Kind of hard to watch, but here it tiz. Dash Cams

[madokie]

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I wonder what role vodka plays in all this

[struggle4progress]

1. eek

[irisblue]

2. note to self

plan to visit russia/ any former soviet states with an experienced driver..... wow

[pnwest]

3. Holy cow. I coulda gone all day without

the one with the dog, tho.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Coming to SyFy: Carnadoski!

[Crimson76]

5. Russia

Florida on steriods

[Nay]

6. Holy shit. What is the matter with the pedestrians in Russia?? And who the hell

drives like that on crappy, icy roads? In huge trucks? God.

[madokie]

7. I would say drunk Russians :-)

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Vodka certainly plays some role,

but Russia has lots of other factors that contribute to its dangerous driving conditions, including

1) Russians have only been able to own cars in large numbers for around 20 years or so.
2) Drivers licenses can be easily obtained without even taking a test.
3) Russian drivers tend to have a bad attitude about sharing (or not) the road.
4) Cars in Russia are among the world's shoddiest. There is inadequate attention paid to quality control in Russian assembly plants, with the result being that even new cars straight out of the factory are like used cars before they're even driven.

[HolyMoley]

9. What's even more amzing is how all the crash victims, pedestrians

got up, walked away almost like nothing happened, even the dog.

The woman who almost got hit by the semi was a real "holy shit" moment.

[KG]

10. Snowden has a better chance in the US!

[Savannahmann]

11. Are there any traffic laws?

Seriously.

[Ohio Joe]

12. Stay out of Boston & NYC

heh, it's even worse during rush hour

[UtahLib]

13. OMG! Didn't realize I could hold my breath so long. nt

[MindPilot]

14. How is it that so many accident-prone drivers have dash-cams?

It makes for good video, but it almost seems like there is a correlation between dash-cams and crashes.

[Robb]

15. IIRC they're practically standard equipment in Russia.

I don't remember why, however.

[Blue_Tires]

16. I thought it had to do with insurance liability or something similar?

[Xithras]

19. Yeah, it's to cut down on fraud.

Russia has a serious problem with insurance fraud. People throwing their cars into reverse, backing into the people behind them, and then claiming to be rearended. People throwing themselves onto car hoods claiming to have been hit, that sort of thing.

Most Russian insurance companies grew so tired of it that they started offering steep rate discounts to cars with cams, and some simply refuse to cover accidents that occur when the camera isn't running. You aren't required to have a dashcam, but people without them pay significantly more for their insurance coverage.

[Xithras]

17. Ah Russia....

It's a beautiful country full of wonderful people, but they never truly found their calling until they began entertaining the world with their dashcam vids.

[Solly Mack]

18. That was like an action movie without all the bad dialogue.

Plenty of commentary coming from me though. lol