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Re:The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land by simulate-me on Friday April 15, 2022 @01:36PM (#31043094)
You always have the right of way in the U.S. unless there is a stop sign or a yield sign. If both directions have stop signs, then the person who arrived first has the right-of-way. To me, it's more straight forward to always have right-of-way, but that's probably because I'm used to it.
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Re:The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land by bombcar on Friday April 15, 2022 @01:42PM (#31043201)
Unsigned intersections exist and they work as in Europe. The reality of them is people handle them relatively well as long as lines of sight are good, and when they become a problem they’re improved (usually by adding a stop sign that people ignore).

Traffic calming is better done with mechanisms not signs.

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Re:The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land by Ekaros on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:20PM (#31043725)
I only really see here stop signs when there is either very poor visibility or very high speed difference. In my mind it works well enough.
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Re:The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land by AuthorizedCust on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:08PM (#31043564)
> You always have the right of way in the U.S. unless there is a stop sign or a yield sign.

Incorrect. There are explicit right of way rules for completely unsigned intersections. Yes, they do exist. My neighborhood hasn’t been fully polluted with stop signs yet, so about half our intersections are unsigned. The last crash in the neighborhood that I am aware of was about 10 years ago and was wholly unrelated to intersection control.

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Re:The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land by giantg2 on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:49PM (#31044162)
Driveways, parking lots, and some merge lanes don't have stop or yield signs. So it's not always marked.

Much more interesting are one lane tunnels or bridges that have a yield sign on both sides. Effectively, people just do fist come first served, but if it's at the same time you have to negotiate who has the right of way.

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