Gardaí to allow the public upload Dash Cam footage from approx. 2026 via online portal

You will be going to court if it is contested. The gardai wouldn't want you going to court and saying something different to what their write-up of the video is. Therefore, they will use your statement.

If it was me i'd subpena the contents of your phone/dashcam as well to make sure the video is not edited/ ai generated. Hope you don't have anything in there you don't want anybody to see.

Oh, and we'd need an expert in computational photography in court to explain what your model of iphone/dashcam does in terms of processing.

The guards historically didn't like internet uploads as a chain of custody for evidence, even this year I saw them asking for a usb stick of a video they were already emailed.

I completely disagree with this. People incentivized to snitch on each other. Very very very slippery slope. Soon everyone will be recording each other at all times and if there is any financial incentive it will be 24/7 surveillance by your fellow man. No privacy at all and constantly being recorded against your wishes or without your consent? Terrifying.

Reminds me of this really excellent short movie

Yawn, I do it's why in over 15 years of driving I've never had an accident despite averting many idiots over the years who have done incredibly stupid things on the road and I've had to react very fast to avoid them ie fools overtaking on corners etc.

I can guarantee you 100% this nonsense of drivers recording other drivers will lead to more accidents.

You will have clowns trying to follow others with their dashcams to 'get them' on video not realizing they could be driving incredibly dangerously in the process of doing so. What about the countless people who will be checking on their dashcams to see 'they got it' instead of the road when an incident happens? I've often seen people fidgeting with dashcams while driving too.

So aside from all the accidents it will cause I simply don't want to be recorded by umpteen busy body types who think they are moral arbitrators on the road every time I drive to work. I bet my life the same people who will be obsessive about recording everything on dashcams are terrible and possibly dangerous drivers. I know 2 people use dashcams incessantly. I've never seen worse drivers in life. Nervy/very poor judgement/lack of spacial awareness you name it both of their cars are covered in dings/scrapes and dents. Personally I'd rather not be recorded by crap drivers every time I head out.

Each to their own!

15 years without an an accident how is that unprecented? I thought my post would have made it obvious I don't use a dashcam. Way I see it is it's bad luck to have one. Call it superstitious but like I said each to their own!

'Do you have a dashcam and you think that that is actually what caused the other driver to drive the way they did and almost cause an accident?'

No and I can't comment on others dashcams either.

My point is quite simple. In my experience it's nervy/poor/apprehensive drivers use dashcams and it's my belief they will cause more accidents from idiots using them.

Some people fidget/turn them/and pressing buttons on them etc when really their eyes should be on the road!

You will end up with loads of Hyacinth Bucket types. All useless drivers but thinking they are flawless as they assume being a good driver is all about how many videos you upload and nothing to do with being in control of a mechanical vehicle weighing between 1 and 2 ton

Fair enough you are perhaps one of the responsible ones I didn't say everyone is like this!

However there is SOME nervy drivers seem to think a dashcam offers them a 'sense of security' so to speak.

Perhaps not you but will there be people fidgeting with dashcams when this comes in so to speak.

Expert drivers? The aggressive and boorish nature of you is incredible. It's almost like you are upset someone has never been in a crash. Incredibly spiteful and jealous.

I don't use a dashcam doesn't mean I can't drive a car with one in it shock horror.

'you probably have a phone with a camera. I would blame that for the other driver overtaking on the corner and almost crashing into you. It is obviously your fault'

Like I said I haven't been in crashes but you think me owning a phone is the reason other people are bad drivers?

OK but I believe you posting on boards.ie is the reason Russia and Ukraine are at war. All them innocent life's lost.

How can you live with yourself?

I can guarantee you 100% this nonsense of drivers recording other drivers will lead to more accidents.

Notice the word dashcam is not used in the above at all. Yes 100% people recording each other incessantly will lead to more accidents, as you know as well as I do not everyone will use a dashcam people will try and pull out phones etc to record other people meaning one hand on the wheel, one hand on the phone and the drivers vision will be through the screen of his phone not on the road.

I drove by a accident recently, traffic was radically slowed down because of people pulling out phones to record the seriously injured man on the road. If these same people are incentivized to send in videos I can guarantee you, not all of them will be from dashcams.

The irony of this send in footage idea is it will lead to more dangerous driving and more dangerous roads.

You have yet to explain to me how me owning a mobile phone causes others to overtake people on dangerous bends.

I'm really finding it hard to make logic of what you are saying. Are you saying people use mobile phones driving? Not me. I never once mentioned that so I really don't get what you are getting at as I never once mentioned driving with a phone.

Yes pal.

It's truly astonishing people do not see this. You give people an inch they take a mile. It's always been like this.

I've seen it over and over and over again in life. People get a little bit of power and it really goes to their head.

This dashcam idea while perhaps well intentioned will undoubtedly lead to busy body 'sad life' types as you mentioned who will go out of their way to 'get' others on video and I would put every cent I have on it these same types aren't the best or safest drivers in the World.