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I call bullshit. None of the cyclists I see have ever even heard of a stop sign.
I believe it. Cyclists here are not required to stop for stop signs. Also, most cars just slow down when the intersection is empty.
Not where I live. Also how would that make sense? It’s a four-way intersection of car traffic if you blow through it at the wrong time you die.
Several states in the US have laws on the books allowing bikers to conditionally ignore stop signs, but typically to "downgrade" a stop sign to a yield sign. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
The basic premise is that because a bike is slow enough, and the stopping distance of a bike at speed is short enough, a bike can approach an intersection, make a judgment call on if they need to stop, and if they don't expect to get hit, they can cross without coming to a full stop first like a car does.