a. Not everyone lives in the city
No, they don't, but when you're out in the sticks and can see a car on a side road from 5 miles away it's hardly an issue, right?
b. You don't have to stop or really even slow all that much in order
> to take a quick glance to make sure some idiot is not about to run the
> red. It's saved me before.
Saved you from what?
Are you seriously telling me that you slow to some degree at *every* intersection when you have the right of way?
-- Regards, Noddy.