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Wasn't that bad
I know it looks that way, lol. But I'm doing 50MPH and had full ABS Lockup for a few seconds to a car pulling at almost no speed into my lane. Thankfully our BMW has outstanding breaks and I was paying attention. This happened on a Highway also.
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I have dashcams in all my cars, forwards and back. I keep them running when I go into stores or wherever, the only time they are off is when they are in my garage at home.

I've caught DHL drivers driving like total maniacs several times, and I mean crazy aggressive stuff. Forwarded the vids to DHL.

A few weeks ago in my wifes BMW, another BMW pulled directly into our path on a major highway because they wanted to turn left... just right in front of us, we slammed on our brakes, and when they just kept on coming across. Pissed me off pretty bad that people can be such idiots like this.. even when they are wrong, they just keep coming anyways? Ugh.

The video doesn't who just how close the accident was in person nor do you feel the speed/brakes locking up.. but you can get the idea.

Here's the video:

You can tell this is a fake video since the BMW is clearly using their turn signal....
 

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Here's mine couple days ago. Trailer just didn't care...

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^^^ Guess zombies can get a Commercial Driver's License too.
 

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Here's mine couple days ago. Trailer just didn't care...

Here's a snap-shot at time 0:16 ... looks like someone in a yellow shirt is right next to the road on the shoulder. The semi was probably swerving left at the last second because he probably thought he might hit them. He wasn't trying to change lanes ... no reason to since nobody was in front of him and the lane he was in wasn't ending.
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Here's a snap-shot at time 0:16 ... looks like someone in a yellow shirt is right next to the road on the shoulder. The semi was probably swerving left at the last second because he probably thought he might hit them. He wasn't trying to change lanes ... no reason to since nobody was in front of him and the lane he was in wasn't ending.
Good catch and he is on the brakes as well.
 

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How big are your stripes? Wondering why they go over the sides of the shape of the hood like that
My stripes are about 1ft wide. I hate skinny stripes :D

Here's a snap-shot at time 0:16 ... looks like someone in a yellow shirt is right next to the road on the shoulder. The semi was probably swerving left at the last second because he probably thought he might hit them. He wasn't trying to change lanes ... no reason to since nobody was in front of him and the lane he was in wasn't ending.
Damn I didn't even see that! However I'm sure the guy wasn't on the road either... The trailer could double check his mirror or either signal even though he wasn't going to change lane.

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I'm sorry about that. I just checked and it seems to be blocked in Germany because of the audio track that I was playing. You could try to go on google and type youtube to mp4 online. From there you can download the video and see it :)
 

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Here's a snap-shot at time 0:16 ... looks like someone in a yellow shirt is right next to the road on the shoulder. The semi was probably swerving left at the last second because he probably thought he might hit them. He wasn't trying to change lanes ... no reason to since nobody was in front of him and the lane he was in wasn't ending.
Wow, you are very sharp eyed! It did look to me like he was trying to avoid something at first glance, but I did not catch the dude on the shoulder.
 

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Damn I didn't even see that! However I'm sure the guy wasn't on the road either... The trailer could double check his mirror or either signal even though he wasn't going to change lane.
To the truck driver's credit, it looked like he did not see whatever was on the side of the road until the last second and acted more out of pure reaction than planning. Myself, if I had the choice between hitting a pedestrian (instant death) and maybe hitting another car (sideswipe), I would take hitting the car as they are more protected. But I do not have the full info, and in the same situation I probably would have honked as well. That is unless I had seen whatever was happening on the side of the road in advance, in which case I would have given him plenty of room to take evasive action.
 

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Almost ran over a homeless lady leaving for work a couple of months ago. I saw the light turn green and was gunning to get in front of the traffic line when I just.. just... so happened to notice the FedEx truck was still stopped at the green and thought.. why is that dude not going? Bingo, some idiot is strolling against the cross walk. In Houston that is zero tolerance "at fault" accident if you hit a pedestrian. Dodged a big one right there.

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So, first real run of my new Waylens action/dash cam. It was a Kickstarter project that really turned out amazing. it includes a host of onboard GPS and accelerometer sensors, and connects to your car via wireless OBD-II and to your phone for internet. This allows screen widgets such as pitch/roll, g-force, speed, tach, boost, time/date, and even weather and a mini-map. The widgets are all recorded metadata that you can individually turn on or off after recording before you export the video. This is a truly awesome camera.

Oh, yeah, it also includes footage of a typically clueless Corolla driver :D

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