Badly worded. A potential rewrite:
He, of course, did not signal his intent to anyone.
He didn’t even blink before leaving.
They are listed as indicators as well. And that’s exactly what it means when you are changing lanes, indicating what your intent is to others around you.
Is spot on
I own a BMW EV. The latest update dialed the “lane correction” to 11. If you do not use your signal light before exiting or switching lanes, the vehicle will steer you back in your lane. It is the most aggressive “lane correct” default behaviour of any vehicle I’ve driven so far, almost as if BMW knows what is required to train their drivers.
So if there is an obstacle on the road, the car will force you to plow into it? Damn I really do hate new cars, but it just gets worse and worse.
Well, no. It also has collision avoidance. Theoretically it should just slam on the breaks.
Is this real or a joke? It reads like the “if you don’t use the turn signal the car doesn’t turn” meme.
It"s real. You can disable it, but it is on by default.
The biggest problem is when they don’t indicate when they’re changing road. They’ll be driving along and suddenly they’ll slam on their brakes and turn left, zero warning.
They’re absolutely a nightmare on roundabouts. You have no idea where they’re going, so you have to just sit there until they’ve left, it’s the only safe way to handle them.
I find this is all cars. They’ll either not indicate or indicate a ms before making a move. It’s as though they don’t understand they’re indicating for others benefit.
Unironically I had a cab driver tell me he doesn’t indicate because then nobody would let him get over.
The only people who reliably use their blinkers over here are vehicles so big nobody dare block them.
Probably not to the same level of lane-correct-agressiveness, but my SIL’s Volkswagen’s lane correct is insane. The roads around here aren’t great, and it will often detect random streaks or lines of potholes as a lane and refuse to allow you to avoid them. Once an elk ran in front of the car and when my brother tried to swerve to avoid the damn car fought him so hard we only narrowly missed it. And at other times when on roads with no lane markings at all it randomly decides that the road isn’t the road, and that ditch over there is the lane we’re supposed to be in.
All that said, it works great most of the time, and we just turn it off if it’s acting hinkey
I almost hit pedestrians (twice!) because our Hyundai Kona re-enables the lane correction thing at each boot (I don’t know how to say “boot” but for cars, in english. But you get the gist). And I forget it’s there, and it’s literally life-threatening.
(there are no curbs here, pedestrians have to walk on the roads)
the problem with “most of the time” is that it only takes one car accident to be the last car ride you ever take
BMW drivers seem to be on their phones an awful lot for a car with no signal
I don’t signal because it’s none of your business where I’m going!
Alt punchline: Of course, he gave no signal that he was changing jobs.
