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Ridiculous History

Turn, Turn, Turn: A History of Turn Signals

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever been stuck in traffic, you know turn signals are a vital part of safe driving (though not everyone seems to think so). But where did these nifty little blinking lights come from? Why didn't they come along until years after the invention of the automobile? Join Ben, Max and Noel as they explore the strange evolution of signaling, from the early days of on-the-road hand gestures all the way to modern, electronic turn signals.

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1:32.0

Let's give it up for our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

1:35.0

Oh,

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Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, baby. You ever notice that sometimes like the sound of your windshield wipers or the sound of your turn signal will start to kind of have the sense of synchronizing with your music only for it to like, you know, drift, of course, because it's just that golden moment where everything's an alignment, but then entropy returns.

2:04.0

Right, and you might be a you might be on the road waiting to take a left at a light and notice that your turn signal is in time with the car in front of you that's neat little bit of synchronicity, little cloud atlas moment for everybody in traffic.

2:20.0

I'm Ben, you're no and we're continuing our a bit of an auto theme in recent episodes because we are going to talk about turn signals, no, in an earlier episode of stuff they don't want you to know.

2:34.0

I was I would say pretty pretty forthright about the stereotype of BMW drivers and you know not using don't signal chronically.

2:44.0

Yeah, I don't think they know about them about turn signal. I don't understand why they install turn signals on BMWs at this point.

2:50.0

Okay, devil's advocate here, perhaps it's installed in an inconvenient or out of the way location. Is that possible, fellas? Is that possible? Maybe maybe it's like, I think I've been in a beam or it's in the same spot.

3:03.0

It's maybe it's under the spare tire in the trunk, you know, but we're we're going to talk about turn signals today.

3:12.0

You know, depending on where you live in the world and what your experience with cars is like, you may say, oh, everybody uses turn signals or you may say, hey, I don't even think they're that necessary.

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