Gardaí to allow the public upload Dash Cam footage from approx. 2026 via online portal

If you are able to understand that your having a phone won't cause other drivers to overtake on bad bends, how are you not able to understand that a car with a dashcam also won't have that effect?

Which is mad because of the reliability of witness testimony compared to video evidence.

Thanks to deep fakes these days may unfortunately be coming to an end.

I don't think this is the case unless they have sorted the ICCL/GDPR issues.

AFAIAM, dash cam and other unlicensed CCTV evidence is never the primary evidence for a prosecution because there is nothing to stop evidence tampering, or now AI generated stuff.

They also need to screen out the time wasters like on the Portal where guys/ gals were going full frontal, who post via a VPN.

Eh yes, the busybodies absolutely will be taking it upon themselves to police others and will take great satisfaction in going to the police to inform on them. Gives them carte blanche to go around filming people and wag the finger, all the while smugly patting themselves on the back for how “good” and “right” they are

Losers that have to insert themselves into the lives of strangers because they don’t get any satisfaction from their (surprisingly lacking!) personal relationships

Looked like a hyabusa. Didnt even know some bikes have cruise control! Was going faster and could have been slowing as he was rummaging. Was gobsmacked by it to be honest

Why couldn't you state this from the start?

No I'm not stating owning a dashcam makes you a worse driver however I can only go by experience and in my experience the 2 drivers I know who are obsessive about getting everything on their dashcams are totally useless unobservant drivers. 2 people doesn't mean everyone!

It's the exception not the norm but trust me their are drivers out there want to point out others transgressions yet are very poor bad drivers themselves the kind that can't clutch hold or parallel park or drive too slow or don't indicate etc.

Again the exception not the rule.

I'll keep that in mind, but I have this belief that if I don't have one I don't need one.

I know it's superstitious but it works for me. Like people not walking under ladders etc.

So for now I be OK without one. For now!

You are starting to convert me!

Yes it's something I will definitely consider getting soon but I suppose my point being I don't want to live in a society where everyone is recording each other and it's encouraged or incentivized. That just seems so wrong so draconian in my opinion but I understand like you said loads of chancers and scammers out there too.

What facts? I never even mentioned 'facts' not once. It's all my opinion and anecdotal stuff from my life experience. What bloody 'facts' are you even talking about?

Police this and that, presume you must be in the UK pal we have Gardai here not police.

If you live in Ireland why bother calling the British police? What the hell has assaults on women outside pubs got to do with people sharing dashcam footage? Two completely unrelated things altogether.

And I'm the one spinning apparently eh! Pot/kettle/black.

I even said to Donald Trump I'm considering getting a dashcam and coming around to his way of thinking so I'm very willing to change opinion but it's my OPINION that most of the reporting will be done by busybody bad driver types that doesn't mean there is some good merit to dashcams but pros and cons to everything in life.