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

The tax man · 14-02-2015 12:53AM

CatFromHue wrote: »

@Taxman

I have to say driving the M50 has me paranoid that I'll have to slow right down very quickly, mainly because it happens so much!

Nearly a daily occurrence these days. When I can I commute to work on my bike through town,it's less stressful.

mac.in · 14-02-2015 01:49PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJCK3i-aFg

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AndyBoBandy · 14-02-2015 01:56PM

mac.in wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJCK3i-aFg

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What are we looking at? The undertake?

TwoShedsJackson · 14-02-2015 02:03PM

Andybobandy wrote: »

What are we looking at? The undertake?

That or he wanted to shame himself by posting a video of him driving in the middle lane with the left lane clear.

mac.in · 14-02-2015 02:08PM

Andybobandy wrote: »

What are we looking at? The undertake?

The left lane is an exit lane. The car that came into my lane was cutting me that too without any indication.

corktina · 14-02-2015 02:14PM

got a new dashcam desperate to post footage....?

Pov06 · 14-02-2015 02:21PM

corktina wrote: »

got a new dashcam desperate to post footage....?

Really? So you're okay with some person changing lanes without indicating. Let's see how that goes when you're approaching that car at a much higher speed and it pulls into your lane

Tenzor07 · 14-02-2015 02:24PM

The tax man wrote: »

Had a front row seat for this. Could've gotten messy.

(Slightly OT) This is a pretty normal day on the M50, outside lane crammed, driving too fast, too close, concertina effect, if you leave a standard/safe gap to the car in front then someone turns into it with little room between bumpers, surprised theres not more collisions on the M50 at peak times.

mac.in · 14-02-2015 02:27PM

Pov06 wrote: »

Really? So you're okay with some person changing lanes without indicating. Let's see how that goes when you're approaching that car at a much higher speed and it pulls into your lane

I appreciate your findings. Also to note that, he didn't just change lanes without indicating, he also cut into my lane without a reasonable space. If one carefully observes, I reduced the speed the moment I saw the car on the white line within few feet away in front of me. An indicator may have helped me in making me to anticipate it relatively earlier (I would have noticed the indicator when he was still in the right lane from my right window). Also, the cam has some limitations to give the exact experience from the drivers seat.

Pov06 · 14-02-2015 02:35PM

mac.in wrote: »

I appreciate your findings.

There always seems to be some people in this thread who don't show their own footage and then correct others' driving. Don't mind them :rolleyes:

roosterman71 · 14-02-2015 04:07PM

Lad coming down the wrong way on a one way street in Athlone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buv86Y9fw-w

roosterman71 · 14-02-2015 04:35PM

Sulky racing near CityWest on the N7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68hS7nCEtC0

The mind boggles as to how these lads are still getting away with this madness

Fred Swanson · 14-02-2015 05:27PM

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Falcon L · 14-02-2015 05:37PM

Further proof that they consider themselves above the law and couldn't give a toss about the safety of others. :mad:

donvito99 · 14-02-2015 05:49PM

That'll be all over the meeja (rightly) soon enough.

corktina · 14-02-2015 06:36PM

Pov06 wrote: »

Really? So you're okay with some person changing lanes without indicating. Let's see how that goes when you're approaching that car at a much higher speed and it pulls into your lane

did you see a different video? the car had passed and was quite a bit clear before it changed lane. He wasn't approaching it at all, it was pulling ahead of him. I've no problem with a car in this situation not indicating, it was quite probable that an overtaking car will pull in once he has complete his manoeuvre.

If approaching a car in the lane to the right of yours and it did change lanes into the one you are in, don't you think that you'd be rather foolish to be approaching the point of undertaking it? In this situation you should pull out into the overtaking and wait for the car to pull in out of your way.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-02-2015 07:52PM

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RainyDay · 14-02-2015 08:30PM

roosterman71 wrote: »

Lad coming down the wrong way on a one way street in Athlone

Why move over for him? I'd have just stopped in front, making sure he didn't have room to squeeze past?

roosterman71 wrote: »

Sulky racing near CityWest on the N7

The mind boggles as to how these lads are still getting away with this madness

Shocking - what time of day was it? I hope the driver wasn't holding/using a mobile phone, was he or she?

RainyDay · 14-02-2015 08:31PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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Defensive driver training suggests differently. The advise I got was that you know absolutely without exception if there is anyone behind to see your indicator. If there is no-one to see it, don't waste your time indicating.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-02-2015 08:35PM

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corktina · 14-02-2015 08:50PM

If you are an experienced driver, you would be alive to the possibility that the car overtaking you may pull back in, in fact you should be expecting it, in which case, as I said, I'd have no problem with the car not indicating.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-02-2015 08:54PM

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corktina · 14-02-2015 09:18PM

no, what I said isn't wrong. You can regard what the guy did as wrong if you want.

What I said is simply defensive driving, you shouldn't rely on an indication, or lack of it, you should use your judgement to keep yourself safe.

dashcamdanny · 14-02-2015 09:20PM

Yep. Beggars belief that people this stupid exist.

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

corktina · 14-02-2015 09:25PM

it's astounding that anyone would even want to take an animal on a major road like that! It's playing Russian Roulette with people's lives.

Jesus. · 14-02-2015 09:27PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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:rolleyes:

Jesus. · 14-02-2015 09:32PM

RainyDay wrote: »

Defensive driver training suggests differently. The advise I got was that you know absolutely without exception if there is anyone behind to see your indicator. If there is no-one to see it, don't waste your time indicating.

Now don't you go and start posting common bloody sense on this Forum.

That won't be tolerated!

dashcamdanny · 14-02-2015 09:42PM

corktina wrote: »

it's astounding that anyone would even want to take an animal on a major road like that! It's playing Russian Roulette with people's lives.

Its their tradition to drive horses down the N7. We must respect that. :pac:

Muppets.

As I passed over the bridge to Rathcoole village, the horse was in the slow lane and the van took position in the middle lane. Two twits blocking two lanes of the Naas rd.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-02-2015 09:43PM

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Fred Swanson · 14-02-2015 09:47PM

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

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