martine wrote:Jont: not sure I understand your outrage. Sure there are times when a vid can be misleading but there are also times when it's pretty clear what has gone on and it should be counted as good evidence. Isn't that what our court process is all about...prosecution and defence etc?
Astraist wrote:And, to elaborate on that last point, most countries where dash-cams are widely used, namely Russia and former USSR countries, have poor car crash statistics.
While the dashcam users will regard them as being the answer to the rotten driving culture around them, it might actually be part of the problem - an aid to the oh-so-common shifting of responsibility to the other drivers, to the detriment of safety.
sussex2 wrote:These cameras may be required in some countries where the standard of road us is so poor that something has to be done; this is not a situation we have in the UK or EU in general.
jont wrote:Most people seem to want to use them to criticise the behaviour of others (or validate their own behaviour), rather than review their own behaviour or use it as a learning tool. For example in accidents it's always a - "look, it's obviously his fault" - not "hmm, maybe I could have done something different and I would have avoided it".
If you carry on along your line, maybe all dashcam footage from everyone should be uploaded? then it can be reviewed to spot any drivers on hand-held phones, parked illegally, people crossing double white lines, using wrong lanes etc etc. Do you /really/ want to live in that sort of society? I don't.
akirk wrote:another way to look at it though might be that some of the idiots on the road may start to think twice if they are aware that they might be caught on someone else's camera...
Carbon Based wrote:akirk wrote:another way to look at it though might be that some of the idiots on the road may start to think twice if they are aware that they might be caught on someone else's camera...
Only if they know they are idiots.
Silk wrote:Garrison wrote:No, I do not have a dash cam and no plan on acquiring one.
Go back 20 years and you can substitute dash cam for mobile phone. Now everyone has a mobile phone.
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