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I followed a BMW today and the driver was actually using the indicators ! Is this an April fool's joke?
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From retro's link
SHOULD YOU INDICATE AT A ROUNDABOUT
If intending to turn left or right on the approach to a roundabout, you must indicate in the direction you intend to take. If following the road straight at a roundabout, you should not indicate. If turning right or going straight, you must apply the left indicator just after the exit which is directly before the one you are taking. Upon leaving roundabouts, ensure all signals have terminated.
Ignore that ^ if driving abroad, the continentals only indicate when leaving the roundabout.
SHOULD YOU INDICATE AT A ROUNDABOUT
If intending to turn left or right on the approach to a roundabout, you must indicate in the direction you intend to take. If following the road straight at a roundabout, you should not indicate. If turning right or going straight, you must apply the left indicator just after the exit which is directly before the one you are taking. Upon leaving roundabouts, ensure all signals have terminated.
Ignore that ^ if driving abroad, the continentals only indicate when leaving the roundabout.
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// to change down a gear every time I approached traffic lights or a zebra crossing,//
That just about confirmed my suspicions of some of the driving tuition you may have received. I recall the driving phrase, "into danger slowly out of danger quickly" but to change down a cog on the approach to ATS or a Ped X is a joke. Do you still do that?? If you a approach lights that start to change you use your brakes not your gears to slow down and stop. Depress clutch,handbrake on and put gear lever into neutral. Likewise approaching a Ped X or any other potential hazard. I was taught to drive progressively and not to change down gears: because, if ,might, could happen. Ok the British Snail School of Motoring allows their pupils to stare at the car in front of them. I was taught to give a running commentary and comment on what potential hazards I could see about 300 yards plus ahead and act in good time.
I believe Gness has done the I.A.M. Advanced course but I wonder how some of you may fare. I knew the late Ted Clements well. He was the senior IAM examiner and I attended the same driving school as he did. He was a lovely affable chap and took Road Safety very seriously but I can assure you that on a good day he might pass a Advanced candidate with questions as to why signals were unecessarily given.On a bad day he would fail them.
Two links I have provided demonstrate that same mantra from driving instructors.
Excessive and unecessary use of direction indicators can result in a test failure. I am not making this up.!!
// to change down a gear every time I approached traffic lights or a zebra crossing,//
That just about confirmed my suspicions of some of the driving tuition you may have received. I recall the driving phrase, "into danger slowly out of danger quickly" but to change down a cog on the approach to ATS or a Ped X is a joke. Do you still do that?? If you a approach lights that start to change you use your brakes not your gears to slow down and stop. Depress clutch,handbrake on and put gear lever into neutral. Likewise approaching a Ped X or any other potential hazard. I was taught to drive progressively and not to change down gears: because, if ,might, could happen. Ok the British Snail School of Motoring allows their pupils to stare at the car in front of them. I was taught to give a running commentary and comment on what potential hazards I could see about 300 yards plus ahead and act in good time.
I believe Gness has done the I.A.M. Advanced course but I wonder how some of you may fare. I knew the late Ted Clements well. He was the senior IAM examiner and I attended the same driving school as he did. He was a lovely affable chap and took Road Safety very seriously but I can assure you that on a good day he might pass a Advanced candidate with questions as to why signals were unecessarily given.On a bad day he would fail them.
Two links I have provided demonstrate that same mantra from driving instructors.
Excessive and unecessary use of direction indicators can result in a test failure. I am not making this up.!!
//but I can assure you that on a good day he might pass a Advanced candidate with questions as to why signals were unecessarily given.On a bad day he would fail them. //
Quite right - putting signals on when you don't need them, shows that your attention is not fully on the road. TRC Defensive driving teaches that one.
Quite right - putting signals on when you don't need them, shows that your attention is not fully on the road. TRC Defensive driving teaches that one.
retrocop - If you read my comment fully I was taught to change down etc to show the examiner I had seen the "hazard" in the same way that you were taught, as an advanced driver, not to indicate as a message to the examiner. I was told by my cousin, an advanced instructor, about 50 years ago that such actions on the advanced test would lead to failure.
