I think this might be a preview of what life will be like once google googles and other augmented reality headset cams get broadly distributed. I don't mean people will become as savage as they are on the Russian roads, just there'll be far more eyewitness videos of things and entertainment will arise via aggregation of these videos.
"I don't mean people will become as savage as they are on the Russian roads..." The premise of TFA is not that "because of dashcams people on russian roads did become savage". The premise of the article is that thanks to dashcams there's some hope that people become more civilized. Your sentence make it sound like dashcams are the issue that turned russians sociopathic. It's not the case: now we have visual proofs bu…
PS: Clearly, dash-cams in Russia are primarily used to deal with specific problems mostly related to corruption / scams. But, they also catch interesting videos like this meteor.