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There's two types of stop signs in the US- normal stop sign and a 4 way stop. 4 way stops are marked as such. Normal stop signs work "like Europe."

In practice stop signs don't work at all in the US. People roll through them, sometimes not even slowing down and can't understand whoo goes first at 4 way stop. So they either sit at the stop sign frantically waving on all cars that are approaching until no more cars are approaching or they just go at some random time or they just blow through the sign altogether.

Anyways, 4 way stops aren't just for slowing down traffic, though they are sometimes used that way. They are for when you have two roads coming together that both have roughly the same amount of traffic (no 'main' road) but don't want to put in a light.