The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread

[North West Tom]

kev1974 said:

--- WARNING lots and lots of swearing ---

Angry DashCamMan (ADCM) has delivered another compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8xleo1D3fs
Some bizarre supermarket car park rage at the start
A classic at the end when someone tries to overtake a bus, right into ADCM's face
The rest is just him getting overly angry about not very much

I'm going to make it my life long goal to be featured in one of his videos being told I need some Zyklon B.

[Blakewater]

Calletrece said:

Not strictly driving, but wow, talk about melodramatic!

''Pushed into oncoming traffic'', no you mug, she's pushed onto the floor, but what kind of absolute moron is violent towards a women, or pushes someone off a bike in the road? Even if they have been sanctimonious and abusive!

Scum.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/25/man...

Edited by Calletrece on Tuesday 25th August 12:27

Someone should introduce him to Uphillfreewheeler. They can chase each other round the streets forever more and leave everyone else alone.

He didn't look like he intended to cross until she'd passed and, as a militant Twitter warrior once reminded me, pedestrians already in the road have right of way.

heebeegeetee said:

I agree. I'm shocked at how bad the analyses are, they're as bad as the driving.

The biker stops reasonably comfortably in time, so what is everyone on about?

Someone has said he should have given way to the car. What for? He's the only vehicle actually moving, there's no need whatsoever for him to give way to anybody because absolutely nothing is achieved. The best thing all round is to let the only vehicle making progress continue to do so.

(I have of course still not fully recovered from learning that windows are in fact blind spots. )

Expecting everyone to have 360 degree X-ray vision and nano second reactions will get you killed. Sometimes people can't see you coming when changing lanes or turning through traffic. Sometimes they may have vision of you for a second but not look carefully enough or actually register you being there. Your vision is a series of still images blended together like a moving film and scientific studies into traffic accidents with cyclists and bikers have shown that when people look at a junction the visual image of the approaching bike can be missed out of what they visually take in.

Charging through cockily thinking everyone else should see you coming and you don't have to slow down or stop to account for other people not having a good view of you or not looking properly is just dangerous even if, according to the law at least, you have right of way and you're not breaking the speed limit or the speed limit doesn't apply to you. It's all very well arguing it on the Internet but you don't want to find yourself arguing it from a hospital bed. Part of good roadcraft is seeing potential dangers such as when other people may be entering your roadspace without seeing you and slowing down and repositioning yourself to account for it.

Edited by Blakewater on Wednesday 26th August 07:54

[anonymous-user]

Alg123 said:

I thought cyclingmikeys videos were bad...then I visited his Twitter....my god! There's enough bullst there to fertilize three fields. Man needs another hobby. Cycling isn't doing it for him.

He came on here once i remember there was a thread and as you expect went a bit against him. I am banned from commenting on his youtube videos, nothing bad just disagreeing with him about his actions, but as his head is so far up his arse, can't take any criticism.

[Alg123]

The Spruce goose said:

He came on here once i remember there was a thread and as you expect went a bit against him. I am banned from commenting on his youtube videos, nothing bad just disagreeing with him about his actions, but as his head is so far up his arse, can't take any criticism.

Ah man. Disappointed I missed that one

[Funk]

anonymous said:

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You'd have to be mental to ride something that exposed and low-down in the middle of London. Given the rising shoulderlines of most cars these days, I'm not surprised so many people struggled to know where he was.

[All that jazz]

I don't suppose one of the prolific cycling fanatics in this thread wants to create a reciprocate thread in the CYCLING forum for all the helmet cam whiners? This thread is rapidly turning into "The not worthy of comment driving caught on whiney cyclists' helmet cam" thread.

[heebeegeetee]

Blakewater said:

Expecting everyone to have 360 degree X-ray vision and nano second reactions will get you killed. Sometimes people can't see you coming when changing lanes or turning through traffic. Sometimes they may have vision of you for a second but not look carefully enough or actually register you being there. Your vision is a series of still images blended together like a moving film and scientific studies into traffic accidents with cyclists and bikers have shown that when people look at a junction the visual image of the approaching bike can be missed out of what they visually take in.

Charging through cockily thinking everyone else should see you coming and you don't have to slow down or stop to account for other people not having a good view of you or not looking properly is just dangerous even if, according to the law at least, you have right of way and you're not breaking the speed limit or the speed limit doesn't apply to you. It's all very well arguing it on the Internet but you don't want to find yourself arguing it from a hospital bed. Part of good roadcraft is seeing potential dangers such as when other people may be entering your roadspace without seeing you and slowing down and repositioning yourself to account for it.

And the motorcyclist did all that, but what are you going to say to the fkwit drivers who kill you or yours?

[Alg123]

Funk said:

You'd have to be mental to ride something that exposed and low-down in the middle of London. Given the rising shoulderlines of most cars these days, I'm not surprised so many people struggled to know where he was.

Agreed. Though according to him, it's just as visible as many sports cars...how he comes to that conclusion I'll never know....

[Vipers]

Alg123 said:

Funk said:

You'd have to be mental to ride something that exposed and low-down in the middle of London. Given the rising shoulderlines of most cars these days, I'm not surprised so many people struggled to know where he was.

Agreed. Though according to him, it's just as visible as many sports cars...how he comes to that conclusion I'll never know....

Thank god the C5 didn't take off.

[Blakewater]

heebeegeetee said:

Blakewater said:

Expecting everyone to have 360 degree X-ray vision and nano second reactions will get you killed. Sometimes people can't see you coming when changing lanes or turning through traffic. Sometimes they may have vision of you for a second but not look carefully enough or actually register you being there. Your vision is a series of still images blended together like a moving film and scientific studies into traffic accidents with cyclists and bikers have shown that when people look at a junction the visual image of the approaching bike can be missed out of what they visually take in.

Charging through cockily thinking everyone else should see you coming and you don't have to slow down or stop to account for other people not having a good view of you or not looking properly is just dangerous even if, according to the law at least, you have right of way and you're not breaking the speed limit or the speed limit doesn't apply to you. It's all very well arguing it on the Internet but you don't want to find yourself arguing it from a hospital bed. Part of good roadcraft is seeing potential dangers such as when other people may be entering your roadspace without seeing you and slowing down and repositioning yourself to account for it.

And the motorcyclist did all that, but what are you going to say to the fkwit drivers who kill you or yours?

He made a point of saying he was doing 30mph, not breaking the speed limit but still in practice too fast for going up the inside of queuing traffic. I once had someone run into my car at speed at an almost blind junction where buildings come right up to the edge of the road. His fault and he admitted it and his insurance paid up for the car repairs. Nevertheless, I've learned to slow right down at that junction more than I did before, despite having right of way, because I don't want the same thing to happen again. Yesterday at the same junction a guy on a small motorbike shot across the same junction up the inside of waiting traffic and never looked or hesitated. I wouldn't have wanted to hospitalise or kill him just to prove I had right of way and he should have been more careful.

[Stickyfinger]

kev1974 said:

--- WARNING lots and lots of swearing ---

Angry DashCamMan

This guy is "Very Council"....Gold (fake of course) Card issued

[Blanchimont]

kev1974 said:

--- WARNING lots and lots of swearing ---

Angry DashCamMan (ADCM) has delivered another compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8xleo1D3fs
Some bizarre supermarket car park rage at the start
A classic at the end when someone tries to overtake a bus, right into ADCM's face
The rest is just him getting overly angry about not very much

He is an incredibly st driver. he makes situations worse to upload to youtube so he can get 50 likes. Note how he disables comments too so he knows he's driving like an utter cock-sniffing moron.

[heebeegeetee]

Blakewater said:

He made a point of saying he was doing 30mph, not breaking the speed limit but still in practice too fast for going up the inside of queuing traffic. I once had someone run into my car at speed at an almost blind junction where buildings come right up to the edge of the road. His fault and he admitted it and his insurance paid up for the car repairs. Nevertheless, I've learned to slow right down at that junction more than I did before, despite having right of way, because I don't want the same thing to happen again. Yesterday at the same junction a guy on a small motorbike shot across the same junction up the inside of waiting traffic and never looked or hesitated. I wouldn't have wanted to hospitalise or kill him just to prove I had right of way and he should have been more careful.

Surely the fact that he did have a car pull out in front of him and was still able to stop comfortably in time, is proof that he wasn't going too fast?

If you and others are trying to suggest we should slow down to 10 mph at every junction or at every build up of traffic, or in every empty lane, 'just in case', then I'm going to say you're talking nonsense and you don't slow down like that yourselves anyway.

[Stickyfinger]

heebeegeetee said:

Surely the fact that he did have a car pull out in front of him and was still able to stop comfortably in time, is proof that he wasn't going too fast?

No, not at all......but is it not then proof the situation did not call for his reactive anger ?

The Merc could see about 3/4 car lengths when he started to move and the bike could see the Merc well before the Merc could see him. This happens, ride with that in mind is all I say if you wish to stay alive in traffic of that type.

If you are doing 60mph on a country road legally, go round a corner and meet a tractor coming out of a field and hit it side on....who's fault is that.
The speed LIMIT is that, it is the limit IF safe to do so. In the clips type of traffic, 30mph is not safe for the bike to assume everybody will see him.

[zedx19]

To divert attention from people squabbling over the Merc video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-NFoEkeag&ap...

Not me, but found on Reddit this morning.

[Europa1]

North West Tom said:

kev1974 said:

--- WARNING lots and lots of swearing ---

Angry DashCamMan (ADCM) has delivered another compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8xleo1D3fs
Some bizarre supermarket car park rage at the start
A classic at the end when someone tries to overtake a bus, right into ADCM's face
The rest is just him getting overly angry about not very much

I'm going to make it my life long goal to be featured in one of his videos being told I need some Zyklon B.

That was a very strange comment of his - the rest of his vocabulary suggests he's only just mastered walking upright and using opposable thumbs, and yet he knows the name of the Nazis' death camp gas of choice.

[vikingaero]

Christ. ADCM has too much time on his hands. I've got far worse videos that I've not bothered to offload from the microSD card simply they are part of everyday driving - a muppet here, a muppet there etc.

[Jimmm]

zedx19 said:

To divert attention from people squabbling over the Merc video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-NFoEkeag&ap...

Not me, but found on Reddit this morning.

[Sushifiend]

zedx19 said:

To divert attention from people squabbling over the Merc video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-NFoEkeag&ap...

Not me, but found on Reddit this morning.

The cyclist caused the accident. Can't see that the white van man did anything wrong, other than being distracted by a prick on a bike shouting at him!

[shandyboy]

405dogvan said:

DON'T chase-down drivers to tell them off - don't care how 'right' you think you are, it's not your job - this applies to pretty-much everyone.

Dashcams/Helmet cams are useful tools but some people are going to end-up getting hurt simply because the cam 'increased their sense of right' and that's not the idea.

I think that's the problem - there's no easy way to report things via dashcam, you can't just send it to a force's twitter or facebook which would be ideal (they have twitter pages, but don't accept crime reports) - it's a digital medium so this would be easy/ideal. If there was a much easier way of submitting clips and allowing the police to peruse them and decide whether it was worth taking action or not (kind of like when you submit clips to You've Been Framed, hah!) - so this new thing of posting your vids for fake Internet points has arisen.

There's only been a couple of times when we've caught 'proper' dangerous driving (as opposed to a bit of everyday knobby driving) - running red lights and nearly causing head-on accidents, wedding hire Audi supercars driven at double the speed limit on the wrong side of the road through busy streets in Bradford (heh, probably everyday driving I suppose), but there's no way to report it and lets face it who is going to go to the hassle of phoning the police then visiting the station with a memory stick in their hand to give them a copy, and view it, and take it seriously?

If there was a real chance the police would take action (on either side - the perceived transgressor and angry dashcammer) then maybe it would prevent some of the 'I have a dashcam so I must make event the slightest incident into a full-on accident to prove I was right'...

Edited by shandyboy on Wednesday 26th August 10:06