I was convinced to by an aldi actioncam a year or so ago by other half so I could record her riding a motorbike & give her tips to improve.
I still have eight hours of footage to review.....
Once in real time was 'enough'....
Popular in the bike world, where so many try and argue that 'Its just so I can show an insurance company'..... to which my response is always, "yeah... being proved 'in the right' is small solace on your way up the pearly steps!"
Does seem pretty endemic of modern society, though..... and in motorbiking, even where an accident is genuinely and unequivocally 100% the other fellas fault.... 90% of the time, there was still 'something' the rider could have done not to get into it in the first place... OK, maybe they shouldn't have to.. but, this is the real world, and you CANNOT go around expecting every one to do the right thing, and look out for your bum ALL the time, and prevention is SO much better than cure.. especially on a motorbike, where all to frequently the rider is themselves their own worst enemy.. before we come to any question of the actioncam.....
Which, is perverse... on motor-bikes, which tilt through turns, don't have the FoV obscured by roof pillars, and where particularly helmet mounted cams can produce pretty audacious footage, cams have become derigeur to capture that drama... and in so doing, inspired more riders to more outrageous riding to get more of it, in many cases...
We then have the critic-cam... as the clip OP'd, I HAVE NOT LOOKED AT, and wont.... I have watched too many already, and meh! I really don't want to watch any more!
Capturing 'incidents', of alledged idiocy or controversy... first.. an awful lot aren't, and far too many show as much or more error in the driver/rider of the clip capturing vehicle than in the alleged idiocy of other road users....
Back to earlier comments... very very few road accidents have a clear cut, 100% culpable perpetrator, end even of those, so many are still 'avoidable' IF others didn't rely so much on others being more perfect than themselves.....
We return to that same self perpetuating phenomona of the presence of a camera encouraging the user to 'seek' such incidents of idiocy or controversy, and influencing situations to that end.....
One HAS to wonder, whether IF there wasn't a camera the incident would ever have happened to begin with?
Either which way... these things are NOT photography; neither are they IMO an aid to road safety..... talking motorbikes, crash hats don't save crashes, sticking your head in a padded bucket and thinking you have safety covered wont stop you crashing, USING your head and not riding like a tool or into danger WILL. Dash-Cams? Do NOTHING buy give the lawyers something to argue about after the event.
With face book and you-tube stuffed with clips from other people's daily commute, hours of footage taken from trucks going up the motorway, and some 'ohing and ahring' and exclamation in the sound track or subs... DO we really want, let alone need, give this genre of 'DIY Reality TV' ANY more encouragement?