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by DeRock 861 days ago
> It definitely raises my eyebrows more if cars do it (rare but sadly increasingly less rare)

It is extremely common, the default really, for cars to roll through 4-way stops.

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Maybe where you live? It isn’t as common here in Seattle, although as I said it is definitely becoming less rare.
A rolling stop is not blowing through which he was talking about I think.
When cars do a “rolling stop” what they are really doing is slowing down to 10-15mph, which is the same speed as a cyclist “blowing” through a stop sign at full speed.
I live in Seattle, so you’ll see bikes mostly blow through stop signs going down a decline, they can faster than 10-15 even without e-assist. Cars, when they do ignore the stop sign, can be going up or down, however. If I see a bike going downhill approaching a stop sign, I assume they are going to try and ignore it if it won’t obviously get them killed. Uphill, bikes care more about stopping since they aren’t losing momentum.