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I got cut up by an Addison Lee cab on the way home tonight...
Addison Lee considerate driving on Vimeo
...am I being a wuss or is this worth complaining about? It was a bullshit move, but is it dramatic enough that anything will happen as a result? I don't know if folks have had much joy with Addison Lee drivers getting any kind of come back from their crappy driving.
The clip starts at the lights leading from Parliament Square toward Westminster Bridge. I'm in the middle lane as I am going to take the bridge rather than turn left onto Victoria Embankment, so correct road positioning imo, and I don't think I'm holding anyone up so much that this move is in any way justified. The Addison Lee Cab is either in the same lane as me or in the right hand lane. Either way, his journey has far more importance than my safety. Sure, he's indicating, but that's no good to me. And his driving made me say a bad word.
In other news, the camera I'm using is an Oregon Scientific ATC5K. I don't particularly recommend this as it's pretty unreliable - lots of file errors meaning that plenty of what gets filmed is lost. And the attachments are quite disappointing - the handlebar mount is ok (though lots of jolting obviously as you can see) but the helmet mounts are no use, at least not if you are using a BMX style helmet and a helmet mount is far better than a static handlebar positioning. Peh.