> It's unreasonable to expect people to act contrary to their incentives. It's actually unreasonable to expect drivers or cyclists to obey traffic laws that ha

> It's unreasonable to expect people to act contrary to their incentives. It's actually unreasonable to expect drivers or cyclists to obey traffic laws that have no sound basis. Many stop signs are in place because they're misused for speed control, or are installed in places where a yield sign would suffice, or they're in place at a T-intersection where it's plainly obvious that there's no traffic to yield to, and so on. What we really need is remove a lot of stop signs and replace them with yield signs. The only intersections where they should stay in place is where visibility of oncoming or cross traffic is limited.