r/dashcamgifs 5d ago

Dashcam is most important

2.1k Upvotes

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u/jyfd2137 5d ago

That guy sure gets in a lot of accidents

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u/Dense_Union6006 4d ago

Good thing he has a dashcam.

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u/LymanPeru 3d ago

some of those accidents though, the dashcam looks like it might show them at-fault.

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u/Temporary-Degree5221 4d ago

Well if you drive a lot, you will encounter countless morons on the road

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u/CapSnake 4d ago

Also, it's often on the left with a semi...

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u/VP-Kowalski 4d ago

Lol this got me good

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u/espakor 5d ago

Saved my neck a few times when they pretend to be victims calling the cops.

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u/Urcleman 4d ago

Magically cures their necks too when they notice the dash cam.

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u/funkwumasta 4d ago

That's why I believe in general shitty drivers = shitty people

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u/RedRedditor84 2d ago

A few times? How many collisions have you been involved in?

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u/espakor 22h ago

3 times in the past 5 years.

Also hardwire the camera to ACC on the fuse box for off-time running

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u/InvestigatorKey3959 4d ago

Dash cams should really just come standard in every car

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u/bottomcurious32 4d ago

I'm sure it would be an uncharge of $1000 for a $100 camera if this was the case

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u/Ultra-CH 4d ago

And you would need to pay a subscription to access it!

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u/bottomcurious32 4d ago

Maybe 2 subscriptions. One to record the footage and one to actually store and access the footage šŸ˜‚

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u/CrippledPeasant1 4d ago

and a third one to make sure the updates are installed.

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u/bottomcurious32 4d ago

How could I have forgotten?! šŸ˜‚

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u/InvestigatorKey3959 3d ago

That’s why Amazon dash cams exist. $80, plug and play, done

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u/bottomcurious32 3d ago

Right.... I'm just explaining why this isn't standard and why we buy the $80 instead....

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u/InvestigatorKey3959 3d ago

Yep, $1000 dash cam that somehow doesn’t include the memory card.

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u/bottomcurious32 3d ago

You are clearly missing my point about dealerships price gouging new features.

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u/InvestigatorKey3959 3d ago

nah I got what you meant lol, just joking about how they’d still manage to screw us with the SD card missing

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u/bottomcurious32 3d ago

Oh! I missed the joke because I was thinking cloud storage. You're 100% right I apologize šŸ˜‚ too much tunnel vision today

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u/LymanPeru 3d ago

my car has a bunch of cameras, but its very weird that they dont have them set up to record.

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u/KorolEz 5d ago

The stupidity and recklessness just to save a couple of minutes always astonishes me. That's why I hate drivers.

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u/red_simplex 4d ago

it's not even minutes usually. Plain seconds. You can let 18 wheeler pass and go behind it in 10 seconds.

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u/creegro 4d ago

Barely even seconds, like fractions of seconds cause 99% of people will get to their destination, and then sit in the car for a few minutes to gather stuff or check their phone or whatever.

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u/tulobanana 4d ago

The number of times I’ve seen people weaving in and out of cars, driving recklessly…and then I pull up next to them at the red light. All of that risk for zero gain. Not only that, but they spent their whole trip stressing. Even if it did save time, I’d rather get there 2 minutes later and be relaxed than 2 minutes earlier and on edge like that. All that cortisol or whatever can’t be healthy for you every time you drive

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u/Asherea 4d ago

all that speed to get stuck at a redlight with me is wild enrgy lmfao XD

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u/Shadowhawk0000 4d ago

Sold. You've sold me. Can anyone recommend one with a modest budget?

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u/4RichNot2BPoor 4d ago

VIOFO

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u/Shadowhawk0000 4d ago

THANK YOU!!! Didn't know they had front and rear as well.

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u/PajamaHive 4d ago

Here's some footage from the Red Tiger F9. It's what I have and it does a decent job.

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u/amazinghl 4d ago

Do you want one that see the license plate number or not?

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u/Shadowhawk0000 4d ago

Oh gosh, yeah I guess. That's the point right? Yeah.

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u/amazinghl 4d ago

You would be amazed on how many dash cam can't pick up the license plate number at day time. Most can't pick up the plate number at night time.

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u/Shadowhawk0000 4d ago

Cheap stuff out there? No doubt.

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u/GlobalStar2574 4d ago

Sympathy for these muppets can be found between shit & Syphilis in the dictionary

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u/Scarygtamaster123 4d ago

ā€œHOW DID YOU NOT FUCKING SEE MEā€ -Trevor Phillips-

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u/ShadowPsi 4d ago

Why the fuck is the video flipped left to right in the last 2 clips?

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u/RammyBoRammy 4d ago

It's just video clips from other people. This isn't all the same person, just the same person posting the video compilation.

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u/ShadowPsi 4d ago

Of course, but why are those two clips flipped?

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u/RammyBoRammy 4d ago

Bro, I don't know... algorithm or something?? The same thing people do with other people's content. They flip it and call it their own. It's all about clicks.

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u/tnetennba77 4d ago

Can a truck bumper just shrug off most of these or is it expensive work in the ship time after?

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u/pariah1984 4d ago edited 4d ago

I count at least 3 that were the trucker’s fault.

2 swinging wide into the other lane on a left turn

1 failure to maintain proper distance (even though the guys 3 cars up stopped in the middle of the offramp)

Edit: on closer review, I agree with everyone below that the 2 left turns were not the trucker’s fault.

Really weird to me that one of them had 2 vehicles turning left from the lane to the truck’s right, though.

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u/MrT735 4d ago

One of the left turns the truck looked like it wanted to go straight, but you can see from the lights that left lane must go left and centre lane can go both left and straight.

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u/Typotastic 4d ago

The truck was in the center lane, you can tell from how the lanes/lights line up. Pickup was trying to pull a pro-gamer move and get in front of the truck from the rightmost lane.

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u/laxfool10 4d ago

Na the two swinging wide were cars trying to cut in front of the truck while not even being in a turning lane (you can even see how the lanes line up). Trucks will 99% of the time generally take the outside lane of two-lane turns otherwise they won't make the turn without hitting what ever is to the left of the truck (oncoming car, median, signs, etc.).

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u/Typotastic 4d ago

At least one of those lefts was someone trying to make a left in front of the truck when they weren't in a turning lane. The one with the pickup at the end is definitely that.

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u/Accurate_Ideal2273 5d ago

People are just....sigh.. like its unatural for human to move 60kph but NO we gottago faster!

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u/Zosmie 5d ago

šŸ‘šŸ»

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u/dalouda 4d ago

Semi will win

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u/Dry-Bag-4820 4d ago

Never a shortage of stupid drivers, lol

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u/Standard-Analyst-181 4d ago

What are these fucking idiots thinking??? I can't wrap my head around this shit! 🤦

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u/Educational_Share_57 5d ago

I think we ought to make them required by insurance companies. That, or make every car manufacturer do the same as Tesla and build them into the actual vehicle. And before anyone mentions "rights", it's not a right to drive.

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u/SnooMaps7370 4d ago

I can get on board with this, but only if the video storage is not remotely accessible. requires someone to get in the car, turn it on with the key, and plug in a USB stick to transfer the files.

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u/bottomcurious32 4d ago

Thank goodness this specified USA. I couldn't tell by the people poorly driving oversized vehicles on the right hand side of the road.

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u/One-Adhesive 4d ago

Where’s the Russian dash cams. I bet they got some good ones.

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u/Faeriegrll 4d ago

All I can say about the non-semi drivers is, ā€œwhat were they thinking???l

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u/Franndly 4d ago

Doing it out of habit to other drivers (not semi) on the road, doesn’t require thinking

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u/Franndly 4d ago

Bad drivers pitting themselves, what a satisfying video

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u/synthetic_aesthetic 4d ago

Some people should not be allowed behind the wheel of a car

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u/aeroboy14 4d ago

One of these is not like the rest lol. Regardless, reddit convinced me to get one a couple years ago and while i've never needed it, it does feel good knowing I'll have it.

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u/jhanon76 4d ago

Boy those suvs look tiny from this truck

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u/Mekanikol 3d ago

Nice air time! Getting your car to Ollie is pretty dope.

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u/ItsAryan_NotIron 3d ago

Trucks are like trains on tyres, best to stay out of their way.

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u/Rhuarc33 3d ago

That second one is wild... Unless mechanical failure that driver should never drive again

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u/Suspicious_Fail_2337 4d ago

Why don't these truckers brake?

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u/spartaman64 4d ago

trucks have a much longer stopping distance than cars

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u/Suspicious_Fail_2337 4d ago

Why don't they anticipate if they have a longer stopping distance

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u/spartaman64 4d ago

in most of them the cars turn into the truck's lane. id say maybe the second to last one the truck could be held partially liable

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u/zgillet 4d ago

A rear end is always the from-behind person's fault.

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u/spartaman64 4d ago

nope the car changing lanes must yield to cars already in the lane not the other way around.

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u/zgillet 4d ago

I mean same lane rear end.

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u/loopsbruder 4d ago

That's just not true. It's frequently the from-behind person's fault, but when there's evidence that a four-wheeler cut off and brake checked a semi, the semi driver's insurance will deny liability.

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u/dazzleox 4d ago

I always wondered how literal insurance companies are about that when I see these sort of videos of people stopping short in front of a big rig.