People who don't indicate?

Question

How many get annoyed at drivers that don't indicate?

It's my pet hate.

Answer 1

As a pedestrian it can be very dangerous. I nearly got run over the other day by a car that wasn't indicating. So I kicked the car and shouted at him :-)

Answer 2

i don't always use them (don't hate me!!). if i am switching lanes and there is no one in the other lane, i see no reason for me to warn anyone i am switching. if i am in a turning lane, i won't use it, because i am obviously turning. but if i am switching lanes in front of someone, then yes, i will use it, but for like 2 blinks. i really hate the sound of blinkers.

but i am a good driver. i watch everyone on the road and i don't put anyone in any sort of situation where they don't know what im doing and could potentially cause an accident. i often drive around wondering if i am the only person that knows how to drive.

i really hate people that while stopping at a red light, will block and entrace to a shopping center or something. you aren't going anywhere, why are you ensuring the people trying to get out aren't going anywhere either? or in traffic when people will pull up under their light, thus making them sit in the middle of the street. why can't people wait on the other side of the light? it's like the MUST go through this light or their whole day is shot.

i have really big driving pet peeves.

Answer 3

I get furious, as it is a type of arrogance ("I know where I'm going, so why bother?") and ignorance or indifference to what other road users might be planning to do next in reliance on that important indication. Years ago I had to take my baby to a health clinic which could only be accessed by crossing a very busy main road at a major road junction. There were traffic lights there, but traffic from the main road was allowed to turn left at the filter (i.e. into the road I was crossing.). One relied completely on drivers indicating in order to cross safely. Unbelievably, we were nearly killed by a hearse driven by a learner driver who didn't bother to signal! He stopped just in time and put on his indicator (just in case anyone was watching). It seemed the ultimate indignity, somehow -- to be killed by a hearse! And why allow such a vehicle to be driven by a learner driver in the first place, especially one so incompetent? I bet we'd have been given a free funeral, though!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I was driving through a small village last week, behind someone who apparently didn't know where they were going. Suddenly they hit the brakes, came to a stop, lit the indicator (in that order), and then swerved across the oncoming lane into a fire station forecourt to turn around. Good thing I don't tailgate...

MY pet hate is people who, on two-lane roads, pull out to overtake several vehicles at once, instead of letting the drivers in front of them overtake the slow-moving vehicle one at a time. It's rude and it's dangerous, especially if they misjudge the oncoming traffic speed and have to force their way back in halfway down the line.

Someone tried to do this to me a couple of months ago, just as I was pulling into the oncoming lane to overtake a truck myself. I'd started accelerating while still in my lane, and had signalled--he'd been tailgating me so closely that even if he'd signalled I wouldn't have seen it, and the idiot still had the gall to flash his lights at me as he braked and swerved back into the lane behind me. Pr*ck.

There's a hell of a lot of discourtesy in general on the roads these days, and I'm sure it's got worse in the 14 years since I passed my test. Grr...

Answer 6

As a biker it is one of my pet hates a driver who doesn't indicate it is not only very stupid but dangerous to all other road users and I bet if they caused an accident they will claim they did indicate

Answer 7

I think the worst kind of drivers are the ones who slow down to look at an accident. I was crossing the Hammersmith Flyover a few weeks ago and a driver in front of me actually stopped to have a good look at a car that had a puncture. Lunatics.

Answer 8

Me!!!! Its so annoying, especially as at the moment i have to do everthing by the book and i automaticially assume that everyone else on the road will do the same, how wrong i was! My instructor has STILL got me putting the handbrake up everytime i stop, even in traffic!!

I have a driving lesson today at 6pm, anyone near the north west of london should really put on thier indicaters, i am abit new to the roads!!

Answer 9

I once drove behind a car which was apparently heading in the direction I was going. It was a complicated route with many left and right turns and roundabouts. He didn't signal once. Nearing my destination I exploded and shouted, 'Bloody secret police!'
Unfortunately my passenger was an Iranian asylum seeker. 'Do you know him?'
'Well, apart from the fact that he's wearing clothes, I don't know him from Adam,' I replied. It took me some time to explain that I was just annoyed and that the driver in front was, in all probability, not from the secret police.

Answer 10

Yes, I know what you mean. But then again as a fairly new driver (I've only been on the road for a few months) it does give you a kind of superiority complex in that you know you're a far better driver for remembering the simple things!