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Chinatown posted:Pros cut across gas stations to avoid waiting to turn right on a red. Then eventually get a ticket because it's illegal almost everywhere!
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xzzy posted:Then eventually get a ticket because it's illegal almost everywhere! Yeah, ive done it countless times and  if you get rolled for doing it. I am sure its low (to nonexistant) on the police's priorities.
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Sep 12, 2014 17:44
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Craptacular posted:The red light out of the screen, to the left. The red light that the car that cut off the camera car is avoiding by turning right, doing a u-turn and turning right again. He was never in the intersection. He was exiting a private driveway just past the intersection. Still cant cut into a lane going 5 km/h
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Put together my first dash cam vid. It's boring, but it's two clips of one guy going straight through a turn lane and then going down the wrong way of another turn lane  The second is just a moderately-high-speed u-turn in the middle of traffic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUmvCDmYLN0
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Sep 13, 2014 00:16
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ijustam posted:Put together my first dash cam vid. It's boring, but it's two clips of one guy going straight through a turn lane and then going down the wrong way of another turn lane That guy had some slick moves there.
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Sep 13, 2014 04:58
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PaganGoatPants posted:That guy had some slick moves there. Yeah I wasn't even mad, I was more confused and slightly impressed that his plan worked out.
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Sep 14, 2014 20:19
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wolrah posted:So what? It's still common courtesy and and a basic rule of the road to keep right if you're not passing or making a left. Especially when someone clearly does want to pass it then extends in to being a dick. On a surface street with intersections and left turns sprinkled all over the place I'm going to say nope. What evidence do you have that there is an expectation to keep right on this type of road other than your opinion?
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Sep 15, 2014 18:14
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http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html First hit searching for "keep right except to pass". In a majority of states it is law on any multi lane road, the left lane is for passing or turning left. Derail over.
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Sep 15, 2014 18:28
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LloydDobler posted:http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html Well poo poo, I stand corrected then. The more you know.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:06
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I just bought a Mobius and everything to wire it up. I don't have long commutes, but it's offset by living in Miami which is basically a third world city in terms of its drivers. Should be fun!
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http://youtu.be/U8zWhPZkSb8 Kids pushing a car? Check Teenager (assuming the owner, or at least, the person who normally drives it) standing out of the sunroof, steering it with his foot? Check Teen trying to do a half assed hand stand on the car? Check.  e: they were pushing it back across the parking lot when I pulled out. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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Sep 18, 2014 06:51
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I just realized the significance of the text "STR" in your videos Dim I am
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Sep 18, 2014 18:20
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A couple that I picked up recently, nothing too crazy. I love me some horn apparently. Yield signs? What yield signs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGKYFqd_zw Dodge no signal lane change, bonus MB doing their best Autobahn impression on the toll. I was probably doing around 85mph so I'd put him at over a ton. He proceeded to ride some Mini's rear end and then was gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9RD4uhBjk
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Sep 21, 2014 01:52
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Bovril Delight posted:A couple that I picked up recently, nothing too crazy. I love me some horn apparently. In the first video yeah if the other guy was a either a little faster or a little slower it would have been nice, but poor yielding like that from other drivers is literally an everyday occurrence. In the second video, the SUV didn't signal, but also you were passing him on the right and changing lanes right into his blind spot. You should have seen that it was a possibility that he might change lanes. There was nobody in the rightmost lane in front of you, so why change lanes into a lane where he might go?
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Sep 21, 2014 05:06
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Craptacular posted:In the first video yeah if the other guy was a either a little faster or a little slower it would have been nice, but poor yielding like that from other drivers is literally an everyday occurrence. Right lane is an exit only just a bit up, if you don't get over immediately you're likely to get blocked out. I'm coming down off a flyover. I wouldn't even call the first one poor yielding, the guy didn't have a clue they were there.
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Yeah I saw the right lane becomes a right exit, but that's a good 20 seconds down the road. You didn't have to switch lanes right where you did. Another 2-3 seconds in the same lane would have put you past the SUV. I pass all the time on the right too, but when doing so, you have to be extra careful and anticipate what other inattentive drivers will do, because that's not where they're expecting someone to pass.
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Bovril Delight posted:A couple that I picked up recently, nothing too crazy. I love me some horn apparently. Slow da gently caress down
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Christobevii3 posted:Slow da gently caress down Speed up and just blast pass everyone. Safest option IMO.
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Sep 21, 2014 06:55
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Bovril Delight posted:A couple that I picked up recently, nothing too crazy. I love me some horn apparently. First one I don't understand how that yield is supposed to work. Is he supposed to judge vehicles oncoming speed in the periphery of his mirrors verging on blindspot merging into his lane and then yield accordingly with very little time? You saw this coming way before they did, and you're the one honking? I don't get it. This is definitely a time where you should have adjusted your speed to avoid this, but you didn't.
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tuna posted:First one I don't understand how that yield is supposed to work. Is he supposed to judge vehicles oncoming speed in the periphery of his mirrors verging on blindspot merging into his lane and then yield accordingly with very little time? You saw this coming way before they did, and you're the one honking? I don't get it. This is definitely a time where you should have adjusted your speed to avoid this, but you didn't. Its a lovely Yield sign that makes no sense IMO as simple merging rules would suffice at that intersection. I think he was assuming he would stop but he didnt. Still, that had about a 0% chance of collision so I don't get the horn and all. If I honked at every person that came that close to me in SoCal I would literally have the horn on constantly. The second video is a simple blind-spot error that I see all the time and isn't really negligent driving either. Dude decided to lane change right when he got into the blind spot. Just bad timing. I'm always careful when I lane change into another cars blind spots for this reason. Chinatown fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Sep 21, 2014 08:21
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Chinatown posted:The second video is a simple blind-spot error that I see all the time and isn't really negligent driving either. Dude decided to lane change right when he got into the blind spot. Just bad timing. I'm always careful when I lane change into another cars blind spots for this reason. Agreed but Other Guy didn't use indicators (cant hear them on the camera from the op either though lol), so its a crapshoot. Definitely agree that you should be careful when merging into someone's blindspot, you learn this within 10 minutes of driving. Two drivers mindlessly drifting into one another situation, if it had happened.
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tuna posted:Agreed but Other Guy didn't use indicators (cant hear them on the camera from the op either though lol), so its a crapshoot. Definitely agree that you should be careful when merging into someone's blindspot, you learn this within 10 minutes of driving. Two drivers mindlessly drifting into one another situation, if it had happened. True. Also, why side indicators aren't required in the US is beyond me. I'm pretty sure I have avoided a few of these situations (especially at night) because my car has a nice bright LED indicator right behind the front wheel. Chinatown fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Sep 21, 2014 10:01
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Chinatown posted:True. Also, why side indicators aren't required in the US is beyond me. This. I totally cut a guy off the other day by merging into the center lane on the freeway, only to find out that the guy in the left lane had his signal on and the hole in traffic was being made for him. Couldn't see his signal until I was in front of him/had stolen his spot. Fortunately my car does have side indicators so he saw me coming and didn't merge, but still probably thought I was a dick.
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More wrong way/u-turn goodness. This time the opposite direction but same intersection  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hJg4z6u9bY
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The replacement camera arrived two days ago, and I finally tested it in my car today. http://imgur.com/a/MDLl1 I want my loving money back.
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ijustam posted:More wrong way/u-turn goodness. This time the opposite direction but same intersection Sick moves.
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MiniFoo posted:The replacement camera arrived two days ago, and I finally tested it in my car today. https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/b40-out-of-focus-issue.7294/ https://forum.dashcamtalk.com/threads/the-a118-camera-loses-its-focus-within-a-few-minutes-of-use.7124/ Goddamnit. Blueskysea better just refund me so I can try to take this drat thing apart and fix it myself.
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MiniFoo posted:https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/b40-out-of-focus-issue.7294/ Stupid question, did you remove the clear plastic film from the lens? I forgot to do that when I got mine and it was out of focus all the time. Although now I'm paranoid; gonna have to check mine out today to see if I have the problem as well.
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Unless I'm completely incompetent as a human being, I am positive that there's no film/cap over the lens of both this camera and the first one. There was a protective film over the screen(s) of course, but nothing to indicate that the lens needs to be uncapped. Plus, it would have been out of focus from the start, not after a few hours. The heat is altering the focal length, starting with the right side. I just want my money back without having to return this thing so I can just gently caress around and see if I can salvage it instead.
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I've been using my B40/A118 for a day now, and so far no issues. It's ever so slightly blurry at the edges (and ~5% more blurry on the right than on the left), but hey, it's a cheap wide angle lens, and even my GoPro isn't completely sharp at the edges. It's most noticeable on the road sign in the last picture, and from looking at Youtube videos, that's just how the camera is.   No thermal issues to report, but today hasn't exactly been super warm, 4°C in the morning and 18°C as I was driving home from work. As long as I'm not hit with the blur issue, I'm very satisfied. E: I might just get one for the rear window as well. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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I was on my way home just about an hour ago and in order to do so, I have to get on the interstate. Well anyway, before turning onto the on-ramp I looked to see what traffic I should anticipate before merging, only spotting a van in the far right lane. So, I turned onto the on-ramp and headed down to merge into traffic and saw the van start to come up behind me quickly, so I slowed down since he has the right-of-way. So what does the van do? Maintain speed? Speed up? Absolutely not. The van comes to almost a complete stop in the interstate blocking me from merging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9wveBhfKo PS: The camera is on the passenger side of my car and skewed to the right. So when it looks like I'm driving like poo poo, it's not as bad as it looks.
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Wickerman posted:I was on my way home just about an hour ago and in order to do so, I have to get on the interstate. Well anyway, before turning onto the on-ramp I looked to see what traffic I should anticipate before merging, only spotting a van in the far right lane. So, I turned onto the on-ramp and headed down to merge into traffic and saw the van start to come up behind me quickly, so I slowed down since he has the right-of-way. you were merging into a construction zone, and you both slowed down. I can understand the van_driver not electing to speed up and potentially collect a $$$ ticket. Lighten up, Wickerman.
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So this happened yesterday. She was in the opposite left turn lane, and drove into oncoming traffic almost hitting 3+ people. Have a pic: 
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iForge posted:So this happened yesterday. 
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iForge posted:So this happened yesterday. Ok now this is impressive.
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http://youtu.be/6yOJyc-Z7E8 I was worried I didn't get it all on camera, but I did. 
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Chinatown posted:Ok now this is impressive. The parking lot was almost empty when this happened, she pulled diagonally taking up two spaces, sat for a few moments, then backed out/pulled into a space closer to the door. I'm kinda surprised she didn't just drive right the gently caress through the door.
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Fushin posted:http://youtu.be/6yOJyc-Z7E8 That's some nice air there. I feel some have made a deal with the devil that if they ever miss an exit they will perish instantly.
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Wickerman posted:So what does the van do? Maintain speed? Speed up? Absolutely not. The van comes to almost a complete stop in the interstate blocking me from merging. The video cracked me up because your reaction is the same as mine usually is. loving GO JESUS CHRIST. I had one the other day where I was in a driveway waiting to enter the street, and another car was in another driveway across the street ready to do the same thing. A lady comes down the street, we're waiting for her to go by so we can enter traffic, and she loving stops to let us out. Doesn't wave, or look, or anything, just parks in the middle of the god drat road. I said the same thing then too.
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Murphy's law is real. Yesterday, I took my car in for a factory 'customer satisfaction fix' (I guess they don't have to call it a recall that way) that was supposed to take a couple hours, so I didn't bother clearing out the car, and didn't remove the dash cam. Fast forward to the afternoon, and they call to say they are going to have to pull the transmission, and they are sending a driver out to pick me up to get my rental car. Today, in my rental car, I'm sitting #1 in the left turn lane at a major intersection. The light changes, the two people in the intersection to make a left turn from my right begin to turn to clear the intersection, and some moron coming from my left runs the light and comes to a screeching halt right in front of me, blocking both left turner's partway through the turn. No impact amazingly, as the left turners stopped in time to allow the moron to skid past them. Much honking and 15 or 20 seconds later, he manages to get his car moving again and clear the intersection. "Cool" I think, I finally got something worth saving on my dash c... oh... 
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