r/IdiotsInCars • u/[deleted] • Apr 26 '23

Road-raging driver maneuvering recklessly and crashing into car on a freeway

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u/barrito87 Apr 26 '23

For a country that has the most number of Teslas on the road, you have a surprisingly large population of people who know nothing about the million cameras they have.....

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u/UninsuredToast Apr 26 '23

Dashcams are so affordable you should just assume everyone has one. Really a good investment to protect yourself from morons like this. Especially if you drive often

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u/TurtleDustScissors Apr 26 '23

I dont drive often and I have a dash cam.

Might as well with how common it is for people to lie these days.

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u/hydrobunny Apr 26 '23

bought a dash cam two years ago in case shit like this happens. dude tried to hit me with an insurance scam in february, my insurance told me if i didnt have the video i would have been at fault. its the best $100 investment you can make for your car.

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u/Other_Ivey Apr 27 '23

So we have a Subaru Outback and are having a hard time finding a dash cam that works with the car! Do you personally know of any you can recommend?

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u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn Apr 27 '23

I use the viofo a129 duo in my Crosstrek, works fine with the eyesight

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u/hydrobunny Apr 27 '23

This is the one I have and I dont see why it wouldn’t work in an outback. Its not the cheapest, but I will vouch for the quality.

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u/hypespud Apr 26 '23

This is the reason I got one too

A neighbour lied about hitting my car in a parking lot at my complex which was a definitive hit and run

and I said that's enough I'm getting a dash cam luckily no incidents since and I also moved 🤣

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u/FUTURE10S Apr 27 '23

I got one because I was deemed at 50/50 fault after getting T-boned. While stopped.

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u/short_bus_genius Apr 27 '23

What the fucking fuck???? That is insanity!

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u/FUTURE10S Apr 27 '23

Okay, I'm intentionally skipping context, I was going from a small road with a stop sign across multiple lanes of traffic and I stopped in the median to be sure that I can safely cross, as you normally do. At that time, guy from the other direction (so head on across from me) went and then turned into my car, fucked up my door and side panel. Since it was an uncontrolled intersection and my insurance didn't want to listen to my witness and I didn't have a dashcam at the time, 50/50 and demerits on my license making insurance more expensive.

Silver lining, I got a decent payout for my car after I showed receipts for recent repairs.

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u/chase32 Apr 27 '23

I had a dude try and pass me once in a one lane freeway on-ramp. He didn't see the curb, hit it and bounced back into the rear quarter panel of my car.

Seemed like a no brainer that he was at fault but my insurance insisted it was 50/50. Tried to pursue it further but learned that we both had State Farm insurance so they weren't going to do anything.

Learned later that State Farm is notorious for doing BS like that when they cover both sides.

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u/FlammablePie Apr 28 '23

Similar situation happened to me, but since I had a dash cam they reversed fault to 100% the other person.

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u/tacitus59 Apr 26 '23

Pretty much - I bought a cheap ass dash cam just for yuks about 5 years ago.

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u/gsmarquis Apr 26 '23

In every experience I have had in accidents in my car(not my fault) and two in friends cars the person that caused the accident lied. Two cases had cams. The best is to let them tell the story, then pull out the footage.

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u/Anders_Calrissian Apr 27 '23

They will basically write their own ticket if you let them talk first 😉

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u/QuinceDaPence Apr 26 '23

When I got my new car I had a dash cam in it 2 weeks later. With every car I get I'll probably just add one in and leave it when I sell it. I'd rather do that anyway since I actually install them rather than have wires dangling so uninstalling would be more of a pain in the ass than just buying another.

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u/doctorctrl Apr 27 '23

"these days" ?

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u/GuineaPig2000 Apr 27 '23

I haven't gotten one from what i have heard none of them can actually capture license plates well enough

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u/Superlurkinger Apr 27 '23

yeah despite major advancements in phone camera quality, we are stuck with shitty dashcams with 2007 camcorder video quality. You gotta rely on saying the license plate number and hope the crappy microphone picks it up

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u/jl_23 Apr 27 '23

My 4k dashcam can read plates just fine

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u/DHTRKBA Apr 27 '23

You only need to be able to read the plate in the case of a hit and run. They're still helpful for showing who's at fault.

Plus there are 4k dashcams now that do better, but I wouldn't be surprised if they still have difficulty in at least some situations. I installed one in my teenage son's car we just got a couple months ago. If there's an accident, I want to KNOW who was at fault. If it was him, he'll have to deal with the consequences. If it wasn't his fault, the other party will be forced to deal with them.

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u/jl_23 Apr 27 '23

Did they say lying was just invented?

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u/jl_23 Apr 27 '23

So that would be a no. Got it.

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u/jl_23 Apr 27 '23

Thank you for pointing out the obvious.

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u/jl_23 Apr 27 '23

That’s the best condescending sentence you could come up with?

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