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Old 10-15-2014, 06:30 PM   #108
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Originally Posted by KelvinBRZ View Post
I know how you feel. I commute 85 miles a day round trip on freeways in traffic. The amount of stupid careless drivers cutting people off in their lanes is far too common. I get these close call incidents every damn week! I usually honk profusely and high beam the driver... I have so many dashcam vids on my iPhone with lane change close calls. Maybe it's time to get a real dedicated dashcam..

Also it appears that from most of the incidents I've recorded, half of the cars are trucks or large vans. Are we just invisible to them?!
My commute is 80 miles round trip brotha, and the dashcam was the best $50 investment I've ever made! I feel naked driving without it now...

I want to believe that our cars are just so low and small that they looked but didn't see us, but my cynical mind leads me to believe that truck/SUV drivers simply don't bother to look because having such a big, heavy car makes them feel so safe (read: isolated from the road/traffic) that they don't feel the need to check. I don't want to misrepresent commercial truck drivers though--most are very professional and are some of the safest drivers on the road.
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