think it's law.

Whereas I think in NZ, it's now law (my knowledge is a bit outdated, not been there for a while) to indicate off a roundabout regardless of which direction you're heading.

Here in the UK it appears to be the law not to indicate on or off a roundabout at all.

Confirmers

I think my Dad was one of the first to have these. They came when he bought a Landrover aged 65 along with some sort of certificate from the DVLA that he was a priority road user.

Used to break out in a cold sweat on driving lessons if I came anywhere near a vehicle that looked like his.

No, if you're going straight ahead (ie not the first left or a right or going right round) you don't indicate right, but you should indicate left to leave - never any time for that on a miniroundabout though

No, if you're going straight ahead (ie not the first left or a right or going right round) you don't indicate right, but you should indicate left to leave - never any time for that on a miniroundabout though

Oh this is a pet peeve of mine. Drives me fecking crazy!!!!! However YABU to get car rage cause the only one that it affects is you and it isn't pretty.

I think I was born indicating - it's such a natural thing to do, like breathing really.

PartTimeModel, did you indicate your way out of your mother's uterus?

fakebook no - i interpreted the cervix as a mini-roundabout and just sailed right though :)

YANBU but should always drive at sufficient distance that if car in front emergency stops you will too.

So, unexpected turns should not really affect the following driver (too much).

.....which is my pet peeve; people tailgating then blaming the driver in front for an "unanticipated" maneouvre.

Mercibucket is right, you should always indicate left when you pass the road before your exit.

However if going "straight through" you should not indicate on entering the roundabout (as you are not about to travel left or right ). You would still indicate left as you pass the road before your exit.

I get annoyed at people who indicate right to do this as they enter the roundabout as it suggests they'll be going right round but then they veer off before I expect them to.

A lot of drivers seem to deem pedestrians as not worth the bother of indicating to.

Totally agree. Lots of drivers (could cite certain marques here but they are not exclusive) just don't bloody bother or have any idea of the rules of the road. Defensive driving is the way, though. The only good bit of advice my dear old dad gave me was "assume all other drivers are idiots". Harsh but good advice. Don't engage, evade.

YANBU. I tend to mutter "Use your indicator - it's the one with the dust on it".

I don't drive, but as a pedestrian it really fecks me off.

This really pisses me off as well.

"YANBU but should always drive at sufficient distance that if car in front emergency stops you will too."

Problem is when you are on a multi lane road, and the twat driver in the lane next to you decides to move over without indicating. You will have left a suitable gap in front so if the car in front stops you'll be fine, but understandably you wont have left enough of a gap for if someone moves over unless they let you know they are going to do so.

Not indicating is also infuriating on roundabouts as you sit there for ages while people come of the exit before without indicating and you have to assume they are continuing round. And I'd put money on the people who are most likely to beep you for not moving fast enough are also the same twats who cause the problem in the first place!

"The only good bit of advice my dear old dad gave me was "assume all other drivers are idiots". "

Oh yes, my dad taught me the same. Best way to treat it. It also means that when someone does something helpful/considerate/sensible you are pleasantly surprised.

YY to all of the above!! It drives me insane, what the hell do they all think the little orange flashy things on all four fecking corners of their car are for???!! Fuckwits.

I've been driving for a mere 16 years, but am pretty sure people used their indicators more when I was first on the roads. I certainly didn't think that indicating was optional.

DH and I always joke "Oh look at that poor BMW/Audi/etc driver, he spent so much on his fancy car but couldn't quite stretch to buying the indicators"

ps. the summer is good for this, as you can make all sorts of passive aggressive comments out of the open window. My particular favourite is, "oh what a shame, they couldn't afford a car fitted with indicators", while looking mournfully at them.

Yes I know it's childish, but so satisfying.