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Because people are supposed to have the psychic ability to predict what the driver in front of them is going to do?
Yeah it's really not hard to read what a car is going to do. It's clear that many people cannot do it and to that end should not be driving.
Cars are not animals, they don't have subtle body movements that you could read. If you can see what the car is doing, it is already too late. The idea of turn signals is that you let other drivers know in advance. Even if they are "stupid" and can't "read" your car. Even if you are stupid and you are doing something really stupid, signals give people around you time to notice you and avoid you. We drive to get from point A to point B, and different rules and mechanisms are there to make the whole process safer. Go feel superiority somewhere else.
In the majority of cases you can anticipate what other drivers are doing based of subtle changes in speed or lane position. If someone is slowing and moving further to one side of the lane than they have been, it's a pretty good indication they are preparing to turn.
It would be nice if people could explicitly signal that by using their indicators, but most people are fairly predictable, and the subtle movements are there if you watch for long enough.
What a silly thing to say. Crashes don't happen the majority of the time. It's the minority of cases that are the problem.
By majority it's 100%, physics exists and the time required to maneuver in being capable of turning or lane changing is plenty to clearly signal what it will do. The reality is that if you need turn signals you are bad at driving and should not drive. Most humans are not capable and cars should not be how the majority of people get around.
Why exactly do you think cars have turn signals? Was it on a whim? Did people think it looked nice?
Keep up the cope, you shouldn't be driving.
Again, why do cars have turn signals?
You know the answer, why can't you admit it?
Well I thought the answer was to avoid crashes by signalling to people behind you that you're about to turn.
But you're claiming that's not the case.
So why do cars have turn signals?
I am not psychic, sorry.
I'm saying that if you need signals to reduce the risk of crashing you shouldn't drive, which is probably 98% of humans. That is the vast majority of people should drive.
Okay, well good luck convincing people not to go to work or the supermarket in places without robust public transportation unless they have a bicycle and it isn't dangerously cold or dangerously hot outside.
I'm sorry that you're not good at driving but please stop using cars and putting others at risk.
I hope I am never behind you in traffic.