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

mb1725 · 09-02-2015 01:04PM

Spook_ie wrote: »

To be fair those legs were better than a hi-vis jacket ! :rolleyes:

Into The Blue · 09-02-2015 05:03PM

RainyDay wrote: »

A way of life?

Fair enough. That must have changed - last time I looked it at (last year some time), it wasn't possible to choose a photo from the gallery.

Every day is a school day

Alanstrainor · 09-02-2015 05:05PM

This thread is specifically for dashcams, and not helmet cams. Perhaps it's worth starting a thread in cycling for helmet cam discussion?

Spook_ie · 09-02-2015 09:11PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

This thread is specifically for dashcams, and not helmet cams. Perhaps it's worth starting a thread in cycling for helmet cam discussion?

Dunno, it may well be dashcams but where's the dash on a motorbike, surely the dash is where the speedo etc. are but should we eliminate head cams just because they aren't on the bikes dash ( handlebars)?

Perhaps it would be better to state motorised vehicle cams and some red/yellow cards for dragging things to far away from the dashcams themselves.

Pov06 · 10-02-2015 10:47PM

Please tell me I didn't hear children in this car :mad:

Caliden · 11-02-2015 11:42AM

What an absolute tosspot. He initiated it and then proceeded to drive like a lunatic until stopping in the overtaking lane on a motorway.

Cabaal · 11-02-2015 01:21PM

seriously lucky nobody was killed, both of them should be banned from driving

Scary thing is, the person with the dashcam clearly thought they had done nothing wrong as they then uploaded the video...idiots.

Alanstrainor · 11-02-2015 03:13PM

Spook_ie wrote: »

Dunno, it may well be dashcams but where's the dash on a motorbike, surely the dash is where the speedo etc. are but should we eliminate head cams just because they aren't on the bikes dash ( handlebars)?

Perhaps it would be better to state motorised vehicle cams and some red/yellow cards for dragging things to far away from the dashcams themselves.

Nothing against motorbikes. Just poorly worded on my part. All cycling helmet cams should be left to the cycling forum.

Ken. · 11-02-2015 03:35PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Nothing against motorbikes. Just poorly worded on my part. All cycling helmet cams should be left to the cycling forum.

It was my mistake, won't happen again.

BigEejit · 11-02-2015 03:49PM

That last clip was from China, in 2010 there were ~276,000 road fatalities there.

I was over there some time ago (late 90's) and they were seriously mental, picture rush hour Mumbai at 10 times the speed but with utterly **** cars on bald tyres.

One time in Beijing I was in a taxi on a 4 lane road (the outside lane on each side was reserved for cyclists and bus stops) and our nutter driver went overtaking a truck that was overtaking a bus that was overtaking some cyclists ... we were driving the wrong way in the cycle lane on the other side of the road with cyclists scattering off the road and there was a bus letting off passengers in front of us, with a bus in the correct lane overtaking it and another fecking nutter in a car overtaking that..... everyone going about 45mph (except the bus that was stopped). I nearly **** myself. The whole shebang stopped dead in the road and everyone leaning on horns.

Do. Not. Drive. In. China. Ever.

(I know, Mumbai is in a different country, just setting the mental image of everyone just going in all directions with close misses every few seconds)

BigEejit · 11-02-2015 03:49PM

Just reading there and the top 4 countries for road fatalities (China, India, Nigeria and Brazil) have an almost equal amount of road fatalities as the rest of the world put together, but about 42% of the world population.

corktina · 11-02-2015 04:36PM

been to India...our drivers (we had two cars) were total lunatics, tyres were almost totally bald and even I had to tell them to take it easy (and I'm a pretty fast driver) , But we hit nothing and nor did we see accidents. We did a few hundred miles on crap roads in the Monsoon season...(bangalore/mysore/mangalore/bangalore

Our Rome taxi driver was worse in fairness.....he really did frighten me ...at least our Indian drivers were actually good drivers! The Italian guy was homicidal...but funnily enough all the other drivers I saw there were prettty good.

AndyBoBandy · 11-02-2015 04:53PM

Anyone any more videos?

mac.in · 11-02-2015 05:20PM

corktina wrote: »

been to India...our drivers (we had two cars) were total lunatics, tyres were almost totally bald and even I had to tell them to take it easy (and I'm a pretty fast driver) , But we hit nothing and nor did we see accidents. We did a few hundred miles on crap roads in the Monsoon season...(bangalore/mysore/mangalore/bangalore

Our Rome taxi driver was worse in fairness.....he really did frighten me ...at least our Indian drivers were actually good drivers! The Italian guy was homicidal...but funnily enough all the other drivers I saw there were prettty good.

The route you have mentioned to have taken in India is actually a route on which there is a good amount of relative decency of obeying traffic rules. There are other routes where you would have been hell shocked had you been there.

11-02-2015 10:52PM

corktina wrote: »

been to India...our drivers (we had two cars) were total lunatics, tyres were almost totally bald and even I had to tell them to take it easy (and I'm a pretty fast driver) , But we hit nothing and nor did we see accidents. We did a few hundred miles on crap roads in the Monsoon season...(bangalore/mysore/mangalore/bangalore

Our Rome taxi driver was worse in fairness.....he really did frighten me ...at least our Indian drivers were actually good drivers! The Italian guy was homicidal...but funnily enough all the other drivers I saw there were prettty good.

Cairo, now that's an experience, I (unfortunately) ended up in the front passenger seat of a taxi so had a very good view of the chaos, including coming eye-to-eye whith a pedestrian who ended up on the bonnet at one point in the journey.

red dave · 12-02-2015 01:22AM

Meteor caught on dash cam in New Zealand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRs6JS52VNw

MiskyBoyy · 12-02-2015 11:11AM

Not sure if falls under the category of dash cams but thought you guys might be interested:

(Contains swearing)

I would like to see footage of whatever happened to provoke such anger tho!

Cocoon · 13-02-2015 01:05AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbUVxUPtm3I

Check out this numpty on a bike.

Maximus Alexander · 13-02-2015 01:06AM

Cocoon wrote: »

Check out this numpty on a bike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbUVxUPtm3I

Take out the http:// youtu. be/

inforfun · 13-02-2015 09:02AM

I know it is dashcam in this thread but i didnt have it running unfortunately this morning.
Need to get it of my chest anyway.

This is the N3 coming from Dublin CC close to the exit Blanchardstown shopping centre.
The 2 left lanes are coming form the M50 and the 2 on the right from the city centre.

It is rather busy there in the morning with people not using the 100's of meters of road to get in the lanes they need to go into, No, as soon as the lanes are open to merge, lots of braking and lane changing.

So the continuous white lines between those lanes doesnt seem to be a very good place to go for a walk you stupid, stupid woman.
In the dark. In dark clothes. With a ****ing phone on your ear.

blond45 · 13-02-2015 11:21AM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbUVxUPtm3I

Take out the http:// youtu. be/

didnt you see the numpty at the begining opening her door when you were so close ,hate that .

Spook_ie · 13-02-2015 02:21PM

Cocoon wrote: »

<snipped>
Check out this numpty on a bike.

That's Swords for you

h3000 · 13-02-2015 04:51PM

Mechanic take customer's Focus ST for a joyride

http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/local/dashboard-cam-reveals-mechanic-s-118mph-joyride-1-7105402

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWz0YFL1tMI

Jesus. · 13-02-2015 04:58PM

Cocoon wrote: »

Check out this numpty on a bike.

Cocoon, what do you think of that new Applegreen on north street?

MiskyBoyy · 13-02-2015 05:29PM

h3000 wrote: »

Mechanic take customer's Focus ST for a joyride

Description for that video in case people don't see it:

"A motorist was horrified when a dashboard camera revealed reckless garage mechanics had driven his car almost double the legal limit - reaching speeds of 118mph.
Baffled Wayne Clinning, 42, took his car in for a service and new tyres and also asked workers at the official Ford garage to check the speedometer and the tracking.

But when he got his Ford Focus ST back he claims half a tank of fuel had been used so activated the dashboard camera when he returned the vehicle for more repairs.
He couldn't believe it when he got back his sporty car and watched footage which appeared to show a mechanic "joyriding" his car - reaching speeds of 118mph.

During the ten minute 'test drive' near the garage in Morecambe, Lancashire, the driver also appears to undertake at speed and drive on the wrong side of the road - at 114mph.
The footage - shot on a tiny camera on the central mirror - also looks to show him revving the engine and squeezing past oncoming traffic.

And as if that wasn't cheeky enough, when the mechanic gets back to the garage, the audio mic catches him and a colleague rifling through bags in the car."

FFS! lol