How do you treat signs when you’re driving your car? Are you a strict rule follower? Does a stop sign cause you to come to a full stop, or a rolling stop, or no stop at all if you see no traffic? What about that intersection you go through every day, where you never see a car approaching from any other direction? Do you begin to question the need for the stop sign? Do you just treat it as a yield sign? Do you quickly check for a traffic camera or patrol car looking to catch you?

And what do you do at yellow lights?

When I moved to Massachusetts during the 1960s, the law was that if you came to a full stop and were the second or third car at the stop sign, you didn’t have to stop a second time. What happened when a Massachusetts driver went to another state, not knowing its laws? Coming from New York, I was honked at a number of times when I stopped at a stop sign as the second or third car. (By the way, the Massachusetts law changed in the 1970s.)

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