For the love of god, use your vehicle's turn signals when it's even less predictable than usual on the roads

What exactly is your point? I suggested a larger fine to an existing infraction. If your car doesn't have working turn signals, why are you driving? If you don't know how to operate a turn signal stalk, why are you driving? You are not the only one on the road and it's is highly irresponsible to not communicate with other people on the road.

Sure, we should absolutely make people drive in skid cars and force them to lose control at high speed to make them understand and build better car control. We should force them to make it through an autocross course under a certain time without missing gates or hitting cones. Driving a car is high-school physics level easy. We have our own publicly owned race track in town. Most of all, driving isn't a protected right. But people are super pansies about real requirements because of bullshit inclusivity and most drivers in the US would never achieve a drivers license.

Fun story: Went karting a decade ago with some coworkers. One of them, who drove, could not control the kart. He repeatedly drove it into the tire wall and got stuck - and I mean stuck - as in kart is underneath the tires. Wasn't hit, pushed or even around anyone when he did it. That's scary shit right there - and he had a drivers license. The course worker hopped in the kart and drove it around the rest of the track to put it back into place, so there was no mechanical problem with it. Talk about an awkward situation.

/r/Portland Thread Parent