If you are going hand-over-hand in a roundabout, you’re doing something very wrong…
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Sendbeer@lemm.ee 10 months agoCovered in the article. In Norway you are required to signal when exiting a roundabout. It’s a fair concern.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The point is that there will be no way to handle the turn signal through muscle memory. With a traditional control, it is always in the same place in relation to your body. It doesn’t move. When it’s in the steering wheel, it can be in many, many different places. If you have media controls on your steering wheel, try using them during a turn without taking your eyes off the road. Now pretend they are smooth and act like a touch input on a dual shock controller.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
With a traditional control, it is always in the same place in relation to your body
As is the one on the wheel. Right next to your thumb.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Your thumb stays at the same place on the steering wheel when you’re not driving straight? O.o
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s not the issue, imagining driving through a roundabout that curves left and having to find a button somewhere on the steering wheel, which is at an angle, in order to indicate right before turning tight in order to exit the roundabout.
A stalk will always be in the same position. The same cannot be said for buttons.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
imagining driving through a roundabout that curves left and having to find a button somewhere on the steering wheel
Your don’t have to “find” anything, it’s right next to your thumb
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Drivers frequently change their hand placement as they turn the wheel. You lose precision and basic ability to manipulate the wheel if you don’t.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Again, it depends on the angle of the steering wheel. The buttons may be upside down if the car is turning sharply enough.
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think you’re right. People in this thread are forgetting that this steering yoke doesn’t have anywhere to put your hands other than right next to the buttons
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
And Australia, at least state of NSW made it mandatory
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s law across the whole country
cam_i_am@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m pretty sure you don’t have to signal when exiting a roundabout in Victoria. We might be the outlier though. In Vic it’s also legal to U turn anywhere, unless a sign specifically prohibits it.
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You may be odd, though the national law is no U-turns at lights unless there is a permissive sign, allowed to U-turn anywhere else unless there’s a restrictive sign
Be careful when driving interstate!
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just in civilized countries, not only Norway.