Thirteen minutes of piss-poor driving, mechanical failures and pure bad luck:
[youtube ZPkE2hHneP4]
In the US, dashboard cameras are a rarity, generally only found in police cars and the like. Let’s face it: what is there to film on the drive to WalMart? But it is my vague understanding that dashcams are quite a bit more popular in Russia (and much of Asia). Part of that may be, I suspect, that the roads seem to be more entertaining. But I’m led to believe that the real reason is exemplified at about the 12:05 mark, where someone *intentionally* throws themselves onto the hood of a car (in this case, very slowly and very gently). Why? Insurance fraud. I’ve heard it’s rampant over yonder.
UPDATE: A reader suggested by email that I link up some of the dashcams that Amazon sells. I’ve never bothered to look up such things before; it appears that prices are all over the place. So, a range:
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I guess the days when “digital video camera” meant “really expensive” are long since passed. Still, I imagine that the resolution on the cameras above is probably not generally spectacular… good enough for the insurance company and YouTube, I suppose. If you want high-rez, you probably need something like these:
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And if you’re of a mind to buy a dashcam but don’t see the one you want, just search for it here, ahem:
Say: does anyone know how to format a blog post like this so the Amazon ad/link thingies are in a nice neat grid, rather than a long space-consuming line?