Recently I was in an accident where the driver appeared to confuse the intersection as a four way stop instead of a two way stop. As I was traveling down the street without the stop signs, the other driver had gotten to the intersection first and, probably figuring that she had gotten to what she believed to be a four way stop, made a quick stop and proceeded to go through the intersection. Our neighborhood is filled with a mixture of these two way and four way stops and you must continually remind yourself not to take things for granted. It seems if there was a different kind of stop sign (or at least the same stop sign with an added feature) to designate whether a stop is at a two way or a four way stop it might help.
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They can already post such information but it still doesn't always work. More importantly you should have slowed to a safe speed when entering the intersection, defensive driving is the key.
This is a good idea. It would not be too much trouble to indicate if it is a 2 way or a 4 way stop and it may prevent accidents.
If there is not a sign under the stop sign indicating it is 3 WAY, 4 WAY, or ALL WAY stop you should figure it's not. That's the default, the same way that all speed limits on residential streets are 25 unless otherwise signed.
Maybe off the subject, but if your neighborhood is "filled" with stop signs perhaps a traffic study should be done to see if they are all warrented. What happens when there are "political" stop signs is that people notice there is never cross traffic when they stop and after a while they quit stopping. ( A political stop sign is one that gets installed because the neighborhood association petitions the city counsel or adlerman until he gets tired of hearing about it . . . It usually starts out with, "People continually speed in my neighborhood so we need stop signs every other block.")