4-way stops: just go when it's your $%!@ turn!

[AMCRambler]

ulls into thread, looks around, waves JohnJohn through:

/firstworldproblems

 

[grrl]

Traffic necro.

 

[feralkid]

I guess he doesn't know why they call it right of way.

You're not serious, are you?

And what have you been up to the last five years?

 

[sze5003]

I came to one of these 4 way stops. I reached my stop sign first, stopped, looked both ways. Car on the right was approaching the stop sign but not stopped yet they were on their way. I continued through the intersection and next thing I know there is an SUV in my passenger side. Took my insurance 10 months to give me my deductible back. I was not at fault and the person I think had been texting since when I got out to see if they were ok, had their cell on their lap. Was so pissed.

 

[zCypher]

Btw, same goes for pedestrians and cyclists. When you have the right-of-way, just GO! The other day I was about to walk a crosswalk with a gigantic, neon yellow "yield to pedestrians" sign in front of it. Another pedestrian was crossing from the opposite side. A driver yielded, as he should, and so I began to cross. The other idiot pedestrian waves the car to go through ON TOP OF ME. He stood there waving like a fucking idiot, wondering why the driver wouldn't run me over. Gargh. People!!!

LMAO! You win the thread.

I have also experienced this stop sign madness. People either go when it's my turn, or don't go when it's their turn. WTF, it's not that complicated. You can be a terrible driver and still get this right. Yet people just don't. That, and people don't seem to know what a yield sign means. Sigh.

Oh well.

 

[RossMAN]

WTF for a minute I thought Skoorb returned.

 

[DrunkenSano]

At the intersection of Main Street and Oak Lane, four vehicles approach. A fire truck comes from the south, a police car from the west, an ambulance from the north, and a federal mail truck from the east. Which car has the right of way? Assume all cars which have sirens have them on.

Fire truck goes first because it's the biggest, ambulance second because they have save someone's life, police car goes last because the donuts will still be there.

 

[rasczak]

Four-way stops are not all that complicated. You go in the order you arrived. If two cars arrive simultaneously, the car on the right has the priority. That's it--all there is to it. So I am completely baffled at how often I pull up to a 4-way stop intersection, see another car who *clearly* arrived long before I did, then who sits there and looks around, then waves me through.

If you're one of these people, please stop. You're not being polite by waving someone else through when it's obviously your turn to go. You're only stopping up traffic, creating momentary frustration and confusion, because you weren't paying attention and have no idea that it's your turn (or don't "trust" the other cars to wait for theirs).

[/weak rant]

Instead of getting pissed off about it, just go?

 

[spaceman]

gthink about it
if u put one drive thru connected to another drive thru

 

[xanis]

I came to one of these 4 way stops. I reached my stop sign first, stopped, looked both ways. Car on the right was approaching the stop sign but not stopped yet they were on their way. I continued through the intersection and next thing I know there is an SUV in my passenger side. Took my insurance 10 months to give me my deductible back. I was not at fault and the person I think had been texting since when I got out to see if they were ok, had their cell on their lap. Was so pissed.

I would have been livid. This is right here proves just how retarded people can be behind the wheel.

 

[sze5003]

I would have been livid. This is right here proves just how retarded people can be behind the wheel.

Oh yeah they had all kinds of excuses saying she was trying to get to a hospital. But your driving down a suburb street when the hospital is on no where near this area and would be on the main road anyway. This happened on my 25th birthday too.

I was more upset at my insurance allstate did not have me in good hands. I dropped them now for geico. Much cheaper and more coverage.

Just this morning some idiot that should have gone from his stop sign since I was waiting for him, he had stopped first, decided to drive to the middle of the intersection then stop and wave me on to make my left turn. Wtf

 

[bigrash]

At the intersection of Main Street and Oak Lane, four vehicles approach. A fire truck comes from the south, a police car from the west, an ambulance from the north, and a federal mail truck from the east. Which car has the right of way? Assume all cars which have sirens have them on.

I remember reading this when I was young. Our mail is more important than our health.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I spend a good deal of time on the road, driving 25k-35k miles per year. I can definitely agree that 4 way stops simply baffle some people. Others do the rolling stop and tear right through.

OTOH, No right on red seems to baffle people as well.

 

[disappoint]

At the intersection of Main Street and Oak Lane, four vehicles approach. A fire truck comes from the south, a police car from the west, an ambulance from the north, and a federal mail truck from the east. Which car has the right of way? Assume all cars which have sirens have them on.

The lighthouse. It can't move. Over.

 

[johnjohn320]

Instead of getting pissed off about it, just go?

Well, duh, I go. But that's not the point.

 

[JEDI]

WTF for a minute I thought Skoorb returned.

now u got me curious.
where did he go?

 

[mizzou]

You know what I hate, people who stop in a 4 lane road to turn across traffic when its busy, and the guy in the fast lane stops with a huge traffic line behind him, and the slow lane to the right appears "empty"

you get waved through and WHAM a car from the slow lane smacks the one trying to cross.

If traffic is so busy you can't turn left without causing a traffic jam or accident, figure out another way to get to Starbucks or McDonalds

 

[RossMAN]

now u got me curious.
where did he go?

Skoorb, the popular Canadian changed his username to StageLeft and has beeen MIA since September 30, 2010.

 

[OverVolt]

Four-way stops are not all that complicated. You go in the order you arrived. If two cars arrive simultaneously, the car on the right has the priority. That's it--all there is to it. So I am completely baffled at how often I pull up to a 4-way stop intersection, see another car who *clearly* arrived long before I did, then who sits there and looks around, then waves me through.

If you're one of these people, please stop. You're not being polite by waving someone else through when it's obviously your turn to go. You're only stopping up traffic, creating momentary frustration and confusion, because you weren't paying attention and have no idea that it's your turn (or don't "trust" the other cars to wait for theirs).

[/weak rant]

You too are a person like this then. Thats how it works, when two polite people are at the stop sign. When someone waves me through I just GO without hesitation. I'm like THANKS WHATEVER SCREW THIS INTERSECTION, sometimes even to myself out loud

It still doesn't bug me though. Actually makes me enjoy it.

 

[Aikouka]

Ah, I never posted my incredibly important opinion in this all those years ago; what a wonderful opportunity has been presented for all of you! :biggrin:

I run into this often in this one shopping center around here, and it makes me want to do something unkind to a harmless little kitten. I end up waiting for them because I know that they're first, but they just sit there, and I usually have to end up waving them on. It's even worse when I'm in the car behind the one who should be going, but they're just sitting there like a brainless dolt.

 

[johnjohn320]

You too are a person like this then. Thats how it works, when two polite people are at the stop sign. When someone waves me through I just GO without hesitation. I'm like THANKS WHATEVER SCREW THIS INTERSECTION, sometimes even to myself out loud

It still doesn't bug me though. Actually makes me enjoy it.

Heh, I'm not a person like this, because although I'm polite, I can follow traffic laws. That's my point-people think they're being "polite" by not knowing when their turn is.

 

[amdhunter]

The moment you delay - I'm taking the chance and going first.
You snooze, you lose.

 

[bearxor]

I get more upset when someone sits there until I stop to go. It's not like I am going to ram into them. JUST GO!

yeah. until that one idiot decides to blow a stop sign and they get in a wreck.

i will wait until the car comes to a stop. if it pisses them off ohwell.

I'm a little bit more cautious with this as well. It really depends on how fast the car coming to the stop sign is going. If I can clearly see that they're slowing down, I'll go, but I've seen them not hit the brakes until they're right at the stop sign, and even had some of them blow it completely.

 

[rasczak]

Well, duh, I go. But that's not the point.

My point is it's useless getting worked up over someone being freaking nice. They were being courteous, yet in typical American fashion, you complain about it.

 

[SamQuint]

I hate the ones where two cars approach an intersection at about the same time and one asshat will stop quickly even if they are 5-10ft behind the line so that they can say they were at the intersection first so they can try to force their right of way.

You have to be at the line at a complete stop before I ever give you the right of way.