You know what I mean. You've done it yourself in a car, indicated when there's no-one around. It should be illegal, should it not? For it says that you're not paying attention to what is around you. Or that you are on auto-pilot, and just do things automatically without thinking.
I just saw a cyclist from my fourth floor window cycling down my empty street indicating left just before he turned into the empty road. The point is not my grumpiness at all things unnecessary but that indicating when there's no-one about demonstrates a brain-wash that mimics similar brain-washes in our wasteful and largely unnecessary society. Automated behaviour mimics the machine and the mechanic, because the machine cannot think. And now I see a cyclist, whose whole raison d'etre is to be aware and to see/hear his circumstances behaving like a dumb car driver (who has more of an excuse because of blind spots and the fact that they cannot hear their surroundings as a cyclist can). Cyclists who seal their ears up with the echo chamber are no better than car drivers at the end of the day. It's like an owl who wears ear plugs voluntarily. In other words, there's some serious brain damage going on.
So, if you see them, do not indicate, just steer well clear.
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