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Maybe the point is to be signaling before you start slowing down? It doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all. When I turn off of rural highways with 50+ mph sp
by creato 7y ago
Maybe the point is to be signaling before you start slowing down? It doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all.
When I turn off of rural highways with 50+ mph speed limits, I signal about the same time I let off the gas to start slowing for the turn. Braking is at least a few seconds later, turning is well after that.
- 1123581321 7y agoIt does sound reasonable if most people know where their turn is, start planning for their turn far in advance and take some time to coast before starting to brake. That’s probably what the group who wrote the law was thinking. It is not how people actually drive and it’s too far in excess of what following traffic needs to exercise caution or slow down. One of the challenges of traffic planning is that people will do what feels comfortable and is working; it’s not really worth writing laws to force them out of that unless there’s an oil crisis or a municipal revenue crisis.