The old signalling chestnut again!
Discussion
My VW suffered a clutch failure the other day (First clutch failure I have ever had in nearly 45 years) so much as I like VW`s, they are just like any other car, and go wrong every now and then.
The AA bloke who came out, put the car on a tow pole, and towed me home.
As noted in other posts, signalling, or to be more precise NOT signalling, is one of my yardsticks
for gauging Knob behaviour on the roads. but being towed, seemed to highlight this even more.
Every time we came to a road junction / roundabout, the difference between someone giving a signal (or NOT) made to our progress, was quite staggering.
At roundabouts where drivers already on the junction gave signals, the AA bloke was able to keep going by slowing a little, but without having to stop, because he could see where the other cars were going. But at quite few junctions where the KNOBs on the junction didnt give signals, we had to stop, only to see KNOB turn off `before' the road we were coming out of without giving any signal whatsoever.
To me, signals are like the oil in an engine in that they help to keep bits that shouldnt
come into contact with eachother from doing so, They have the same effect in traffic in helping to keep things moving. How many times have you stopped, and waited at a road junction / roundabout for a car aproaching from the left to go past, only to have the KNOB dive into the road you are waiting in without signalling. where if a signal `had' been given you could have kept moving?
If one considers F1 or rally drivers (or even snooker players for that matter) they have the intelligence / fore thought / driving skill to set themselves up for a maonouvre, a long way before they get there / actually make the move. But some drivers seem to make signals only when they are about 1 metre from where they want to turn (some are so devastatingly dumb they actually signal halfway through a turn, which gives all the evidence you need to see that their brains are extremely small and not capable of thinking very far ahead. (what that says about those who dont give signals at all, is probably not printable!)
So if the driver in front of/ around you, gives very late signals or none at all, it allows you to determine that they are of the brainless knob tribe, and are best kept clear of. the automotive equivalent of someone who cannot walk, and chew gum at the same time.
The AA bloke who came out, put the car on a tow pole, and towed me home.
As noted in other posts, signalling, or to be more precise NOT signalling, is one of my yardsticks
for gauging Knob behaviour on the roads. but being towed, seemed to highlight this even more.
Every time we came to a road junction / roundabout, the difference between someone giving a signal (or NOT) made to our progress, was quite staggering.
At roundabouts where drivers already on the junction gave signals, the AA bloke was able to keep going by slowing a little, but without having to stop, because he could see where the other cars were going. But at quite few junctions where the KNOBs on the junction didnt give signals, we had to stop, only to see KNOB turn off `before' the road we were coming out of without giving any signal whatsoever.
To me, signals are like the oil in an engine in that they help to keep bits that shouldnt
come into contact with eachother from doing so, They have the same effect in traffic in helping to keep things moving. How many times have you stopped, and waited at a road junction / roundabout for a car aproaching from the left to go past, only to have the KNOB dive into the road you are waiting in without signalling. where if a signal `had' been given you could have kept moving?
If one considers F1 or rally drivers (or even snooker players for that matter) they have the intelligence / fore thought / driving skill to set themselves up for a maonouvre, a long way before they get there / actually make the move. But some drivers seem to make signals only when they are about 1 metre from where they want to turn (some are so devastatingly dumb they actually signal halfway through a turn, which gives all the evidence you need to see that their brains are extremely small and not capable of thinking very far ahead. (what that says about those who dont give signals at all, is probably not printable!)
So if the driver in front of/ around you, gives very late signals or none at all, it allows you to determine that they are of the brainless knob tribe, and are best kept clear of. the automotive equivalent of someone who cannot walk, and chew gum at the same time.
Spaceman - Precisely! Giving signals helps everyone to keep moving better. I reckon if signals were compulsory it would help to reduce accidents at a stroke, but it does still rely on drivers having a least a little intelligence, and that seems to be the base of the problem, in that quite a few are are definately from the brainless, brain dead knob tribe.
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