Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:25:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Lane.org
Subject: Yield does not mean stop.
Remember a red YIELD means to stop and yield.
Just a point of order… Yield signs mean just that… Yield. They do NOT mean STOP. The red Octogon sign with STOP written across it means stop.
Yield meas the following:
IF entering a road and oncomming traffic has right of way, you must slow or stop to allow oncomming traffic to pass before you may proceed.
IF entering a road and oncoming traffic is not close enough, meaning you can get into the flow of traffic safely, you do NOT have to stop, you can proceed and merge into traffic.
If the Yield sign meant that you had to stop, then we’d all be stopping on every interstate ramp to wait for passing traffic before gingerly pulling out onto the freeway into traffic… yes?
Not defending people who don’t seem to understand what Yield means, and not to defend the bad drivers who are already IN the circle racing around it to the exclusion of all pedestrians and incoming vehicles, but those ENTERING must Yield to traffic, but they do NOT have to stop unless a full stop would be safer than proceeding out into the circle.