Dash cams - Do they actually work?

[Cole]

Originally Posted by ButeraFRS

Just in case your glasses are in for repair.


have a solid night, brother.

No, laughing at your use of "aliterate" instead of "illiterate". If you're going to go in on someones reading comprehension, you better come correct.

Originally Posted by Cole

No, laughing at your use of "aliterate" instead of "illiterate". If you're going to go in on someones reading comprehension, you better come correct.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet when you're wrong and move along http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aliterate
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aliteracy

[Cole]

Originally Posted by ButeraFRS

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet when you're wrong and move along http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aliterate
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aliteracy

Too easy with some people.

[HeadBanger]

Such a shit show for nothing.


Let's assume you're following the flow of traffic, since it's illegal to impede the flow. For argument's sake the flow is at 130km/h. There's traffic in front of you, and traffic behind you. You're driving with proper distance between you and the person in front of you, when sudenly they slam on the brakes as if ET is walking across the highway.
They're driving a supercar which stops on a dime, and you're driving a normal pedestrian car - 2013 Corolla for example. Supercar obviously stops much faster, and since you weren't expecting it, you hit the car in front of you.
You're still at fault no matter what? Regardless of why the car in front of you suddenly slows or stops, and regardless of your proper distance, you get nailed?

Might as well just start walking everywhere because unless i'm 3km behind everybody who knows what's going to happen.

In that situation yes.

There's a difference though with brake checking and emergency stopping. Brake checking is done out of spite for person behind you. If you hit someone who's emergency braking you may get charged and they may not.

[HeadBanger]

Originally Posted by ButeraFRS

In that situation yes.

There's a difference though with brake checking and emergency stopping. Brake checking is done out of spite for person behind you. If you hit someone who's emergency braking you may get charged and they may not.

But the thing is you can easily claim emergency stop.

Shouldn't the person doing the emergency stop still get hit with a ticket due to impeding the flow?


What I learned from this is that if ever John Doe decides he doesn't want to make his car payment anymore I could be getting a nice big ticket and a totalled car because he stopped in front of me.

Originally Posted by HeadBanger

But the thing is you can easily claim emergency stop.

Shouldn't the person doing the emergency stop still get hit with a ticket due to impeding the flow?


What I learned from this is that if ever John Doe decides he doesn't want to make his car payment anymore I could be getting a nice big ticket and a totalled car because he stopped in front of me.

Again it's all situational and this is why dashcams are SO important. If the car in front of you is genuinely doing an emerge stop say if a ped runs out in the road,then they may not get ticketed and you might get a ticket for following too close. Whether this holds up in court is another story. Hell, it's even common to get careless driving after rear ending someone.

If someone is doing what the person in the video I posted above did and you hit them, they will get a ticket. They can claim emergency stop, but when it is so obvious that they are doing it to spite the driver behind them, they will get charged with something.

Having a dashcam allows you, the police and the insurance companies to distinguish the emergency stops from the brake checks.

There's too many scenarios and variables that could happen to make blanket statements.

[darko]

[Gringosteve]

A dashcam is a tool, it may not be useful 99% of the time but for that 1% it could make a big difference. Mine cost £75 and is brilliant quality

[Sideways]

I got Spytech G1WH dash cam that I got for under 60 bucks from Amazon after hearing lots of good things about it. And so far, I'm liking it. I don't have it hardwired in yet, but will be doing it next weekend and just record the videos in loop on my 8gb sd card that I had lying around.

I did't wanted to buy super costly dashcam, as its pointless most of the time, but I just like it for extra insurance. Plus, I can also use it in my other car when I go for tsd rally.

[iLaw]

I own a DOD LS430 Dashcam.

A year ago someone ran a stop sign and hit my car in the front right fender panel. The Dash cam footage clearly showed me stopping at the empty interseaction, behind the white line, then proceeding and him just plowing on through. Without it, I would have split the fault with the other driver and would have owed 1/2 of my deductable.

$250 dash cam saved me a $1000 deductable. Paid for itself 4x in one small incident. Totally worth it.

[Cliu91]

Originally Posted by iLaw

I own a DOD LS430 Dashcam.

A year ago someone ran a stop sign and hit my car in the front right fender panel. The Dash cam footage clearly showed me stopping at the empty interseaction, behind the white line, then proceeding and him just plowing on through. Without it, I would have split the fault with the other driver and would have owed 1/2 of my deductable.

$250 dash cam saved me a $1000 deductable. Paid for itself 4x in one small incident. Totally worth it.

Lmao, you're telling me the guy actually tried to pin the blame on you? The nerve of some people on this society. Glad you caught it on film.

[HeadBanger]

Originally Posted by iLaw

I own a DOD LS430 Dashcam.

A year ago someone ran a stop sign and hit my car in the front right fender panel. The Dash cam footage clearly showed me stopping at the empty interseaction, behind the white line, then proceeding and him just plowing on through. Without it, I would have split the fault with the other driver and would have owed 1/2 of my deductable.

$250 dash cam saved me a $1000 deductable. Paid for itself 4x in one small incident. Totally worth it.

What was your insurance process? Or you told them you had a dash cam and they just assumed responsibility?

[iLaw]

Originally Posted by HeadBanger

What was your insurance process? Or you told them you had a dash cam and they just assumed responsibility?

I told the insurance company I had footage. I emailed them the video clip. They took care of it from there. I got a call back from them saying that after the video was shown to the other driver, he admitted to lying. So they pinned everything on him. Since his insurance company will be paying for everything, they waived my deductible.


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