To think people who don't use their indicators should be fined?

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I am probably BU and there are plenty of other annoying foibles of my fellow drivers but really...!

Well.......

Eveesmummy - well she spent the joining fee on a speeding ticket anyway :)

I am not known for being slow of the mark in terms of acceleration in general. I used to have a 0.8l Daewoo and could leave many people standing at traffic lights!

I currently have a 1.2 l Clio and carry myself and 4 passengers every day - I'd say a combined passenger weight of about 50 stone. Our journey involves a busy roundabout at the head of a Motorway. I am the best judge of whether I can accelerate fast enough to fit in a gap to get on it. It really hacks me off when you get the odd driver who decides you are taking to long and toots at you.

I'd rather deliver everyone safe and sound thank you very much!

I've taken to blowing arseholes a kiss.....it hacks them off more than a rude gesture.

I am very polite but I don't have a BMW and am now feeling a bit left out .

Ohhh - please don't be sad, pointythings - we love you, no matter what you drive!

It's a Ford Focus. I love it, it's the first brand new car I've had. And the indicators work really well.

I prefer my previous focus to my BMW. It was 6 years newer but far better. I miss it! You could always have my BMW

Ps soon to be slender girl, some people do just hesitate cuz they are shit tho! They deserve a beep. Sometimes you do just take that extra second tho. The amount of times I've sat there and shouted... 'I should've gone then' as the person behind me shouts similar haha

I don't want your BMW, I am keeping my Focus. It is bright red, it goes like a bomb when I want it to and it drinks less than half the fuel my previous car (ancient Rover 45) did. But thanks for the offer .

I agree that there are some people who just dither - and obviously we all do it sometimes, but there is someone who always ends up in front of me on my commute home who does it at every. single. junction. I haven't beeped them yet because I am so polite, but the day will come...

I quite like our BMW (it's an estate) but I loved the mercedes E class we had before this car. It was so comfortable, and so easy to drive - and I felt really safe in it. Sadly it was made of substandard steel, and so rusted from the inside out - dh says we had to get rid of it when we did, otherwise it would have collapsed into a pile of rusty cornflakes on the drive.

I still mourn that car though.

My BMW does not go like a bomb. If I don't let it warm up it bunny hops. Once I have it sometimes decides it simply doesn't want to go faster. It's been to the garage twice now. Again tomorrow. Luckily, I just bought it so the dealer is paying. Can I borrow your focus?

I have to say tho, I'm on my dinner and just drove to a cafe and didn't let it warm up. I reversed out of my parking space an a guy who I work withs sister was outside. She once messaged me some really offensive stuff on fb due to me being friends with his ex. I got in such a tiz about her seeing me and praying my car wouldn't embarrass me (it did) that as soon as it would accelerate I sped off and forgot to indicate at the roundabout I went straight over.

If you guys want to disown me, I understand.

YADNBU of course.

Shortly after I passed my test, my dad told me that I should always indicate, even if I couldn't see anyone about, 'so the hedgehogs know'

Yes, of course I get stuck behind people who dither at roundabouts and i like a wee muttered "ffs" under my breath......(car full of young teens).......but, they should clearly be able to see that I have a very full wee car that is not going to move like a rocket from a standing start at a junction while being borne down on by a massive artic..... :o

My standard response to the traffic is "if you wanted to be somewhere sooner then you should have left earlier" or, "your failure to prepare does not now mean that it is now an urgent thing that I need to deal with"

I checked the highway code last night and it says that you don't have to indicate if no one is there but that if you want to it's fine to do so.

Although I have to say the majority of the time when I spot someone who isn't indicating it tends not to when I've snuck up on them unawares.

Bikes can be a pain in the arse too. I was at a mini roundabout the other day on top of a hill. A bike was cycling up technically on my right and thus had right of way. He was cycling super slowly (steep) looking right at me.

As he wasn't indicating after a long pause I went on ahead. Just then with a really cross look on his face he stuck out his arm and glared at me just as I drove past him.

Idiot.

Longest journey home today. Was stuck behind a woman doing 35-40 in a sixty. In a blue polo. She turns off and a silver polo pulls out doing 30 in the 60, 50 and 40 and 25 in a 30. I almost behaved like a BMW driver.

By the way, they are called winkers. Not indicators

YAdNBU

It doesn't take much just to flick your indicator to let people know your direction. Makes life so much easier if you don't have to guess which way someone is intending to go.

A fine would be brilliant. Not sure how you would enforce it.

I've thought f a great slogan for our campaign

DON'T BE A WINKER WANKER

It's a winner!

On the roundabout thing; about 50 metres up the road from us there is a small (not mini) roundabout. It's single lane entry on all four roads, and yes, you might be able to tell that that car is a little towards the left, but it's one lane. You might be able to tell that they're driving slightly more slowly, but as the road is used as a rat-run to avoid the rail crossing, a lot of the time people pull around and speed along.

I can usually tell if someone's going to turn left even if they're not indicating. I get it wrong once every couple of months.

My kids cannot cross that road. They have been taught to look at each of the three corners, and to check for speeding cars or indicators, but there are too many who look like they're going straight on but who swing left.

Fine, if there really is nobody around at all, but the shear volume of the idiots who simply cannot be arsed to flick a lever when there is a family standing right there trying to cross makes the road a death trap.

The solution could be simple; indicate. It costs nothing.

Winker wanker is genius.

Winker wanker - pure genius!

I did an IAM course and my instructor told me that there was no need to indicate if there were no other vehicles around. I felt that what he said was wrong and kept on indicating whenever I changed direction or lanes. I made him cross because there are 'rules' but I didn't care. Yes, we have to keep a look out for other drivers but there might be the odd one whom you just can't spot. Anyway, I also indicate to let pedestrians know where I'm going. I had also been driving for far longer than he had so some old habits die hard.

PolarPercy If you are crossing a side road and a car comes in from the more main road, it has to give way to you (Highway Code).

Taking the IAM course was worthwhile though.