[justjim]

Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer

Can anyone explain to me why people seldom use their turn signals when exiting round-a-bouts. Using your signals without a doubt makes the traffic flow so much better.

Two reasons: First using turn signals when exiting round-a-bouts is not required and second it's not illegal to not use them within a round-a-bout. Finally, another possible reason is we have a number of visitors to TV, many are not that familiar with roundabouts and some are not sure which exit they are going to take to reach their intended destination.

[RickeyD]

[trichard]

Originally Posted by RickeyD

The brochure explains it all. So what is the problem? Follow the rules.

[Chi-Town]

Originally Posted by justjim

Two reasons: First using turn signals when exiting round-a-bouts is not required and second it's not illegal to not use them within a round-a-bout. Finally, another possible reason is we have a number of visitors to TV, many are not that familiar with roundabouts and some are not sure which exit they are going to take to reach their intended destination.

Google and Mapquest tell you which exits to use on the roundabouts which would be helpful for visitors. I use it when going to an unfamiliar address.


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[John_W]

Turn signals at roundabouts;

• I usually see drivers using turn signals when they are approaching the roundabout, the one place you don't want to use them.
  
  
• Sometimes they put on a left signal, then I tell my wife, look at that guy he's turning left I got to see this, of course he doesn't.
  
  
• Then sometimes they put on a right turn signal, and I say, he's not going straight, he's going to the right, imagine that.
  
  
• As it turns out, when I see someone using turn signals at roundabouts, they're usually incorrect and I steer clear of them. The one time I see them as necessary is at the Morse and El Camino Real roundabout, and it's not for other cars, but for the golf carts to be warned I'm exiting and you need to stay where you're at and don't cross at this time. Otherwise, if drivers would just follow the published information and street signs, turn signals wouldn't be necessary in a roundabout.
  
  
  That's my opinion after driving here full time for 6 years. I also don't dally around, I drive at a brisk pace and without incident and I usually can avoid most hazards simply by being alert. Here's a dashcam video I shot 2 years ago on BV showing how I avoided an incident on this day at Stillwater roundabout. The Villages, Florida Driving 2015 - YouTube As you'll see, I held my distance and then exited the area away from traffic at a brisk pace.

[Ooper]

If I trusted every time I somebody had their blinkers on, I would have been in 1000 accidents already. Using signals in roundabouts is ridiculous as the previous poster stated because people are too ignorant or oblivious to how to use them. If everybody followed the rules of the road for roundabouts, there would be no need to use them... period! Unfortunately, that is only a dream and will continue to be only a dream.

[autumnspring]

Originally Posted by Lblueocala

Round abouts are a thing from the northeast part of the US. People from the northeast learned to navigate them when they were learning to drive. Most of the rest of the US doesn't have them. They are not part of learning to drive in the rest of the country. DONT assume just because people have some problems navigating them they are stupid. The first time you encounter them it can be confusing and intimidating. Traffic moves very fast though them. NOT everyone is from New England. You can be dealing with cars, trucks, motorcycles, golf carts, bicycles, people with poor eyesight, slower reflexes. COMMON sense folks, THINK, put your minds in motion before putting your mouths in gear. Chill out you're in Florida now, not up north.

I'm not sure what you consider the northeast but re: roundabouts-they had them in Brooklyn but they were taken out due to exactly what people are saying here-THEY ARE DANGEROUS. A guess, they were taken out before 1960. I lived in upstate NY and they do not have any.

People have posted read the rules. I see that scene in that old comedy movie, "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines," where one competitor is reading the instruction book as he is a flying his plane.

As we read these posts, you can be sure few people know the rules and fewer yet will follow them.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by suesiegel

I'm not sure what you consider the northeast but re: roundabouts-they had them in Brooklyn but they were taken out due to exactly what people are saying here-THEY ARE DANGEROUS. A guess, they were taken out before 1960. I lived in upstate NY and they do not have any.

People have posted read the rules. I see that scene in that old comedy movie, "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines," where one competitor is reading the instruction book as he is a flying his plane.

As we read these posts, you can be sure few people know the rules and fewer yet will follow them.

Saying this is easy................backing it up with statistics is much harder.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by John_W

Turn signals at roundabouts;

• I usually see drivers using turn signals when they are approaching the roundabout, the one place you don't want to use them.
  
  
• Sometimes they put on a left signal, then I tell my wife, look at that guy he's turning left I got to see this, of course he doesn't.
  
  
• Then sometimes they put on a right turn signal, and I say, he's not going straight, he's going to the right, imagine that.
  
  
• As it turns out, when I see someone using turn signals at roundabouts, they're usually incorrect and I steer clear of them. The one time I see them as necessary is at the Morse and El Camino Real roundabout, and it's not for other cars, but for the golf carts to be warned I'm exiting and you need to stay where you're at and don't cross at this time. Otherwise, if drivers would just follow the published information and street signs, turn signals wouldn't be necessary in a roundabout.
  
  
  That's my opinion after driving here full time for 6 years. I also don't dally around, I drive at a brisk pace and without incident and I usually can avoid most hazards simply by being alert. Here's a dashcam video I shot 2 years ago on BV showing how I avoided an incident on this day at Stillwater roundabout. The Villages, Florida Driving 2015 - YouTube As you'll see, I held my distance and then exited the area away from traffic at a brisk pace.

And yet, I've seen someone go left entering a RB at least twice in the last 3 years (Could have been from Australia)

[Mikeod]

I only use my signals to indicate I am exiting the roundabout. Since most times I'm going 3/4 of the way around I'm in the inside lane and want to inform anyone in the outside lane where I'm going.

I've also seen people approach a roundabout and put on the left turn signal. Usually they are in the left lane so I assume they intend to exit at the third exit. It's the ones in the right lane with the left signal on that I keep far away from.

As stated in earlier posts, it's not that difficult, but some just think they "know" how or just don't care. Stand at the one at Morse and Stillwater. At least 75% of the cars going east on Stillwater intending to go north on Morse use the outside lane to go 3/4 of the way around despite the sign indicating which lane to use.

[billethkid]

The use of turn signals or stop signs in TV is in the same category as fixing ball marks on greens, raking sand traps and filling divots.......

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by RickeyD

Great information rickeyD
To bad can't add 4 way stop procedures. Amazes me how many don't stop at or behind stop sign or painted stop sign. But they will stop entering roundaboUt when NO traffic coming

Another thing if your in right hand lane of round about and you don't exit the first exit and you get hit by the left lane car YOU are at fault cause you didn't yield. I know someone who got ticket for this exact example. She got hit in the rear side by left lane car trying to exit at the second exit in roundabout. Which means she was ahead of the turning car in the left lane going to the third exit and still got the ticket for not yielding.

[aninjamom]

FLORIDA LAW:
316.155 When signal required.—
(1) No person may turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a highway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety, and then only after giving an appropriate signal in the manner hereinafter provided, in the event any other vehicle may be affected by the movement.
(2) A signal of intention to turn right or left must be given continuously during not less than the last 100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning, except that such a signal by hand or arm need not be given continuously by a bicyclist if the hand is needed in the control or operation of the bicycle.
(3) No person may stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided herein to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear, when there is opportunity to give such signal.
(4) The signals provided for in s. 316.156 shall be used to indicate an intention to turn, to overtake, or to pass a vehicle and may not, except as provided in s. 316.2397, be flashed on one side only on a parked or disabled vehicle or flashed as a courtesy or “do pass” signal to operators of other vehicles approaching from the rear.
(5) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a moving violation as provided in chapter 318.

In other words, yes, use your turn signal.

[jalopy54]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Hmm... You are required to yield to both lanes of the roundabout, so if you see a car coming at all, you should not enter the roundabout.

That is the way I understand it. The auto in the roundabout might go straight through or come on around and exit off to the left. Say you are traveling north and are going to exit off going west, your automobile should be on the inside lane in the circle. So if you are wanting to enter going south you should always wait to see what that auto is going to do before entering. So yes, any vehicle in the roundabout has the right of way over entering vehicle's!

[Matzy]

Don't know why people afraid using turn signals. Maybe they are to concentrated to self problems instead thinking of traffic. It isn't just at roundabouts, that people have the problem. I just can think that drivers don't want to give others a hint what they want to do or make it easy for other drivers let the traffic flow easier and safer.