Haynes moves to legalize ‘rolling stops’

[StlouisX50]

http://www.farragutpress.com/article.../01/13623.html

[StlouisX50]

It's a hate love idea. Reasons
- People in the town will get used to it and start driving the same way in areas that rolling stops will earn you a ticket.

- You can pretty much yield and not get a ticket for not stopping all the way.

I just do not trust others so I do not care for this type of allowance.

[aa2033]

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[supercowpowers]

- People in the town will get used to it and start driving the same way in areas that rolling stops will earn you a ticket.

"The town" would seem to be the entire state of Tennessee. Still, I think the vehicle code should be as consistent as possible between states to avoid confusion. If this goes through I predict out of state drivers getting rear ended for stopping when they weren't expected to and Tennessee drivers whining about getting tickets elsewhere.

In general, I'm kind of ambivalent about this idea. I have to admit there are many intersections at which stopping completely is a good idea because of poor visibility or a large number of collision risks to check. However, there are many intersections which have plenty of visibility in all directions and where stopping completely is just tedious. Also, there are some signals around here that do really retarded things like turning from green to red before giving a green right turn arrow, or giving a perpendicular road a left turn arrow while you get a red, forcing you to stop when there's no collision risk from other cars if you're just turning right. So I can see how it makes sense to allow rolling stops, but I'm not sure if I trust the general public to consistently determine when they really do have to stop.

For this to work, there would have to be some sort of public education campaign to make sure people know that this new privilege would come with greater expectations of their judgment. I'm not old enough to remember what happened when right turns on red were first allowed, but somehow that worked out too.

[Akosikojak]

not in favor of this. i've never liked rolling stops. people just want to get on their way, and they don't understand the concept of right of way.

^Agree

- People in the town will get used to it and start driving the same way in areas that rolling stops will earn you a ticket.

"The town" would seem to be the entire state of Tennessee. Still, I think the vehicle code should be as consistent as possible between states to avoid confusion. If this goes through I predict out of state drivers getting rear ended for stopping when they weren't expected to and Tennessee drivers whining about getting tickets elsewhere.

^Agree because>>>>In my travels through CA where everybody and their Mama (including CHP's and LcL LEO's) roll through Stop signs even though it's Illegal to do so, caused me some huge problems at 1st because I was not used to it. It is the accepted "norm" out in CA for this driving behavior and I have come extremely close to hitting some peeps who arbitrarily run stop signs and then look at you like your the A-hole So I agree w/supercowpowers it would create the potential for some very serious accidents for the "out of towners" for their 1st time through TN.

[NETWizz]

This is a terrible idea. A stop sign means "STOP" and ALL people (cops, firefighters, teaches, & judges included) should stop until their wheels actually quit turning (i.e. the car should rock back on the suspension)

I am much more in favor of them changing out some stop signs with yield signs; that is why the exist!

[StlouisX50]

You all bring up a good point. I would also say that it makes you look suspicious to an officer that knows everyone runs the stop sign and you stop. I know it sounds ass backwards , but it happens.