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Dash cam thread (car videos only)

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  • #2312
    chewed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭chewed


    Deleted User wrote:
    When DLR's become universal, that problem should diminish.

    What are DLRs?


  • #2313
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    Dockland Light railway....no wait, Daytime running lights.


  • #2314
    Kamili
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    SHINKICKER wrote: »
    Hi there new to the thread has any one any recommendations for a good dash cam ?? Gonna get one after my crash 3 weeks ago the scumbag had no insurance and ran away from the scene leaving me in a heap in my car
    thanks

    Thread here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056815237&page=119


  • #2315
    SHINKICKER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭SHINKICKER


    Thanks 😎


  • #2316
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    One from today.



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  • #2317
    tedpan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭tedpan


    Kings Inns or bust wrote:
    I think it might have been just going over a bump, if he did flash the lights then he bears some responsibility. Manoeuvres like that really get my goat not normally by virtue of the person pulling out, we all make mistakes, but the fact that they then panic and slow right down turning a bit of a whoopsie into a potential rear ender.

    Unfortunately the guy in the golf didnt even look left when turning, i could also see that the passat definitely didnt flash. He just assumed nothing was coming because the traffic was stppped in front of me. It was very scary to watch. Much closer than it looked on youtube.


  • #2318
    eamonnq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,014 ✭✭✭eamonnq




  • #2319
    sheep?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 824 ✭✭✭sheep?


    I think I was expecting the truck to be blocked entrance because of the car in the box......not what happened! :eek:

    Definition of impatience.


  • #2320
    finnharpsboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,117 ✭✭✭finnharpsboy


    Happens every single day there without fail.... Some day someone coming the way the truck was, is going to plough into a car or van doing what the car did.

    I work in that place on the left at the start of that video and have seen plenty of crashes along that stretch but none like i think will happen, so far


  • #2321
    eamonnq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,014 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    finnharpsboy wrote: »
    Happens every single day there without fail.... Some day someone coming the way the truck was, is going to plough into a car or van doing what the car did.

    I work in that place on the left at the start of that video and have seen plenty of crashes along that stretch but none like i think will happen, so far

    Yep, and all the Mondeo achieved was to sit at the traffic lights while the cars he overtook sat behind him. The traffic moves through on the left hand side all the time before the light goes green, so there is little or no point in shooting up the right hand side anyway.

    The other thing that happens at the junction ahead, is people tearing down the bus lane (from the right of the lights), on the inside of a queue of traffic but someone coming around from the left onto the Killeen road goes across them. I tend to stay back a bit from the junction if I end up being the first car in the queue to turn right now.


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  • #2322
    finnharpsboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,117 ✭✭✭finnharpsboy


    eamonnq wrote: »
    Yep, and all the Mondeo achieved was to sit at the traffic lights while the cars he overtook sat behind him. The traffic moves through on the left hand side all the time before the light goes green, so there is little or no point in shooting up the right hand side anyway.

    The other thing that happens at the junction ahead, is people tearing down the bus lane (from the right of the lights), on the inside of a queue of traffic but someone coming around from the left onto the Killeen road goes across them. I tend to stay back a bit from the junction if I end up being the first car in the queue to turn right now.

    That's exactly how nearly all of the accidents I've seen there have happened, people bombing down the bus lane, through the junction and carrying on down the bus lane to the left of those lights, if they make it that is, without smashing into someone turning onto Killeen road.

    Never a guard to be seen on any part of the bus lane along the Nangor Road down to the Naas road.

    Must tell the gaffer the grass needs cutting too :D it's up over the wall


  • #2323
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well I was in a mad panic the other morning and needed to get to los aeuropuertos to drop a passport to a friend that forgot it.

    Seen the overhead sign for the M50 with the warning for a crash that had occurred. Naturally, underneath the piece of important info is where the speed van was parked. I was definitely over the limit, at all times (normally I'd react and slow down quite swiftly, even if I'm below the limit. Natural instinct!).

    So what do ye reckon? Will I be getting my first points? Or did the taxi in the first lane save my ass by obstructing the view? (clutching at straws, granted!) (Road is an 80, I was doing 100)



  • #2324
    Kings Inns or bust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Kings Inns or bust


    A mad hurry and you're doing 100... I was pulled on the M50 once doing a speed that would have been a very respectable Darts Score. It's a fecking stupid limit on that road imposed for the sake of stupid people that can't get in bloody lane. In fact I think it makes getting in lane harder as everyone bunches up.

    If there's any justice you'll have got away with it. If you were 100 on the speedo you were probably doing 90 in reality and you were overtaking so.


  • #2325
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well I'm pulling the 100 speed off the dashcam, so I'd say it's nav-based and would reflect my actual speed, rather than the car's indicated speedometer speed.

    I know the fines are all manually issued, but I don't think a garda will look at it and let me off because I was overtaking. I'd say the only rule they care about is the speed (and ive heard they try to avoid doing you if there's another car in the picture, as it falls apart in court, but unsure how true that is.. that is kinda why im hoping the Taxi in lane 1 obscured the view though).


    More annoying is that i know they always, always, always park there. I'm just not in dublin often enough to be familiar with the roads. Anytime I ever pass a speed van in Dublin it's always on the N4, though! :(


  • #2326
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    Funny you see so many threads from people who post a vague recollection of what speed they were going and if the great people of boards think they got done, hoping against hope they did not. In your case KKV, you couldn't have provided any better assistance to help us along. In my view unfortunately, I reckon you are defo done :(. There's always the hope he was just setting up/shutting down.


  • #2327
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah I doubt he was shutting up shop. It was ten to nine in the morning, on a route into the city. I'd say he was getting people on their way to work (especially those who are late and putting the foot down as a result).

    I'd say I'm bang to rights, alright. Live and learn. Just wish I was going a lot faster now. Get some value for my money! :D


  • #2328
    eringobragh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah I doubt he was shutting up shop. It was ten to nine in the morning, on a route into the city. I'd say he was getting people on their way to work (especially those who are late and putting the foot down as a result).

    I'd say I'm bang to rights, alright. Live and learn. Just wish I was going a lot faster now. Get some value for my money! :D

    I'd say your safe but only just I think when more than one car is in the pic - its a spoiled one.


  • #2329
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    did you slow down at all? the vans apparently read your speed at a couple of car lengths so if you eased off when finally you saw him, you could be OK


  • #2330
    shietpilot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    From the distance that you were caught I would say the the taxi was in the view. If you get a speeding fine I think you should request a bigger photo and I'm sure the taxi will be in the view. In that case you can contest it because how do you know it caught you and not the taxi?

    From that footage you should have been caught though, unless the van wasn't set up yet!


  • #2331
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah I doubt he was shutting up shop. It was ten to nine in the morning, on a route into the city. I'd say he was getting people on their way to work (especially those who are late and putting the foot down as a result).

    I'd say I'm bang to rights, alright. Live and learn. Just wish I was going a lot faster now. Get some value for my money! :D

    Hard to say.

    I have passed vans while definitely over the speed limit and the only thing missing was me smiling nicely for the camera.
    You know the ones that are set up precisely there were the limit goes down from 80 to 60.
    Received fines and penalty points: 0

    No one knows, so the only thing you can do is wait.


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  • #2332
    Mini850
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭Mini850


    eringobragh wrote: »
    I'd say your safe but only just I think when more than one car is in the pic - its a spoiled one.

    Thats a myth unfortunately.

    Modern radar speed vans can watch up to 6 lanes simultaneously if required (they are designed to work in countries that have proper motorway structures). otherwise you would never see one on a motorway. They work on radar and can decipher which car is doing what speed.

    The cameras are video cameras, not shutter "one pic at a time" type. And they are HD at that. Thats the reason I got caught on a nice straight stretch of road. After thinking I got away with it due to spotting it early.......sure enough, the fine came in the door.


  • #2333
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,833 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Nothing spectacular, but I was having one of those drives yesterday where everyone was pi$$ing me off.

    First one was doing my head in for a while (45-60 km/h in the 80 km/h zone just before Monaghan, when I thought she was going through Monaghan, I thought great, I can dust her and forget about her, but she had other ideas about how she wanted to use the roundabout

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asWhHxCI19I


    Second one was also doing my head in for a while, and when she merged a little too soon, I decided I was having her. (the motorway was clear behind me) so I went straight into lane 2 to pass her, but she also decided she wasn't letting me in, despite me being fully established in lane 2 as she cut me off.

    bonus is her still indicating right as she went back to lane 1 from lane 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXclp8ZuYBQ


  • #2334
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    First driver gets top points from their insurance monitoring box for smooth slow driving.

    Real world - awful roundabout carry on. should be shot with a ball of...


  • #2335
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭kirving


    Funny how the artificially low limit just so happens to be the place where the van parks up. Totally coincidental of course. If THIS road is 80kph too, then there is something very wrong somewhere.

    The N4 should certainly drop to 60-80 kph around the Liffey Valley on-ramp though - as cars need to cross multiple lanes in order to go southbound on the M50 in a few hundred meters.


  • #2336
    McGrath5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭McGrath5


    Your man was pleasantly surprised that he had to stop.



  • #2337
    d31b0y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    Right across the cross hatch, straight into the over taking lane forcing the Audi to go heavy on the brakes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXygr7S5JAU


    Sorry about the quality.


  • #2338
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,946 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Kings Inns or bust wrote: »
    A mad hurry and you're doing 100... I was pulled on the M50 once doing a speed that would have been a very respectable Darts Score.

    60? :pac:


  • #2339
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    d31b0y wrote: »
    Right across the cross hatch, straight into the over taking lane forcing the Audi to go heavy on the brakes.


    I was almost more annoyed by the other car merging who waits until the merge lane completely ends to just drift into the driving lane. See it all the time. Some dope remains in the merging lane until it ends and launches themselves into the driving lane no matter what is already there. :mad::mad::mad:


  • #2340
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,897 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    d31b0y wrote: »
    Right across the cross hatch, straight into the over taking lane forcing the Audi to go heavy on the brakes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXygr7S5JAU


    Sorry about the quality.

    Heavy on the brakes?


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  • #2341
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    there was nothing there, the guy had pulled out to the overtaking lane to facilitate the guy pulling out.


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