Which puts you on the same level as all those trashy journalists and shady talkshow hosts:

Given that's its annual, and thus extremely predictable when it runs, couldn't you have done something like .. um .. leave for the weekend?

Kurt Cobain saw what was being proposed and . . . . (well you know the rest)

(Too soon?)

Its one thing to do so with permission from the network owners .. its another thing to wade in and beat up on people just so you can get what you want.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

That should have been "Self proclaimed vigilante"

Vigilante beats up on people in order to get public wifi access that he believes is rightfully his

That's what it amounts to. He can't get the access he wants, so he just pushes his way in and takes it.

If access is so important to your work, why aren't you/they paying for it?

But .. but .. but .. Startup!!!!!!!!

Then how come places like NYC don't have internet connections on a par with those in Japan with lower population densities?

Sure you can argue population density in the rural areas, but that does't account for the lack of service in the populous areas.

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.