“People who like to add some spice to traffic and surprise their fellow drivers from time to time should keep their fingers off the indicator”, explains Magnus Vessel, spokesperson for the Institute. “This maintains a level of excitement, ensuring driving and traffic do not merely become routine.”
Spoilsports may, of course, still use their indicators |
One remedy for the sudden drop in excitement caused by indicating could be a kind of “spoiler alert”. This would be a kind of pre-indicator installed centrally in the car which signals that the driver is intending to turn in another direction. Those drivers who do not want their surprise to be spoilt could simply look away until the danger has passed. The Tübingen researchers have also come up with further ideas to make traffic more exciting and spontaneous. For example, they suggest removing brake lights, indicating a turn in one direction before taking the other, or mastering longer stretches in reverse gear.
chs, ssi; picture: Shutterstock; first published 2017-05-12
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