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   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-07, Savageduck  wrote:   
   > On 2014-03-07 13:18:21 +0000, Jolly Roger  said:   
   >   
   >> On 2014-03-07, Savageduck  wrote:   
   >>> On 2014-03-07 11:13:20 +0000, Neil Ellwood   
   >>>  said:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:14:32 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In article , Arif Khokar   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 03/04/2014 03:02 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>>>> The signs are almost certainly there for a reason   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Rather than try to determine what the reason is, you just assert that   
   >>>>>> it's there for a "reason"  I could put a stop sign up myself at some   
   >>>>>> arbitrary intersection and you'll still come along and say that stop   
   >>>>>> sign is there for a reason.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> That doesn't really lend credence to your position.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I don't have to "determine what the reason is". I couldn't care less   
   >>>>> where they put Stop signs, and it doesn't even remotely change the FACT   
   >>>>> that the law says to stop at one, whether selfish pig-headed morons like   
   >>>>> it or not.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The damn things aren't that cheap, so they don't go around just sticking   
   >>>>> one wherever they feel like it. There *IS* a reason - if you want to   
   >>>>> know what it is, then go and ask the people in charge of putting it   
   >>>>> there.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In the UK there are two differing signs. One is a stop sign that is   
   >>>> compulsory to stop at and the other is a give way sign where other traffic   
   >>>> has the right of way but if there is no other traffic there is no need to   
   >>>> stop.   
   >>>   
   >>> The same is true in the USA. We have the "stop" sign and the "yield"   
   >>> sign, and where there is no regulatory sign or control mechanism at an   
   >>> intersection our "Vehicle Code" falls back on the "Yield to the right"   
   >>> right of way rule.   
   >>   
   >> Well, okay; but you wouldn't call a yield sign a stop sign, and it's not   
   >> legal to yield at a stop sign. You are supposed to come to a complete   
   >> stop.   
   >   
   > Agreed, the driver is held responsible to obey the law specified by the   
   > posted sign.   
   > Stop requires a coming to complete halt. Yield does not mean you are   
   > free to just move through an intersection with no intention to actually   
   > 'yield" or come to a halt if the circumstances demand it. There are   
   > times you can be just as legally vulnerable by not stopping at a yield   
   > sign, as you should at a stop sign.   
      
   Exactly. I don't get why some folks seem to think otherwise.   
      
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