were saying :
Because it encourages autopilot and poor observation.
It shouldn't. Because they should be looking.
Must have been my imagination thenTook some piccies today. I must apologise for all my completely unfounded comments re- HGVs not tailgating and the unfair "car drivers can't use lane discipline for poo" and "car drivers drive 15ft from ========================================== Me...
Exactly. You can't see them until they can see you. If you're both looking, then they will flick their indicator on as soon as they see you, so it'll look to you as if their indicator was just in the "off" part of "on-off-on- off".
So the ones you're seeing as "Oh, look, he's just indicated" are the ones who aren't looking, and probably wouldn't have indicated until then anyway, whether you were visible earlier or not.
Roundabouts what do you do 1133Cessna172 formulated on Tuesday : I do find that very hard to believe. I would make the following guesses based upon what I see on the road:- buttume that a signal is required, after...
Besides, whether they're indicating or not should make no difference to your movement - because you should never trust their indicator anyway. Go with what you can see them doing, not with what they claim to be about to do. I nearly got caught out by that the other day, as a car approached a mini r'a'b from my left, and started to turn right without indicating. I buttumed that he was turning into the road I was coming out of - which is the main and "obvious" route, and started to pull away. Nope, he was doing a U-turn, without indicating.
