Car cam videos

[saaby93]

Mate sent this link
http://www.youtube.com/user/lesandlucy
Reminiscent of some of the biker videos?

[StottyZr]

Sad as it sounds I like looking at in car vids. I've only watched the BMW time waits for no man one yet, what he did is referred to as a "big move" in my car. Top time saving if not a touch cheeky.

[BorkFactor]

I have had a few people "brake test" me, so I am considering getting an in car camera.

I have a mount on my windscreen for my phone which takes good videos, if you are really interested I can put a couple up

[p4blo32]

Clicked link expecting to see some crazy Russian crashes... was presented with a bunch of videos of people just about running red lights.

Seriously, who bothers to go to the effort of going back through their footage, trimming it down into clips and uploading to Youtube? Nobody cares that a Rover 75 left the lights 0.5 seconds before they'd gone green. Get something better to do with your time!

[FoundOnRoadside]

That guy needs to get a better hobby. His current one sucks. All it does is show him to be a dawdler who complains when people go past him.

[V8KSN]

If you feel the need to get a camera as people around you are doing silly manoeuvres then maybe its your own driving that is making other drive as they do!

The only thing a camera should be recording is stuff like this!

https://vimeo.com/46607141

[mrloudly]

Oooohhhh "Taxi driver performed an illegal left turn into an empty road, never mind, should be easy to track him down"... And do what you cock?

[V8KSN]

mrloudly said:

Oooohhhh "Taxi driver performed an illegal left turn into an empty road, never mind, should be easy to track him down"... And do what you cock?

[StottyZr]

mrloudly said:

Oooohhhh "Taxi driver performed an illegal left turn into an empty road, never mind, should be easy to track him down"... And do what you cock?

I watched about 7 and lost interest. The worst thing that happens, is a Rover 45 drives through a red light onto an empty rounadabout after checking it was clear

Any future dash cams, can they please have extreme near misses in them please?

[BrewsterBear]

BorkFactor said:

I have had a few people "brake test" me, so I am considering getting an in car camera.

I'm sure they'll appreciate the evidence of the 100% your fault accident too.

[Sparta VAG]

Disappointing.

I was expecting a higher adenoid output ratio from the commentator.

[BorkFactor]

BrewsterBear said:

BorkFactor said:

I have had a few people "brake test" me, so I am considering getting an in car camera.

I'm sure they'll appreciate the evidence of the 100% your fault accident too.

Eh? You mean someone overtaking me coming off a roundabout then swerving right in front of me (on a dual carrageway) with their foot mashed on the brake pedel is my fault?

Right-o.

(I didn't hit them by the way, I saw what was happening and wasn't driving too quickly either.)

[paranoid airbag]

BorkFactor said:

Eh? You mean someone overtaking me coming off a roundabout then swerving right in front of me (on a dual carriageway) with their foot mashed on the brake pedal is my fault?

Right-o.

(I didn't hit them by the way, I saw what was happening and wasn't driving too quickly either.)

normally the response to a brake test is "you should have been maintaining a safe gap, so 100% your fault always". I've always wondered, though, how long a period of grace you should be allowed after someone else removes your safe gap, so that you may regain it. Any offers?

(I've had something very similar happen, also missed by skin of teeth).

oh and edited for pedantry.

[mrmr96]

BrewsterBear said:

I'm sure they'll appreciate the evidence of the 100% your fault accident too.

YOU are part of the problem.

Just because you hit the back of a vehicle in front DOESN'T mean it's your fault.
(As per the example above, if someone overtakes you, cuts in too close and hauls on the brakes then you may *literally* have no way to avoid the collision. Especially if the vehicle doing the cutting in has way better brakes than you. In extremis, imagine a Porsche 911 overtaking a fully laden gravel lorry and then hauling on the brakes. The lorry wouldn't stand a chance of avoiding the crash.)

[BrewsterBear]

mrmr96 said:

BrewsterBear said:

I'm sure they'll appreciate the evidence of the 100% your fault accident too.

YOU are part of the problem.

Don't shoot the messenger. I don't go cutting people up and slamming on the anchors, especially in my 911. It's a fact of life that even with video evidence, rear-ending someone will in the vast majority of cases be a 100% fault claim against you.

[LeoZwalf]

mrmr96 said:

BrewsterBear said:

I'm sure they'll appreciate the evidence of the 100% your fault accident too.

YOU are part of the problem.

Just because you hit the back of a vehicle in front DOESN'T mean it's your fault.
(As per the example above, if someone overtakes you, cuts in too close and hauls on the brakes then you may *literally* have no way to avoid the collision. Especially if the vehicle doing the cutting in has way better brakes than you. In extremis, imagine a Porsche 911 overtaking a fully laden gravel lorry and then hauling on the brakes. The lorry wouldn't stand a chance of avoiding the crash.)

First hand experience of this scenario tells me that even if someone removes the safe gap and stands on his brakes right in front of you, leaving you no choice except to smash your black Ford Escort into the back of his silver Ford Focus, then the insurance still holds you at fault as you have no proof of his utter stupidity and you lose your NCD even though in reality it wasn't your fault.

It happened in 2001 and I'm mostly over it now

[mrmr96]

BrewsterBear said:

Don't shoot the messenger. I don't go cutting people up and slamming on the anchors, especially in my 911. It's a fact of life that even with video evidence, rear-ending someone will in the vast majority of cases be a 100% fault claim against you.

LeoZwalf said:

First hand experience of this scenario tells me that even if someone removes the safe gap and stands on his brakes right in front of you, leaving you no choice except to smash your black Ford Escort into the back of his silver Ford Focus, then the insurance still holds you at fault as you have no proof of his utter stupidity and you lose your NCD even though in reality it wasn't your fault.

It happened in 2001 and I'm mostly over it now

Chaps, I'm not discussing liability from an insurance point of view, I'm talking about whose fault it actually is. Just like "the law" and "common sense" often share little in common, the case here is similar; there is a disparity between who caused the collision and who's usually held liable by the insurer. BUT the car behind is only held liable sue to a lack of other evidence.

So if you DID happen to have a dash cam running then it would NOT provide evidence of it being "100% your fault". THAT is the point I'm trying to make, but which you've both side stepped.

[NiceCupOfTea]

broken link

[sjg]

I was cynical about them, but a guy on Briskoda had an untethered plank fly off a tipper van going the other way, smashing his windscreen and A-pillar. His dashcam was clear enough to get the reg of the van, and with recorded footage their insurance company admitted full liability straight away. His car was back fully repaired 11 days later, and the police had some nice evidence for their prosecution too. Just avoiding the usual endless liability squabbles in most accidents is probably worth the price alone, and if it's deemed to be your fault through lack of evidence to the contrary then the excess lost (and future premiums) are more than the camera costs.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/232185-firby-...hl%20camera

Another good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJYFyYGWZcE&fea...

And another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWvG4KAYJfY&fea...

And another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NqXGtvI9MQ

[Major Fallout]

I have one setup in my car always recording, just incase anything interesting happens.

Most interesting thing up to now was being overtaken by a sheep in a traffic jam.