Heh heh. I use mine middle of the night, no one around. In 50 plus years, I have never replaced a turn signal switch. In my gms I would need to replace the cancel springs but I’d get a hand full at the junk yard or 50 cent at the dealer. Gotta be one of the least problematic features. But heh, honor dad, but just don’t always follow directions.
Jumping into this conversation late but…
My first experience with the now common rear view back up camera feature some years ago in a rental Chevy Equinox left me unimpressed. The view screen did not offer a very clear image.
But by the time I shopped for my current 2014 Camry the feature was standard on vehicles I considered and test drove. Some were better than others but all were improvements over what I’d had in the rental several years earlier.
I quite appreciate the usefulness of the back up camera but do not rely exclusively on it. It is especially helpful given how higher seatbacks and headrests restrict the view when looking around to check for rear cross traffic and for people, animals, and low profile hazards that may be hiding behind the car.
So I combine old school looking along with camera view looking and have “never looked back” to doing without the rear view camera.
(Hey, the pun is just so appropriate! 
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And “we” should not take things so literally. My mom used to tell my dad he’d use all the blinker fluid at long lights, and maybe we’d need it later.
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I expected at least one person to pipe up with that self-centered attitude towards others. It’s unfortunate when someone cannot be bothered to take a moment, a minor inconvenience, out of consideration and respect for others. Funny, but it’s usually the guys with the biggest boat that display the entitlement and disregard for everyone else at the launch.
I suppose when you come to a T intersection you leave your brights on, bathing the house across the road in light because they shouldn’t live there if they don’t like that too…
HUH??? Where do you keep getting this complete garbage.
A car traveling at 50mph and hits similar car at 50mph is equivalent to the same car hitting a brick wall at 50mph.
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This is a private Forum so there is no reason why The Wondeful 90’s ( Snowman ) can’t be sent off into Cyber Space . I actually think that has happened at other Forums for this Clown.
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His myths and conspiracy stories, though spreading false information, are entertaining.
Lucretia Borgia’s dinner guests thought the same thing about her until…
Hint. She was rumored to have a hollow ring that she used to spike the drinks of unfavored guests. There is no historical proof though, just an ugly rumor.
Yes we know. What’s the point? I consider 50 MPH to be the beginning of very severe. Many would not survive.
Hey, no one said you had to follow my fathers advice. It was shared mostly tongue in cheek anyway.
but I’ll stand by my statement, using a turn signal when you are all alone on the road at 2am is silly. But if you want to, have at it. I’m not gonna stop you.
I’ve been known to run red lights at 2am when no one else is on the road as well. but don’t tell my dad…
Once you are imprinted with using turn signals, just try to turn without using them. You have to think hard to overcome the habit.
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If you use them all the time, you’ll never have to decide whether or not to use them.
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I have posted this before . The Turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa changing lanes without signaling will let you meet the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s drug sniffing dog .
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Those dangles hanging from the mirror will get you a second look here with the Minnesota boys, and girls, especially with out of state plates. I think they call it profiling but danged if it doesn’t work.
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Recent news story, Tesla slammed on brakes on CA highway, major pileup, driver says the car did it without warning. No follow up from the media.
I wonder if you can sue the manufacturer if the car, how insane is this, the cars computer literally causes an accident?
Whole new field of litigations?
Personally, “NO THANKS!” on all this high tech gadgetry, expensive to buy/repair and now, possibly, dangerous and even deadly.
The driver following too closely to stop caused this accident, not the Tesla.
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You MUST be in control of your car at all times. Tesla or the driver didn’t cause this accident. The driver who hit the Tesla is 100% at fault.
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I guess. But a car that randomly slams on emergency braking has a problem IMO.
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Well, it’s not that cut and dried. If a car in front of you performs an unsafe maneuver, it is possible to argue you’re not more than 50% at fault- at least in Massachusetts. How do I know? Because I did it. I was involved in a rear end collision under similar circumstances. No tickets were issued by the police. Not long after, my insurance sent me a surcharge notice which I appealed to the Merit Rating Board - Division of Insurance Board of Appeal. I laid out my reasoning as to why I was less than 50% at fault and they agreed. My insurance tried submit it again a year later but that one was immediately thrown out as previously adjudicated.