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Originally Posted by aka123
In Finnish media that same has translated to Russia's traffic being so fuckt up and accident prone that people keep dash cams to secure their own asses (in case of disputes).
Which one I should believe?
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In small cities traffic is absolutely same as anywhere else. On the other hand, in Moscow it can be really awful. E.g.:
And that is one of the widest streets, which was created as a spare runway for bombers in case of war. Now imagine what's happening on narrow 850-year old Moscow streets during a rush hour. It's a real hell, dude.
So both reasons are correct. We really love digital gadgets (if you get down to the Moscow metro, you'll barely find a person who is not playing on iPad, browsing something with a mobile phone, reading of eInk book etc - thanks good, we have a
free wifi in our subway). And we (not everybody of course) also need some additional prove for a case of accident on the road. Those dashcams are really helpful in some cases.
P.S. Moscow (2,511 km2) is about 4x-times larger than NYC (1,214 km2) and its population is much bigger as well. 15% of Russian citizens live here and we have some serious land trafficking problems.