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>They are pointless when nobody else is around though. It's still good to slow down just to be safe, but there's no reason to come to a full stop. And yet peop
by undersuit 2y ago
>They are pointless when nobody else is around though. It's still good to slow down just to be safe, but there's no reason to come to a full stop.
And yet people still get hit rolling through stop signs.
- autoexec 2y ago> And yet people still get hit rolling through stop signs. Not when there aren't any other people around they don't. Stop signs are good things to follow when they are needed, and pointless to follow when they aren't. People who roll through when they shouldn't are just as bad as people who don't stop or slow down at all and laws do and should exist to punish them. There's no need for enforcement in all cases though. Consideration of context is justice. Brain-dead enforcement regardless of circumstance or outcome is just oppression.
- WrongAssumption 2y agoNo, they get hit when the driver thinks there aren’t other people around.
- autoexec 2y agoThat's what slowing to a crawl is supposed to minimize. Not even coming to a full stop can prevent all accidents. There's no cure for the the blind/drunk/distracted/texting driver. They'll change lanes into other cars on a road with no stop signs, and on roads with them they can fail to see the sign entirely.
- undersuit 2y agoBut if you've stopped and turned your head to look down both sides of the street instead of relying on your peripherals that suck at detecting changes in motion, you've done yourself a huge service in not getting hit.