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On May 20, 4:18=A0pm, Simon Mason  wrote: > > When these recording devices become cheaper and therefore much more > common, then drivers will be more aware that they *may" be being > filmed and thus brought to book using direct video evidence.

Mainly not a bad thing, except when you get Ian Jacksons and Magnatoms going on journeys with the specific purpose of provoking motorists into "endangering" them, so that they can gleefullly show the footage to the police and get them to prosecute the driver for driving - sorry, "endangering" them. People who abuse legitimate safety laws in this way just to force their ideological anti-car nutcase views onto others are irresponsible subhuman scum.

And regrettably, as time goes by and the cameras become more prolific, said scum will probably get better and better at getting the drivers to do what they want and making the driving look much more dangerous than it actually was. These are, after all, as we've all seen, pretty determined and fucked up people who are prepared to invest a great deal of time and effort in the holy "cause" of bullying car drivers off the roads they pay for.

Possibly the worst thing of all is that in manufacturing these "dangerous" situations, these lowest-of-the-low psycholists will inevitably end up causing some *actual* accidents, once again showing how little they actually care about road safety. (Talking of which, I wonder if Chapman's got some video glasses yet? He'll have a job finding a pair big enough to cover up his butt-ugliness.)

The only potential silver lining is that when a psycholist wearing video glasses is a complete dick, and causes either themselves or someone else an injury, then their own video evidence will stop them from blaming someone else (and prosecuting them and/or claiming on their insurance), and may in fact result in a prosecution and/or insurance claim against them. So overall, despite the Ian Jackson factor, I think video glasses will be a good thing for road safety (remembering that the nutters who go out trying to provoke motorists are thankfully a pretty small, if vocal, percentage of cyclists as a whole).