Level Up Your Driving Skills With This One Weird Hack: Using Your Turn Signals

Sarah James
Slackjaw
Published in
4 min readDec 16, 2021

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Do you love driving, but hate when you smash your car into other cars? If this describes you, you’ll love this strange trick to help make smashing your car into other cars a thing of the past: using your turn signals.

Right now you’re probably saying something like: “Turn signal? Never heard of it!” Don’t feel bad. You’re far from alone. Recent studies have shown that no one in this town knows what a turn signal is — meaning you’re sure to impress everyone on the road with your gear-head status when you deploy this near-miraculous hack.

Put simply, a “turn signal” is a way for your car to communicate with other cars on the road. We know what you’re thinking: “Letting cars communicate with other cars? Isn’t that just a gateway to the machines organizing and taking over us all?” Not quite — thanks to one strange phenomenon that most drivers have never noticed. All those other cars on the road are actually driven by human beings.

That’s right. Every time you are stuck in traffic, mad at all those cars that are in between you and your work, leisure, or family, you are actually mad at other people, not a bunch of empty steel boxes. And if that’s not enough of a Criss Angel: Mindfreak for you, consider this: some of those other people may in fact be mad at you for…

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Sarah James
Slackjaw

Sarah is the internationally best-selling author of THE WOMAN WITH TWO SHADOWS and the forthcoming LAST NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN. thesarahjames.com