There sure is a lot of rubber on that curb.
Plus, many cars don’t have a hand-operating parking (what we call it in the US) brake.
But yes, it will do very little in an actual collision. Try stopping your car with it some time.
This must be the craziest Roundabout/Circle in the universe.
http://basementgeographer.com/magic-roundabouts-of-england/
Underline mine. In Spain the turn lights should be used for any maneuver, even if it’s evident. In a roundabout, they can be used to indicate “I’m staying in the roundabout longer than most would expect”, “taking the next exit” or “excuse meeeee, moving out to the next lane so I can exit without becoming a merry-go-round car”. When the roundabout looks like half the freaking town is there, lanes which would normally exit but which aren’t the outermost ones become a good simulation of a Christmas tree.
Many traffic differences are America (continent, not country) vs Europe or America vs rest of the world; for example, turning right on a red light (try that here and if a cop sees you you’ll need a proctologist to remove the car). I think it’s important to distinguish between things which are linked to legal differences and those which are a matter of custom.
Where I live, no signals at a round-about: that’s the law. And no turning at red lights. And no bicycles on the sidewalks.
Both the implicit racism seen here, and the rabid anti-racism it generates, would be out of place in Melbourne. As would concealed-carry.
I live in Melbourne Australia, and you have to signal right or left when turning at roundabouts. A lot of traffic lights have cut-aways to allow turns on red lights.
I forgot, You have to signal when leaving a roundabout. ( mainly the multi laned ones.)
To get the thread back to the OP and not continue a roundabout derail:
Eating.
I’ve seen multiple Dopers say the equivalent of,
“I hate eating. I want a bachelor chow-esque food that has all my nutrition and doesn’t taste terrible that I can just eat three bowls of a day for a couple of bucks.”
I have never known anyone in real life that hates eating. Hates cooking, yes. But not straight up eating.
But I guess there’s plenty of people on the internet who feel that way, because some guy got some “Soylent” meal replacement drink (yes, he actually called it that) funded on Kickstarter or IndieGoGo or something.
Which really makes no sense to me, because he basically spent thousands of dollars and all that time and effort into making Ensure.
I took driver’s ed in the 1970s, and they never taught me that. No one in Texas – or Oklahoma, or Arkansas – did that at the time either. Perhaps it was a regional practice.
This is my experience also, plus:
Flash lights at a driver with directionals on to let them know they can turn left in front of me.
Here in the Chicago area it’s both of those and the “let me pass” thing. To indicate a desire to pass, it is seen as a bit aggressive, in my experience. I do not use that signal myself. While driving through bits of Western and Central Europe, I did not see it as an aggressive gesture. It felt more like a polite tap on the shoulder and “excuse me” sort of thing, but the driver generally wouldn’t glue themselves to the bumper of your car and flash their lights like in a disco, like they do here.
Well, this thread is a good example – someone asks a question, one person answers, and 30 people jump in to argue about that answer instead of answering themselves.
In my experience, that’s actually typical behavior in the wild. I suppose I might hang around argumentative types, though. Threads here are far more organized, structured, and on-topic than my usual day-to-day interactions.
Anyhow, the only real thing that jumps out to me is how Dopers, as a whole, are quick to pull the “end the relationship” trigger at what seems to be the slightest sign of trouble. It may not be a fair characterization, but that’s the impression I get. I’ve never encountered such quick “dump-his/her-ass” in the wild.
An adult crying at work over not wanting to do something.
But I think madmonk’s question–which I share–is why are you thinking so much about whether to signal in the first place? Isn’t it best just to reflexively signal whenever turning the wheel far enough? Avoiding cognitive load while driving in order to concentrate on… well, driving… seems wise to me.
Correct, and that’s my self-reported behavior that I find baffling: people who decide on a case by case basis when to use a signal. What’s the downside of always using it when making a change in course?
Amen. If that ever happened here, I don’t know what I’d do? It’s a fire worthy offense, right? I’d hate to be stuck with a claim, but I don’t want any sobbing going on. Maybe I should preemptively send a no-tears memo.
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Anyhow, the only real thing that jumps out to me is how Dopers, as a whole, are quick to pull the “end the relationship” trigger at what seems to be the slightest sign of trouble. It may not be a fair characterization, but that’s the impression I get. I’ve never encountered such quick “dump-his/her-ass” in the wild.[/QUOTE]
I almost always see the opposite, people trying and trying because 1) time already invested, or 2) don’t see what is really happening. I think the backlash you see here is from those of us who have so often seen more harm come from hanging on then cutting lose. I know in my life, I should have ended almost all my relationships must sooner and quicker than I ended up doing. (with, of course, enough exceptions to keep me confused and unsure)
Really?! That’s not what I see at all. I thought it was practically a meme around here that if a “trouble in romance land” thread comes up, you can count on the vast majority of responses being “dump that loser” without consideration that we’re only getting one side of the story. I have never met a more unsentimental group of people as I have here. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s very different from what I see “in the wild” as the thread asks.
ETA: I’m talking about people responding in such threads, not OPs who start such threads.
Weeps silently.