> If they are illegal then they are not ticketing all those BMWs, MBs, Volvo's, Jag's, that have and use them.

That's right... and I haven't hard of anyone getting a ticket for failure to use their turn signal for years. The police now seem to be almost exclusively focused on speeding and stop lights nowadays, e.g., I've had a Z4 without a front license plate for five years now and the police have never bothered me, even though my state requires a front plate.