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Patient has arrived at a 4-way stop simultaneously with three other vehicles and has now been motionless for 18 seconds. Each driver is waving the others through. Nobody is going. Eventually, all four cars move at once. A near-collision is avoided. The scenario will repeat in 40 minutes on the way home.
Chronic. The rule of 'person on the right' remains theoretical.
None. Polite waving has become its own traffic jam.
Patients with Advanced 4-Way Stop Paralysis typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced 4-Way Stop Paralysis was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Intermissio quadrata hesitatio — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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