Yeah .. but it's "Certified Pre-owned". How else are you supposed to know that it was actually pre-owned. They might be lying about that. This way you are 100% guaranteed that it actually is a pre-owned Tesla. And that's good to know. Being able to sleep soundly at night knowing that your car is really pre-owned is well worth the money you pay for it being Certified!

You are totally skirting around the correct solution. In 100% of crashes, the common element among all of them is the driver. Ban the driver and you solve the problem of driver distracted crashes.

You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended her lucky streak. I posit that that particular red light was not the first one that she had run, and that red light cameras could have caught her actions sooner and punished just her and not you. On the other hand they would have done nothing if it was a first the offense for her. But on the third hand .. if it was well known in the first place that you get severely punished for running red lights and you will be caught, then there would have been less of a chance for even her first offense.

BTW when I said I see people running red lights , I was discounting the ones that sneak through slowly. I'm talking about people running them at normal travel speed with no other traffic around. I am at the point in a lot of cases where I treat a light turning green as "lets just wait a moment and see if the idiots have already left the scene"

I think it comes from having ridden motorcycles and knowing that certain death was only moments away unless I was fully aware of my surroundings and in control of my actions.

For example I also don't trust mirrors and turn my head to look where I am about to change lanes to.

That wouldn't have worked in my case. I stopped in traffic, the car behind me stopped, the car behind them stopped (and that car had a trailer) . Then a fourth car rear-ended the car with the trailer, who was pushed into the next car, which was pushed into me. That impact broke my rear axle and put my car off the road. My only saving grace was that I had left enough room ahead of me so that I wasn't pushed into the car ahead of me.

But yeah .. keeping an eye out behind you and leaving an escape route in front of you is good, basic defensive driving.

Thats my point. That should be the rare event, not the common event. Ideally 10 seconds should be nonexistent. But with no feedback loop controlling bad drivers, the "couple or seconds" gets accepted as the norm.

Sorry for you accident.

But to go off on a tangent/rant, its a regular occurrence (easily 3 or 4 times year) for me to be facing a green light and have someone come through against the red. Yet I never see any of those people on the phone .. they are just really really bad drivers and are accidents waiting to happen.

To me the obvious solution is red light cameras that can deliver some feedback to such idiots by slapping them with a fine before they hit someone. And while I am well aware of the "red-light-camera-as-free-money" scams, opponents of red light cameras never seem to offer alternatives that would help control these dangerous idiots.

I saw the headline and then moused over the link thinking "Yep .. its a dice click bait story"

Dice a company that runs a market matching candidates and employers, promoting that a large group of people are well suited as employees. And doing so on a website that they own.

First, there's a crapton of legacy software out there.

And there you have it. In this day and age we should be using "Metric crapton's", not the older imperial standard.

That particular one goes back a bit further than Reagan by a couple of decades itself. 1953 Iranian coup d'état IMHO Putting the puppet dictator in power in the first place is the root cause of a hell of a lot of radical islamic behavior.

Oh the irony

You think that's bad? They follow Ars by about 3 days

They are starting to. And the first place that I ever used my chipped CC at was Walmart. (Which confused the hell out of the associate who was insisting that I swipe the card, rather than inserting it into the chip reader slot)

What sort of company allows their marketing department to show their product in a bad light? Especially when they are in full control of showing things that are easily verifiable.

And I didn't "spend time to figure out where the map was". I am simply very familiar with the city and the route that was shown. Funnily enough if you show something from an identifiable, real world location in your advertisement, there exists people who know that location.