I took a look at the pictures in the article. I can see where a 4 way stop may be needed there. There are sidewalks and cross walks in the intersection. Coming from one direction of the road there is a curve, from the other direction there is a bridge with a ridge causing decreased visibility of the intersection. There was even a pedestrian in the photo! That is not an intersection to make a country-wide stand on for misplacement of stop signs because at that location there probably should be one.
John, you are missing a lot of things. Many college students and others for that matter go out drinking Thursday night and it is not as bad as Friday nights but is a reason for more accidents than any of the other weekdays. Mondays would be a little higher because people stay up later on the weekend and are more tired on Mondays. Being tired makes a person make more mistakes while driving. It makes sense that Tuesdays and Wednesdays would have fewer accidents.
My advice to you is boycott them all and stay off the road and cancel your insurance. Sounds like a plan to me. You would then have nothing to complain about.
Some towns turn their stop lights off when it gets later at night and switch them to a flashing red or yellow. Did you bring that up to your local officials or do you just sit back and call them names? Our government is supposed to help us but if you can not think of any constructive advice for them then you have to live with what you have. Have a good time complaining.
Nondiesel engines also burn more than one type of fuel and everyone can not use deep-frying grease because after a hand full of people do it there is non left.
One thing I noticed today driving to work is that drivers feel they have the responsibility to go over the speed limit. It is not that they need to get anywhere faster. i was passed today when I was almost to work on a blind curve. I was already going a few miles over the limit so no one would have to pass. He did anyway. He did it to drive about 3 mph faster and then when i got closer to town and in a slightly slower speed limit I ended up passing him. and I was going the speed limit at the time. Speeding for the most part is felt to be a responsibility to most all that do it. If he does not speed he gets tailgated by someone that does feel it is his responsibility to speed. Speeding for the most part is not needed and for many that do it only saves them a few seconds per trip. That is not worth passing ion a blind curve but many feel it is. That is why we have police enforce speed limits to some extent. People do dumb things unless they are stopped in some way.
I would say it is pretty dangerous to not have any stop signs at an intersection unless there is a yield sign or a traffic light. In the US we have signs telling us when to stop or slow down and yield. If there are none, in every area that I have driven you have the right to proceed without slowing down(unless you were speeding in the first place and then you should). I would say the activist that wrote this article does not know the rules of the road. It is fine if you are in a country that does not have signs, you can then look out for the other guy and yield at every intersection. In the US we have signs and we depend on them being correct. Everything I have ever seen is that the major road in an intersection would not have a stop sign and the other road would have a stop sign or a yield sign. If they are like streets with the same traffic in both directions there is usually a 4 way stop. The signs should be based on the road and the traffic. If the intersection is wrongly controlled and interferes with traffic then you try to get it fixed. You do not do that with a blanket statement that all stop signs should not be followed.
You are correct. Insurance premiums are based on cost of coverage to the insuance complany. If you live and drive in a city with a lot of accidents your rates are going to be higher. If you live in a state where most people do not have coverage and you have to provide extra coverage to yourself to make up for it then your rate is going to be higher. Many people do not understand insurance and what affects the rates. They say that getting speeding tickets should not increase your rate. Statistics show that a person with more tickets on average causes higher costs to insurance companies. This is because the majority of people that get speeding tickets are above the 85 perctile speed and every study done shows that those people cause more accidents and more costly accidents.
Supply and demand are for things like wheat and corn and oil. Supply and demand does not have anything to do with things like insurance. For insurance when the demand increases the cost goes down. It is cheaper per policy for a company to handle insuring a million policies rather than insuring 100,000.
James, I knew I had heard that many states you can self insure and not buy insurance. I did a search and the first article I found had an example from Washington.
You must carry the same auto liability insurance limits if you choose to buy a bond instead of an auto insurance policy. If you use a certificate of deposit, you must deposit $60,000 in cash or securities with the Office of the State Treasurer.
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