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I think legal or not, almost every driver has "rolled a stop sign" (where you come to an almost complete stop but roll through if no one is there).

• mwint 4y ago
  I wonder if you could build an argument that rolling stops save lives through reduced emissions.
  • dcow 4y ago
    Or through marginally reduced time sitting as drivers.
  • actionablefiber 4y ago
    That was part of the argument for right-on-red, but given that both of these frequently kill people, and rampant deaths-by-car are a powerful disincentive to walk or bike, I don't think the math works out in favor of this argument.
• jeffbee 4y ago
  I don't know what it's like where you live, but in Berkeley, CA you are more likely to be hit by a meteor than see a driver make a full and complete stop at a stop sign in the absence contention from another car. Cars, for the most part, roll right through a stop sign at the same speed that a bicyclist would. The difference is it seems superficially as if the driver slowed when they were speeding at 40 in a 25, slowed to 5-10 for the intersection, and then blew through the sign. Whereas a bicyclists who just proceeds at a steady 8 MPH through an intersection will leave nearby drivers foaming at the mouth.