Dash cam thread 2 (car videos only, no commenting on videos)

sightband wrote: »

what speed are you at during that? why in the overtaking lane for the entire period with long stretches of road with no cars in the middle lane?

any driver who tries blinding drivers with flashing beams is as reckless as anyone which you did. It distracts, it achieves nothing.

In fairness to Delly, why would he move into lane 2, if he's travelling faster than the other traffic, and there's no one behind him? Unnecessarily moving between lanes is more messing about than is really needed, most of the time.


Also, the van doesn't stop in lane 2, it goes straight into the path of Delly, so he's well within his right to give him a flash to make the van driver aware of what he just did. I'd be confident the van didn't know Delly was even there.

sightband wrote: »

flashing a driver with full beams achieves nothing other than showing you are angry, venting your own frustration and endangering other road users. it distracts everyone. did i miss this in my own test "use high beams repeatedly on a driver you are not happy with"...then he brake checks, then some times it doesnt work out like you hoped and there is a pile up.

I'd disagree, although I do see where you're coming from.


You'll find people tend to be a little more embarrassed by their actions if they get flashed or an ould toot of the horn to pull them up on things. It also makes them aware that they actually did something wrong and are less likely to repeat it.


Although I can count on one hand the amount of times I've use the horn in the last 6 years of driving, I would flash people regularly, either to warn of hazards, give right of way, or, as in this case, to pull people up on their behaviour or make them aware they could have caused an accident.


Everyone will have their own approach to it, obviously, but I personally have no issue with Delly's flashing.

Deleted User wrote: »

A) Because that's the law

Because that's responsible, good driving

That's why.

A) is correct, however I'd disagree with . Unnecessarily switching back and forth in your lanes for no purpose doesn't benefit anyone.


I didn't check the times on the video properly, so I'm open to correction, but assuming the van stayed in lane 2, and Delly had passed the van, then delly would have had to have moved into lane 2, and back to lane 3, all in the course of the 12 seconds between the two vehicles (the car he overtakes before the van, and the van itself).


Assume it takes two seconds to cross the marked lines safely, and Delly would have performed two lane switches for a total of 8 seconds driving in lane 2. It doesn't make sense and you're more likely to have an accident switching back and forth than by just staying where you are (assuming no one is trying to get by you).

delly wrote: »

I was doing 120 km/h up to the point of the 100 km/h sign officer, did you not see the deceleration?

The stretch of motorway ends, becomes a trilane with left lane for M50 north, middle lane for city (which often has tailbacks to that junction) and rightlane for M50 south. I'm an anal left lane driver to be honest, however in this circumstance we initially had visible traffic in the middle lane driving at substantially slower speeds than me, followed by a mass of traffic entering slowly from the left into lane 1 and 2, therefore to enter these lanes would increase risk of a collision, and considering I am already in the correct lane for M50 free flow. In relation to flashing the driver, as KKV said already, it achieved awareness to the driver that he drove into a lane of traffic at a substantially slower speed. This driver then brake checks me and then proceeds to drive up the behind of a truck after I have backed off to maintain a safe braking distance, resulting in him having to brake again.

So I used google earth to get the exact distance between you passing under the overbridge at the start of the video to passing over the underbridge after the speedlimit decreases, as these were fairly easy landmarks to use.

You were doing over 150km/h. There were 13 seconds between passing under the overbridge to passing over the underbridge. There's 551m between the start of the two and the decrease in the limit happens just over halfway.

551m in 13 seconds = 42m/s or 151.2km/h.

There's also almost 2.5km between the start of the video and where you need to be in lane 3 for M50 south.


I suggest that you

a) Don't exceed the speed limit by 25% (growing to at least 40%?when you seemingly ignore the speed limit changing)

b) Don't use a turn 2.5km ahead as an excuse for not keeping left

c) Don't get frustrated at drivers who drive at the speed limit and aren't anticipating an idiot driving in the same manner as you

You clearly shouldn't have a driving license, especially given your second video.

@KKV: Keep left unless overtaking is good driving anywhere in the world (unless it's keep right), and that includes countries where you can overtake on either side. There was 20 seconds between passing the first car and passing the second.