Today's bothering me topic is Driving in America!
- Use your indicators, damnit, and not half way through your turn, 100ft is the usual code req. I'm usually on two wheels, so I use your a vehicle's behaviour to help predict the movements around me, I need indicators to do that. Also: when you emerge, when you stop pull over, when you change lanes. If you want me to be faster on my bicycle, give me a heads-up so I can get my speed up, otherwise I'm just waiting for you to do something stupid.
- And on this: hazard lights are not indicators to stop. Indicate, pull over, then turn on your hazard. I can usually only see half of your vehicle, a hazard can easily look like a right or left turn;
- 4-way stops. What is this bull****? Inefficient at best, chaotic and aggressive at worst. I never thought I'd miss mini-roundabouts but I do;
- Your phone. Stop it.
- And eating! I can see in through your side windows - people do the most absurdly inappropriate **** while driving, and I've not seen anyone be more distracted than American drivers. Yesterday a lady was eating a 12-nugget + dips breakfast. You can tell someone is doing weird **** from behind, I curse you if you confirm my suspicions when I come up alongside and you are indeed putting on your makeup or *checking facebook!*;
- All lanes that are not the furthest right are for overtaking. Zero lane discipline here. See also: Rolling Roadblocks. Happens every few miles, on motorcycle I have to wade through each of them;
- Stop jumping lights. SF drivers are the most light-jumpy I've seen, holy moly;
- American cars are stupid big. You don't need your wing mirrors at my head height to take your little brats to sport practice.
Thanks for letting me beat this dead horse a little more.