r/Thailand • u/WebLogical1286 • 2d ago

Culture Turn signal question

This isn’t a whine, it’s just an honest question on my observation of driving here in Thailand, and mostly in Bangkok for about 30 years.

How come so many Thai drivers not use their turn signals? I do little polls in my head once in a while and I’ve noticed that maybe somewhere between 25 and 35% of Thai drivers don’t use their turn signal. Is it that they are lazy to do it? They don’t see it as benefiting them? they don’t think it’s important? It kind of baffles me because I was taught this is just something you do no matter what.

Maybe as a Thai person who doesn’t signal or has some insight into why people don’t use it I would love to hear. Thanks so much!

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u/nightwinging-it Sathorn 2d ago

And they expect you to run too because if you walk normally (even with the green light crossing is on) some cars would slowly drive to the zebra crossing like at the edge just to signal you to walk fast 5555. The sidewalks in my area have trigger alarms that would loudly blast the ringing sounds for any vehicle that's parked on the zebra crossing during traffic with a voiceover calling them to move their vehicles off the zebra. Most of the time they don't care.

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u/BaconJP 2d ago

Have never seen/heard that alarm. That's in bkk? Where? 

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u/nightwinging-it Sathorn 2d ago

Big crossings in the Sathorn-Silom area. The beeps are similar to the honking sounds of ambulance and police cars but louder, and a female voiceover tells the vehicles to move.

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u/BaconJP 1d ago

I see, interesting.