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There are only 3 strategies for crossing streets with no traffic control:

Cross:
• during a "crossable gap in traffic" (explained on the next page);
• when vehicles in all lanes approaching the crossing have stopped (yielded) for you;
• trusting that all drivers who might approach will yield for you.
  
  
Except for a page or two about expectations of drivers yielding, the Self-Study Guide is entirely about crossing during a "crossable gap in traffic."

There are a variety of strategies that people use to determine when there is a crossable gap in traffic.
• Some of these are reliable only in certain circumstances, such as "cross when quiet/clear" and a lot of the Self-Study Guide is devoted to figuring out what those circumstances are.
• Some are reliable only with certain skills, such as the skill most sighted pedestrians and drivers use to determine that the approaching vehicles are far / slow enough that there is time to cross before they arrive (addressed in Section 4).
• Some strategies are very unreliable regardless of circumstances and skill, such as crossing with a vehicle from the stop sign beside you, as explained later.