Cars that don't indicate...

Adamskii

...p!ss me off. Why are some people so f**king lazy that they can't be bothered to move their finger a couple of inches onto the indicator stork to signal their intentions?! Fat lazy, ignorant, stupid b@st@rds are a danger to everyone on the road.

Rant over :evil:

Gussio

Second against the wall when the revolution comes. The first will be private hire minicab drivers...

BentMikey

I'm not that bothered, personally. All a flashing indicator means to me is that the light is working.

I'm a bit more bothered by the muppets that decide overtaking on a blind corner, across double white lines, and in the face of oncoming traffic, to whit a MASSIVE BIN LORRY, is a good idea!!! All this when I'm doing 25 in a 30 zone.

Eat My Dust

I find that people who have left indicators on more annoying amd more dangerous.

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

Or indeed bus drivers (like the idiot this morning) who decide they're going to overtake you anyway, even though you are in the middle of the road signaling that you're about to take a right turn yourself....

DavidTQ

Sea_Green_Incorruptible wrote:

Or indeed bus drivers (like the idiot this morning) who decide they're going to overtake you anyway, even though you are in the middle of the road signaling that you're about to take a right turn yourself....

Overtaking a right indicating, turning cyclist is one which will guarantee choice words and hand gestures from me, there was a woman done it down here recently to a school girl and clipped her with her wing mirrors, sending her to hospital etc, earnt her 8 points on her license I believe.

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

DavidTQ wrote:

Sea_Green_Incorruptible wrote:

Or indeed bus drivers (like the idiot this morning) who decide they're going to overtake you anyway, even though you are in the middle of the road signaling that you're about to take a right turn yourself....

Overtaking a right indicating, turning cyclist is one which will guarantee choice words and hand gestures from me, there was a woman done it down here recently to a school girl and clipped her with her wing mirrors, sending her to hospital etc, earnt her 8 points on her license I believe.

To be honest - and is often the way with these things (with me at least) - I was so gobsmacked that he'd actually done it he was half way up the road before I could collect myself enough for an appropriate response...

Adamskii

This morning I was very nearly side swiped by a car changing lanes without looking or indicating.

I was in the wrong of course because, despite easily keeping up with the flow 'I shouldn't have been in the middle of the lane'. Perhaps he thought I should ride in the gutter allowing him full use of the road!

DavidTQ

Sea_Green_Incorruptible wrote:

DavidTQ wrote:

Sea_Green_Incorruptible wrote:

Or indeed bus drivers (like the idiot this morning) who decide they're going to overtake you anyway, even though you are in the middle of the road signaling that you're about to take a right turn yourself....

Overtaking a right indicating, turning cyclist is one which will guarantee choice words and hand gestures from me, there was a woman done it down here recently to a school girl and clipped her with her wing mirrors, sending her to hospital etc, earnt her 8 points on her license I believe.

To be honest - and is often the way with these things (with me at least) - I was so gobsmacked that he'd actually done it he was half way up the road before I could collect myself enough for an appropriate response...

I quite often hear it coming, the sound of the van engine (its normally always been white vans) gunning whilst youre indicating right and about to turn is a dead giveaway, normally encourages me to head further to the right in the lane, of course it hasnt happened to me since Ive had the helmetcam, otherwise Id be reporting them to their employers and the police... Had it happen quite frequently on one section of my commute but changed my route and have it far less now.

secretsam

Adamskii wrote:

...p!ss me off. Why are some people so f**king lazy that they can't be bothered to move their finger a couple of inches onto the indicator stork to signal their intentions?! Fat lazy, ignorant, stupid b@st@rds are a danger to everyone on the road.

Rant over :evil:

Get in there! A fine effort

Can we add brain dead peds who step in front of you? It's amazing how loud I can shout on those occasions, makes up for no longer being able to go and see my beloved footie team very often...

SmellTheGlove

I want an indicator stork in MY car!!! Having an avian co-pilot sounds ultra-cool...

delcol

like the idiot who couldn't use his indicator last night when i was crossing the eastancs roundabout..
i am doing 27 mph in a 30 coming to the roundabout i am aware of the car behind me move into the middle to indicate i am going straight on glance over to the right the car aproaching from my right stops as two cars are coming from his right, the first car indicates left to go from were i have just come from the second car is in the same lane i cant see any indication..
as i enter the roundabout the first car leaves the rb then to my horror i galnce right and the idiot in the golf decides he's going right from the left hand lane without any indication,...
of course its my fault that he doenst know the highway code or what the road marking are for or even those pretty amber lights that flash arent just for decoration they serve a purpose,..

i just gritted my teeth and layed the power down to get out of the way quickly... :x

redvee

There is a junction judt down the road from my flat that I use daily and always check for those strange orange lights flashing on the cars, so far I've had a dozen stop mid-turn cause they didn't realise their vehicle has these strange lights on it, no verbals yet but it will happen at some point I guess.

always_tyred

What about hazard lights used by people who have parallel parked? Without my xray goggles, I can't really tell if you are about to pull out or not. Still, I'm sure when the parking warden sees the hazards he'll give you an extra 10 minutes....

And then there's mobile phone drivers. If you video them then chop out all the parts where they have completely forgotten that they are in a car, pulled in front of you, rolled along at 10-20mph, then turned left across your path, their driving appears perfectly normal.

And then there's parents dropping kids off at school. Any takers? Nothing is as important as racing 3/4 mile from your front door, hurling your child out of the 4x4 and then peeling out without loosing your place in traffic, is there?

Panter

Adamskii wrote:

...p!ss me off. Why are some people so f**king lazy that they can't be bothered to move their finger a couple of inches onto the indicator stork to signal their intentions?! Fat lazy, ignorant, stupid b@st@rds are a danger to everyone on the road.

Rant over :evil:

Couldn't agree more.

Cheers

Chris

Belv

I agree with Mikey, it can be more dangerous to assume that the indicator is a clue as to what a driver is about to do!

And be particularly careful of motorbikes (as they don't have self-cancelling indicators).

Parkey

Always Tyred wrote:

What about hazard lights used by people who have parallel parked? Without my xray goggles, I can't really tell if you are about to pull out or not. Still, I'm sure when the parking warden sees the hazards he'll give you an extra 10 minutes....

Learn the HGV driver's code. It's fine to stop on single yellow lines as long as you have one indicator going. It's fine to stop on double yellows if you have both indicators (ie hazards) going. :P

Matteeboy

Done IAM and Police driver training and even when someone indicates, don't assume they are about to turn.

This made me laugh - sorry about the swearword on it - I'm not good at photoshop stuff!

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Swannie

Has always been and will always be a personal peeve of mine.

Always nice to look back, see someone indicating to overtake you, and then see them indicating and stopping 20m from where they over took you. A great sign that you might be about to get doored.

marchant

Adamskii wrote:

...p!ss me off. Why are some people so f**king lazy that they can't be bothered to move their finger a couple of inches onto the indicator stork to signal their intentions?! Fat lazy, ignorant, stupid b@st@rds are a danger to everyone on the road.

Rant over :evil:

I always thought it was 'cos they didn't want to run their battery down/wear the bulbs out

Bassjunkieuk

I think it's because indicators appear to have become an optional extra on most german cars and high end models. Instead they come with the new telepathic modules that mean people with similarly equipped cars know where they are going as they receive these messages. Unfortunately now one has yet to design a personal unit for us cyclist and other car drivers so we all just have to learn to live with it and understand that they are trying to indicate, it's just that we don't understand them :-)

robmanic1

Bit of a tangent, but what about those dog walkers tith retaractable leads? The damn dog can be 15-20ft away, you cant even see the lead until you're about to disect it! Been nearly caught out many a time. In the words of Hill Street Blues "let's be careful out there".

I'm not paranoid, I KNOW they're all out to get me!

TheFoolio888

Maybe punishments should be proprotional to the squishiness of the object you hit?

If a cyclist you get sent down for life.
If you hit a Focus you get 3 points.
If you hit a Chelsea Tractor you get a medal!

patchy

SecretSam wrote:

Can we add brain dead peds who step in front of you? It's amazing how loud I can shout on those occasions, makes up for no longer being able to go and see my beloved footie team very often...

in defence of brain dead peds, i was about to cross the road on oxford st last friday night (yes, i was a little worse for wear) when i was nearly taken out by a guy who was riding about 6 inches from the pavement with no lights on an empty road. I probably should have checked better before crossing, but that guy needs some cyclecraft lessons...

Drfabulous0

Eat My Dust wrote:

I find that people who have left indicators on more annoying amd more dangerous.

Personally it's the people with the right indicator on that bother me.

ademort

Was almost wiped out about a month ago by a lorry driver who never indicated, it was a good job i was looking at him or i really would not be writing this letter now. Would have sworn we made eye contact before the junction, as far as i was concerned we were looking at each other, as i got to the junction he turns across me, i had to lay the bike down quick or i was a gonner.Even when the driver got out of his wagon and spoke to me he swears he was not looking at me, and he still had not indicated, effing unbelieveable.greetings Ademort

TheFoolio888

I don't trust drivers full stop! I asume that a car pointing at me is going to hit me...until it is impossible for it to do so. I couldn't care less what it's indicators say.

At the end of the day if I get squashed by someone who didn't look, forgot to look, looked and didn't see, did some thing stupid on purpose, did something stupid accidentally, collapsed at the wheel or ran me over on purpose...then I'm still dead.

Everything I do on the road, I do for the common good...pity more car drivers (and cyclists) don't have the same mentality.

Having said that...people who do not use indicators should have orange lights flashed into their retinas for 5 minutes a day for the rest of thier lives.

ademort

TheFoolio888 wrote:

I don't trust drivers full stop! I asume that a car pointing at me is going to hit me...until it is impossible for it to do so. I couldn't care less what it's indicators say.

At the end of the day if I get squashed by someone who didn't look, forgot to look, looked and didn't see, did some thing stupid on purpose, did something stupid accidentally, collapsed at the wheel or ran me over on purpose...then I'm still dead.

Everything I do on the road, I do for the common good...pity more car drivers (and cyclists) don't have the same mentality.

Having said that...people who do not use indicators should have orange lights flashed into their retinas for 5 minutes a day for the rest of thier lives.

Maybe a better punishment would be making them ride to work on a bike for a week, if the distance is too great then make them ride the last 10 miles every day for a week, i know this is a long shot but maybe if these (indicators what are they for brigade) see just what its like for the commuting cyclist on the road every day they may change? greetings Adem ort

TheFoolio888

ademort wrote:

TheFoolio888 wrote:

Having said that...people who do not use indicators should have orange lights flashed into their retinas for 5 minutes a day for the rest of thier lives.

Maybe a better punishment would be making them ride to work on a bike for a week, if the distance is too great then make them ride the last 10 miles every day for a week, i know this is a long shot but maybe if these (indicators what are they for brigade) see just what its like for the commuting cyclist on the road every day they may change? greetings Adem ort

Don't get me started on people sitting on side roads who insist on rolling forward...even if it doesn't bring them on to the main road to block you way...

It sh**s me up every time... :oops:

BentMikey

A bit of primary there suits me fine, plus a blat on the AirZound if I have time. Mind you, if it's a road that's hard to turn out of, I don't mind holding back and letting them in if they don't look like they are taking the mickey.