bigbluemeanie

Two comments.  Firstly, down under it is illegal to show registration plates in a video like this for privacy reasons. Journalists, for example, have to pixel details like that out regardless of the circumstances.
Secondly, even though we live in a crowded cities people have a sense of being polite to one another.  The fact you are in a car does not change your social relationships or excuse your behaviour to your fellow countrymen.  But then we don’t (generally) have the sorts of aggressive (or passive-agressive) interactions that seem to be such a necessary feature of the social fabric over there.

PS - you probably don’t understand what I’m saying so I should add that I’ve gone not weeks but months without seeing a single instance of the sort of driving that is shown here.  Today I did a round trip of about 70 kms across the city for a meeting and we did not see one car exceeding the speed limit or driving dangerously.  The difference in public behaviour is huge, and it originates in the head.

That’s interesting. If one of the drivers objected to their reg number being published I would remove it (or hide the reg number). YouTube would also likely take down the video.

I’m not trying to publically humiliate anyone but to open a conversation as to why drivers in Oxted are driving so inconsiderately. Thirteen years ago, when I moved to Oxted, it was not like this. Furthermore is there a hypocrisy of Oxted residents complaining about dangerous quarry lorries and yet the mums of Oxted also making it unsafe for the kids of Oxted to cycle to school? What is causing bad-mannered/dangerous driving: a proliferation of lorries? a shortage of parking?

Anyway, this story made the local paper.

Link to article on the legality of camera use by cyclists.