This is a seriously overlooked thing by auto makers!

Why is it that my car can automatically turn the headlights on and off, automatically turn the wipers on if it rains, automatically brake, automatically center the car between the lines, automatically adjust the AC, automatically adjust the seat to my settings, automatically sync with my phone, and automatically update its own software, but can’t automatically turn off the damn blinker after a mile of driving with it on?! 🤦‍♂️

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

LOL! That sounds like a faulty turn-switch!

(They have been made self-cancelling for donkey's years.)

Oh, my car automatically leaves the seat on my settings. I adjust it and it stays like that until re-set!

While if I need automatic lane-centring... perhaps I should give up driving before sticking to the middle of the lane means I swipe some cyclist of horse-rider off the road, run into an open door on a parked car or scrape along the side of the farm trailer wider than its own lane....

If I can't see the rain on the windscreen, I certainly won't be able to read that number-plate at 25 metres. Nor its car I am about to hit because my car does not have automatic brakes.

Zaphod42 · 51-55, M

@ArishMell Self canceling technology typically refers to having completed a turn and having the turn signal turn itself off once that is completed. I mean after lane changes on the freeway. Not only to save myself the embarrassment of realizing that I’ve had my turn signal on for the last five miles, but also the irritation of being behind the person who has forgotten to turn their indicator back off after a lane change.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Zaphod42 Ah, I see. Yes, it needs a fair angle of turn of the steering-wheel to flip the switch back.

In those situations I sometimes hold the lever down with one finger - the others are still holding the wheel - just enough for the switch to work without pushing it past the click point.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ArishMell Just briefly pushing it that far should make it blink three times in modern cars where it is all electronic.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon Ah, but I have never driven a car that modern!