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Old 10-31-2011, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnM. View Post
Four way stops are so damned confusing

Around here they send certain low traffic intersections into flashing yellow/red after about 12pm. Sure makes it easy to spot the drunks.
A regular planned 4-way is nothing, it's the craziness of people not waiting or not going because they're waiting and then going when you don't expect them to when the lights are all suddenly blinking red. Even a red/yellow would be easier.

Two lanes - easy; three lanes - OK; five lanes, with one of them a left/straight like the OP described -- good luck.

And believe it or not, the vaunted trained German drivers don't know how to use 4-way stops. They complained about them in their visits to the US for flight training. In Germany they have the "priority road" so the "main road" doesn't stop even if it's a left or right turn. A four-way stop intersection makes no sense to them.
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