The thing that made it so notable at the time is that it was basically using 'all the things'... a hardcoded password by Siemens, a zero day in some Siemens code, a couple stolen private keys from Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, and 4 Windows zero days (the print spooler one, something with Shortcuts, and two escalation of privilege vulns).
> did increase the amount of people crossing parallel to traffic when the signals indicated "don't walk".
This is a feature, not a bug. With the setup of "two 1 way streets feed into a scramble", crossing safely on a "do not walk" is trivial, with only a single direction to look for many of the most common crossings.
A solution that solves the noise problem without returning to beg buttons, is to make the intersection a flashing red at night. It becomes a 4 way stop where pedestrians have the right of way. Everyone wins.
The separate lump sum life insurance is brilliant. Assuming all goes well, it will be a nice initial boost to handle one off 'start of new setup' expenses and ensure a buffer of savings beyond the monthly stipend. Worst case, it can be stretched and used for critical things instead of safety and comfort.
You can pasteurize it yourself with very little extra effort when making espresso drinks, since you need to heat the milk with a steam wand anyway. The flavor and especially foam of a cappuccino are slightly better when made with self-pasteurized-while steaming raw milk vs equivalent non raw Jersey milk in my at home blind taste tests.
Your best bet is to set up something like FreeSWITCH that you can text with keywords or your own custom arguments, and have custom scripts craft a response.
Uber, by comparison:
'Trips during the quarter grew 21% YoY to 2.8 billion, or approximately 30 million trips per day on average.'
That would be about 350 payments per second if load was evenly distributed.