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Dash cam saves your ass (no Roundabout stuff please :)

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    #7412
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    @Taxman

    I have to say driving the M50 has me paranoid that I'll have to slow right down very quickly, mainly because it happens so much!


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    #7413
    The tax man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭The tax man


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    @Taxman

    I have to say driving the M50 has me paranoid that I'll have to slow right down very quickly, mainly because it happens so much!

    Nearly a daily occurrence these days. When I can I commute to work on my bike through town,it's less stressful.


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    #7414
    mac.in
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭mac.in


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJCK3i-aFg
    [/QUOTE]


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    #7415
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    mac.in wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJCK3i-aFg
    [/quote]

    What are we looking at? The undertake?


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    #7416
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Andybobandy wrote: »

    What are we looking at? The undertake?

    That or he wanted to shame himself by posting a video of him driving in the middle lane with the left lane clear.


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    #7417
    mac.in
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭mac.in


    Andybobandy wrote: »
    What are we looking at? The undertake?

    The left lane is an exit lane. The car that came into my lane was cutting me that too without any indication.


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    #7418
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    got a new dashcam desperate to post footage....?


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    #7419
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    corktina wrote: »
    got a new dashcam desperate to post footage....?

    Really? So you're okay with some person changing lanes without indicating. Let's see how that goes when you're approaching that car at a much higher speed and it pulls into your lane ;)


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    #7420
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    The tax man wrote: »
    Had a front row seat for this. Could've gotten messy.

    (Slightly OT) This is a pretty normal day on the M50, outside lane crammed, driving too fast, too close, concertina effect, if you leave a standard/safe gap to the car in front then someone turns into it with little room between bumpers, surprised theres not more collisions on the M50 at peak times.


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    #7421
    mac.in
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭mac.in


    Pov06 wrote: »
    Really? So you're okay with some person changing lanes without indicating. Let's see how that goes when you're approaching that car at a much higher speed and it pulls into your lane ;)

    I appreciate your findings. Also to note that, he didn't just change lanes without indicating, he also cut into my lane without a reasonable space. If one carefully observes, I reduced the speed the moment I saw the car on the white line within few feet away in front of me. An indicator may have helped me in making me to anticipate it relatively earlier (I would have noticed the indicator when he was still in the right lane from my right window). Also, the cam has some limitations to give the exact experience from the drivers seat.


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    #7422
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    mac.in wrote: »
    I appreciate your findings.

    There always seems to be some people in this thread who don't show their own footage and then correct others' driving. Don't mind them :rolleyes:


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    #7423
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,416 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Lad coming down the wrong way on a one way street in Athlone

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buv86Y9fw-w


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    #7424
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,416 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Sulky racing near CityWest on the N7
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68hS7nCEtC0


    The mind boggles as to how these lads are still getting away with this madness


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    #7425
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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    #7426
    Falcon L
    Closed Accounts Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Falcon L


    Further proof that they consider themselves above the law and couldn't give a toss about the safety of others. :mad:


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    #7427
    donvito99
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    That'll be all over the meeja (rightly) soon enough.


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    #7428
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Pov06 wrote: »
    Really? So you're okay with some person changing lanes without indicating. Let's see how that goes when you're approaching that car at a much higher speed and it pulls into your lane ;)

    did you see a different video? the car had passed and was quite a bit clear before it changed lane. He wasn't approaching it at all, it was pulling ahead of him. I've no problem with a car in this situation not indicating, it was quite probable that an overtaking car will pull in once he has complete his manoeuvre.

    If approaching a car in the lane to the right of yours and it did change lanes into the one you are in, don't you think that you'd be rather foolish to be approaching the point of undertaking it? In this situation you should pull out into the overtaking and wait for the car to pull in out of your way.


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    #7429
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #7430
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    roosterman71 wrote: »
    Lad coming down the wrong way on a one way street in Athlone
    Why move over for him? I'd have just stopped in front, making sure he didn't have room to squeeze past?
    roosterman71 wrote: »
    Sulky racing near CityWest on the N7

    The mind boggles as to how these lads are still getting away with this madness
    Shocking - what time of day was it? I hope the driver wasn't holding/using a mobile phone, was he or she?


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    #7431
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Defensive driver training suggests differently. The advise I got was that you know absolutely without exception if there is anyone behind to see your indicator. If there is no-one to see it, don't waste your time indicating.


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    #7432
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #7433
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    If you are an experienced driver, you would be alive to the possibility that the car overtaking you may pull back in, in fact you should be expecting it, in which case, as I said, I'd have no problem with the car not indicating.


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    #7434
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #7435
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    no, what I said isn't wrong. You can regard what the guy did as wrong if you want.

    What I said is simply defensive driving, you shouldn't rely on an indication, or lack of it, you should use your judgement to keep yourself safe.


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    #7436
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    Yep. Beggars belief that people this stupid exist.

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


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    #7437
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    it's astounding that anyone would even want to take an animal on a major road like that! It's playing Russian Roulette with people's lives.


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    #7438
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    :rolleyes:


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    #7439
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    RainyDay wrote: »
    Defensive driver training suggests differently. The advise I got was that you know absolutely without exception if there is anyone behind to see your indicator. If there is no-one to see it, don't waste your time indicating.

    Now don't you go and start posting common bloody sense on this Forum.

    That won't be tolerated!


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    #7440
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    corktina wrote: »
    it's astounding that anyone would even want to take an animal on a major road like that! It's playing Russian Roulette with people's lives.

    Its their tradition to drive horses down the N7. We must respect that. :pac:

    Muppets.

    As I passed over the bridge to Rathcoole village, the horse was in the slow lane and the van took position in the middle lane. Two twits blocking two lanes of the Naas rd.


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    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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