[darkpuppet]

the truth is that people barely stop for stop signs, treat yield signs as stop signs, and use merge lanes as passing lanes.

It's like when lights go out, or are flashing red, they should be treated as four way stops, but you never see that happen... instead, a whole wack of cars go through all at once until cars in the opposing direction get tired and pull out into the intersection, forcing the others to stop.

stop signs are just needed, people usually don't come to a full stop anyways, so why give them a reason to blow through intersections without looking?

the truth, is that the re-education you suggest would be simpler if we just taught britain how to drive on the right (hand) side of the road. (north american drivers suck)