Is there anything I can do with dashcam footage?

Johno100

foxy-stoat wrote: »

Email the footage to the Director of the company if the van was sign written, ask if they want to pay you a sum of money for you not to upload it to youtube - remember to inform the HMRC of your newly found revenue stream!

Isn't there a word for that - Black something or other.:D

Giles_K

As the others have said, unless you want a somewhat lucrative youtube career, dashcams are mostly good for police reports and insurance claims. However, there is a difference between bad driving and illegal driving, so it's not always worth it to report every minor irritation on the roads.

After all, we all make mistakes sometimes (even if we don't admit it) and we wouldn't want our own minor hiccups recorded and posted online. That said, especially poor or selfish driving should be recorded, especially if its for someone representing a company.

I feel the same way about people's parking, too, but that's another subject altogether.

Jlawson118

Jamiesmum wrote: »

I'd also just leave it. Someone pulling out on you or overtaking you will seem minor to you once you've been driving for a while. With tailgating if you've no kids in the car just brake very slightly your lights will come on and they usually back off.

But unless you have an accident or witness one, the dash cam isn't really worth saving every video of people who overtake you.

When you say they pulled out on you, what was your reaction? Did you need to brake hard or swerve?

I remember when for my first month or so of driving my perception of distance and width was way off without my instructor next to me, ie on a road big enough to park and 2 cars to pass each other, I would pull behind the parked cars and wait.

I'm not bothered about people overtaking me, I mean like when they pull out of junctions. My reaction times are pretty good, but there was just this one particular van the other day with the trailer, another second slower and I'd have been sat on his trailer instead of the digger that was there..
Although you're right, there's no point really reporting anybody

GabbaGabbaHey

Jlawson118 wrote: »

I'm a new driver

In which case, I would respectfully suggest that you should concentrate on gaining experience and improving your own driving rather than trying to police the driving of others!

vikingaero

It's mindset. I fully expect to get mildly cut-up or have drivers pull out on me on my daily commute at least half a dozen times. Sometimes in busy traffic a drivers only choice is to make a quick manoeuvre or you'll be stuck at some junctions for hours as there will never be a gap to satisfy the highway code.

With my dashcam I now only download the most serious incidents, actual accidents or mostly comedy incidents. There are probably 100s of minor conflict situations which I've never downloaded.

There is also the argument that if you have time to lean on the horn then you have time to brake and/or drive accordingly. Once you have more experience you should become less of a road warrior.

I take the view that every person I come into conflict with is a nutter with a knife. It's better to be right and far away from them rather than dead with a knife inside you but right.