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#3207585 18-Mar-2024 18:12

Journeyman:

Don't indicate until you're actually ready to change lane 🤦‍♂️

We have the opposite problem. Changing lanes without indicating.

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#3207602 18-Mar-2024 18:58

Tinkerisk:

Journeyman:

Don't indicate until you're actually ready to change lane 🤦‍♂️

We have the opposite problem. Changing lanes without indicating.

I read someone's "suggestion" a few months back: "if you don't indicate, the steering wheel won't turn".

It wouldn't work for emergencies and other situations, but that's the sentiment.

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#3207603 18-Mar-2024 19:03

Haha like corners?

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#3207604 18-Mar-2024 19:04

Ge0rge: Haha like corners?

You don't indicate, you go straight.

Assholes would learn pretty quickly.

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#3207607 18-Mar-2024 19:12

freitasm:
Ge0rge: Haha like corners?

You don't indicate, you go straight.

ssholes would learn pretty quickly.

I was thinking more the corners of the Remutakas for example, perhaps I should have said "bends" instead.

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#3207620 18-Mar-2024 19:38

Ge0rge:
freitasm:

Ge0rge: Haha like corners?

You don't indicate, you go straight.

ssholes would learn pretty quickly.

I was thinking more the corners of the Remutakas for example, perhaps I should have said "bends" instead.

I think the suggestion was corners. And most certainly turns that require indicators. Bends don't.

But we all know there isn't a tech for this anyway. It's a suggestion in jest.

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#3207666 18-Mar-2024 20:45

freitasm:

I read someone's "suggestion" a few months back: "if you don't indicate, the steering wheel won't turn".

It wouldn't work for emergencies and other situations, but that's the sentiment.

Already have that on some cars almost with their crap lane keep assist which fights you if you dont indicate.

Ever wonder why people indicate to go around a car turning left into a driveway - yup, they have not turned off the worst feature kia ever made.

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#3207780 18-Mar-2024 22:35

Tinkerisk:
Journeyman:

Don't indicate until you're actually ready to change lane 🤦‍♂️

We have the opposite problem. Changing lanes without indicating.

When did you move to California?

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#3207782 18-Mar-2024 22:41

deepred:
Or to put it succinctly, "cowboys"?

Speaking of which, anyone else remember this?

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#3207824 19-Mar-2024 08:34

Tinkerisk:

Journeyman:

Don't indicate until you're actually ready to change lane 🤦‍♂️

We have the opposite problem. Changing lanes without indicating.

Swerve - indicate - look
or
Swerve - look - indicate

Standard lane change technique for some folks
Sigh

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#3207826 19-Mar-2024 08:42

Kiwi drivers won't indicate to change lanes because if they do someone zooms up to close the space off!

Every now and then when I indicate to change, someone behind drops back and flashes their lights to say "jump on in mate" and my faith in humanity is restored. Temporarily before I re-activate curmudgeon mode.

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#3207831 19-Mar-2024 08:52

johno1234:

Kiwi drivers won't indicate to change lanes because if they do someone zooms up to close the space off!

Every now and then when I indicate to change, someone behind drops back and flashes their lights to say "jump on in mate" and my faith in humanity is restored. Temporarily before I re-activate curmudgeon mode.

You also see the opposite - in rush hour on the Auckland motorway system, you'll get people that just brake and constantly look across to the other lane - meanwhile they are holding up the traffic behind them, as they are concentrating only on the task at hand - which is looking for a gap.
Believe it or not, dear driver, if you don't also indicate whilst looking for said gap, it'll likely never appear.

If I see one of these people and they don't indiocate, I don't make a space. The moment I see an indicator - I try to accommodate them as every good driver should (unless it's the three hundredth car in a row, at which point it becomes Death Race 2000).

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#3207834 19-Mar-2024 08:58

I've done a small amount of driving in Italy. It was explained to me that when you indicate other drivers expect you to change lanes. If you indicate too early and don't move they wonder what the hell you're doing. As far as blocking lane changes goes, Wheaton's Law needs to added to the "General responsibilities of road users" clause of the Road User Rules.

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#3207838 19-Mar-2024 09:05

Handsomedan:

johno1234:

Kiwi drivers won't indicate to change lanes because if they do someone zooms up to close the space off!

Every now and then when I indicate to change, someone behind drops back and flashes their lights to say "jump on in mate" and my faith in humanity is restored. Temporarily before I re-activate curmudgeon mode.

You also see the opposite - in rush hour on the Auckland motorway system, you'll get people that just brake and constantly look across to the other lane - meanwhile they are holding up the traffic behind them, as they are concentrating only on the task at hand - which is looking for a gap.
Believe it or not, dear driver, if you don't also indicate whilst looking for said gap, it'll likely never appear.

If I see one of these people and they don't indiocate, I don't make a space. The moment I see an indicator - I try to accommodate them as every good driver should (unless it's the three hundredth car in a row, at which point it becomes Death Race 2000).

And everyone wins because throughput is maximised. If everyone would just leave a little bit of a gap and just drift back to let people change there wouldn't be all the compression waves bouncing back and forth in the flow which just slows the whole system down.

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#3207843 19-Mar-2024 09:27

johno1234:

And everyone wins because throughput is maximised. If everyone would just leave a little bit of a gap and just drift back to let people change there wouldn't be all the compression waves bouncing back and forth in the flow which just slows the whole system down.

The Merge Like A Zip campaign was supposed to address that - but sadly too many drivers seem incapable of rational thought

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