Rise of cycle cams debated on This Morning

I don't go out of my way to record incidents, I simply record what happens going to a destination. Everything I film is in the public domain.

What drivers forget is that whilst a cyclists records moments of other road users behaviour, they records all of their own. If the cyclist breaks the law (s)he's gifting the authorities with the evidence. It works both ways.

I have no sympathy for drivers. They're upset that they can no longer break the law with anonymity. If they think it's one sided, they can get a dash-cam. Many won't because it will expose their crap driving.

Whatever one thinks of Sherry's method, the cyclist is the vulnerable road user here; so dangerous acts by motorists are arguably best in the open, and perhaps less likely to be repeated. I don't think capturing and bringing to light dangerous driving is 'vigilantism' - taking the law into one's own hands in some way may well be, but that's different.

What about the huge rise in dash cams? Are they going to describe these drivers as "Driving Stasi" and bringing Kangaroo justice?

A lot of drivers have dash cans for many of the same reasons - evidence collection in the event of an incident.

Just saying...

I've read and listened to some absolute junk in the last week, but I won't sink so low as to watch daytime TV.

Not fecking Dave Sherry, who made him lord and saviour of all cyclists. I for one wish he would disappear and stop trying to be some sort of TV star, every time I've seen him, he's enforced to me why some drivers hate cyclists, it is because they all think we are dicks like him

Epstein is your typical "prisoner-of-the-car" person.

"Whole canon of driving law"? Does that only apply to car drivers? Or is she talking about the rules and regulations of the road, which apply to us all, however we use them.

“They’re not obliged to do the things that we have to do to ensure that we understand road safety." Really? You think you know more about road safety than a cyclist?

"I don’t see how you can be a law-abiding cyclist and at the same time kind of try and police everybody else. " Part of being a cyclist involves having 360 degree vision and knowing what else is going on around you. The cameras just run, you don't have to "operate" them, which means you can concentrate on the road and the other vehicles. AGH! And how many drivers use their mirrors before they maneouvre? Some of them can't even be arsed to indicate! And has she heard of SMIDSY?

I don't have a camera on my bike; the standards of driving around me are shocking and infuriate me, but I still enjoy riding my bike. Most of the time it is out on the quiet country lanes of Sussex, but I do sometimes seek out busy traffic. I ride assertively, but with regard and respect for everyone else. I thank those that make time for me, I pull over if I think I am causing a long delay for others, and I go mental with those that don't think I "matter".

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It is unclear whether the implications of this message are fully understood by those around him.

But as a cyclist you are just one of 'Them', especially to (what I believe to be) the typical viewer of This Morning, and so it doesn't matter.