[darkpuppet]

a good driver compensates for those around them.... so yes, you stop at the sign, but you slow earlier to give appropriate stopping room.

It's like when you learned in Young Drivers to leave a couple car lengths in front of you at a light to allow extra room for those coming up behind you.

There's a difference between good drivers and drivers who follow the rules, and I think the example of the stop sign is missing that distinction. I still signal before each lane change, I still stop at every stop sign.. I just make sure I accomodate the other idiots out there.

IE... I signal my lane change, and if someone sits in my blind spot, I do my best to show my intentions until they either yield or get out of the blind spot.

Far too often do I see people changing lanes do this order...

check blind spot
signal
change lanes.

it should be..

signal
check blind spot
change lanes

I honestly think it's the little things like that which make all the difference between 'good' and 'actually good'