It’s amazing that all dashcam compilations basically consist of people sending in clips of other people fucking it up and then still end up at at least 30% of being entirely avoidable situations if the driver with the camera just wasn’t also hugely carbrained. Most common issue seems to be some sort of my right of way shall not be infringed, my steel steed shall make it so or figuring looking at the road and / or being able to stop your car within the distance you can see is for chumps.
I’ll go through it clip by clip for Idiots in Cars Nr. 367, posted a day ago at time of writing. To be clear, I’m not saying it’s the dashcam drivers fault primarily in the examples down below but isn’t this supposed to showcase other people fucking it up entirely?
At 00:32 you can clearly see the red car, cutting across the lines, no indicator ain’t exactly on a vector for the right lane, time to stay the course and not brake
At 01:36 you can quite clearly see, in broad daylight, the bump ahead that the person wrecks on and that’s with the shitty dashcam quality
01:59 I don’t even think I have to point out how fucking carbrained it is to swerve blindly into the opposing lane of traffic because you couldn’t be bothered to just brake a bit and wait all of 3 seconds
At 04:13 you can clearly see the red car from the right moving with literally no possible place to go instead of right infront of the driver, time to acclerate straight at it (HOOOOOOOOONK)
At 08:14 like the person in the white SUV is an asshole but like what did you think would happen here when they overtook you on the blocked lane?
tbf, even shitty dashcam footage can give a clearer view of some things than the driver had. I see all kinds of weird discolorations and shadows and shit that aren’t actually dangerous, I probably wouldn’t think twice about driving over this. but I also wouldn’t be going probably 30 over the speed limit so I’d be ok anyway
Pretty sure this one is a semitruck that literally can’t stop in that distance. They seem to brake within a second of the dickhead stopping in the intersection and it’s just too late to slow all that mass down.
Dude’s going too fast then. If you can’t stop within the distance you can see you’re just hoping everybody can get out of the way in time.
The distance you can see is from that green sign to the intersection??? Pretty sure I can see a whole lot further than that. But it wasn’t until the cam perspective had reached the green sign that the dickhead hit the brakes directly in the middle of the intersection. As far as the trucker could tell until that point, they were just going to go straight through and be long gone by the time their paths crossed
This is sort of exactly what I mean, you can spot from a mile away that the guy towing 4 cars with an F250 or whatever that is who is slowly inching his way into an intersection despite traffic approaching from both sides is not gonna do the smart thing and you should probably hit the brakes a bit to make sure you can come to a stop