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

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  • #7112
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Gotta be stolen, reported, goto 1min 07sec if your in a rush, slow motion in same clip

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Al9h1TBa60


  • #7113
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Mech1 wrote: »
    Gotta be stolen, reported, goto 1min 07sec if your in a rush, slow motion in same clip

    Christ that was bad...


  • #7114
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    N7 outbound today....



  • #7115
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭Mech1


    That guy thinks he's in a playstation game!


  • #7116
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Pov06 wrote: »
    N7 outbound today....


    Nah..he was just trying to get away from that music ;)


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  • #7117
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    Nah..he was just trying to get away from that music ;)

    Wasn't loud enough to be heard from the outside.

    The bass sounds get louder the closer you are to the windscreen - that's why it's so loud in the video.


  • #7118
    Turtle-TM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Turtle-TM


    Pov06 wrote: »
    N7 outbound today....


    In fairness you also seem to be sitting in the overtaking lane when you don't need to be.


  • #7119
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    Turtle-TM wrote: »
    In fairness you also seem to be sitting in the overtaking lane when you don't need to be.

    There are trucks doing 90 in the middle lane. ;)


  • #7120
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    "keep left unless overtaking"

    seems legit


    :pac:


  • #7121
    Turtle-TM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Turtle-TM


    Pov06 wrote: »
    There are trucks doing 90 in the middle lane. ;)


    Not for an awful lot of the clip. In fact after he undertakes the middle lane hoggers the middle lane is completely clear. You seem to just be sitting in the right lane.


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  • #7122
    gutteruu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭gutteruu


    Pov06 wrote: »
    There are trucks doing 90 in the middle lane. ;)

    If you pause it at the start, you could understand their frustration. Miles of cars with nobody using the main driving lane.


  • #7123
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    Turtle-TM wrote: »
    Not for an awful lot of the clip. In fact after he undertakes the middle lane hoggers the middle lane is completely clear. You seem to just be sitting in the right lane.

    But if you watch the clip again you will see that it's not clear. If I will move into the middle lane for 4 seconds and then back into the overtaking lane I will just end up weaving like that nutter in the Citroen...


  • #7124
    Turtle-TM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Turtle-TM


    Pov06 wrote: »
    But if you watch the clip again you will see that it's not clear. If I will move into the middle lane for 4 seconds and then back into the overtaking lane I will just end up weaving like that nutter in the Citroen...


    Granted if everyone wasn't driving in the right lane there wouldn't be a problem but there's a lot more than 4 seconds that the Middle lane is clear. And to be honest, I usually take the "you may only pass on the left when traffic is moving slower in the other lanes" to mean that if people are tottering along at 80/90 in the middle lane and the driving lane is completely clear I can use it to do the speed limit!


  • #7125
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    Turtle-TM wrote: »
    Granted if everyone wasn't driving in the right lane there wouldn't be a problem but there's a lot more than 4 seconds that the Middle lane is clear. And to be honest, I usually take the "you may only pass on the left when traffic is moving slower in the other lanes" to mean that if people are tottering along at 80/90 in the middle lane and the driving lane is completely clear I can use it to do the speed limit!

    Fair enough if everyone is hogging the right line, but this guy was flying across the three lanes, straddling across 2 lanes, pulling in front of me at one point forcing me to brake and pulling in front of somebody else forcing them to brake too.

    I've been driving for 4 months, don't expect me to be perfect and I hope you realise who the villain in this video is, because it's definitely not me, even if I am hogging the lane.


  • #7126
    jimbis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭jimbis


    Mech1 wrote: »
    Gotta be stolen, reported, goto 1min 07sec if your in a rush, slow motion in same clip

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Al9h1TBa60

    Garda car passed you in the opposite direction a few seconds beforehand so maybe it was stolen and the driver wanted out of there quick when they seen it. Crazy.


  • #7127
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Turtle-TM wrote: »
    In fairness you also seem to be sitting in the overtaking lane when you don't need to be.

    I disagree with your post. At all times the camera car is keeping up with traffic in his lane, catching or passing cars trucks etc in the middle lane, at the very start we don't know if he had just passed a Artic in the middle.


  • #7128
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    I use that road up and down numerous times everyday in a 90kph HGV.

    It makes you wonder what actually gets taught in Irish driving lessons.
    Between high powered cars with pricks at the wheel, cutting through each lane, causing severe accidents when they eventually come undone (with their superior driving skill:rolleyes:).
    To the morons who either think they have some sort of entitlement to the middle or right lane or are completely oblivious to the fact that the right is for overtaking ONLY.


    Why are the Garda not doing anything about middle lane hoggers??!!

    PS... the knob in that vid was hardly in a high powered car, but he was driving the nuts out of it to get it going so fast.



    Keep left unless you want to overtake. Not rocket science.. Why is this so hard to process. ??


  • #7129
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    I use that road up and down numerous times everyday in a 90kph HGV.

    It makes you wonder what actually gets taught in Irish driving lessons.
    Between high powered cars with pricks at the wheel, cutting through each lane, causing severe accidents when they eventually come undone (with their superior driving skill:rolleyes:).
    To the morons who either think they have some sort of entitlement to the middle or right lane or are completely oblivious to the fact that the right is for overtaking ONLY.


    Why are the Garda not doing anything about middle lane hoggers??!!

    PS... the knob in that vid was hardly in a high powered car, but he was driving the nuts out of it to get it going so fast.



    Keep left unless you want to overtake. Not rocket science.. Why is this so hard to process. ??

    But the same can be said for HGVs driving in the middle lane going at the same speed as HGVs in the left lane.

    All it takes is 1 HGV being in the middle lane doing 90 and everyone will be using the right lane, FACT.


  • #7130
    dickwod1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭dickwod1


    There was only 2 trucks in lane 1 for the whole length of that clip apart from them 2 every driver in the clip is a lane hogger,

    What and idiot that undertaker is, all that crap and didn't get further than a few cars.


  • #7131
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,300 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Another thing is that over the duration of the clip he never left sight of the OP so he wasn't making any time, he was just driving crazy for no real benefit.


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  • #7132
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Turtle-TM wrote: »
    Not for an awful lot of the clip. In fact after he undertakes the middle lane hoggers the middle lane is completely clear. You seem to just be sitting in the right lane.

    I don't see anything wrong with his driving at-all, granted there was a small segment during his clip that he could have come out of the over-taking lane but as he could see way more ahead than us well he knew he'd be back over taking within seconds, and as long as no one was behind him putting the pressure on, then he was right to stay where he was..
    What's the story with the wipers?:)


  • #7133
    Daaryl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Daaryl


    Duiske wrote: »
    That should be instant 1yr ban, at least !!

    A year? They should atleast get a 2 year ban at minimum!


  • #7134
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Pov06 wrote: »
    Fair enough if everyone is hogging the right line, but this guy was flying across the three lanes, straddling across 2 lanes, pulling in front of me at one point forcing me to brake and pulling in front of somebody else forcing them to brake too.

    I've been driving for 4 months, don't expect me to be perfect and I hope you realise who the villain in this video is, because it's definitely not me, even if I am hogging the lane.

    Nobody expects you to be perfect but at least know the rules.


  • #7135
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    the problem is if you sit in the outside lane (or the middle) when you don't need to, you are only compounding the problem. If you can move over, you should.


  • #7136
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    ardle1 wrote: »
    What's the story with the wipers?:)

    Keeping the windshield clean just for the benefit of the Motors forum watching the footage :pac:


  • #7137
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I've used the N7 a lot and to be honest I have acted like that Citroen driver.
    It can be absolutely infuriating when the person on the outside lane refuses to move and sometimes does the exact same speed as the person in the middle lane.
    You are a new driver but you should know that you can't just stay in the right hand lane as long as you want.
    It can cause road rage to people behind who want to go faster and then you have clowns like that driver (plus myself in the past) who get annoyed and go down the drive like a tosser route.
    I'd much rather be changing lanes constantly and by the book than sitting in a lane which causes impediment to others.
    But we are not coming close to 2 pages of this so maybe we should get back to videos?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ8TGMYU3N0

    Loved this one!


  • #7138
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    bear1 wrote: »
    I've used the N7 a lot and to be honest I have acted like that Citroen driver.
    It can be absolutely infuriating when the person on the outside lane refuses to move and sometimes does the exact same speed as the person in the middle lane.

    He was driving at about 140 km/h at peak points. Please tell me you don't act like that.


  • #7139
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Pov06 wrote: »
    He was driving at about 140 km/h at peak points. Please tell me you don't act like that.

    How would you know his speed? Please read my post again.... you may see which tense I used.


  • #7140
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    Not sure why people are criticising the OP, (probably just to pick on someone)

    The driving in the clip is terrible, mainly because of the erratic lane changing, however I have always been of the opinion if (after I catch up to your car) I have enough time to undertake you, then you had enough time to pull in to the inside lane.. (Rarely have I ever had to undertake any car, due to my HID headlights and the aggressive look to the front of my car)

    *The majority of my experience with this situation has been of 2 lane motorways, so I rarely get to experience the horrors of the middle lane hoggers


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  • #7141
    kingtut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Shane_ef wrote: »
    Not sure why people are criticising the OP, (probably just to pick on someone)

    It's not just to pick on someone it is because the OP was sitting in the overtaking lane despite many occasions to pull in. They admitted themselves that they were hogging the overtaking lane.

    The driver in the video who was switching lanes erratically is also getting criticised but if the dashcam driver does something wrong themselves then they are also worthy of receiving criticism.


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