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I’m a regular watcher of Ashley Neal, he’s made me a better driver, ‘pocket of space, make it a non-event’ etc.
As an aside his dad is ex Liverpool and England player Phil Neal.
His driving fail clips are always good because he nails the real issues and isn’t scared of calling out the dashcammer when required. Which is more than what can be said for the ‘driving fail’ channels which just present the cammer showing a supposed fail from another when it isn’t always the case. Which brings me to a pet peeve – dashcammers who cause incidents.
Dashcams are great for posterity and providing evidence, but it gives some drivers a sense on righteousness and feeling they can not accommodate errors or actively intimidate others when driving. Roundabouts being a common occurrence where it is noticeable from these videos that cammers accelerate across the roundabout or drive over a mini-roundabout to cause an issue with a driver who may have been late in emerging. We all make mistakes, but we should all accommodate them from others, instead of trying to cause and escalate issues for self-righteousness and getting a video on a youtube compliation. Many would be non-events if they did what they supposed to in not accelerating around roundabouts or over instead of around mini-roundabouts. I don’t get the mentality of let’s create a road rage situation, instead of just letting the mistake happen and getting on with your day. Angry reprimands won’t lead them to change behaviour and sometimes people have brain farts and aren’t inconveniencing you because of their selfishness.
I have had it to me. I remember a roundabout I am familiar with (a fairly large one) where I saw a car approaching on the lane perpendicular, but knowing the roundabout I judged I would be fine in getting across if the other car kept at a steady speed. Instead, as soon as I emerged onto the roundabout I saw the car immediately accelerate, then brake and start honking his horn aggressively. If I held back it would have been a non-event, but equally if he had not sped up it would have been a non-event, since I would have been around. I have been past that roundabout since and been in a similar position to where that car was and seen cars emerge from where I was and I had no issues with being cut off because I travelled at a steady pace. I don’t know if this guy had a dashcam, but it’s this kind of behaviour that dashcams have caused among some.