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Voices

Staring down a head-on collision with Carroll Fulmer driver

Latest from Dashcam Central: When you see somebody coming at you out of the distance, it can take a moment to realize just what you’re seeing. In this case a pair of headlights emerging and, it becomes increasingly clear, attached to a four-wheeler who is in your very lane.

April 18, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Big data at ‘tipping point’ for new safety applications

Fatigue management and monitoring techs will become, over the next 30 years, ubiquitous in fleet trucks — even, says safety expert Don Osterberg, in owner-operated units.

April 7, 2016

Voices

Dan Lagoon presents four-wheeler’s full 360 in ‘Black ice in Missouri’

“A car did a 360 on the freeway next to me” in January, noted Dan Lagoon in this upload to Overdrive’s Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted vids. Follow the link below to add your own.

April 1, 2016

Channel 19

Turning your phone into a dashcam

Have you tried any of the available smartphone apps designed to turn your device into a functional dashcam allowing for saving clips for exoneration/evidence and other purposes?

February 22, 2016

Channel 19

Mark Bezley’s ‘crosswalk law’ citation: Dismissed with dashcam evidence

Read driver Mark Bezley’s No. 1 dashcam tale, involving his exoneration from a ticket given during a “crosswalk law” sting in a small Wash. town. And: What’s yours?

February 20, 2016

Business

David Stout presents ‘Car loses control in front of my 18-wheeler in Ky.’

Looks like safe speeds in wet conditions saved operator Stout from a potential collision as a four-wheeler lost traction and ended up with its headlights pointed in Stout’s direction in the lane ahead.

January 25, 2016

Business

Michael Kimball presents ‘Another impatient four-wheeler.’

A view from Kimball’s dashcam of yet another “impatient four-wheeler passing me on the shoulder in Columbia, Mo.”

January 22, 2016

Business

Chris Dinsdale presents ‘Huge Roadtrains of Northwest Australia’

GoPro view through the windscreen of a Kenworth K100 looking at massive roadtrains in the North West of Australia.

December 29, 2015

Business

Anthony Johnson presents ‘Crazy four wheeler’

Trucker Anthony Johnson notes he was running southbound in New Jersey on route 55 when the “crazy four wheeler tried to get me to run into the back of them” after passing on the right.

December 15, 2015

Voices

Merge gone bad — into the front right of Preston Lindsay’s daycab

Running down the list of extenuating factors in Lindsay’s review of the accident takes quite a while longer than the second or two it took to happen, illustrating the well-developed instincts of the professional driver that can avoid making things worse in such circumstances.

November 23, 2015

Business

Emile Ambros presents ‘Driving in Montreal (Bad drivers, etc.)’

One Montreal-based four-wheeler’s “collection of short clips showing bad/aggressive/distracted/funny/etc. driving in the Montreal area and wherever else I may find myself.” This video is not meant to shame anyone. I don’t claim to be a better driver than average, and if you feel like the situation in some of the clips is my fault, maybe it is. It doesn’t matter. This is for entertainment, so just sit back, relax and enjoy. Some of the clips contain no sound for privacy reasons when I have passengers in the car or when I’m listening to music that’s so corny I’m embarrassed to include it in the video.

October 7, 2015

Business

Driver avoids rear-end accident — without spilling a drop of coffee

At once, the driver was focused on the car that cut him off. If he’d been watching up ahead, the hard-braking event that triggered the camera and the subsequent jump up onto a curb might have also been avoided.

October 7, 2015