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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Point made. So, consider this scenario: An exit from a parking lot (NOT a roadway) has a stop sign, but so does the road. Can the car on the road just go ahead and assume he has the right of way?????
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The list of priorities that I try to follow:
1. Don't kill anyone
2. Don't hit anyone
3. Don't hit anything
4. Don't put myself in the position of getting hit
5. Follow the law as best I understand it
6. Be predictable
I haven't seen that configuration. If I did, I would look for the "3-way" text on my stop sign or the presence of an octagonal stop sign in the parking lot. If I saw either of those I would treat it as an intersection of roads. Basically, I would be trying to exercise 3-6 above.
The difference with the MMP is there is no (or only very few) octagonal stop signs on the MMPs. I don't see the signs and I recognize what I am about to cross is not a roadway so I assume the non-automotive traffic must yield to traffic on the roadway.
I guess I use the gates as a physical implementation of a stop light. When they are down I stop, when they are up I go, and when I go I am careful to exercise 3 and 4 regardless of 5.