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Continuing roads have higher traffic and therefore higher priority
Engineers want traffic to stop as little as possible. Take a "T" intersection, the cross (-) does not have to stop, but for the stem (I) to change directions they will want to snow down, so making them stop is easy
Is it not better to have shorter stops as opposed to longer stops? Usually the terminating road would not have any cars on it, so the continuing road would run as usual, but in the event that the terminating road does have a car, it should be able to safely access the continuing road without stopping
What you're suggesting would require a stop light + sensors to be done safely. That costs much more than just putting up a stop sign on the road that is normally empty.
What would happen if a yield sign were put on a 2-lane continuing road (1 lane per direction)