hotrodder
Active Member
Debating indicator/roundabout etiquette is all well and good but it's 2015 not 1960. Manners, patience and consideration for others are as endagered as common sense.
As far as i can tell the common approach to driving in general is to ignore the indicator as you can't (in order of importance) use twitface/the internet, eat/drink, steer and indicate at the same time. Obviously no one is thinking about anyone else but if they did the assumption would be that noone would see you indicate anyway as everyone else is also engrossed in twitfacing about the dump they had at work
Factor in the chaved up supermarket assault vehicle/diesel repmobile with AMG/M sport/S-line badges is rented so you aren't thinking about how long it took to save up for it and it's got eleventy million airbags in it so you feel invicible anyway and the stage is set for how to tackle a roundabout in 2015, whether it's a city rush hour or a shopping centre at the weekend...
On no account should you pick a lane based on which direction you're going in. Ever. Lane choice is about picking the one with the shortest queue or ideally the fastest moving one. At this stage there's two distinct choices depending on whether you're a nervous waste of skin or a self important waste of skin. The former create chaos by trying to get into the correct lane before they reach the front of the roundabout while the later create chaos after joining the roundabout.
There is a rarely seen third option for the very few who possess a brain that isn't totally devoted to anything other than the (real) task at hand... if the shortest queue is the right hand lane then the fastest and safest/least frustrating way is often to take that one and go all the way around the roundabout if you wanted to turn left. The few in this third category do tend to use indicators appropriately but obviously that doesn't stop self important wastes of skin from pulling out without looking and/or getting all road ragey 'causethey think it's illegal they didn't think of it
As far as i can tell the common approach to driving in general is to ignore the indicator as you can't (in order of importance) use twitface/the internet, eat/drink, steer and indicate at the same time. Obviously no one is thinking about anyone else but if they did the assumption would be that noone would see you indicate anyway as everyone else is also engrossed in twitfacing about the dump they had at work
Factor in the chaved up supermarket assault vehicle/diesel repmobile with AMG/M sport/S-line badges is rented so you aren't thinking about how long it took to save up for it and it's got eleventy million airbags in it so you feel invicible anyway and the stage is set for how to tackle a roundabout in 2015, whether it's a city rush hour or a shopping centre at the weekend...
On no account should you pick a lane based on which direction you're going in. Ever. Lane choice is about picking the one with the shortest queue or ideally the fastest moving one. At this stage there's two distinct choices depending on whether you're a nervous waste of skin or a self important waste of skin. The former create chaos by trying to get into the correct lane before they reach the front of the roundabout while the later create chaos after joining the roundabout.
There is a rarely seen third option for the very few who possess a brain that isn't totally devoted to anything other than the (real) task at hand... if the shortest queue is the right hand lane then the fastest and safest/least frustrating way is often to take that one and go all the way around the roundabout if you wanted to turn left. The few in this third category do tend to use indicators appropriately but obviously that doesn't stop self important wastes of skin from pulling out without looking and/or getting all road ragey 'cause
