Originally Posted by
skye
I always stop at stop signs when I don't see any traffic. It's not the car I see that's going to run over my sorry ass, it's the car I don't see.
I agree. Just a couple of weeks ago I came to a stop sign, stopped, saw no cars and immediately started off again. As I started off, I saw a car to my right, that I clearly should have yielded to. When I stopped I had been certain that it was parked, but as I started off I saw it clearly was not. Sometimes, only luck carries one through situations like this - if the driver had taken his turn, I might have had a bad day. Although, since I did stop, the chances are that I would have been able to manoeuvre more easily than if I hadn't.