After being tailgated by an idiot who tried to cut me up last week I'm seriously considering a second camera recording through the rear window .. probably a project to cable up etc over the christmas holiday period
Spot on! I am constantly being tailgated through local villages simply because I keep to the 30MPH limit. The main culprits are usually younger drivers who are seemingly unaware of stopping distances. There are cameras available now that monitor front and back.One of these would save a lot of wiring. What intrigues me is that insurance companies do not offer a discount for cars fitted with dash cameras,unless some of you know differently!
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It seems we will be going the same route as eastern Europe where most people have dashcams.
As I don't really look at new cars that often, are there any cars being sold with factory fitted dash cams?
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Yes, I do know differently. Just last week I renewed my car insurance, looked around for a lower quote and AXA offered me a 10% discount for having a dash cam, also dash cams are included in their list of permitted modifications
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Still at least I haven't been over taken on the A12 by a cheep ker-rich-Chen. So that's a plus.
Anyone else fed up with the idiot dodgy k****** spammer? Cos I am
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Still at least I haven't been over taken on the A12 by a cheep ker-rich-Chen. So that's a plus.
Anyone else fed up with the idiot dodgy k****** spammer? Cos I am
I had an idle thought to contact them lots of times with bogus enquiries demanding long lists of detailed dimensions and specifications (using a throwaway e mail account set up for the purpose).
If I could actually locate the idiot responsible a visit with balaclave and baseball bat would be quite satisfying.
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And there was me on the M25 sunday evening clockwise from J21 down to J28 being edged over for a bit by a left hand drive Romanian small truck.
In the end I moved to lane 1 at 70 and passed everyone in the outer lanes..
Naughty me!
Edited by oldroverboy. on 07/12/2015 at 19:36
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Yes. Irritating.
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The dangerous driver on the original video was jailed for 8 months, disqualified for 2 years and 4 months and fined.
Surely driving like that should warrant a permanent disqualification.
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This is good news. I am shure that there are people who will say that the public should not have to do the work of the Police. I am sure the Police would love to have the recources to patrol the roads properly themselves, but even if they did, they cannot be everywhere at once. If we are going to have to do some of this policing ourselves, it is at least heartening that the worst offences filmed are acted upon
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Data Protection legislation in Spain absolutely forbids helmetcams and dashcams, with eye-watering fines for transgressors - as much as €60,000.
Any recording device that records or *might record* a member of the public or any of his/her identifying features (such as a number plate) in a public place without the person's specific permission is a no-no.
Unlike in Britain, there is no automatic presumed right to photograph or film people in a public place.
An EU Regulation* on Data Protection is set to come into force in 2017, which is likely to be cumbersome and unworkable.
(*An EU Regulation, by the way, is immediately enforceable in all member states simultaneously and it automatically overrides national laws.)
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Very interesting comment Bilboman - what if I'm standing roadside as a tourist and taking a video of say the city town hall, it's not possible to blank out the passing traffic and pedestrians!
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"what if I'm standing roadside as a tourist and taking a video of say the city town hall, it's not possible to blank out the passing traffic and pedestrians!"
From what I've read (and I've read a lot of forums on the subject ) it's one thing to take pictures or record scenes in a public place and then take the pictures home for the album, but quite another matter to publish what you've recorded or to be overtly recording in public, i.e. from a car windscreen. There have been some pretty stiff laws passed recently in Spain, one of which prohibits recording or photographing uniformed police officers, so there's no way I'd even think about having a dashcam or using it on a motorway in the current climate "just in case"
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The dangerous driver on the original video was jailed for 8 months, disqualified for 2 years and 4 months and fined.
Surely driving like that should warrant a permanent disqualification.
Depends on the person - a lot of people after all that would never drive like that again - especially after prison and having to do their driving test to even get back to driving. That's if they could afford the insurance with that on their record and probably no job.
Do you not think people have 2nd chances?
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