Originally Posted by
pacificaslim
The fact is that a complete stop is very rarely ever necessary. If one has looked at all the places where potential hazards may appear, and has already determined it is safe to proceed, what good will come from stopping and spending additional time making the same determination? There is either something crossing your path, or not.
In fact, those that roll stop signs are often being more alert than those that just blindly pull up to the stop sign line, stop, and then glance around. Those intending to roll it are at least looking around a head of time for cops, ha!
I disagree with those who roll through stop signs are being more alert. First, if you look at the video you would see there were some drivers who barely even slowed down, they just more or less went through with out any sign of slowing.
You give both cyclists and motorists a bad name. Drivers like you are the ones I really despise when approaching a stop sign controlled intersection. You're the type who misjudge the distance I am from the intersection when I have no stop sign to stop at and you go rolling through with out stopping and almost hit me. I've had it happen more times then I care to count. My Air Zound has helped control some of it. When I see drivers rolling through an intersection and NOT stop and I am entering the intersection or about to and there is a risk of us colliding I send out a blast. That pretty much always causes a driver to stop, often slamming on their brakes. Doing this has saved my ass on more then one occasion. I have no qualms or guilt about doing this to idiot drivers like you. There is something about the 115 decibal blast of an air horn that is very effective. I can't explain it, I'm just glad it works.
I am guessing you ride your bike like you drive. Roll through stop signs, etc. That being the case it is because of you other drivers hate us. Because cyclists like you do not stop at stop signs, are supposed to and just roll through because you think your messed up philosophy if why you do it is right. Sharing the roadways and getting along goes both ways. Cyclists can not ***** and moan about what drivers do to us when there are cyclists like you who disobey the traffic laws. You're a hypocrit when it comes to something like that. The next time a motorist does something to you while you're riding bike, you'd better not come on this forum and bith about it when you ride bike the way you do an do not stop at stop signs.