Driving Complaints

My likely top pet peeve about driving and drivers:

Failure to use turn signals!

So I was glad to see a NY Times article on that topic this morning:

"Why don’t many drivers take this simple safety precaution? When asked about their bad habits in a national study, their explanations seemed confounding.

The study by Response Insurance of Meriden, Conn., found that 42 percent of drivers claimed they didn’t have enough time to signal before turning. Nearly a quarter of drivers blamed laziness, while 17 percent said they skipped signaling because they were apt to forget to cancel the blinkers. Worth noting: Men admitted that they were more likely, by 62 percent to 53 percent, to change lanes without signaling."

I join the trucker who told the Times: 

“Please use your turn signals; that is the only way that we know what you are going to do..."