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Road Rage, near misses, crazy driving, my dashcam thread
When I'm not filming a ride with my SJCAM 5000X, I pop it in the dashcam mount. It's just there, I don't have to think about it, I don't even have to turn it on or worry about the SD card filling up. It's all automatic.
Once in a while I catch a few seconds of entertainment on the road though, the hardest part is remembering that I caught it on camera, and to hurry and grab the footage within a day before it's overwritten.
I'll post the fun clips here, you can ignore it if you like but I'm going to keep a single location for these as my driving life is blessed by them, one by one.
This one was yesterday. This black Acura merged late at the Clearfield exit, cutting this Toyota truck off (off camera). The truck honks, positions change back and forth as the race behind me ensues. Unfortunately this is the only clip of the whole childish fight I was able to capture, as everything else happened behind me.
If anybody in the Clinton/Sunset area recognizes this car, let 'em know they're famous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPtqtjt5bM
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This one is a New York lady at our entrance at Farmington Station Park, nothing crazy just a little distracted by those annoying lane markers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtH0uzgxvo
Start Seeing Motorcycles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4u1_bNbtY&feature=youtu.be
Don't Mind Me - oops, it's ok, he waved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXY-liPEQgI
Road Rage, near misses, crazy driving, my dashcam thread
Love the vids.
It's interesting, I had a thousand dollar idea a couple years ago where I would create a YouTube channel called "Utah's Worst Drivers" and just have hundreds of video clips of Utahs' infamous drivers doing what they do best! (Cutting people off, distracted driving, going 20mph over, going 15mph under, not getting out of the left lane, running red lights and blocking intersections, tailgating, passing people in the emergency lane, etc).
Insurance companies would love this idea, but people would be losing their minds as license plates would be in the public forum (and searchable).
Mark my words - there will be a day when everyone's driving will be recorded and uploaded on a online, public, searchable database.
Imagine going online, searching for your own plates, and seeing numerous vids from strangers recording you being distracted, racing, cutting people off, speeding...whatever...
And it's all crowd sourced. So then when a police officer runs your plates, he has a library of "oh, 'Wikid', has 20 vids of him cutting people off and going over the speed limit".
A database like that would definitely modify someone's driving behavior! But unfortunately it couldn't be done by education, experience and common sense first. The fear of getting caught, paying fines, etc. is sadly, the motivating factor (but somewhat effective) for a lot of people.
But in this day and age of self-incrimination, I.E. People recording themselves going 120mph down freeways and then officers showing up at your house with video evidence of your crime...Videos like these will be invaluable to trend and modify behavior.
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Road Rage, near misses, crazy driving, my dashcam thread
Here's a question to those people with dashcams: are you worried that the built-in battery (Lithium-Ion) is gonna burst or split wide open when the inside of your cab gets 120degrees (or hotter) during the Utah summers??