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

[Laurel Green]

If anyone can come up with a sensible comment I'm all ears.

[Impasse]

Laurel Green said:

If anyone can come up with a sensible comment I'm all ears.

That seems like it might be a job for Arthur Fonzarelli.

[Stickyfinger]

Laurel Green said:

If anyone can come up with a sensible comment I'm all ears.

let me take a quick straw pole and get back to you with some grains of sense (for your ears only)

[Monkeylegend]

We need to combine these into the joke thread.

[Drive Blind]

MarkRSi said:

Apologies for the facebook link

https://www.facebook.com/FubarNews/videos/10823598...

Typical Audi driver or typical cammer...?

what annoys me is the 'pointless overtake to get nowhere' comment or similar.

These comments are becoming more common amongst the dashcammers.
So overtaking is illegal these days and we've all just to sit behind you at 40mph?

[PoleDriver]

lesstatt said:

Funk said:

PoleDriver said:

Funk said:

Could it have caught a power line? It looks quite tall.

Could you explain the thought process behind that one?

I might be being dim - do we not have overhead power lines any more? Are they all underground?

I think he is suggesting that it's that high it hit power lines and made a connection like a fking dodgem and caught fire, I'd love to see that one hahahahaha

Ridiculous but funny

I just couldn't understand how hitting low level overhead power cables would start a fire?
Hi voltage ones mounted on pylons would have been far too high!

[blueg33]

240v can cause a fire and plenty of powerlines on basic poles are 440v or thereabouts. Cables are often uninsulated too

[silentbrown]

blueg33 said:

240v can cause a fire and plenty of powerlines on basic poles are 440v or thereabouts. Cables are often uninsulated too

High voltage with pylons would be uninsulated, but I thought anything near residential areas used bundled insulated cables, rather than separate conductors with an air gap?

[Blakewater]

Australian lorry driver rams a car at a merge point. Despite many people saying the car driver crossed a solid white line, you can see the lane markings between the vehicles at the beginning of the video. When the lorry hits the car it forces it onto the hard shoulder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3773116/Tr...

[NewChurch]

Both are being dicks.

[Rostfritt]

silentbrown said:

blueg33 said:

240v can cause a fire and plenty of powerlines on basic poles are 440v or thereabouts. Cables are often uninsulated too

High voltage with pylons would be uninsulated, but I thought anything near residential areas used bundled insulated cables, rather than separate conductors with an air gap?

230v is 415v when 3 phase. In some residential areas this is overhead on 4 separate conductors. Not sure if the cables are insulated but you need to get a sheath put over them if you are working nearby. Probably just so you can see them better. The bottom one is usually the neutral so with my rudimentary understanding this is less likely to arc. If it did, would that cause a loud bang?

[blueg33]

Rostfritt said:

silentbrown said:

blueg33 said:

240v can cause a fire and plenty of powerlines on basic poles are 440v or thereabouts. Cables are often uninsulated too

High voltage with pylons would be uninsulated, but I thought anything near residential areas used bundled insulated cables, rather than separate conductors with an air gap?

230v is 415v when 3 phase. In some residential areas this is overhead on 4 separate conductors. Not sure if the cables are insulated but you need to get a sheath put over them if you are working nearby. Probably just so you can see them better. The bottom one is usually the neutral so with my rudimentary understanding this is less likely to arc. If it did, would that cause a loud bang?

They are no insulated. Had them crossing my garden. Asked the elec board to change them as i had small kids. Changed to 1 insulated cable made up of 4 cores in a twisted bundle

[blueg33]

Blakewater said:

Australian lorry driver rams a car at a merge point. Despite many people saying the car driver crossed a solid white line, you can see the lane markings between the vehicles at the beginning of the video. When the lorry hits the car it forces it onto the hard shoulder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3773116/Tr...

Truck driver speeded up to block the merge. What a knob!

[Alucidnation]

Nearly all residential overhead cables are insulated.

[littlebasher]

PoleDriver said:

I just couldn't understand how hitting low level overhead power cables would start a fire?
Hi voltage ones mounted on pylons would have been far too high!

Me neither, seeing that the trailer and tractor are sat on rubber insulators

[lesstatt]

littlebasher said:

Me neither, seeing that the trailer and tractor are sat on rubber insulators

Ah but your now bringing logic into the argument. Obv the person thought that anything remotely even near any cable whatsoever will of course burst into flames

[Krikkit]

lesstatt said:

littlebasher said:

Me neither, seeing that the trailer and tractor are sat on rubber insulators

Ah but your now bringing logic into the argument. Obv the person thought that anything remotely even near any cable whatsoever will of course burst into flames

Unless the straw can conduct between two adjacent cables...

[Stickyfinger]

Krikkit said:

Unless the straw can conduct between two adjacent cables...

It must be "real science" that causes it....

[mistakenplane]

rainmakerraw said:

This week's Exposed: UK Dash Cams compilation. Some properly poor driving in this one, mostly by the cammers! Bonus points for the awful parenting at 4.16 though!

I just cant get through these videos any more. 90% nothing events, pointless horn blaring because there's a lack of awareness of stuff happening around the camera car or causing pointless moments to upload for the net.

If you were from abroad and watched these you'd think a) we're a nation of poor drivers and b) we listen to terrible music.

And you'd be right.

[silentbrown]

Stickyfinger said:

It must be "real science" that causes it....

All those electrocuted birds...

Although raptor wingspan vs airgap sizes are critical!