It's amazing that all dashcam compilations basically consist of people sending in clips of other people fucking it up and then still end up at at least 30% of being entirely avoidable situations if the driver with the camera just wasn't also hugely carbrained. Most common issue seems to be some sort of my right of way shall not be infringed, my steel steed shall make it so or figuring looking at the road and / or being able to stop your car within the distance you can see is for chumps.

I'll go through it clip by clip for Idiots in Cars Nr. 367, posted a day ago at time of writing. To be clear, I'm not saying it's the dashcam drivers fault primarily in the examples down below but isn't this supposed to showcase other people fucking it up entirely?

At 00:32 you can clearly see the red car, cutting across the lines, no indicator ain't exactly on a vector for the right lane, time to stay the course and not brake

At 01:36 you can quite clearly see, in broad daylight, the bump ahead that the person wrecks on and that's with the shitty dashcam quality

01:59 I don't even think I have to point out how fucking carbrained it is to swerve blindly into the opposing lane of traffic because you couldn't be bothered to just brake a bit and wait all of 3 seconds

At 04:13 you can clearly see the red car from the right moving with literally no possible place to go instead of right infront of the driver, time to acclerate straight at it (HOOOOOOOOONK)

At 08:14 like the person in the white SUV is an asshole but like what did you think would happen here when they overtook you on the blocked lane?

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[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What I found interesting is that my mother told me she was educated to walk across the street the moment the green signal appears without fear, while I was taught to be careful and wait for the cars to stop, before I cross.

Idk if there's any way to confirm this by data, probably not, but I do wonder if liberalization of economy made streets much more dangerous. I mean it almost certainly did in some ways, but it would be interesting to see like comparisons.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

What strikes me is how selfish and thoughtless Americans are - drivers in particular. I don't mean to imply that everything was great before. The US has been car-brained since - I dunno - the 1950s? And a thoughtless society doesn't appear out of nothing. But it seems to me that the last 2 or 3 decades things have gotten really bad. I certainly hope parents have taught their children to expect only the worst from drivers. Looking both ways and waiting for the green signal (or the walk signal) is wildly insufficient.

Another thing I forgot to mention is the enormous military-like size of many "normal" vehicles and their atrocious wall-like front ends. It's as if they were designed from the ground up to kill. Children need to be taught to avoid those things as though they were rabid grizzly bears that can attack at any time without warning. I wonder how many of those car owners run over neighborhood kids or even their own kids. I guess freedom isn't free.

[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Depending on your mother's age it was probably less "liberalization of the economy" and more "money from the auto lobby influencing traffic laws and civil design."

[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah that's what I meant by liberalization, private sectors, in this case automakers, influencing laws and structures of society, to boost their profits. Although I might be using it wrong in which case I'll learn not to do so in the future.

I've lived long enough to start seeing big American Fords on the streets as the ultimate result of this ig, it's almost always a single driver too who isn't carrying anything just driving around the tiny streets not meant for this size of truck. Which hasn't even seen any dirt. ooooooooooooooh

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You're in the baltics right, I don't think you're using it wrong in that context. Others might just be thinking in a western context where liberalization isn't the right word.

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[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Yes correct. I will try to make it more clear in the future what I'm referring to.

[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

No you probably used it right and the word just went over my dumb American head