Originally Posted by
syn0n
I do the same thing in my car and on my bike: slow to approximately 3mph, stop completely only if if necessary, look, and proceed.
When my wife first learned to drive she had this "stop only if necessary" attitude....
... until it almost got her killed a couple times. These incidents were enough to get her open to hearing what she was doing wrong. I suggested that instead of approaching the intersection thinking she would go unless she saw something, it would be safer to think sh would stop and change that only after concluding that nothing was coming. It's a subtle difference, but if you're thinking "go" as you approach the intersection, it becomes really easy to miss something, or misjudge an approaching vehicle's speed.