LA drivers, when you are at a stop sign and see a car coming out of a parking lot, are you expected to always leave a gap for them?

It's kind of the law. If they're cutting across lanes, they're pieces of shit, though. You're just not supposed to block driveways, curb cuts. People who think they are entitled to cut across multiple lanes are the same people who think nothing of backing out across those same lanes. They're driving hazardously/suicidally.

VEHICLE CODE - VEH DIVISION 11. RULES OF THE ROAD [21000 - 23336] ( Division 11 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. )

CHAPTER 9. Stopping, Standing, and Parking [22500 - 22526] ( Chapter 9 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. )

A person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:

(e) (1) In front of a public or private driveway, except that a bus engaged as a common carrier, schoolbus, or a taxicab may stop to load or unload passengers when authorized by local authorities pursuant to an ordinance.

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