Conor:
the maoster:
How does having a camera fitted save lives? Just asking.
By hopefully meaning a driver realising that he is being watched so not doing something that he otherwise would have done had he thought there was nobody to see.
The other side of the coin of a camera is they can actually exonerate a driver as well showing that he was paying attention and driving as he should in the seconds before an accident so third parties can’t make spurious claims he was on his phone etc.
I get the theory Conor, but in reality how many times does an average good competent driver do anything serious enough, such as txting watching movies etc to cause a mega ■■■■ up.
I aint talking sipping a coffee or eating an apple, which I still say is not dangerous despite the over zealous official opinion, but such examples as those in the media lately.
It goes back to pandering to the 1% lowest common denominator and the other 99 having to suffer these type of injustices and impositions purely for and because of them.
The official line of being exonerated in the event of an accident I don’t really subscribe to either, ok maybe one time out of many examples, but they are sure as hell there primarily to blame rather than clear.
I’ve used the example before of a driver doing a loud mega yawn, something we all do behind the wheel, but just imagine that yawn recorded for all to see 10 seconds before a collision, …who is going to get jumped on, and the blame pinned on him for driving whilst fatigued or whatever even though in reality it was…just a yawn.
As I said mine is covered, if I get the boot so be it, but better than sitting in Durham nick due to some young and keen ■■■■ barrister out to make a name for himself at my cost.
I just naturally do not trust the official line on all this type of overboard stuff being a natural cynic, but instead I tend to look for the hidden and more often than not, TRUE agenda.
Thing is accidents will always happen, always have since year dot, most of the time due to incompetent idiots, so penalise those knobs rather than drivers like us.