Vigilante biker cam

[Major_Grooves]

Thinking about how the standards in driving have dropped and the reduction in traffic police isn't exactly helping the situation. I also get pissed off by the number of drivers I see blatantly yakking away on their mobile phone when driving.

Quite a few bikers have used bullet cams on their helmets for making bike vids. Wouldn't it be cool to use one every day if you commute by bike, then make a vid of every driver you see using a mobile phone on the road, making sure you got a video which includes their reg plate and them actually on the phone.

You could make a big compilation video and send it to the police. Would they then be obliged to prosecute? Alternatively you could just put it on YouTube!

I'm sure I remember reading about a guy on VD who filmed his journey to work in London everyday in case he ever needed evidence for an accident that wasn't his fault, and he did actually need to use it once.
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[doggone]

Well - hope not everyone starts doing it (will happen one day maybe) because I think we're all a bit naughty sometimes
Probably most vehicles will have permanent cameras by default in a few years time.

[gixerstu]

Good idea for the insurance in america they are fitting cameras to cars for evidence in insurance claims but if car drivers did the same how many bikers would be prosecuted when they overtook cars doing the speed limit or over solid white lines or on one wheel etc.

[BigChris]

[buster]

There was a video posted on a US site early this year where a biker had been filming her ride when a car driver took her out, that won the rider a lot of compensation (this was in the US remember) from the other driver's insurance company.

There is precedent for allowing camera footage as evidence in court, from CCTV, so it's allowable, but the counter arguments are, how well behaved are you??? I've read of three motorcyclists in the country being charged based on their own video footage, one got two weeks suspended, although he'd been quite naughty
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[G]

This is something I've considered quite a bit.

Personally, I don't like the implications.

Possibly because I have occasionaly been known to do super-legal activities on the road. Start getting cameras on bikes and cars will get them too. Especially those moaning old people that have plenty of time to and quite enjoy complaining.

Doing 70 and a bike comes past? Well, they most be breaking the law and totally out of control, never mind if they come past on one wheel!

Sadly, I think this is the way it's going to go .

[froggeh]

I must say that sometimes I wished I'd got some dickhead on film, whilst driving, and since I passed my test, riding. And I am much like most people in being very vocal at other road users ignorance. But to start filming every journey? Dangerous for a biker if you ask me. It might get proof of some tw4t pulling out on you or whatever, but if I personally had recorded all my trips so far (one months worth), I would have been banned until I was about 1000 years old.

Also, I believe your concentration would be equally impaired (turning your head to try and catch people out)

Also. There is a difference between some prick mobile between shoulder and ear wobbling around a roundabout lane to lane, and someone trabelling in a straight line, leaving loads of room, in the inside lane. You gonna get them too?

[Blau Zedong]

https://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9851

Read this thread on the subject (started by a road safety nazi who in my eyes should be taken outside and bludgeoned to death).
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