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Use of indicators become optional it seems

  • 10-01-2018 05:30PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Spent a lot of the day today second guessing what people were going to do at junctions, roundabouts.
    Some cars and vans are so filthy that the output from the lighting lens is very weak. How has the standard of people’s driving dropped so much?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Everyone but me don't know how to drive ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭conor2469


    Not that you can trust their indication anyway. The other day I was stopped at a T junction, entering a main road from a minor road, there was a car travelling down the main road from my right, it started indicating to turn left into the minor road I was exiting, I was about to pull out onto the main road but luckily I hesitated because the car carried on past the junction with his left indicator still on, he must've changed his mind or something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭freddieot


    Little deterrent and no enforcement. If there was a €500 fine for obscured, number plate or lights on a first offence with €1,000 for a second subsequent offence then the shine would blind you. My car is filthy beyond words but plates and lights are totally clean - check them every couple of days minimum.

    In contrast, a few years ago on holiday I saw a cop in San Francisco stop next to a broken down van at a pedestrian crossing. The van had the hood up and steam coming out. Cop got out and wrote a ticket. When the driver was protesting the cop said his job was to write the ticket not hear the court case. We don't need to go that far but this society has just given up on applying the road rules (except for speeding of course)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    biko wrote: »
    Everyone but me don't know how to drive ;)

    There are only three types of drivers:
    - morons that go slower than me
    - suiciders that go faster than me
    - always right me...

    mrhappy.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    People do it deliberately so you are not sure what their intentions are and if you slow at all they jump in ahead of you. Do it everywhere now. Drive aggressively at you hoping you'll give way.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Fog lights - always on and able to find the switch

    Indicators - optional use or not at all. Don't know what that stalk does or where it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Colonel Claptrap


    The N4 roundabouts at Longford are hilarious.

    Sometimes I feel like a mug for being the only person indicating off them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭Paul Pogba


    Not to mention the people who turn on their right indicator entering a roundabout and then continue straight through it. Like where did you take a right turn??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Never trust an indicator. Ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    I mentioned it before, but the question still stands, how the hell does an autonomous driverless car figure out how to safely navigate a roundabout?

    I can just about manage it by a combination of mind reading and voodoo precognition, but if I was to solely rely on which way the cars are swerving, or the lane they are in, or, god help us, their indicators I'd really struggle.

    I notice that a lot of the testing for these vehicles may be being done in places which are not overflowing with roundabouts.

    Anyone like to allay my fears?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    taxi drivers are the worst

    and actually D registration cars down the country. always use the wrong lane at roundabouts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,420 ✭✭✭Dartz


    grogi wrote: »
    There are only three types of drivers:
    - morons that go slower than me
    - suiciders that go faster than me
    - always right me...

    mrhappy.jpg


    All you people are ****ing morons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,277 ✭✭✭km991148


    Dartz wrote: »
    All you people are ****ing morons.

    heh - thats my approach

    All this nonsense of:

    Those who indicate vs those who don't
    Motorist v cyclists
    Cars vs Vans
    Everyone vs taxis
    Country Plates vs D plates
    etc
    etc


    There is me.. and there is every other useless fu(ker - whether or not I am walking, cycling, driving, or commuting on a space hopper!

    (I do always indicate tho..)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 154 ✭✭iomusicdublin


    In Germany you do not indicate on a roundabout until your exit.

    Most Irish drivers would get banned quickly in Germany, for
    (1) motorway discipline.
    (2) giving the finger.
    (3) phone use.

    Also children and old people have no legal responsibility to traffic.


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