Originally Posted by B. Carfree

Suppose you are cycling along a roadway and you approach an intersection where the cross traffic has a stop sign and you don't. When a car approaches the stop sign at a high rate of speed, you have to make a decision regarding whether the motorist sees you and is going to yield the right-of-way to you, in which case you pedal along, or whether you think the motorist is going to run the stop sign at a high enough speed to do damage to you, in which case you need to take evasive action. This is really fun when descending a hill on a tandem, by the way.

In OR, it seems to be fairly common to keep one's foot glued to the accelerator until the last possible moment, at which time it is moved to the brake. Perhaps this is why I see so many thriving auto body repair shops.