I'm only going to speak in animated gifs in this thread. ;)

[nutsak]

I do. I keep a high-def in-car camera running with a view of my windshield and my speedometer. I use it so that I have reliable video evidence when I need:

1. to refute an officer who pulls me over for a traffic infraction I did not commit.
2. unbiased eyewitness testimony of events leading up to a collision.

3. To show off your driving skillz on teh interwebs.
( Seriously though I'd like you to make a thread in hardware about your setup ).

[WarrenM]

The problem is that she has edged up to these two trucks, which provide shitty visibility ahead and tend to kick things up from the road all the time anyways

WTF? Where are you people driving? Kong has to video tape his apparently frequent run-ins with the police and Pogo has trucks flinging debris into the air "all the time". My drive to work and back is pretty painless in comparison...

[TranquilityBase]

I found myself wishing I had a camera in my car just last week, when I spotted someone driving down the street with a couple wooden pallets stacked on the hood of his truck, and then two hours later, encountered another guy driving with a wheelbarrow fully loaded with dirt in the backseat of his Altima.

[Bill Dungsroman]

WTF? Where are you people driving? Kong has to video tape his apparently frequent run-ins with the police and Pogo has trucks flinging debris into the air "all the time". My drive to work and back is pretty painless in comparison...

Construction trucks are the worst. Rocks and shit always coming off those things. Driving on the freeways in Vegas during the construction boom was a nightmare.

[TimElhajj]

Have you seen Kong's new wheels? No one who has is surprised by this news about his surveillance.

[MattKeil]

I would be surprised at that level of batshittery even if he drove a fucking Veyron.

[Walter Yarbrough]

Call me crazy, but I thought this was the fucking ANIMATED GIF THREAD. Now kindly

Apparently others cannot read . . .



lips

[Mightynute]

[sinnick]

[TranquilityBase]

[Lh'owon]

Is that from a recent Top Gear? Don't think I've seen it, looks worth a laugh.

[nutsak]

Pretty sure that's when they drive to the North Pole.

[LesJarvis]

I'm almost positive this one doesn't have any penises in it.

[Marcus]

[Bill Dungsroman]

[Hans Lauring]

I'm almost positive this one doesn't have any penises in it.

This does... (I hope that's not a problem)
Linky (it's probably NSFW... prudes)

[Lunch of Kong]

How do you have your camera mounted in the car?

Thats crazy train right there.

With respect Marcus, as a cop you must already recognize how unreliable witness testimony is. People swear to see things that never occurred. It's part of the reason why patrol cars carry audio and video recorders. If you're instead commenting that's it's crazy to need to refute police testimony, I never said it was because police lie. It's because machines make mistakes. My protest that your radar or your vehicle ID is wrong is much stronger if I can have you lean over and look at my speedometer video that indicates 37mph in the intersection and not the 56mph your radar claimed.

My drive to work and back is pretty painless in comparison...

I got mine after this happened:

My buddy ran a red light thinking that it was green and accused the driver who side-swiped him of running HIS light. The other driver happened to be running a dash cam and showed my buddy the video. My buddy says that until he saw the actual video, he would have sworn on his mother's grave that his light had been green. This could have become a prolonged he said/she said situation, but thanks to a convenient camera, it was not. I was going to get one--plus a data acquisition module--for my driving/racing school purposes anyway. Now I just hit the record button every time I get in.

Also... have you ever reviewed video of yourself driving on the road? Watching some footage of my own driving help me recognize the unnecessary risks I was taking in maneuvering through traffic in my daily driver. Recognizing what a jerk I was driving my SUV has helped me change my street driving behavior for the better and be safer.

You bunch of yentas.

[Hans Lauring]

[Pogue Mahone]

I was going to say that that gif lacks the best part of that rant, the ending '... and tits.' But I would be wrong, it's just hidden in how fast that blaze of expletives goes by. Which is too bad, it's the best part.

[Lizard_King]

Apparently, this is based on the Soviet Winnie the Pooh film.

[Mrenda]

I love "shoop da woop"

[Cobra]

Captain slow:

[ZekeDMS]

Wow. I've never been passed by another vehicle before. Oh the inherent comedy value!

[Omniscia]

Also not a fair comparison, as Hammond and Clarkson appear to be driving in the rightmost lane.

[Staff Sergeant]

Wow. I've never been passed by another vehicle before. Oh the inherent comedy value!

It looks like Top Gear so maybe the joke is that they were racing somewhere and he was getting passed by what appeared to be a taxi.

[sinnick]

The one where he almost shoots himself in the face is funnier.

[Walter Yarbrough]

.

I think that's the first crash footage I have ever seen of a car actually bursting into flames after a wreck.

[Funkula]

Looks to me like maybe gasoline spewed out of the truck onto the hood and ignited. I don't see how else a fire could start on the hood like that.

One time I saw an accident (or at least the immediate aftermath) where a car hit a creosote telephone pole and the sheer friction of the impact lit the pole on fire. Now that was surreal.

[MattKeil]

Recognizing what a jerk I was driving my SUV has helped me change my street driving behavior for the better and be safer.

I solve that problem by not driving an SUV.

I love "shoop da woop"

Do you also love minstrel shows and blackface? Really not a cool meme.

[peterb]

Do you also love minstrel shows and blackface? Really not a cool meme.

I....kinda thought that too.

Here's a cure: Freddie Mercury in a banana hat!




(source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E3tJ3GNu4c)