There is a virtual stop sign at the mouth of every driveway, alley,
parking lot, and anywhere else that something that isn't quite a road
intersects a road or a street.

If two equal byways intersect and nobody has bothered to put up a sign
saying who has the right-of-way, it's a four-way stop.

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