Enough with the complaining about stop signs already. If I'm biking out in the suburbs with no car in sight, and I slow down at a Stop signs, rather than coming to a "full and complete stop" and checking both ways 3 times, some fat motorist is sure to notice from a distance and bitch about it on the internet later. 
Look at it this way. If you are driving at 50km/h, and you hit the brakes, you braking distance will be about 23 metres, or 75 feet. 
If a cyclist is coasting along at regular speed and hits the brakes, it'll take what, like 1 metre distance? 
THAT is why cars have to be more respectful of Stop signs.