Watched about 3 minutes of the NYC traffic vid; glad it works for you (and others in NYC, I'm sure) -- looked pretty commando to me. Do that in my LITTLE city (pop 300K), and you WILL get intimate with a hood (not the thug kind, either, the shiny steel one!). Folks here are just f'n oblivious!
The further along we go, the more convinced I am that this city was PROPERLY named to the Top Ten Dumbest Cities in the US.