Was this mentioned?
When you are on a bike you trust the car behind you will stop and get nervous if it doesn't look like they might. Speaking for myself, I have gone through stop signs many times because there was lots of space ahead and I would rather explain my decision to a police officer and hope he understood or pay the fine if he didn't. It's a calculated risk.
Unless you know from experience how fragile you feel on a bike compared to sitting in a car you probably won't understand.
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