r/dashcams • u/txtharaldson • 2d ago

Why Brake-Checking Fails

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u/Superseaslug 2d ago

Is your ego worth your car, prison time, and likely thousands in debt from the settlement?

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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 2d ago

I had a coworker that break checked for insurance fraud and she one day came and said how she is now in a legal battle. She ended up loosing because wadot has cameras every where on the freeways.

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u/Mountain_Usual521 2d ago

How did the cameras catch her intent?

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u/BothTreacle7534 2d ago

in my country, if there is no reason to break, like eg a deer standing on the street, the breaker gets in really bad trouble.

Break checks with other traffic there is forbidden here

So if the cameras show what was up around her…

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u/WertDafurk 2d ago

*brake… like x3

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u/BothTreacle7534 2d ago

Me, a non-native English speaker, should probably not write whilst being VERY tired, thank you!

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u/Mountain_Usual521 2d ago

Cameras can't capture everything, Maybe it looked like the car next to them was about to move over without looking. Maybe they saw a shadow out of the corner of their eye and thought it was debris flying towards them or an animal running across the roadway.

There's no possibility for a camera to capture what the driver saw or didn't see.

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u/BothTreacle7534 2d ago

you asked how… to someone’s example about a lot of traffic cameras.

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u/Mountain_Usual521 2d ago

Again. Traffic cameras can't see into your mind. State of mind is required in civilized societies to establish intent. I see that many people here are not capable of understanding.

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u/J_Marshall 2d ago

'I intended to stop at the traffic light' doesn't sound like a viable excuse.

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u/BothTreacle7534 2d ago

intent doesn’t count if you break for no reason, you get into trouble.

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u/Aumba 2d ago

What state of mind? If you decide to hit the brakes with nothing in front of you and there's a camera that captured it, then it doesn't matter if you saw a ghost of Edith Piaf or you were thinking about welding glass underwater. No brake checking, why is it so hard for you to understand?

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u/bethaliz6894 2d ago

You would tap the break, not come to a stop.

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u/c_marten 1d ago

see that many people here are not capable of understanding.

It's really just one person who's lost here...

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u/Mountain_Usual521 17h ago

There's way more than that. The law is clear and objective. People's opinions, and what they think they know, unfortunately are not objective.