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From: jeepcj2a@fluke.UUCP (Dale Chaudiere)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Running Stop Signs - Do YOU?
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 10:23:01 EDT
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> References:
> 
> How many of you out there regularly run stop signs?  My bet is that most,
> if not all of you do, most of the time!  You think I'm crazy, right?
> 
> Well, here in CA, a stop sign means that your car comes completely to rest,
> behind the limit line (if present).  My guess is that this doesn't vary much 
> from state to state. 
> 
> A complete stop means that your wheels stop turning.  There is a very
> obvious feel to this, quite different than just slowing down until you're
> almost stopped.

Here in WA state, making a full stop is the norm.  I would say at least 75% of
the drivers come to a full stop.  One problem with rolling stops is at 4-way
stop intersection.  The correct procedure is:

	1) Come to a full stop!
	2) See who was at the intersection first
	3) or if they got there the same time you did, who has the right-of-way
	4) let them proceed
	4) then you may go

A rolling stop gives the other drivers no indication of when you have
established yourself at the intersection.  This leads to a situation similiar
to when you meet another person head on while walking, they go left, you go
righ, etc.

Another bad situation is when making a right turn at a stop sign.  The full stop
gives you time to look left and then right for pedestrians.  The rolling stop
has got many a pedestrian.

I hope the rolling stops never get as bad here as you say they are in CA.
and they wonder why CA drivers have a bad reputation.