Tony, those pictures are fricken hilarious... i hope that is coolant all over the ground, or somebody's smashed open oil pan contents. They really SHOULD have a tall outcrop of trees in the middle, or some planters... but you'd think that the bright orange caution signs would do it... I'll leave the arkansas stereotypes out of this
I've noticed some of the little suburban mazes around here (ontario) are throwing in roundabouts instead of 4-way stops... WAY better, especially since it isn't that often that you encounter other cars at the end of your little crescent street, no real need to stop. A 4-way yield would suffice, or a two-way for that matter, but the roundabout gives the developer the opportunity to set up a nice garden and trees in the middle.