Signal Before Changing Lanes
Just a short rant. Better to get it off my chest here than to let it build up until it becomes full road-rage, right?
The official and proper order is this:
- Signal that you want to switch lane using your blinker lights
- Observe that you can switch the lane safely
- Switch the lane
Easy to remember with the SOS acronym… ;-)
Well, sometimes the order of 1 & 2 is reversed, this is also acceptable.
It what most people do.
Except for those that start with step 3, ignore step 2, and then do step 1. It becomes a more and more common behaviour lately. So idiot pushes his (Sorry for the gender bias ladies, I do apologize, but I’m speaking of personal observations now, and am just trying to be accurate) car in front of mine, forcing me to quickly press the brakes, settles into the lane, then turns on the blinkers for a second to signal he wants wanted to switch into this lane.
The pushing into a lane without signaling bit I can understand. It’s stupid and dangerous, but that’s just the way some people drive around here (Amazing what one can get used to, eh?). The signaling afterwards really annoys me. It means the SOB is not just oblivious to the fact that he needs to signal. He knows he should signal, and chooses not to regardless. And afterwards he signals for a bit, since it’s the law or something. If he’d have just done this before turning, everyone would have been happier and safer, but that’s not cool and nonchalant enough for him.
Of course, there’s a good reason not to signal before switching lanes. There’s another type of people (No, scrap that, it’s the exact same type of people) that make it very difficult to get into a lane in front of them. They’ll quietly drive in a constant speed, but once you signal your desire to turn they’ll immediately speed up to prevent you, while pressing the horn – reproaching you for wanting to switch into a lane with a car in it.
There are so many people that need to be taken off the road… Please, anyone ?
December 14th, 2004 at 21:18 EET | Categories: Culture |
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