Kimosabe wrote:gannet wrote:Ancient and mefoster - far more eloquently put than I would have put it
hate dashcam warriors such as these...
Just to clear up this point, though I do agree when it applies to dashcam warriors, the reason he gives for having a dashcam is due to a previous accident, as sort of stated to a Welsh copper who pulled him over on the outskirts of Llanowhere in this video at 5:30s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fisd2pckMOU
WhoseGeneration wrote:If you're going to dashcam, keep it private, for use when it might be beneficial to you in terms of an insurance claim or proving something in a court.
I'm sure others here remember a member who fell foul of his dashcam footage, with commentary, criticising other drivers.
mefoster wrote:Kimosabe wrote:Just to clear up this point, though I do agree when it applies to dashcam warriors, the reason he gives for having a dashcam is due to a previous accident, as sort of stated to a Welsh copper who pulled him over on the outskirts of Llanowhere in this video at 5:30s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fisd2pckMOU
So he bought a dashcam so that he could collect evidence of bad driving. Hmmm.... One might presume that the irony is completely lost on him.
akirk wrote:the area in which you should move across legally is a smaller portion of the slip road - but there is a lot of the slip road before that where you are running parallel to the road and during which you can be checking traffic / planning / adapting - one error that many people make is where their visibility / planning sits - lots of drivers will drive down a slip road and only plan the join once they get towards the end - the secret in situations like this is to be planning much earlier and adapting where necessary
Alasdair
Kimosabe wrote:WhoseGeneration wrote:If you're going to dashcam, keep it private, for use when it might be beneficial to you in terms of an insurance claim or proving something in a court.
I'm sure others here remember a member who fell foul of his dashcam footage, with commentary, criticising other drivers.
I agree. He's hardly a paragon of good driving himself but I get the impression that he could benefit from a few observed drives with someone who sees the spark and who could redirect his desires to see improved driving on our roads, back onto him.
chrisl wrote:akirk wrote:the area in which you should move across legally is a smaller portion of the slip road - but there is a lot of the slip road before that where you are running parallel to the road and during which you can be checking traffic / planning / adapting - one error that many people make is where their visibility / planning sits - lots of drivers will drive down a slip road and only plan the join once they get towards the end - the secret in situations like this is to be planning much earlier and adapting where necessary
Alasdair
Yes, you are quite right.
The more I've pondered it, I've realised one big mistake was to allow the van to take over my concentration, perhaps a kind of morbid fascination, which allowed my knowledge of what was going on behind me on the slip-road to go stale. I'd planned my entrance to the A12 between two lorries, but didn't allow for adapting that plan in the (admittedly diminishing) time and space available.
Ultimately I slowed because I had to - in spite of the traffic behind - but the point I take from this is that there may have been more room behind than I thought, which would have still allowed a planned and more graceful entrance to lane 1.
akirk wrote:but the positives are that you still moved on to the A12 okay, you are able to dispassionately analyse it which is always a good sign of an AD - and next time you will simply shoot out the van's tyres before it becomes an issue
Alasdair
StressedDave wrote:TripleS wrote:If it's the young chap I'm thinking of, was he not a prominent member (or even an official) within his local IAM group, and possibly even the holder of an IAM F1RST certification - or something like that?
At the end of the day there's no guarantee of good driving at all times, whatever we do.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
Ah yes, good old Dom. He seems to have disappeared from here (and indeed Pistonheads after the rogering he received there)
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:A bit like the warrior in the posted videos, he imagined he was a great driver and things "happened" around him because everybody else was a bad driver. When it was pointed out that he could have anticipated some of the happenings, he got all huffy
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