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[Hugo Miller]

I think he must have done. But the rule is, the first to arrive is the 
first to proceed. Except sometimes it isn't. The clue is whether you can 
see a grey hexagon on a post in the other driver's line of vision - if 
it's there, it's the back of a 'stop' sign, and if it's not, prepare to 
get run down as the other guy ain't stopping! In England and probably 
anywhere else in the world whoever was on the main road would have had 
priority. What I find really disturbing, and this is more in California 
than Florida if I recall, is when you're driving along minding your own 
business, and all of a sudden a white line disappears under your front 
wheels. I always think I've missed a 'stop' sign, but in California they 
just seemt to paint them on the road just for fun. Driving in America is 
really pretty random. Every junction is different; signposting is hit & 
miss (odd number roads are meant to go north-south, but a number of 
times the signpost will say east or west!); every driver seems to follow 
his own rules of the road or none. On the other hand, there are no speed 
cameras, no MoT tests (annual inspections), no endless road-works like 
in the UK, no crash helmets on motorbikes, no compulsory insurance and 
the cops don't bother too much about the speed limits.

On 2020-04-06 04:53, Jay Maechtlen via VirtualVairs wrote:
> On 4/5/2020 1:34 AM, Hugo Miller wrote:
>> I think road signs are to a federal standard. They seem identical 
>> everywhere I've been. I found a five-way stop intersection in San 
>> Francisco that was hilarious watching everybody trying to figure out 
>> whose turn it was to go next. I was once on a back road in California 
>> and came to a T junction with a bigger road. There was a large truck 
>> approaching from my left. I turned to talk to my wife while waiting 
>> for him to pass, & when I looked back he was braking hard, waiting for 
>> me to move!.
>
> Not all truckers are necessarily competent.
>
> The question is, 'did he have a stop sign?'
>
> If he did, he needed to stop. If he didn't, he should not have.
>
> Size here doesn't matter, except in case of self-preservation.