Bad drivers and dash cams.
Discussion
So said:
Has anyone else noticed how often the car in front, which has just done something daft, has a dash cam fitted?
Yes - not very often, ie usually it doesn't have a dash cam. In 200k miles of driving I have encountered 1 DC w
ker who was actively trying to cause conflict ("Cam-ruh!") and 2 police wannabe walt-wkers with DCs who were driving badly but weren't actively trying to cause conflict. I've seen a lot of non-DC w
kers though.From purely watching dash cam footage on youtube on so many occasions the dash cam car is desperate to prove a point. You can see whats about to happen a mile off yet the dash cam driver fails to react until a metre away then has hold the horn for 5 minutes and refusing to move as if in utter shock 
TRW11 said:
From purely watching dash cam footage on youtube on so many occasions the dash cam car is desperate to prove a point. You can see whats about to happen a mile off yet the dash cam driver fails to react until a metre away then has hold the horn for 5 minutes and refusing to move as if in utter shock
These are so frustrating to watch. The people who create the "bad driver dash cam compilation" videos ought to better vet which clips get published and which don't - it often seems the same dashcammer features several times in one compilation, often with their own driving exacerbating the situations they find themselves in. Of course, all get sent to YouTube for inclusion in the next weekly upload... If the camera had their clip denied with a short response along the lines of:-"Thank you for your clip. Unfortunately, the standard of driving from the camera vehicle falls below standard, as such the clip will not be included in our next compilation."
..then perhaps the regular cammers would stop accelerating into hazards and causing mountains out of molehills.
TRW11 said:
From purely watching dash cam footage on youtube on so many occasions the dash cam car is desperate to prove a point. You can see whats about to happen a mile off yet the dash cam driver fails to react until a metre away then has hold the horn for 5 minutes and refusing to move as if in utter shock
Of course there is the very small % of users who use a dashcam to simply gather "footage" for their stupid online gallery of "close calls".Shame really as it gives a bad name for those of us who simply have a dashcam for insurance or funny purposes.
Muddle238 said:
These are so frustrating to watch. The people who create the "bad driver dash cam compilation" videos ought to better vet which clips get published and which don't - it often seems the same dashcammer features several times in one compilation, often with their own driving exacerbating the situations they find themselves in. Of course, all get sent to YouTube for inclusion in the next weekly upload... If the camera had their clip denied with a short response along the lines of:-
"Thank you for your clip. Unfortunately, the standard of driving from the camera vehicle falls below standard, as such the clip will not be included in our next compilation."
..then perhaps the regular cammers would stop accelerating into hazards and causing mountains out of molehills.
The trick is to not watch the ones centered around UK driving. The ones from America and - better still - Russia, are far more entertaining. "Thank you for your clip. Unfortunately, the standard of driving from the camera vehicle falls below standard, as such the clip will not be included in our next compilation."
..then perhaps the regular cammers would stop accelerating into hazards and causing mountains out of molehills.
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