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Old 03-19-09, 11:33 AM
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pacificaslim
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Others can take the same approach as me: when there is no point in stopping, don't stop. One should only spend as much time looking around and analyzing the situation as necessary to avoid a wreck. Any additional time spent stopping and looking around provides no benefit. I just snarls traffic and increases pollution. There will be no more wrecks with my method than the "always stop" method. In fact, there may be fewer wrecks because in my system people are trying harder to analyze traffic flows in order to save themselves time.

I don't know what makes you think that rolling through after looking all ways and being sure there is no traffic is more dangerous than stopping then looking. Like I said originally, sometimes we need to stop in order to spend more time analyzing the traffic situation and that's a reason to stop. But oftentimes that is totally unnecessary.
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