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Yes.

Mainly because I don't want to reinforce a habit where I turn and don't signal.

If you were being tested for your driver's license, would you use the turn signal to indicate your turn?
Therein lies the correct, and only, answer.

Yeah, there can be pedestrians and bikes where I live. With these new e-scooters and ebikes, they can appear pretty fast snd silently, and aren’t always in full control of their ride when going fast and don’t always obey the traffic rules. I don’t want to confuse them.

Just out of instinct.
Doesnt hurt to use them anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I follow road guidelines. That is to say, if I'm turning off the road/lane I'm on, yes I indicate. The lane can be identified by lane border lines. The road's junctions can be identified by gaps in said lane border lines, either bordering another road or becoming a dotted line. If you cross the line you indicate in all circumstances. Note, though, that I was taught in England, notorious for having the most in-depth and hardest to pass driving tests in the world.

Yes, of course I do. I usually signal even when I'm totally alone on the road.

Do you assume everyone around you is fully aware of what’s happening when they are controlling their death machines?

You have to where I live :)

Unless I think having the signal on would confuse other drivers, yes.

Using a signal in some multilane turn only lanes would make it unclear if I was merging into the next lane or using the current lane to turn, so I don't use it too early if it seems like it would be confusing. I do turn it on close to the intersection to indicate that I know that it is a turn lane.

I also don't use it for exit only lanes if there is a long lane to get there. If it is short like a turn lane then I do to make it clear know it is an exit/turn.

Honestly, it's become so much of a habit that I would sometimes use mine when turning around the perimeter of a parking lot without thinking, despite it being a corner where a turn is the only option.

Yes, it's what you're taught to do anyway.

At the end of the day there is no reason not to. Not like it takes any effort or costs anything.

That being said, I usually won't the closer I am to home/on my main commute. Why? Because I'm driving next to the same people every day. The same work truck with a giant butterfly on it and that one dumb ass looking cyber truck. Along with the other 100 other commuters the same day.

Yes. Habit.

There has been some confusion about this question: https://www.thewisedrive.com/turn-signals-in-dedicated-turn-lanes/ https://www.thewisedrive.com/yes-you-have-to-use-your-turn-signal/ https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/12/26/watch-live-trooper-steve-explains-whether-you-need-to-use-turn-signals-in-turn-only-lanes/

I think the idea of a "direct course" is useful:

No person shall turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway as required in RSA 265:42, or turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway, or otherwise turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. No person shall so turn any vehicle without giving an appropriate signal in the manner hereinafter provided.

I do pay extra attention to giving a signal when I intend to make a U-turn rather than a typical left turn.

If you don’t then your dashboard doesn’t know to get rid of the speed limit sign

If I'm driving, almost always, the exception being if it's a highway off ramp I'll indicate to go into the off ramp lane, then stop indicating as it should be clear.

If I'm cycling then very rarely, as the position in the lane or lane you're in is far more noticeable than if you're driving, so I'll only stick my hand out to indicate if I have to merge into traffic to turn (eg a right turn from a single lane road, or to get into the turn lane to begin with)

Not between double yellows at a light with a turn indicator, and not when the turn lane is a freeway exit (so I'm actually just going straight), but pretty much all other times.

Actually I do it sometimes, but I feel like it does not make sense since there is no other way to go xd, but also when I do it it feels like automatic, my brain goes "turn>turn signal"