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

yoshiktk · 17-08-2014 08:08AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWoh4ipTcXM
Amount of stupidity in this clip just amazes me. If i had to go back to poland 360cam would be a must.

Gosub · 17-08-2014 09:18AM

yoshiktk wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWoh4ipTcXM
Amount of stupidity in this clip just amazes me. If i had to go back to poland 360cam would be a must.

There are certain boardsies that, I suspect, drive like this in Ireland!

mb1725 · 17-08-2014 12:49PM

yoshiktk wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWoh4ipTcXM
Amount of stupidity in this clip just amazes me. If i had to go back to poland 360cam would be a must.

Most of those are 2014 videos! They make irish drivers look like saints.

HurtLocker · 17-08-2014 01:16PM

mb1725 wrote: »

Most of those are 2014 videos! They make irish drivers look like saints.

Compared to most places we actually are pretty good drivers.

I remember going to a state in the US where phone use is legal while driving. The amount of stupidity and bad driving because people gawked at them full time and became part time drivers. I never get annoyed at the average Irish driver on the phone after

josip · 17-08-2014 01:21PM

Gosub wrote: »

There are certain boardsies that, I suspect, drive like this in Ireland!

I'm going to disagree with you on this one. Most of the Irish indiscretions posted here are usually poor roundabout discipline or amber gamblers. Even allowing for Poland's larger population and possibly greater dashcam penetration, I have never seen some of the things in the Polish video in 25 years of driving in Ireland. I usually see this kind of driving east of Germany and southeast of Italy.

17-08-2014 01:27PM

mb1725 wrote: »

Most of those are 2014 videos! They make irish drivers look like saints.

I may be wrong, but they appear to be all from the same camera! :eek:

finnharpsboy · 17-08-2014 01:36PM

a nice simple red light cyclist

Gosub · 17-08-2014 01:38PM

josip wrote: »

I'm going to disagree with you on this one. Most of the Irish indiscretions posted here are usually poor roundabout discipline or amber gamblers. Even allowing for Poland's larger population and possibly greater dashcam penetration, I have never seen some of the things in the Polish video in 25 years of driving in Ireland. I usually see this kind of driving east of Germany and southeast of Italy.

You do see some of that stuff here in Ireland, just not as mad as some of those. A perfect example is where a dual carriageway ends. The amount of drivers that scream up the outside before, and even onto, the painted area is crazy. Just to get a couple of cars ahead before the single lane section. And don't start me on overtaking on solid lines.

dharn · 17-08-2014 01:40PM

Double continuous white lines must mean something else in poland !

RustyNut · 17-08-2014 03:37PM

finnharpsboy wrote: »

a nice simple red light cyclist

How do you know he was nice? :pac:

OldMrBrennan83 · 17-08-2014 03:40PM

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CiniO · 17-08-2014 10:55PM

dharn wrote: »

Double continuous white lines must mean something else in poland !

Heh I remember when I was 17, and me any my mate were attending driver training to prepare us for driving test, my mate's dad (who used to drive as sales rep) was teaching us: "double continuous white line, means to be careful when overtaking, as there might be vehicles approaching"

I still remember it

Thoie · 17-08-2014 11:03PM

yoshiktk wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWoh4ipTcXM
Amount of stupidity in this clip just amazes me. If i had to go back to poland 360cam would be a must.

What's the Polish for "Give it some welly"? Does it translate back into English as "All the world's a stage, and all lanes are yours"?

TwoShedsJackson · 18-08-2014 08:02AM

finnharpsboy wrote: »

a nice simple red light cyclist

In rush hour you'll see a minimum of 4-5 cyclists break red lights a that junction in both directions, every time.

PeteK* · 18-08-2014 05:54PM

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

In rush hour you'll see a minimum of 4-5 cyclists break red lights a that junction in both directions, every time.

It keeps them out of your way.. I hate passing people on bikes.. I always imagine them falling off. :eek:

finnharpsboy · 18-08-2014 06:06PM

6 seconds in and the white car driver gets confused and goes down the wrong way

Why go around when you can go over it

D'Agger · 18-08-2014 06:44PM

sogood wrote: »

Hung back from this driver today as we approached the roundabout and glad I did. http://youtu.be/gL_Z7kceBPg

Hope you got some nice bargains in Manor West :pac:

Red Nissan · 18-08-2014 07:21PM

finnharpsboy wrote: »

Why go around when you can go over it

It's a bleedin drive over round about. Do understand that, it's a drive over roundabout.

dashcamdanny · 18-08-2014 07:40PM

Red Nissan wrote: »

It's a bleedin drive over round about. Do understand that, it's a drive over roundabout.

Depending on the circumstances it could be considered careless, driving over them, similar to cutting a corner on a right turn for example

I think at least an attempt should be made to drive round them properly as they are used as a traffic calming method as well as a junction.

I am having trouble finding official ruling on driving over them. It is unavoidable in some larger vehicles.

18-08-2014 08:35PM

dashcamdanny wrote: »

Depending on the circumstances it could be considered careless, driving over them, similar to cutting a corner on a right turn for example

I think at least an attempt should be made to drive round them properly as they are used as a traffic calming method as well as a junction.

I am having trouble finding official ruling on driving over them. It is unavoidable in some larger vehicles.

I could well be wrong, but as far as I know, it doesnt' matter if it's made with bricks, a circular plot of grass, a load of construction cones, or painted on the road: A roundabout is a roundabout and should be treated as such.

(I regularly drive over one near a Tesco by me, as it's completely redundant, but you're not supposed to, as far as I know).

Red Nissan · 18-08-2014 08:37PM

dashcamdanny wrote: »

Depending on the circumstances it could be considered careless, driving over them, similar to cutting a corner on a right turn for example

I think at least an attempt should be made to drive round them properly as they are used as a traffic calming method as well as a junction.

I am having trouble finding official ruling on driving over them. It is unavoidable in some larger vehicles.

You can drive straight through them, no bother. They are a few different examples around, this one is just a bit of paint and can be totally driven over, the chap in your vid has done nothing wrong.

IP freely · 18-08-2014 10:06PM

There have been some really good points made recently in relation to the posted videos, but sadly it's not fully appropriate to discuss the points here.

Hows about a dash cam saves your ass discussion thread? That way it means we can discuss the videos & in turn it wont ruin the thread.