After my column published a couple months ago regarding how drivers feel about other drivers on the road, I have received numerous comments from people expressing their pet peeves.

The key concern: Drivers are negligent in the proper rules and etiquette of the roads. Not all of these current complaints are about drivers, however. Some relate to traffic signals and pedestrians.

What is so difficult about using your turn signals? A number of drivers seem to feel operating the turn signals are necessary only at certain times, and not other times when a signal would be appropriate. OK, if you are in a turn lane, this is pretty obvious you are making the turn.

As it was explained in the Mature Driving Course sponsored by AAA, the use of turn signals is to show intent. We can’t read your minds when making a lane change on the highway, or turning left in front of us onto a side street or into a parking lot.

Leaving your turn signal on after making a lane change or entering the highway. After making your lane change, there are some drivers who fail to extinguish their turn signals. This frustrates people approaching and trying to determine if they are about to pull out into the passing lane.

Can I pass you, or are you about to pass the car in front of you? My dad used to say to me these people were “driving around the world to the left.” I love the traffic sign on Willetts Avenue just after you bear onto the street heading east from the Boston Post Road in Waterford. It reminds the driver to check your turn signal, since the turn isn’t sharp enough to disengage the signal on its own.

The biggest pet peeve mentioned was distracted driving. Drivers have witnessed many other drivers texting or talking on their cell phones. Other obvious distractions are eating, putting on make-up, grooming, reading a newspaper, and using a tablet or laptop while driving.

I personally have witnessed all these examples and often wondered how these people made it to their destinations, if they in fact did. Distracted driving will be covered in detail in an upcoming column.

The timing of traffic lights. A good friend of mine mentioned to me last month he could not understand how the traffic lights at Millstone seemed to have been altered to favor traffic coming out of Millstone, even when there is no traffic coming out of Millstone. The light always seems to be red when he approaches it.

There are other traffic lights where people cannot understand why they are red for so long. Examples: exiting Groton Regency onto Poquonnock Road and accessing Route 32 from Deshon Street.

Pedestrians NOT using crosswalks. I have never seen people just blatantly stepping out into the street to cross anywhere they choose to until I went driving in Boston recently. They just step out and expect the drivers to stop for them.

When I first moved to Niantic, I remember reading an account of a pedestrian stepping out between two parked cars on Main Street to cross to the other side, and getting hit by a car. Since the pedestrian was not in a crosswalk, the pedestrian was cited and fined. Please use crosswalks. They are well marked in downtown Niantic.

Let’s be more courteous and considerate to other drivers on our roadways, and remember the etiquette of driving (and walking). If we did so, our roads would be so much safer.

Lee Edwards of East Lyme has spent more than two decades in the transportation industry.