But you, sdold, are not going to be able to convince many people (a large # of people, look at the poll so far) to discontinue treating stop signs and red lights as yield signs.

So whether you do or not, you will always be looked badly upon by car drivers, right? The perception will never change because thousands of cyclists everywhere are treating stop signs and red lights like yield signs.

You will always be looked upon in a negative light by someone, somewhere, for any number of things. Why care?

The only thing we can do is to implement the Idaho stop law everywhere. That way drivers won't be able to hate us, because, well, we will be doing what is legal, right?