Martin Underwood:
The main difficulties [driving in America] came with adapting to things
that weren't just a lateral inversion ...

- lack of a stop or give-way line across the road where my minor road meets
a major road...
- coupled with the previous problem, pedestrian crossings consist of
two very prominent white lines across the road ... where a crossing
was close to a junction, I tended to stop at the crossing (even when
there were no pedestrians) thinking it was the junction stop line.

Good, because that's the correct thing to do. If the crosswalk is set
back far enough that you can't see the traffic on the other street --
which is unlikely -- then you're supposed to draw forward slowly after
stopping until you can.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "These Millennia are like buses."
--Arwel Parry