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> This particular video was of a fatal car crash. An uncle of mine died in a car crash, in the late 80s / early 90s. The first thing my father did was drive fo
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
> This particular video was of a fatal car crash.
An uncle of mine died in a car crash, in the late 80s / early 90s. The first thing my father did was drive for hours, to the place where the crash happened, and film. He then went and filmed the car wreck with its blood stains and grass stuck between the tires and the rims. A 230 km/h // 140 mph+ crash: driver lost control.
And although he could barely speak while filming he warned us in the video that this was what would happen to us if we were to act like idiots on the road.
And he, of course, forced us to watch that vid. Immediately and then a few more times at regular intervals months/years later. Best road safety lesson we ever got.
Every single person I ever crossed on the road in my life can thank my father for filming and forcing me to watch that vid.
At times there are very smart families who do allow the publication of videos of crashes where a family member died and say it's to act as a warning as to what may happen when you drive drunk/intoxicated/crazy.
It should be outlawed that families may decide that these vids are not publishable. It happened on public roads: it should be public material, as a warning to the public.
That these are not allowed on social media is criminal for these vids are the best lessons kids / teenagers can ever get when it comes to road safety.
And it is delusional to think that kids/teenagers watch that for morbid reasons: they watch such vids because their survival instinct want to make sense of what's happening.
"If you act like that, you'll kill people and/or die" is quite the lesson.
- sodality2 2y agoThis isn’t a crazy notion. My high school, as well as probably thousands of others, staged a crash and EMS rescue to have us all realize the danger of driving impaired. The difference is it was in a monitored setting - I don’t think young children should be exposed to this on an app that everyone is using, without the comfort of their parents. Even in your example, your father showed it to you. But watching extremely graphically violent videos from a young age with zero healthy avenues to process it is a recipe for disaster.
- randerson 2y agoI've learned a lot from watching non-fatal accidents and close calls on /r/IdiotsInCars. I'm not sure I'd be better off if these were graphic or of someone I know. What maddens me about social media is that they're OK hosting videos of their users driving recklessly on public roads and getting away with it. It normalizes dangerous driving, even glorifies it since these idiots attract millions of followers. Instagram for example doesn't even have a category to report this content.
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- miki123211 2y ago> And it is delusional to think that kids/teenagers watch that for morbid reasons Most don't, but there's apparently a very small subgroup that feeds on this kind of content. Algorithms can detect that of course and feed them even more of these videos, getting them even deeper into the rabbit hole. You can't blame it all on the algorithms either, if you build an algorithm that finds relationships like "a likes x, b likes x and y, recommend y to a", this is what you get in some pathological cases, along with pedophiles seeing family videos of kids in swimming pools.