Dash Cam Captures of Human Stupidity

A sad day

 

beginning to hate people

 

No dashcam video, but this morning I witnessed the most insane, arrogant, dangerous move I've ever seen in 30 year of driving. I was first in line at a red light, poised to cross a 6 lane road. I was in the middle of three lanes... the one to the left was for left turns, mine was for going straight and the right lane was for right turns. The light turns green and I start to go. About 1/4 of the way across the 6 lanes I'm cut off by a Tahoe that raced up FROM MY RIGHT, zipped in front of me and made a LEFT turn! And to do it he had to tear across a crosswalk that he wouldn't have been able to see having been behind me on my right. Thank heavens there were no pedestrians in the crosswalk. And this was right next to the metro (subway) station at 8AM... people walking everywhere.

Boggles my mind.

 

Yep. If I had a dash cam for my accident, it would've saved me a TON of hassle. I got wrongfully ticketed (which I appealed and won). Insurance found me not at fault, but couldn't win with opposing insurance company even after going into arbitration. But my rates didn't go up or anything. Sounds like I came out good right? Wrong. 2 years later and now I'm getting sued by the other guy for a supposed injury claim. Which is total and utter bullshit because he was basically nudged. Really stressing. Can't Fucking believe it. It was the other guys fault and he is doing everything he can to take advantage of it all. I feel like insurance will take care of it all, because there's no way in hell he Could've claimed injuries worth more than 30k, which is what should be covered.
But still.. If I had video proof, it would have eliminated all of this bullshit. I haven't been served yet. But insurance says they've been trying since August.

 

Man that sucks, hope it works out with minimal b.s.

 

Thanks. Yeah I really don't know what to expect. Never really been to court or anything before. Except with that initial ticket I got. The insurance appointed law office left me a voicemail. Need to call them. But I feel like it's gonna be the same process all over where I have to present my case and statement for this new lawsuit. Another drawn out process. After the initial process for the wreck lasted like a year, I'm not looking forward to this one even if I'm fairly optimistic about the results.

 

No shit! Me too. Where's my 3 min back man?

 

The point is, EVERYONE should have a dash cam. Even if you think you'll never need one. I will never be without one from now on. It could save you lots of hassle. And time. And stress. And money.

 

Make absolutely sure you know who that law office is representing. My guess is their true client is the insurance company. For so long as your interests align you're probably good, but as soon as they diverge remember who they're working for... Once you've had a good talk with them it may be worth consulting with an attorney on your own.

 

I'm convinced now, damn... espicaly because its snow season here in nevada and all this stuff multiplies by ten... Any recommendations on dash cams? (I'm sure its been said in this thread before but aint nobody got time for that

 

Idk. There's lots. You could go for an expensive one. But remember, it's only there to prove your innocence. But don't cheap out either. You don't want it to fail to record when you need it most.. I got the ausdom a261 from gearbest.
http://m.gearbest.com/car-dvr/pp_232448.html
Pretty happy with it. I'd like to have got a dual front and rear setup tho.

 

How much you want to spend? Is parking mode important?

Top of the line would be Thinkware F770 or Blackview DR650GW-2ch

As @NightProwler mentions, don't cheap out so much it doesn't do the job.

Check out @USDashCamera's signature for some nicely done reviews.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/dash-camera-choices.415173/page-8

 

https://www.blackboxmycar.com/

This site is great! They have a lot of choices and a lot of video reviews, samples and comparisons for their cameras. I want to get a dual channel one (front and rear) and am looking at this one.

https://www.blackboxmycar.com/collections/2-channel-dash-cams/products/blacksys-ch-100b

 

+1 on blackboxmycar.com

 

so its been a while since ive posted, but i was deployed so not really driving lol. me and my pregnant wife and dog going to chick-fil-a and as i turn right with a green light, this dumb bitch turns left NOT on a green arrow, just a green light and cuts me off. i laid on the horn and she didnt even acknowledge that i was there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCLABO058ks

 

Relatively minor dumbass, but worth playing with iMovie a bit to merge front/rear camera clips into a PiP video.

 

Today was a busy day for bad drivers First we have some who didn't want to wait for the light


And then someone decided to switch lanes as I was turning... guess she really needed to get to Walmart


and yes I can see the camera has ripples I need to find a way to tighten the mount.

 

almost T-Boned a dumbass