The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II
Discussion
Yesterday I pulled out on to an A road just after two lanes merge to one.
I could see some kind of shenanigans between a silver Audi and a Yeti a few cars back from the gap I entered; looked like the Audi pulled in to L1, the Yeti went round him and the Audi didn't like this. The Yeti ended up on the hatchings of the right turn I'd just emerged from, tring to merge.
At the next short bit of DC I shot off and overtook about six cars, at the end the Audi came barrelling past me at about 100, overtook about another three cars on the chevrons, and forced his way into a narrow gap in the face of oncoming traffic.
On the next bit of DC I ended up behind him. Apart from being a ~12yr old A4 TDi, always badly driven and in this case quite erratically, guess what?
He had a dashcam, which he spent the next five minutes fiddling with.
I could see some kind of shenanigans between a silver Audi and a Yeti a few cars back from the gap I entered; looked like the Audi pulled in to L1, the Yeti went round him and the Audi didn't like this. The Yeti ended up on the hatchings of the right turn I'd just emerged from, tring to merge.
At the next short bit of DC I shot off and overtook about six cars, at the end the Audi came barrelling past me at about 100, overtook about another three cars on the chevrons, and forced his way into a narrow gap in the face of oncoming traffic.
On the next bit of DC I ended up behind him. Apart from being a ~12yr old A4 TDi, always badly driven and in this case quite erratically, guess what?
He had a dashcam, which he spent the next five minutes fiddling with.
apotts said:
Here's the Yaris in better quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKL-WERvWw
We had one of these 1 litre tarmac-shredders in the family a while ago. When it arrived, it had a selection of differing ditch-finders on each corner. On braking, it would wildly lurch to one side.
£40 a corner for some new Michelins, and the car was transformed. I suggest that the Yaris pilot here may have been on some varied, crap rubber and paid the price.
My God! How many cliches could you squeeze into two sentences - /tarmac shredders/ditch finders/£40 a corner/pilot?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKL-WERvWw
We had one of these 1 litre tarmac-shredders in the family a while ago. When it arrived, it had a selection of differing ditch-finders on each corner. On braking, it would wildly lurch to one side.
£40 a corner for some new Michelins, and the car was transformed. I suggest that the Yaris pilot here may have been on some varied, crap rubber and paid the price.
And why do people spell BMW bimmer?
Google [bot] said:
Painful to watch. My opinion on the points mentioned;
Ultimately you should be prepared to stop around every corner, but in practice this is very difficult to observe all the time. It wasn't a very clever place to make a pass and the blame has to be with that driver and the fact he/she didn't stop probably proves this point.
Perhaps a more experienced driver would've been able to control the car better, but it's probably a combination of a sticking compensator valve, low quality/poor condition tyres and going downhill.
Ultimately you should be prepared to stop around every corner, but in practice this is very difficult to observe all the time. It wasn't a very clever place to make a pass and the blame has to be with that driver and the fact he/she didn't stop probably proves this point.
Perhaps a more experienced driver would've been able to control the car better, but it's probably a combination of a sticking compensator valve, low quality/poor condition tyres and going downhill.
apotts said:
Cammer (read: incompetent bell-end):
She has to shoulder at least 50% of the blame IMO, as should anyone that resorts to brake checking. To be fair to the 'cammer', she certainly comes across as being not quite all there.- Tailgates for the whole video. Never is he more than 1 second away.
- Harasses woman with his laughing/gesticulation etc
- States that the woman "admits" to driving less than 30 in a 30, as if the woman is in the wrong for doing so.
- Adds the video to his collection of "other people nearly crashing into him on a daily basis" videos.
- Continues his bad driving for evermore, not ever realising that he is the idiot.
woja said:
Cammer tailgaits for a bit. Other driver overreacts a tad I'd say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
That was a massive let down at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
(as many girls have said to me...
)anonymous said:
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Perhaps he was driving a bit too quickly and possibly beyond his driving ability? To me it seems like he panicked when he saw the overtaking car approaching him. It was some way in the distance and the overtake could have easily been made - however, the driving doing that overtake was a knob.I'd have just lifted off a little and let the overtaking knob complete his overtake. He did an uncontrolled emergency brake and veered sharply to the left into the rocks.
A better car with ABS and stability control may have maintained the correct line and avoided the crash. I think that accident was avoidable if the driver hadn't overreacted. Those overtakes happen all the time - you just need to drive defensively and be prepared for idiot drivers.
woja said:
Cammer tailgaits for a bit. Other driver overreacts a tad I'd say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
The woman looked very upset and stressed. In situations like this (where someone brake-checks you) just leave it. Get some distance between you and the car in front and enjoy the rest of the day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
People can be in all sorts of emotional states when they're driving and you never know how many are on the edge of flipping for whatever reason.
Best not to get involved. There's no value in trying to score points against other drivers.
TazLondon said:
The woman looked very upset and stressed. In situations like this (where someone brake-checks you) just leave it. Get some distance between you and the car in front and enjoy the rest of the day.
People can be in all sorts of emotional states when they're driving and you never know how many are on the edge of flipping for whatever reason.
Best not to get involved. There's no value in trying to score points against other drivers.
Nasty outbreak of common sense on PHPeople can be in all sorts of emotional states when they're driving and you never know how many are on the edge of flipping for whatever reason.
Best not to get involved. There's no value in trying to score points against other drivers.
It looked to me like the Yaris driver locked the brakes while turning slightly, which made the back end come out and start a slight spin to the right. He turned the steering wheel to the left while the wheels were locked up, which wouldn't do much, then when he unlocked the brakes the front wheels got some grip and launched the car to the left.
Keeping the steering straightish and not locking the wheels would have saved him. Hard to say what speed he's doing. Wide angle lenses tend to make things look faster.
Keeping the steering straightish and not locking the wheels would have saved him. Hard to say what speed he's doing. Wide angle lenses tend to make things look faster.
TazLondon said:
woja said:
Cammer tailgaits for a bit. Other driver overreacts a tad I'd say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
The woman looked very upset and stressed. In situations like this (where someone brake-checks you) just leave it. Get some distance between you and the car in front and enjoy the rest of the day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
People can be in all sorts of emotional states when they're driving and you never know how many are on the edge of flipping for whatever reason.
Best not to get involved. There's no value in trying to score points against other drivers.
Stickyfinger said:
those 1.0 Yarises are proper scary quick, well known for their huge power and blistering speed
everything is relative......70mph (easy in a Yaris) is "quick" for it on that road.
Yaris ALSO could not stop inside their vision distance, IF there had been a turning tractor over the crest ? what then.
BMW is totally at fault however.
To be fair, I sold my Clio 182 to drive a £400 Yaris as shown in the video and it wasn't a slouch once you got it up to speed, nice revvy engine and was able to carry plenty of speed through the corners, very chuckable.everything is relative......70mph (easy in a Yaris) is "quick" for it on that road.
Yaris ALSO could not stop inside their vision distance, IF there had been a turning tractor over the crest ? what then.
BMW is totally at fault however.
apotts said:
Here's the Yaris in better quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKL-WERvWw
We had one of these 1 litre tarmac-shredders in the family a while ago. When it arrived, it had a selection of differing ditch-finders on each corner. On braking, it would wildly lurch to one side.
£40 a corner for some new Michelins, and the car was transformed. I suggest that the Yaris pilot here may have been on some varied, crap rubber and paid the price.
I experienced the wild lurching and paid the price by a very sore neck and removing one of Wolverhamptons worst placed bus lane traffic lights.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKL-WERvWw
We had one of these 1 litre tarmac-shredders in the family a while ago. When it arrived, it had a selection of differing ditch-finders on each corner. On braking, it would wildly lurch to one side.
£40 a corner for some new Michelins, and the car was transformed. I suggest that the Yaris pilot here may have been on some varied, crap rubber and paid the price.
TazLondon said:
woja said:
Cammer tailgaits for a bit. Other driver overreacts a tad I'd say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
The woman looked very upset and stressed. In situations like this (where someone brake-checks you) just leave it. Get some distance between you and the car in front and enjoy the rest of the day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
People can be in all sorts of emotional states when they're driving and you never know how many are on the edge of flipping for whatever reason.
Best not to get involved. There's no value in trying to score points against other drivers.
Spanna said:
TazLondon said:
woja said:
Cammer tailgaits for a bit. Other driver overreacts a tad I'd say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
The woman looked very upset and stressed. In situations like this (where someone brake-checks you) just leave it. Get some distance between you and the car in front and enjoy the rest of the day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZjFl1WWBE
People can be in all sorts of emotional states when they're driving and you never know how many are on the edge of flipping for whatever reason.
Best not to get involved. There's no value in trying to score points against other drivers.
Court Jester said:
Having watched his other video - Compliation 8 or something - he appears to be a complete tool. Overly aggressive, angry and I am guessing small. Everyone else is an idiot and he is a shining knight in a white van attitude. Yes some of the "idiots" in his videos are idiots but most are his making.
I've watched a few of this other videos as well and in an awful lot of them he is plonked in L2/L3 and moaning about people undertaking him.If people can undertake you in L1/L2 then you're in the wrong lane and need to move over.
CoolHands said:
But anyway, if he hadn't braked he would have been ok, there would have been no collision.
This is pretty much my view too. I'm not sure there is any blame to attribute for a collision that wasn't going to happen. The Yaris driver or car (if the tyre prediction is right) just reacts totally wrongly and basically puts itself in the wall. It really didn't need to happen. My guess is driver hasn't got loads of experience and panic-steered left while braking or car lurched left due to s
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