> why are four-way stops a thing at all? Where I am, they are certainly overused - of course, because people agitate for them because safety. But you can read

> why are four-way stops a thing at all? Where I am, they are certainly overused - of course, because people agitate for them because safety. But you can read all about the traffic engineering justification for them in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2b.htm#section2B07 https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2b.htm#section...