Tip of the day for drivers in The Villages
 

Here is your tip of the day;
Do NOT trust a turn signal on a golf cart! If you are at stop sign, at an intersection, or maybe pulling out of a Rec center or driveway and a golf cart is approaching and has its turn signal on do NOT pull out in front of it until you are certain, you are sure, you 100% know they are turning! Villagers and visitors forget they have their turn signal on!!! Often! A lot!!! And if you pull out in front of a golf cart that has its turn signal on but is not turning something bad is going to happen!! Make sure they are turning before you pull out! Your insurance company and the people in the golf cart will thank you!! You are welcome…now carry on!!

Flair for the obvious award.

I've learned whether it was golf cart or car. Don't trust the turn signals or the fact they won't stop at a stop sign and turn!

I swear most of those turn signals where on since last week.

a/k/a...........drive defensively.

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I learned that on my first golf cart ride.

Drivers training day 2 class. “ Never trust any vehicles turn signals, just because it’s blinking doesn’t mean a true turn” Mr Ahern, geometry, and Drivers Training Instructor.

My driver’s Ed teacher was our football coach, but he taught the same thing.

Same goes for car drivers. Some $&@t had their left turn signal on in the right lane in a roundabout. I was in the inside lane wanting to continue on Morse (2nd exit which is legal) while the clown in the right lane wanted to take the 3rd exit and almost hit me. They probably thought that since they had their turn signal on it was ok to disobey the law and almost hit somebody. Only in the villages!

Another example of why you should never drive alongside any vehicle in a roundabout.

Only in The Villages.:shrug:

Very true but this happens more often in golf carts because many of them do not have self cancelling turn signals. That feature was a must when we purchased our cart.

YUP, that is rule #1 when driving in the RAB,

What about a hand signal, can we trust that?

I turn my leave flashers on then I can go either way

One week of Motorcycle school in Milwaukee:
#1....When crossing at a intersection with another vehicle waiting to cross, always watch the front wheels, they move, you stop.

#2...And NEVER awesome the other driver sees you even when their looking
straight at you.

correctamundo. Always think "they want to hit me"

Right now, the advice to "never be next to another car" essentially converts the roundabout into a single lane circle.

What about a physical change to force that? Put a barricade in the right lane at every place a side road connects. The rule becomes the right lane must exit. To go around past that barricade cars need to be in the left lane.
Makes it a one lane type of road, but everyone would be forced to follow that concept.
That would stop the right lane people from going in circles.

You can trust it if it is a one finger salute. :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

This is NEVER going to stop. Many roundabouts in Europe merge into 1 lane before the roundabout. If that would NOT work in The Villages, then they should use red lights or overpasses if traffic is high. The 2 lane roundabout has NEVER worked right and NEVER will. It is impossible to expect 100% of the Village population to correctly negotiate 2 lane roundabouts........IMPOSSIBLE !!!! Roundabouts should be made simple, not complex.

The 2 lane roundabout has worked and will continue to work.

It’s IMPOSSIBLE for 100% of any population to do anything correctly 100% of the time.

that's how i drive on the highway. I scan the front left or right tires of the vehicles in front of me to catch if their drifting either way. It's worked for over 50 years.

Know the rules of roundabouts

https://www.districtgov.org/communit...t-02-08-12.pdf

I completely agree!

We have been here for seven years. We know the rules for driving thru a roundabout, and I always have my hand on the horn to give a long honk when I encounter a person breaking the rules.

That having been said, we drive slowly and very carefully in a roundabout. If we are having a conversation, we always stop before entering the roundabout so we can watch the other drivers, and we expect the unexpected, like a person entering a roundabout in the inside lane and cutting across the outside lane to go into the first exit.

I know it may be hard to believe, but looking at the signs before every roundabout explaining the traffic pattern through it really does help!

2 lane roundabouts appear to be designed by local body shops to maximize their business.

That just SHOWS that most drivers would prefer a SINGLE-LANE roundabout. Accidents would go down - what is so terrible about that ? The residents are retired so NEED NOT drive like their hair (if they have any) is on FIRE. It is bad enough that the commercial vehicles drive "fast and furious". If retired, you should have patience and enjoy every moment of the dwindling "rest of your life".

One question would be - are 2 lane roundabouts safer than a red light system? In a retirement complex should NOT safety be important. And do older retired people need/or want to learn a 2 lane roundabout system since they PROBABLY did NOT encounter them BEFORE retirement to The Villages?
........I fail to see ANY advantages to a 2 lane roundabout system?

The only turn signals I trust are the ones I see happening a few yards ahead of their turn, but even then, it’s possible they may have turned it on by mistake!!! D’OH!

The only driver I trust is me! Everyone else is either a complete idiot or an assassin. I highly recommend you adopt that same belief.

I hope you are still talking about driving.

They worked perfectly before all those clueless EV’s started showing up : )

They are all over Europe (including your beloved Scandinavia) and they seem to handle them just fine...

How did a thread about reminding people to not trust a golf cart with a turn signal on turn into a discussion about driving in a round-about? 🤷*♂️ Carry on.

I wish there was a polite hand signal to let cart drivers know their turn signal is on.

Do not agree.
I have driven all over UK and Europe for 60 years, and have yet to see a two lane highway go to one lane at a roundabout.
I have seen three, four, five lane roundabouts, multi direction roundabouts, roundabouts within roundabouts, and negotiated the infamous Arc de Triomphe roundabout many times.
Roundabouts seem to work everywhere with minimal fuss, except in The Villages.

Naaah. They work here too…with minimal fuss for the vast majority. :)