Dash cam thread (car videos only)

fritzelly · 23-12-2017 07:05PM

Wailin wrote: »

Probably contentious one but feck it. Anyone driving the military rd up the Sally Gap will know that some sections have barely enough room for one car. These two fellas cycling abreast gesture for me to move over.....to where?! The ditch? No common sense where they see the car coming their way and move into single file...no that would be the courteous thing to do... After I beep the horn I get flipped the bird too.....lovely lads

Not helping yourself speeding up as you approach and pass

Doltanian · 23-12-2017 07:11PM

SuperS54 wrote: »

Is that an audio book playing or did you actually call someone a "nitwit"?!

That was me in a delayed passive aggressive outburst

Ewan Hoosarmi · 23-12-2017 07:13PM

josip wrote: »

Yep contentious alright.

Why contentious though? The driver is just showing what he sees as bad road behaviour and he shouldn't be scared to post about any road user taking the "not an inch" stance.

Wailin · 23-12-2017 07:14PM

fritzelly wrote: »

Not helping yourself speeding up as you approach and pass

47Kmph to 50Kmph is hardly face melting acceleration.

Wailin · 23-12-2017 07:18PM

jive wrote: »

Regardless of what they should or shouldn't have done, going by a cyclist that close at 50 in wet conditions is bad driving. You and the cyclists should be more courteous (2 abreast is legal albeit not courteous here), it might have taken 5 extra seconds for both of you to pass each other safely instead of all sides acting like 4 year olds.

Agree on some points...but....I was doing 50km. Someone else could have been doing 80 coming around that bend where they come into view. Would have been a bit more hairy. Point is, they would have heard the car approaching long before I saw them and could have acted accordingly.

jive · 23-12-2017 07:24PM

Deleted and given a ban for derailing the thread with cyclist talk.

Wailin · 23-12-2017 07:59PM

josip wrote: »

Contentious doesn't mean that the poster should be scared to post and anyone who takes the not inconsiderable time to put a vid up here should get credit for it.
The content in the video however is likely to be viewed differently by people on this forum, since it's a car vs cyclist situation.
That's why I thought it was going to be contentious.

Exactly the reason why I said it will be contentious. I wasn't going to bother posting because I knew I'd get slated from some sides. But why not? I think it shows a valid reason why cyclists, who are perfectly within their right btw to cycle abreast, should have more common sense on these type of roads. I passed a bigger group of cyclists afterwards who used common sense to cycle single file once they saw a car approaching on a narrow road. Car can't go anywhere else.

23-12-2017 08:06PM

Lets stick to videos...
Someone not paying attention!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0KalIP66pk

Alanstrainor · 23-12-2017 08:13PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Lets stick to videos...
Someone not paying attention!

Modern cars really are amazing for crash protection. But look at that alloy that disintegrated on the fiesta. What a muppet.

tedpan · 23-12-2017 08:56PM

Can't stand idiots like this, so many of them out there...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_WcFjvfutw

ABC101 · 23-12-2017 09:00PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Lets stick to videos...
Someone not paying attention!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0KalIP66pk

That’s pretty amazing, talk about a ring side seat!

There’s a reason why the middle of the road is called the kill zone!

07Lapierre · 23-12-2017 09:02PM

Rackstar wrote: »

Come across this sh1te quite often myself. Muppets two a breast on roads that aren't wide enough. Meet them on bends and they are literally in the middle of the road.

All the more reason to drive slower on these type of roads. Cyclists can cycle two abreast and if needed, they can move into single file, but if you meet a SUV coming in the opposite direction, one of you is going to have to give way.

All I see in this video is a driver who should have slowed down as soon as the cyclists came into view. By slowing down, that would give the cyclists the time they need to move over to the left.

23-12-2017 09:20PM

ABC101 wrote: »

That’s pretty amazing, talk about a ring side seat!

There’s a reason why the middle of the road is called the kill zone!

If someone was waiting to turn right there, they would have been slammed full in the back!

ABC101 · 23-12-2017 09:23PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If someone was waiting to turn right there, they would have been slammed full in the back!

In that scenario (getting rear ended) do the front airbags go off, or is it only in the event of a head on collision?

23-12-2017 09:31PM

ABC101 wrote: »

In that scenario (getting rear ended) do the front airbags go off, or is it only in the event of a head on collision?

My understanding is that a shock in any direction will set them off, but open to correction.

07Lapierre · 23-12-2017 09:34PM

Deleted User wrote: »

My understanding is that a shock in any direction will set them off, but open to correction.

No they will only go off if the impact is in a certain direction.

E.g. Front airbags go off in the event of a head on impact, where as side airbags only go off in the event of a side impact. Even then, the impact has to be significant.

Alanstrainor · 23-12-2017 09:34PM

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Can people stop quoting videos please

:pac:

d31b0y · 23-12-2017 10:19PM

Corner well and truly cut. Closer than it looks, yadda yadda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSP9hMQUTrQ

punisher5112 · 24-12-2017 02:25AM

Was driving a vectra years ago hit black ice plus Chinese ditch finders.....

It found the ditch alright went in at flight and rearwards into a tree plus smashed the roof in on drivers side...

Out of 8 air bags 0 went off.

Car ruined....

Ken. · 24-12-2017 09:09AM

7.10am this morning. Dark, light drizzle. See if you can spot it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX3njs8I3M0

fritzelly · 24-12-2017 09:12AM

Think I spotted Wally

Isambard · 24-12-2017 10:32AM

fritzelly wrote: »

Think I spotted Wally

think I am Wally...

Hal1 · 24-12-2017 03:29PM

Oh look a rocket!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7wbSwTuEk

allthedoyles · 24-12-2017 11:25PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-q9Ydex2Do

pablo128 · 24-12-2017 11:39PM

Nothing wrong with that maneuver. The turn was well sighted and the driver had better visibility being higher up. Plus he made it easier for himself to take the bend.