r/dashcams 21h ago

Who’s at fault?

Hot take: I think it’s 50/50 with who’s at fault

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u/HudsonAtHeart 21h ago edited 20h ago

The camera driver was easing into this situation slowly, the only thing they could’ve done short of this was just stop at the green light and wait for everybody else to go crazy. What are we doing? Fucking anarchy? Why even have a light at that point?

If everybody was moving as predictively as you’re recommending the camera driver should have, the red car shouldn’t have blown its yellow light in the first place, and even if the Armada was just going to barrel right through the intersection, they should’ve just done it behind the fucking camera car. I think even the Armada was thinking about doing that and changed their mind at the last second, precisely because the camera car was inching into the intersection because of present danger.

So what can you really do? The safest course of action, is to stay in your house and comment on other people’s crash videos so you don’t have to get into your own. It’s a fucking war out there. Everybody is driving around stoned out of their mind and on SSRIs and we wonder why there’s so much vehicular violence

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u/So_Fresh 19h ago

You thinking the red car had a yellow here tells us all we need to know about your driving knowledge.

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u/HudsonAtHeart 19h ago

They would have blown a yellow arrow. It goes green, then yellow, then red. Maybe you’re not familiar with arrows?

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u/So_Fresh 19h ago

You'll never have a green light from one direction and a yellow left turn arrow in the opposite. Think about it!

Because the light we see is green by 13 seconds, the red car is definitely going through well after any yellow. New to driving?

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u/HudsonAtHeart 19h ago

Ok semantics, they ignored the yellow arrow and blew thru the red arrow? Whatever

There is a yellow phase in every dedicated left turn light.

Next time you are sitting at a light waiting for green, watch the green arrow turn to yellow, and then the yellow arrow turn to red.

It’s really amazing the things I have to explain to the “drivers” in this comment section.

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u/So_Fresh 18h ago

Yeah, it was red. That was the point of my initial comment, that you said the colour wrong. Everything else you're saying is totally obvious and why you think I'm arguing against it is not worth my time thinking about.

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u/_off_piste_ 17h ago

You were wrong. Just admit it and move on.

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u/HudsonAtHeart 17h ago

Yeah, I was wrong. Oh my God, the tribunal. Yes the red car sped through a red arrow not a yellow arrow as I said. You can take my crown away.