Dashcams

bluenose1940 · July 16, 2015

Am I alone in being concerned that the "surveillance society" is now creeping to private citizens, with dashcams joining CCTV in recording everything that we do. Perhaps we should all re-read 1984 to remind ourselves where that path can lead to.

(I'm not condoning somebody jumping a red light, and I haven't seen the footage or know the junction in question, but it may not actually have been an unsafe manouever and/or put anybody in danger ...)

Hopefully you are alone Philip, at least those are my thoughts anyway. Without the cameras, the scumbags will get away with anything and everything on a regular basis.

Did you actually read the detail of my original post? People jump red lights everyday, I don't get overly concerned by that, just a little irritated but, when a driver actually pulls out from behind me in stationary traffic waiting at a red light, and then proceeds across the junction, then I'm afraid that that takes the biscuit!

I wonder what your thoughts would have been had you have been making a left turn at those lights, and you had had a head-on collision with a car that was on your side of the road (which you would not have expected at a light controlled junction), as this driver would have been. Would you not have been thankful that someone was able produce crystal clear evidence that shows that he was at fault and driving dangerously? Equally, there may have been a pedestrian who saw that the lights had changed to red and the first car in the line had stopped, and so he assumes it is safe to cross, but no, some idiot pulls out from that line of traffic and he has to jump out of the way, or worse still gets mown down! What if that pedestrian was a member of your family?

Sorry but I am a fan of CCTV, the more the better as far as I am concerned. I have first hand experience of shoplifters taking my profits away.

My thoughts are that if you can't abide by the rules of society then you should be removed from it until such time as you learn respect for others and their property, but that's another story.

The-Acre · July 16, 2015

We may all have responsibilities - but they

don't necessarily involve acting as snitches for the state, especially

in cases where nobody and no property was damaged....

My dashcam will only be viewed if I need to use the footage as part of an insurance claim. It loops every 2 hours so nothing is kept. Only criminals & dngerous drivers need worry about any form of cctv imho.

Ed

And the same for me, unless of course It spots an alien and earns me loads of money selling it to the National Enquirer!

Bluesman · July 16, 2015

Mine is also there purely for accident purposes. You would be amazed the number of people who have admitted their fault at the scene of the accident and the next day it isn't. Dash cam there ain't no argument.

Mike.