The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II

[SonicShadow]

Dash cams (and action cams) usually have a very wide FoV. This makes things look further away than they actually are. For example, this jump looks a lot higher than it is - http://i.imgur.com/sF8BwlA.gifv work out the fall time and it's ~10 metres.

[Stickyfinger]

SonicShadow said:

Dash cams (and action cams) usually have a very wide FoV. This makes things look further away than they actually are. For example, this jump looks a lot higher than it is - http://i.imgur.com/sF8BwlA.gifv work out the fall time and it's ~10 metres.

No it does not, look at the size of the people........and what a totally RETARDED thing to do.

[imdeman87]

Stickyfinger said:

SonicShadow said:

Dash cams (and action cams) usually have a very wide FoV. This makes things look further away than they actually are. For example, this jump looks a lot higher than it is - http://i.imgur.com/sF8BwlA.gifv work out the fall time and it's ~10 metres.

No it does not, look at the size of the people........and what a totally RETARDED thing to do.

The "Sh*t Diving Caught On Cam"

[Stickyfinger]

...go directly to hospital, collect 200 Darwin award points

[budgie smuggler]

Bluedot said:

budgie smuggler said:

Bluedot said:

The Toyota could clearly see your wife was pulling out and therefore would take a few seconds to get up to speed, so they took the decision to pull out.
Sorry, I see nothing wrong with that.

Sorry, what? You force somebody else to brake= you fked up.

If Toyota's going to do what you said, then he needs to get straight out after the lorry and accelerate briskly, not 3 seconds later dawdling straight into the path of a car. Nips my tits when people do this.

Camcar speeds up when they can see the Toyota pulling out, they're forcing themselves into braking.
Drivers creating dramas out of nothing nips my tits.

She's already accelerating from joining the road, but even if she wasn't, she'd have needed to brake. Pause the video at the point it actually enters the main road. No way it's getting out without forcing the other car to brake.

[SonicShadow]

Stickyfinger said:

No it does not, look at the size of the people.

Still looks higher than 10 metres before they jump.

Anyway, it's the same principle as wide FoV mirrors - there's a reason they sometimes have a sticker saying "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" or words to that effect.

[Stickyfinger]

SonicShadow said:

Still looks higher than 10 metres before they jump.

Anyway, it's the same principle as wide FoV mirrors - there's a reason they sometimes have a sticker saying "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" or words to that effect.

Take care in the world, it is dangerous out there and remember do not dry your puppy in the microwave

[heebeegeetee]

budgie smuggler said:

Pause the video at the point it actually enters the main road.

But the wife could have/should have reacted before that. I would have.

I'd have saved meself 20p's worth of fuel and not accelerated, would not have impeded traffic behind and no need for horn or stress.

I am older though. And a driving god natch.

[Janesy B]

budgie smuggler said:

Sorry, what? You force somebody else to brake= you fked up.

If Toyota's going to do what you said, then he needs to get straight out after the lorry and accelerate briskly, not 3 seconds later dawdling straight into the path of a car. Nips my tits when people do this.

Same, if you're going to be a dick just accelerate and get out the way, don't plod about.

[TorqueVR]

Not st driving, but potentially life-saving

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2016/09/28/...

[Allanv]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

TorqueVR said:

Not st driving, but potentially life-saving

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2016/09/28/...

Whats the story behind that one? Drunk or ill?

From another news site.

It later emerged the female driver had fallen into a diabetic coma

[Vipers]

TorqueVR said:

Not st driving, but potentially life-saving

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2016/09/28/...

Old footage? No MLM's and no one stonking down L3?

[monthefish]

surveyor said:

Kierkegaard said:

Latest uk drivers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZRdNAQH2-8

The 'chavtastic' corsa chavette screaming - talk about stereotypes

5.04 See 3.14 Slow the fk down.

Plus I'm not hearing an indicator from the camera car...

[xjay1337]

monthefish said:

surveyor said:

Kierkegaard said:

Latest uk drivers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZRdNAQH2-8

The 'chavtastic' corsa chavette screaming - talk about stereotypes

5.04 See 3.14 Slow the fk down.

Plus I'm not hearing an indicator from the camera car...

Nice of the copper to stop on the first clip!!

[ferrariF50lover]

ashleyman said:

I agree the reaction was a bit late. I watched the braking time and it made me cringe a little. I saw the car creep and knew exactly what would happen next.

Not sure I understand the part of your comment I quoted? If you're referring to the video I posted the other night about the Mercedes guy. I totally noticed him but chose to be a pain instead of slowing down because I was being a prick.

Sorry Ash, I obviously wasn't clear. I was taking about your wife. Did she perhaps not see the Toyota pulling out because she simply wasn't looking far enough down the road to see it? When you're in the car together, do you often find her getting on the brakes late for things which have been visible for a while? Does she sometimes say, 'blither, where the cripes did he come from' of people and hazards which have been about for a little while?

Perhaps it was a one off, but if not, it might identify a potential route for improvement.

[wack]

xjay1337 said:

The swift driver was an absolute tt.
The van hardly pushed in. Possibly he was not familiar with the area and up ahead was a change of lane.

One of those cases where "i'm not letting you in tw@ how dare you indicate" ...

I had something similar in Preston, got in the wrong lane , indicated with plenty of room until the car behind booted it so I couldn't get over , pointless , if exactly the same thing had happened in the post office nothing would be said , people feel safe in their "you can't get me the door's locked" tin boxes until they meet a nutcase who puts the window in.

I'm utterly amazed uphillfreewheeler isn't lying in a ditch somewhere

[Blakewater]

ashleyman said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzLhHJZK6c

Swift vs Van

I had an idiot do this to me last night, dead ahead stare as he clamped himself to the bumper of the car in front. Then when I moved in behind he and his horrible little kid in the passenger seat were laughing at me and giving me the finger in their mirror.

Then the traffic ahead moved off and he stalled his crappy old Focus and couldn't get it going again and was furious when I just casually drove round him. Sometimes Karma gets people, or they just end up being victims of their own inadequacy.

[Alucidnation]

Thinking about it, i have also had this done to me, however, he eventually let me in and then proceeded to drop further and further back travelling under the 50mph speed limit.

fking dhead.

[C.A.R.]

HGVs are among the worst at merge points or just not allowing traffic to join their lane. Just today, on my way home from the office I notice that the HGV behind me is tailgating to prevent a BMW from merging into the gap which used to exist behind me.

I just slowed right down to a crawl, forcing the HGV to virtually stop, creating a gap in front of me for him to move into.

Live and let live, FFS. And yes, Mr angry in the HGV did lean on the horn at me. Bless him!

[Some Gump]

C.A.R. said:

HGVs are among the worst at merge points or just not allowing traffic to join their lane. Just today, on my way home from the office I notice that the HGV behind me is tailgating to prevent a BMW from merging into the gap which used to exist behind me.

I just slowed right down to a crawl, forcing the HGV to virtually stop, creating a gap in front of me for him to move into.

Live and let live, FFS. And yes, Mr angry in the HGV did lean on the horn at me. Bless him!

..And on the flip, yesterday I was in traffic for the runcorn bridge. Queuejumping arses were pushing in from L2 over the solid chevrons to the exit and stopping the entire "not going to the bridge, just the ringroad" traffic flow from happening at all.
Merge in turn is fine for 2-1 on a road, I do empathise for "exit lane backed up, but I'm a so I'll push in" types. Driving an HGV in that must be stressful - not allowing a -gap must be effort; driving peroperly would mean everyoe in a sprinter / vectra / white leased repwaggon just nipped in.