Turn signal woes (or how not to get hit by traffic)

[airbiscuit]

Not exactly a turn signal light.

 

[dnw64]

Not exactly a turn signal light.

Did you watch the video?

I do think the flashers mask the turn signals (even if one is disabled) - just doesn't look different enough.

If there is no oncoming traffic, I start to ease my tractor into the left hand lane so it is obvious I am turning. by the time I get to the intersection, I am full in the left hand lane so they can pass me on the right. That's an old school farmer turn signal.

 

[airbiscuit]

Two different things. One is a lighted billboard, the other is a turn signal light. Then again, it is legal to pass on a double yellow in Vermont.

 

[kthompson]

No the driver that hit me was not brother to officer. The driver moved to rural area from large city and the rules of driving there. Also the habits. The officer was guilty of having preconceived options on tractors and I think due to only being officer for two years a failure to investigate properly. He told me the person followed me at I think he said 5 mph as we know tractors can only run about 15 mph around a curve and then speed up to 15 mph to pass me. I replied sir I came around that curve over an hour ago so no way he followed me and I was running 5.7 mph when he hit me and if he been running only 10 mph more than me why did he run off the road through the ditch and back on? BTW my tractor will run 22 mph, it has digital speedometer on it.
He even admitted he called to ask who to charge in the accident, so an officer who was not there told him to charge the tractor.

We are in very much a farming area with the big sprayers, tractors with disk that are wider than a lane and of course combines with headers wider than two lanes. It seems the big ones people realize they can not pass but when a tractor is within a lane or just over a lane wide they treat it different. Realize auto and tractor accidents do kill many every year. Yes drivers today are different than just a few years back, amazes me how many race to the next red light.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Tomorrow I am picking up a new (refurbished) STAR Headlight mini LED light bar. It has 27 (or so) flash patterns. How STUPID! Is anybody supposed to know what the flicking, alternating, flashing, pulsating patterns are supposed to mean. All, only because they can. And 27 flash patterns is infinitely better then 25 to your average mindless consumer.

 

[dnw64]

Two different things. One is a lighted billboard, the other is a turn signal light.

My point is that when you're following a moving vehicle down the road, at what point does it change from being a "turn signal light" to a "moving billboard" (i.e. Call to Action)? 4" high? 6" high?? 12" high??? 24" high???? 36" high?????

 

[dnw64]

Tomorrow I am picking up a new (refurbished) STAR Headlight mini LED light bar. It has 27 (or so) flash patterns. How STUPID! Is anybody supposed to know what the flicking, alternating, flashing, pulsating patterns are supposed to mean. All, only because they can. And 27 flash patterns is infinitely better then 25 to your average mindless consumer.

I'm not sure I understand. Are you picking this up (and presumably installing it on your machine) willingly, under protest, as a direct order from your commanding occifer, or what?

 

[arizona98tj]

Maybe your State is different. In Vermont, and may others, it is not illegal to pass on solid yellow lines.

Minnesota is apparently different than Vermont. Here, a solid yellow line makes it illegal to pass so as I said, he/she was breaking the law.

Just curious, what are solid yellow lines used for in Vermont? Or don't they have them?

 

[arizona98tj]

My point is that when you're following a moving vehicle down the road, at what point does it change from being a "turn signal light" to a "moving billboard" (i.e. Call to Action)? 4" high? 6" high?? 12" high??? 24" high???? 36" high?????

If a driver can't tell the difference between a turn signal and a moving billboard, that person is a good candidate for public transportation where more skilled operators can make those challenging decisions.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Hmm I get your point I think but personally I do have a hard time confusing a turn signal and a bill board change lane type of sign.