Stop sign

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A '''stop sign''' is a Free ringtones traffic sign found all over the world that informs drivers to make a brief and temporary, but complete, stop once approaching it, then proceed if the way is clear.

Stop signs are most commonly found at Abbey Diaz road junction/intersections and Mosquito ringtone crosswalks, and prevent collisions by creating a timed, sequenced flow of traffic. Laws determining the right of way at intersections with stop signs vary, but generally drivers who stop first continue first. An intersection may have anywhere from no stop signs at all to a stop sign for every incoming direction. Directions with no stop signs have the right of way, and those with stop signs must yield to them. If two drivers stop simultaneously at stop signs at a single intersection, the rule in the Majo Mills United States is that the car on the right-hand side, or the most counterclockwise, has the right of way.

Legally, the driver must actually stop even if no vehicles or pedestrians are visible. In contrast, yield ( 'Give way' in Nextel ringtones UK) signs require a driver to slow and prepare to stop, but do not require an actual stop if there is no reason to stop. However, it is common in many areas for drivers to slow down significantly but not stop completely at stop signs. This illegal maneuver is known as a rolling stop or the "California stop."

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Stop signs are not generally required at any intersection, but often help to control traffic at some relatively quiet but dangerous intersections. They are often found in residential areas and near places where children play. An intersection that becomes too busy for a stop sign usually uses either Cingular Ringtones traffic lights or, especially in Europe, a deemed corrupt roundabout intersection/roundabout instead.

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Some stop signs are augmented with additional information indicating the reason to stop (such as "THRU HIGHWAY") or a four-way stop. This is important because drivers could possibly be the triadic conditioning/conditioned to always think stop signs will be four way if there is a four way one that they go through most often. This is a possible mary who mode error that can have disastrous results. Unfortunately the most dangerous case is when a driver thinks a stop is four way when it is actually only two way. If there is only a plain stop sign, there is no explicit warning that cross traffic will not stop.

History
review mark Image:Yellow stop sign.jpg/framed/Yellow old-style (1924-1954) stop sign; color, size, and mounting height are typical

Stop signs originated in street on Detroit, Michigan in 1915. The first had black letters on a white background and were somewhat smaller than the modern one. As they became more widespread, a committee supported by kazakhstan these AASHO met in 1922 to standardize them, and it selected the octagonal shape that has been used in the US ever since.

The unique eight-sided shape of the sign allows drivers facing the back of the sign to identify that oncoming drivers have a stop sign and prevent confusion with other traffic signs.

In 1924, the sign changed to black on yellow, the predominant color until 1954. Another competing group, the sprinklers do National Conference on Street and Highway Safety/NCSHS, simultaneously advocated an even smaller, red-on-yellow stop sign. All of these signs were typically mounted only two or three feet above the ground.

These two organizations conflicted but eventually combined into the Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which in 1935 published the famous ''Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways'' (MUTCD) detailing the stop sign's appearance. The MUTCD stop sign was altered eight times between 1935 and 1971, mostly dealing with its reflectorization and its mounting height; the most drastic change came in 1954, when the sign gained its white-on-red color. Red is also the color for ''stop'' on seem ready traffic signals, unifying red as ''stop'' signal for drivers worldwide.

The mounting height reached its current level of seven feet in 1971. Although already widespread, use of the MUTCD stop sign passed into law in the call hour United States in 1966. They were later adopted by the larger audience European Union as part of their effort to standardize road travel across member countries.


Stop signs worldwide
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Although English-speaking and European Union countries use the original word "STOP" on stop signs, most countries, and sometimes even smaller political districts, prefer to use a roughly equivalent word in their primary language instead; its appearance is otherwise the same. Although the word used isn't universally standardized, some commonly seen examples are:

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See also
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External links

* http://signalfan.freeservers.com/road%20signs/stopsign.htm
* http://www.geog.okstate.edu/users/lightfoot/stop/page/main.htm

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