Find this infuriating and sometimes dangerous as a bike rider. Wonder if it could be male pride and/or ignorance but its probably both!!
2006-07-14 06:02:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Cycling
i agree with you. it's almost like it's "cool" to not show your intentions. "I'm not gonna signal, i'm just going to change lanes...!"
2006-07-14 06:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think difficulty or pride comes into it, they just don't care. People are basically quite thoughtless, and the ones that do that are a danger and a nuisance to other motorists as well as those on bikes. And then you get the ones who start signalling after they have already started turning, rendering the indicators irrelevant. Idiots.
2006-07-14 14:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by Rotifer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started biking a lot last year - it wasn't until then that I realized how clueless motorists are!!! Wear a helmet and watch out for cars all the time - take it as your responsibility to avoid the cars, cause they wont.
2006-07-14 13:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a heady brew of thoughtlessness, arrogance and ignorance. In my experience, I'd say this sort of behaviour is just as likely from women as from men.
Most irritating (and dangerous) habit of motorists is to overtake me and then immediately turn left if front of me. They couldn't wait the two seconds longer it would take them if they sat behind me until I had passed the junction, it drives me MAD!
2006-07-26 07:27:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We always had these in smaller 'country' towns. The 'city' people just don't know how to use them. Never had a problem with them, but then these are most likely the same people that don't use signals or drive in the left lanes.......
2006-07-25 18:43:41 · answer #5 · answered by cuz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't come out to Spain then, most of the spanish drivers don't know what an indicator is!
2006-07-14 13:15:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree totally, its one of my pet hates furthermore, what really infuriates me is when drivers (mostly female) in my experience, indicate when they are actually executing their turn
2006-07-26 07:07:44 · answer #7 · answered by mickeyarsenal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of them probably don't know! They haven't read the Highway Code, or, if they have, they've forgotten it!
2006-07-14 13:10:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are unsure of who actually has priority
2006-07-14 13:06:51 · answer #9 · answered by fergie4150 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they think that once they have got their licence they dont have to drive properly, it really pisses me off
2006-07-14 13:15:24 · answer #10 · answered by emmamac14 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋