The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread

The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread

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Dark85

657 posts

147 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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https://www.facebook.com/satanic.icebird/videos/10...

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Who's the bigger knob?

I know it's the BMW really, brake testing is properly dangerous as some fun videos on here have shown, but I just can't help but feel more hatred for the fking self-righteous cammer.


GrumpyTwig

3,354 posts

156 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Dark85 said:
https://www.facebook.com/satanic.icebird/videos/10...

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Who's the bigger knob?

I know it's the BMW really, brake testing is properly dangerous as some fun videos on here have shown, but I just can't help but feel more hatred for the fking self-righteous cammer.
It amazes me that people like the driver of the camera car seem stead fast in their belief they're an innocent party and haven't provoked a reaction from someone equally nobbish yet just more aggressive.

FreeLitres

6,039 posts

176 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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GrumpyTwig said:
Dark85 said:
https://www.facebook.com/satanic.icebird/videos/10...

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Who's the bigger knob?

I know it's the BMW really, brake testing is properly dangerous as some fun videos on here have shown, but I just can't help but feel more hatred for the fking self-righteous cammer.
It amazes me that people like the driver of the camera car seem stead fast in their belief they're an innocent party and haven't provoked a reaction from someone equally nobbish yet just more aggressive.
So frustrating seeing the cam car sat in the outside lane while making no progress on the car in lane 1. He must have been blocking the BWM overtake on purpose rather than just being unaware of his positioning.

EDIT just read the video description, he said there was a car in lane 1 stopping him moving back over. He should have put his foot down a little to get passed then pulled in sooner.

Edited by FreeLitres on Monday 31st August 23:08

SpeedMattersNot

4,506 posts

195 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Whey, I've finally spotted a road section I know! That's the old M10 roundabout at St Albans.


poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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FreeLitres said:
EDIT just read the video description, he said there was a car in lane 1 stopping him moving back over. He should have put his foot down a little to get passed then pulled in sooner.
Can't do that, might hit 41mph and many children will explode as a result.

No Bend

591 posts

121 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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saaby93 said:
poing said:
Yes this tiny flashy light is enough.... If you are a monumental idiot then it's just fine! If you don't want people to pull out in front of you then make yourself visible. Then again, what the hell am I saying! He was also drinking and smoking dope so I guess it all goes together.

Even in that picture, can anyone say the first thing they notice is the led?
Airbags were deployed in the collision.

Dark85

657 posts

147 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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SpeedMattersNot said:
Whey, I've finally spotted a road section I know! That's the old M10 roundabout at St Albans.
It is indeed, those roadworks are a right pain at the moment as well frown

Janesy B

2,625 posts

185 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Dark85 said:
https://www.facebook.com/satanic.icebird/videos/10...

Skip to two minutes

Who's the bigger knob?

I know it's the BMW really, brake testing is properly dangerous as some fun videos on here have shown, but I just can't help but feel more hatred for the fking self-righteous cammer.
Outside lane hog - retard
BMW - retard

Efbe

9,251 posts

165 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Janesy B said:
Dark85 said:
https://www.facebook.com/satanic.icebird/videos/10...

Skip to two minutes

Who's the bigger knob?

I know it's the BMW really, brake testing is properly dangerous as some fun videos on here have shown, but I just can't help but feel more hatred for the fking self-righteous cammer.
Outside lane hog - retard
BMW - retard
agreed

though that wasn't brake testing. that was just slowing the cam car down to annoy them.

Cliftonite

8,406 posts

137 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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FreeLitres said:
So frustrating seeing the cam car sat in the outside lane while making no progress on the car in lane 1. He must have been blocking the BWM overtake on purpose rather than just being unaware of his positioning.

EDIT just read the video description, he said there was a car in lane 1 stopping him moving back over. He should have put his foot down a little to get passed then pulled in sooner.

Edited by FreeLitres on Monday 31st August 23:08
The camcar is an MLM. When there is no middle lane, MLMs use (i.e. cruise in) Lane 2 of 2 (as here) or Lane 3 of 4.




Janesy B

2,625 posts

185 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Efbe said:
agreed

though that wasn't brake testing. that was just slowing the cam car down to annoy them.
True, I've been brake tested before and it's not that gentle.



I'd like to know where this mysterious car on the inside was when he was 1/3 of the way across the inside lane coming off the roundabout. He wants that camera sticking up his arse.

No Bend

591 posts

121 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Janesy B said:
He wants that camera sticking up his arse.
Thats discussed in this thread… http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

ORD

18,086 posts

126 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Aside from slowing down to be a nob, the BMW driver didn't do anything dangerous. He was hardly at warp speed!

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Janesy B said:
I'd like to know where this mysterious car on the inside was when he was 1/3 of the way across the inside lane coming off the roundabout. He wants that camera sticking up his arse.
There wasn't any car there at all as you can see from the preceeding 20 seconds of the clip, unless something started undertaking him but then that just further proves he was needlessly in lane 2.

TheAllSeeingPie

865 posts

134 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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poing said:
Yes this tiny flashy light is enough.... If you are a monumental idiot then it's just fine! If you don't want people to pull out in front of you then make yourself visible. Then again, what the hell am I saying! He was also drinking and smoking dope so I guess it all goes together.

When I go out at night with my 800lumen lights I get cars flashing their main beams at me constantly, even though I've set them to be the sake spread as my car lights. You can't win as a cyclist and in this case it's 100% the driver not judging the speed of the cyclist correctly. You don't need bright flashy lights to be seen at night either, otherwise every pedestrian out at night crossing a road would have been killed by now.

Funk

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26,254 posts

208 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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TheAllSeeingPie said:
When I go out at night with my 800lumen lights I get cars flashing their main beams at me constantly, even though I've set them to be the sake spread as my car lights. You can't win as a cyclist and in this case it's 100% the driver not judging the speed of the cyclist correctly. You don't need bright flashy lights to be seen at night either, otherwise every pedestrian out at night crossing a road would have been killed by now.
I don't take chances; I have a Knog Blinder on pulse and a solid 1800 lumen cree main light (with a courteous beam spread, not into the eyes of oncoming traffic). To the rear I have a pair of LED lights, one flash, one solid with lasers. I also have another small LED light high up on the back of my helmet,

Here's just the solid rear on its own (you can see the other one just above it):


gowmonster

2,471 posts

166 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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frikin lazers </dr evil>

saaby93

32,038 posts

177 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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TheAllSeeingPie said:
When I go out at night with my 800lumen lights I get cars flashing their main beams at me constantly, even though I've set them to be the sake spread as my car lights. You can't win as a cyclist and in this case it's 100% the driver not judging the speed of the cyclist correctly. You don't need bright flashy lights to be seen at night either, otherwise every pedestrian out at night crossing a road would have been killed by now.
Well no, youre missing something subtle there. Not having lights doesnt mean pedestrians can walk about in the road and hope for the best. If you live in rural areas you'll know that school kids often wear black on dark nights along country lanes. However if they see/hear something coming they'll tuck themselves out of the way in the hedege until it's gone past. It's not until you're past you realise, hey there were a couple of faces in the hedge there.
If you have a bit of light, all it gives you is the right to put on your tombstone, 'I had a candle and they were supposed to give way but they didnt see me'.

The biggest factor in accidents is 'not looking properly' for all road users. You can look but you may not see, your brain has a habit of filling in gaps. Look up SMIDSY if you want to know more

No Bend

591 posts

121 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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saaby93 said:
TheAllSeeingPie said:
When I go out at night with my 800lumen lights I get cars flashing their main beams at me constantly, even though I've set them to be the sake spread as my car lights. You can't win as a cyclist and in this case it's 100% the driver not judging the speed of the cyclist correctly. You don't need bright flashy lights to be seen at night either, otherwise every pedestrian out at night crossing a road would have been killed by now.
Well no, youre missing something subtle there. Not having lights doesnt mean pedestrians can walk about in the road and hope for the best. If you live in rural areas you'll know that school kids often wear black on dark nights along country lanes. However if they see/hear something coming they'll tuck themselves out of the way in the hedege until it's gone past. It's not until you're past you realise, hey there were a couple of faces in the hedge there.
If you have a bit of light, all it gives you is the right to put on your tombstone, 'I had a candle and they were supposed to give way but they didnt see me'.

The biggest factor in accidents is 'not looking properly' for all road users. You can look but you may not see, your brain has a habit of filling in gaps. Look up SMIDSY if you want to know more
Hmm, yes. Can't say last time I read about a car failing to give way to a pedestrian and the pedestrian t-boning the car and suffering injuries.

Vipers

32,799 posts

227 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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No Bend said:
saaby93 said:
TheAllSeeingPie said:
When I go out at night with my 800lumen lights I get cars flashing their main beams at me constantly, even though I've set them to be the sake spread as my car lights. You can't win as a cyclist and in this case it's 100% the driver not judging the speed of the cyclist correctly. You don't need bright flashy lights to be seen at night either, otherwise every pedestrian out at night crossing a road would have been killed by now.
Well no, youre missing something subtle there. Not having lights doesnt mean pedestrians can walk about in the road and hope for the best. If you live in rural areas you'll know that school kids often wear black on dark nights along country lanes. However if they see/hear something coming they'll tuck themselves out of the way in the hedege until it's gone past. It's not until you're past you realise, hey there were a couple of faces in the hedge there.
If you have a bit of light, all it gives you is the right to put on your tombstone, 'I had a candle and they were supposed to give way but they didnt see me'.

The biggest factor in accidents is 'not looking properly' for all road users. You can look but you may not see, your brain has a habit of filling in gaps. Look up SMIDSY if you want to know more
Hmm, yes. Can't say last time I read about a car failing to give way to a pedestrian and the pedestrian t-boning the car and suffering injuries.
And may I just add, in the HC it clearly states what the driver should abide by regarding pedestrians, and equally it states what pedestrians should do also with regard to other road users. I think the vast of pedestrians have never heard of the HC let alone read it, sadly the same applies to drivers.

As said above, the biggest factor is not looking properly, my daughter never used to look before crossing the road where I live, not a lot of traffic I admit, but I told her she would hear a bicycle coming, and they hurt.

One other thing I did for my children was to measure out the stopping distance for a car travelling at 30 mph, and told them to think about it. In my school days we had the annual police exhibition in the playground, with police cars whizzing around and in those days with no ABS it was enlighning to see those cars skid to a halt.

Whoops got carried away here, sorry chaps. As my Royal Marine instructor told me on my HGV3 course, treat everyone else on the road as a complete idiot.





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