Forced 2 vehicles to move over for them - the motorcyclist was already in the lane, can't see clearly with the white car - think they pulled out about the same time but still. I'm surprised it is still usable to overtaking from that direction as at least 2 bad crashes have happened on that exact bit that I know of (not the ones I mentioned above). We used to do that road almost every weekend when I was a kid visiting my grandparents.
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Forced 2 vehicles to move over for them - the motorcyclist was already in the lane, can't see clearly with the white car - think they pulled out about the same time but still. I'm surprised it is still usable to overtaking from that direction as at least 2 bad crashes have happened on that exact bit that I know of (not the ones I mentioned above). We used to do that road almost every weekend when I was a kid visiting my grandparents.
Have to be honest I don't always think to switch mine over from DRLs in day time adverse conditions - something I keep trying to keep in mind - I'm so used these days to the automatic light functionality which mostly works but not always.
2 from the weekend:
When driving on Satursday an Audi saloon ploughing into a roundabout far too fast with tyres squealing. Clearly never taught to go slow in, fast out. All looked very undignified in its mess of noisy understeer.
When cycling yesterday a BMW estate tried to push past on a one way road with parking on both sides and when the lights about 100m in front were red (and will be for quite a while yet). He got about level with me before aborting. I decided to take a small diversion on a parallel road rather then have him glued to my arse up the hill. Turns out, I beat him up the hill and he then got stuck at another set of red lights. I gave him a little wave.
When driving on Satursday an Audi saloon ploughing into a roundabout far too fast with tyres squealing. Clearly never taught to go slow in, fast out. All looked very undignified in its mess of noisy understeer.
When cycling yesterday a BMW estate tried to push past on a one way road with parking on both sides and when the lights about 100m in front were red (and will be for quite a while yet). He got about level with me before aborting. I decided to take a small diversion on a parallel road rather then have him glued to my arse up the hill. Turns out, I beat him up the hill and he then got stuck at another set of red lights. I gave him a little wave.
I decided to take a small diversion on a parallel road rather then have him glued to my arse up the hill. Turns out, I beat him up the hill and he then got stuck at another set of red lights. I gave him a little wave.
Had that the other day - took a slightly longer route around a town on my way to work due to someone being stupid close behind me for the last few miles, rejoined the road at traffic lights the other side in time to see them pulling up at the lights. And as per typical on the dual-carriageway after that they dropped miles back.
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My lights don't come on automatically 90% of the time when it rains.
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Love beating someone who does that. I think to myself, what did they achieve, apart from being a berk?2 from the weekend:
When driving on Satursday an Audi saloon ploughing into a roundabout far too fast with tyres squealing. Clearly never taught to go slow in, fast out. All looked very undignified in its mess of noisy understeer.
When cycling yesterday a BMW estate tried to push past on a one way road with parking on both sides and when the lights about 100m in front were red (and will be for quite a while yet). He got about level with me before aborting. I decided to take a small diversion on a parallel road rather then have him glued to my arse up the hill. Turns out, I beat him up the hill and he then got stuck at another set of red lights. I gave him a little wave.
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This has been around for yonks in the HGV industry. We get judged purely on a fuel efficiency basis however. Harsh acceleration, Accelerator above 95%, coasting distance, percentage of time spent in cruise in top gear and idle time. I was joint 1st out of 90 drivers last week and 5th out of 90 on an 8 week rolling period. Only reason I do it however is we get a bonus for it with a potential of winning a load of goodies and 2k in holiday vouchers if you get driver of the year (which in itself is a final competition against several depots!).
I will be honest it is not really a fair system of judging as if you are trunking up the A1 and M62 to say Manchester or Liverpool it is far easier to get a top score than doing multi drop around Park Royal & Heathrow. Especially along the M11 and A14 which is relatively flat whereas on the M62 you can coast for miles at a time on the downhill sections.
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We used to have something similar on the buses. Driving score closest to zero each month got a bonus.
Ended up with the death of a pedestrian because the driver was on course for the bonus and didn't want to brake hard and raise his score.
Company stopped the competition immediately. Now the system is still there but only really used in collision investigations.
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That second overtake is mental, and as a motorcycle rider that's nightmare fuel.
Does your local force have a submission email? Even if they get a warning letter it 'may' stop them being an absolute bell.
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one of my reservations about dashcams especially at night -
image detail seems to improve at the end of the video, but otherwise it is difficult/impossible to make out the reg plate,
if there is a crash then it wouldn't matter, but otherwise, if the police(chatgpt?) can't make it out, either, then not so useful.
One to open up in full screen to see that driver bully everyone in the opposite lane to move over. 'Make way, I'm more important' (I did have a more graphic description of the driver here...).
You mean SD15 DPN ?
It could easily be several variations of that and only one frame it is anything like clear. There is a huge range in dashcam quality, some are far better than that, but ultimately what they can be useful for is demonstrating blame or lack of which is far more important than capturing registration plates. As per something I mentioned recently my brother's boss was in a 3 way shunt and the other 2 drivers colluded to blame it on him and if it hadn't been for the dashcam footage he had he'd have had no defence.
Kind of hoping the law catches up with them though they went head on with a motorcyclist who was already occupying that lane and the white car was pulling out slightly before they were albeit it was only a fraction to it never mind the chances of anyone else pulling out:
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Took me 5 minutes of frameskipping on youtube to figure it out, but yes I agree some dashcams are terrible at fine detail like a number plate.
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It’s actually a 4K Nextbase cam with a 720p rear cam - I think it’s just lost some detail in the download, editing on my phone and posting to YouTube…
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ive not watched the video but on the pic above, i thought you are not allowed to over take on a solid white line?
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I don't think the guy gives a ****
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lol , so i see 