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Depends on whether you have milliseconds available when surprised by something the car before you swerved around. I like keeping my hands on the wheel when steering suddenly.
If the car in the front swerved and you have milliseconds, that only means you didn't keep a safe distance.
If that happens, you're following too closely.
Unless something falls onto the road right in front of you, and you have to guess whether it will roll or move and which way you might want to go which takes time even with plenty of following distance. If I'm guessing which way I might need to go to avoid an object in front of me signaling is the least important thing. People behind me can slow down when I slam on the brakes and start swerving.
Apparently everyone things all debris in the road is stationary. Stopping distance between the car in front is based on it slowing down over a distance as opposed to stationary or relatively stationary debris which is a lot less distance.
For the most part maintaining a safe following distance, and not driving too fast for conditions will prevent 99.9% of such incidents, but I do agree that in the rare occasions when reactions times are at a premium such as a branch falling on the road right in front of you, or an animal darting out of some bushes, indicators should be less of a priority than braking/evading. Violently swerving is almost always a bad idea without shedding as much speed as you can first, though, and even then it's probably better to just hit the object, unless it's a child, rather than risk a roll-over.
That's not what you said though. You said 'something the car before you swerved around'.
Edit: Yeah, your downvote just tells me you're a shit driver.
At highway speeds a car three seconds ahead swerving around something is basically the same thing as a branch falling right in front of your car because a safe distance to a moving vehicle is different than a safe distance to a stationary object. The down vote is because you don't understand driving.
No. That's one of the most absurd things I've ever read,
Better than you do, champ.
I’m on your side in this discussion but it’s pretty easy to use a turn signal while keeping hands on the wheel.
Maybe learn the old addage "3 car length minimum between you and the person in front of you"
Maybe learn to read?
You can be at a safe following distance for traffic, and have debris in the road that isn't stationary that takes a second or two to judge where it is going while braking and still needing to swerve because it is approaching faster than a hard braking car. Like stuff that falls off a construction vehicle and the car in front of you swerved around. There was plenty of time to brake if they stopped short, but this isn't the same thing.
Guess I could signal the moment I swerved but not sure how that is going to be helpful to anyone behind me to tell them what I am already doing.
Also, three car lengths isn't nearly far enough in slow traffic, and deadly on highways.
I do know how to read, you're the only one taking the example that is least likely to ever occur and pretending it's the only thing that could occur.
Use your damn blinkers dude.