Originally Posted by
chaadster
Interesting assessment. I was guessing that if people treated yields like green lights, yield sign locations would be common scenes of accidents. I don’t see that around here, but maybe my observations are not as comprehensive or insightful as yours.
We have a couple of intersection yields here, but not as 4-way controls: the signs also say crossing traffic does not stop. We also have yields at all traffic roundabouts here, and there, too, they seem to work because people don’t go sailing into the circle with reckless abandon.
Well like I said, I have only seen them around here for merge lanes, and I have seen many close calls on those, but I wouldn't really know how people would treat them at a 4 way intersection. My observations are mostly limited to the big metropolitan city where people are always in a hurry and distracted by everything. We Angelinos have forgotten how to think for ourselves and are therefore not likely to stop or even slow for a railroad track that doesn't have a crossing guard, or slow down for a blind curve or intersection. You haven't lived until you've been through an intersection with 3 lanes in every direction plus turn lanes when the signal is out!