Online reporting of dangerus driving.

There won't be proof.

Specific prosecutions won't come from this, but I presume a database of reports will be kept, and a bigger picture built up.

I wouldn't like to be the guy challenging a speeding or dangerous driving charge, where the prosecution produces a report that says I have 17 different reports about my driving in their database.

Yes, but you can't upload the footage when you make the report, as far as Im aware you can't even tick a box saying you have dashcam footage, so you would wonder how many people do they get back to?

It's the pattern that will count against you.

The judge will make a judgement.

The judge has to make a judgement based on law, not unverified reports.

Sadly not, I don't know why there's not a Dash-cam portal seeing as they ask for it a lot after incidents you see in the news, though if they contact you about an online report you can give any evidence you have in support of your claims..

How long do people keep their dashcam footage for?

I can see it happening that they ring you up after 6 weeks asking for your dashcam footage but its already been written over.

It could be a good thing - biggest challenge is wading through the reports to find an incident that will hold up in court - a lot of time wasting for little return - I don’t think it should be used to prosecute minor infringements though - it’s moving too much towards a big brother society and also it’s absolving Gardai from their responsibility to effectively police the roads.

I can see “hero’s” in their droves driving around looking for the slightest traffic law infringement and uploading reports daily - I don’t believe that’s a good thing at all but we are where we are- this technology isn’t going to go away but I can see that we’re moving towards a much more monitored society .

Id prefer to see a push and a priority on neighbourhood watch especially in rural areas- encouraging the reporting the suspicious movement of vans and such like - and more importantly then the Gardai actioning such reports -it’s very easy to slap a fine on someone who drove over a continuous white line when you have dash cam footage - what about capturing burglary gangs? Priorities are wrong here.

But how long would you keep it?

Knowing the speed of reporting things like this to the Gardai I would say 6 months+ would be more realistic before they'd contact you.

Well exactly! Do you keep it indefinitely?

Gardai/Police can't be everywhere and it's not an "either or thing" ignoring casual law breaking such as speeding/dangerous driving will only normalise it and make it socially acceptable, drink driving was the norm and now it's totally abhorrent to everyone, the same way mobile phone use should be now and if reporting it using online portals is the way to address these issues then I'd say most people are all for it..

This is going to be fantastic, given I have had someone dawdling below the speed limit, flash their lights and honk their horn when I overtook them with oncomming traffic about 1km away, in dry bright weather on a dead straight section of road where overtaking was permissable.

I'm in the process of backing up my home directory to transfer to a new laptop. Some stuff I'm taking, some stuff I don't care about. The hypothetical Dashcam footage from 6 months ago that no-one ever got back to me about? Meh, I'm not bothered keeping it. I'd imagine I'd not be in the minority on this one.

I have pictures I care about that are older than 20 years.

Those reports wouldn't be admissible in evidence. The main thing would be to allow Gardai to intercept badly driven vehicles.

So you agree with me, perhaps you should have responded to them.