Get off his lawn.
That’s a lot of stereotyping. “They all ride like jackasses…” All your complaints can be applied to motorists as well, which is why I got front and rear cameras for my bike.
I think this clip should illuminate the OP.
I mean, in this situation, you have no dashcam, who the fuck’s going to believe you ?
Apologies, not all. Most. I of course use the dash cam for motorists as well, but its a much different story in city driving, car hits another car at city speed or even speeding, the likelihood of the drivers surviving is much greater than the if a car hits a cyclist. If you ride your bicycle in the road and follow traffic laws, I commend you. I rarely see it anymore.
If your worst complaint is that they block the lanes, then the cyclists in Chicago are the best in the nation. Around here, bikes are actually legally allowed to occupy a full lane (though one would have to be an fool to do so), but the problem is all of the bikers riding on the wrong side of the road and ignoring traffic lights.
Classic! 
Cute, but oh so very staged.
If you watch one of those compilation videos with the Russian dash cams, it seems that many times while the driver that runs into the car failing to yield or the car that pulls out in front of him, could have stopped easily, but there is no use of the brakes or any form of defensive driving. It’s almost like: as long as I have the right of way, I’m not slowing down because the other party is at fault.
What is stopping somebody from removing their mounted dash cam in the event that they’re in an accident that they caused ?
Ya know, just yank it out and hide it under a seat. {this approach would not work in a serious accident}
Conversely, if they’re the victim of an accident they would of course show the video…
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My guess would be, if it’s the insurance companies driving (hehe) the need for dashcams, then if you’re in a wreck and don’t produce the footage they’d probably come down pretty hard on you. Though how they’re all getting on YouTube I don’t know. Some sort of ad revenue sharing or something?
Why hide the camera when you could just drive away?
That seems to be the more common response of irresponsible people to accidents, based on seeing many of these videos.
Ah, I missed that someone had replied to me.
This is a good answer to the question, thanks.
I doubt most countries come down on that side though, as there’s a difference between videotaping a public highway, and setting out to film a specific person. If you ban the former, then you essentially ban all outdoor filming, including outdoor security cameras.
Not *easily *manipulated; and as some have pointed out here, the recording may be collected immediately.
And the more people have dash cams, the less of an issue this is. Am I going to risk submitting a video that may conflict with other videos?
Even in a safe town you lock your door: it’s good to be extra safe when the downside is small.
And it’s not insurance scams per se, it’s simply that attributing culpability in the case of an accident is both difficult and important.
My experience of dash cams has been in my home country of the UK. None of my friends or family have ever been scammed but some have had accidents where they say the other driver was 100% to blame, but the insurance companies either thought the opposite, or reached a compromise, and their no-claims bonus was affected.
Of course you could say maybe my friends / relatives judgment is incorrect, and the other guy was not 100% to blame. Well, exactly: it’s good to have a video to help decide what’s true.
Though some insurance companies are offering discounts if you let them electronically monitor your driving behavior, I’m not aware of any that offer discounts for using a dash cam. AFAIK, dash cams and the footage they generate are the property of the car owner, and the sharing of footage (whether with insurers, police, or YouTube) is at their discretion.
IOW, no insurer will penalize you for not producing footage of a crash in which you’re involved (but such footage may help to counter someone else’s claim that you are at fault)).
In the US perhaps, but we’re talking Russia here. They have laws that state you must not move your vehicle after any collision, even if that leaves you in an unsafe location such as the middle of a multi-lane highway. If someone moves their car before the police come, they can be fined, arrested, and their insurance won’t pay regardless of fault. http://www.mylifeinrussia.com/2014/05/08/russians-cant-drive/ So I can certainly see there being similar clauses regarding dashcams, but we’d need to hear from someone who actually lives there about insurance company policies.
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