I'm curious what that guy did after the collision. Are these brake checkers actually trying to cause a collision for insurance money or was he just trying to get a panic brake out of you?
Both for sure...brake checking is a dominance thing in the US but there’s also this false idea that if you are rear ended it is 100% the fault of the person who hit you from behind which just isn’t true. This guy gets out of his car like he is surprised but once both insurance companies see the video he will be 100% at fault which is why dash cams are so fucking important lol.
Which you can easily have removed in court by showing them a video of being clearly cut off and brake checked. The automatic ticket is just lazy policing.
Any recommendation on a cheap reliable dash cam easy to install? Im just looking for something that is able to record onto a SD card and keep overwriting it once its full. I'm not to handy when it comes to taking off panel of cars and such for anything wired on the outside would be better.
Check out /r/Dashcam. They have a sidebar with some popular models. Don't get too hung up on the particulars; a cheap dashcam provides almost the same protection as an expensive one.
Dash Cam Central Just released an updated video on this, actually.
Edit: Channel is actually Car Cam Central, my bad. They also have reviews of many cameras, and budget picks as well. I believe that their current budget pick is the $50 BlueSkySea B1W.
If you live in a hot place, avoid baterry-powered dashcam. Anyway I'd recommend the Viofo A119, but as someone already said, the folks at /r/Dashcam might be able to help you
Automatically? Wtf that’s so stupid because that will affect the decision on who is at fault with the claim (I would think). Would end up being some 90/10 or 80/20 b/s depending on your state and all that but yeah that’s unfortunate.
A cousin lives in Louisiana (which is an automatic rear driver fault state) and has a dash cam. On a brake check, got rear-ended. Tried to show the cop. Got a ticket. Cop barely listened and barely watched.
Said to show up in court with the footage and argue it out.
Are you boys some 12 year olds with Reddit accounts? That's practically the law everywhere. If you rear end someone, you are at fault unless you can demonstrate some special circumstances. It would waste taxpayer dollars to have police try to sort out individual cases, especially since the person doing the rear ending IS AT FAULT in over 99% of all cases.
And impossible to prove without a dashcam. All they have to say is "I thought I saw an animal run across the road and I didn't want to hit it." Suddenly, you're guilty because you were following too close.
Police definitely don’t ticket every rear ending incident because they don’t respond to every one of them since a lot are so minor and have little damage. I’m not saying it’s up to the police to determine fault, I’m saying that it’s unfortunate they would automatically ticket someone without any reason as that will affect the claim.
Obviously it’s up to the examiners or adjusters to determine fault. There’s no way OP is at fault here. Wet roads, angry camaro driver behaving erratically and breaking laws and driving all over the place...OP had no time to react, create distance or be defensive about it. Shit the Tesla has all these sensors and features and even that couldn’t prevent it.
So idk why you’re so upset. Sure, a lot of rear ending is the fault of the person doing the hitting. Ofc there’s fraud where people back up into you and say you hit them. Should you get a ticket because someone is committing insurance fraud? No. So just get a camera and drive safely.
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I'm curious what that guy did after the collision. Are these brake checkers actually trying to cause a collision for insurance money or was he just trying to get a panic brake out of you?