When do you stop?

Do you come to a full halt at a STOP sign

  • Yes - always

    Votes: 119 28.3%

  • Most of the time

    Votes: 175 41.7%

  • Some of the time

    Votes: 54 12.9%

  • Only when absolutely necessary

    Votes: 72 17.1%
  • Total voters
    420
Solarion said:
When I'm certain that the idiot behind has seen me stopping and isn't going to plow into my bumper. Had to keep going a few times else I would have gotten rear ended.
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Happens to us as well, but peeps also forget that smaller cars like mine can brake much later.
 
I know I'm still not doing it the way the law and K53 says but I slow down enough to be able to stop behind the line if there is a car approaching form the other direction.
If I see another car, I come to a quick full stop and then drive off if I stopped first.

Most people I see slow down enough for them to just get a freight when they see another car that they weren't expecting to be approaching the stop at the same time and then continue driving even when they would have been last to stop if it came to that.
 
TofuMofu said:
I've learned in Cape Town if you don't stop dead, hand brake up and engine off, you get a R1500 fine. So I stop DEAD now...
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What happened you didn't have enough cash for a Nando's for the officer?
 
Conack said:
Then they're dead or maimed I guess.
Hopefully the courtcase will push this license story to a breaking point.
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Bigger inconvenience and financial black hole than if you just took a day off your busy schedule and got your licence renewed.
 
In SA, pretty much always stop and make sure no oncoming traffic. Taxis and those little motor bike delivery dudes appear from nowhere.

US, stop if crossing an intersection - because most are camera watched, but rolling stops on right turns.

Panama and Mexico - the stop sign / red light is a suggestion only :eek:, unless it say "con flecha" - then I stop dead, because those intersections are deadly. :)
 
On this topic, the police in Stellenbosch love to target students who haven't brought their car to a complete stop. In my days, the cops loved to stalk Noordwal Oos there at the bridge.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
On this topic, the police in Stellenbosch love to target students who haven't brought their car to a complete stop. In my days, the cops loved to stalk Noordwal Oos there at the bridge.
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Yes, there are a few of those stops in Stellies - I know exactly where. That rather tricky 3-way stop at the top of the hill of AF Louw Primary is one, it is one where I stop completely and a place I love my cars hill start assist.
 
bwana said:
Do you come to a full halt at a STOP sign, or do you treat the instruction as more as more of a suggestion, and only come to a halt when absolutely necessary?

Qn proposed by @capd​
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If theres no one at the 4-way I slowdown to make sure but wont stop completely unless I see a traffic cop in the distance then I stop completely, pull up my handbrake up, look left, look right, then look left again, check my left view mirror rear mirror and right view mirror, check my blindspots, release handbrake, do all the checks again then go with both hands on my steering wheel and check my mirrors every 5 seconds as I pass the traffic cop.
 
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