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“California stop” is already a reserved term that means something else (slowing down mostly, but not all the way, at a stop sign).
by jblow 7y ago
“California stop” is already a reserved term that means something else (slowing down mostly, but not all the way, at a stop sign).
- sokoloff 7y agoWe always called that a "California roll", though if someone said "California stop" to me, I'd assume it was the same thing.
- SilasX 7y agoSorry if too OT, but I'm reminded of AWS's infuriating convention of using "on-demand" and "spot" instances to mean very different things.
- brogrammer5 7y agoI've also heard that called a "Hollywood stop".
- opportune 7y agoBasically every single part of the US has a term for this as if people only do it there
- loeg 7y agoI'm in Washington — we call it a California stop too, for whatever reason.[1] A particular counterexample is the Idaho stop.[2] [1]: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/was-california-stop-really-invented-california/ https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/was-californi... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
- amanaplanacanal 7y ago> I'm in Washington — we call it a California stop too, for whatever reason. Same in Oregon. I'm guessing it has something to do with intersections controlled by "yield" signs in California, which we don't see many of here.