Good friend Chandran Sankaran kicks off his new blog with our behavior at four-way stops.
Our GPS units try their darnedest to keep us straight us from getting lost - they can dutifully point out a four-way stop but I doubt any of them can influence what we do when we come to one. May be some day GPS units will talk to sensors on the road and keep us at the speed limit, make us stop where we need to. And soon we will find ways to disarm that functionality :)
Which made me also think about our behavior at an English roundabout. And the same one at the 10(?) entry points at the mother of all roundabouts at Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Or yield to traffic entering highway in Holland. Or right hand drive in Japan - always throws me off because I thought only former British colonies were punished that way. Or behind the wheel of a cab in New York City...
