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I forgot to pull the video but I came across two different wrong ways at the end of last week. Both old people driving the standard "gold" Grand Marquis. The first one might have been a spin out that just ended up the wrong way (cops were on site, facing the correct direction, and looking bored), but the second one was definitely someone coming up the offramp from I-80EB to OH-10. On the plus side that second one seemed to have realized their mistake, they had their turn signal on and were pulling on to the gore area to get going the right direction as I passed. We really need regular re-testing, especially with olds but I think it should be for everyone.
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Honestly, some of the ramp designs I've seen (e.g. off and on ramps that share a paved segment and are only separated by a small median) seem to be a deliberate attempt to confuse an unfamiliar driver into turning into the wrong lane.
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totalnewbie posted:Honestly, some of the ramp designs I've seen (e.g. off and on ramps that share a paved segment and are only separated by a small median) seem to be a deliberate attempt to confuse an unfamiliar driver into turning into the wrong lane. In this case they were coming from a toll booth and there's a concrete curb-style divider in the median, but from my old Crown Vic days I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out they drove right over the median. I used to drive over a curb separating my dorm lot from the Taco Bell lot all the time and that car took it like a champ, so I could certainly see a person with reduced reaction times in a couchmobile bumping over the median and not really realizing what had happened.
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Acky posted:Older lady gets "lost" and enters the rotary the wrong way. Honked at her the first time I passed her and was still oblivious, and didnt stop. Sadly I just replaced my old dash cam and forgot to turn audio on Hey another Mainer! For some reason that circle has a lot more problems than the Cony circle, probably because it's so big and has bushes all through the middle of it, you can't see over it.
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FBS posted:"On Your Side," indeed. I like to think the AAAAAAA at the bottom of the video is your car screaming.
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Dallas really is the worst city for failing to yield, and yet they won't quit building more suicide merges  They just opened a new path from 30 east to Woodall Rodgers that has one and there isn't even any signage with it, everybody just mentally flips a coin to decide who goes first.
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Wait, am I seeing that right? Do both sides have 'Yield' signs??
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Cugel the Clever posted:Wait, am I seeing that right? Do both sides have 'Yield' signs?? It's just on both sides of the road. The small sign underneath indicates which side has to yield - "To ramp"
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Cugel the Clever posted:Wait, am I seeing that right? Do both sides have 'Yield' signs?? DFW likes to throw signs up for people to ignore. But no, it's for the access road traffic. TX law states all access road traffic must yield to traffic exiting the highway, but nobody ever does. The ones that do yield often wind up getting rear ended. Takes No Damage posted:Dallas really is the worst city for failing to yield, and yet they won't quit building more suicide merges I loving hate Woodall. And 30.. and 35E.. and 75... and especially 635. Ah gently caress it, I hate every highway out here.I had to drive from Denton to SE Garland the other day. Google Maps showed 35E being 45 minutes longer vs taking 2499 from Denton to 635. And you don't dare speed on 2499 (north of Grapevine anyway), it's cop central. 
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The crash is pretty horrific, but the dash cam footage is simply incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hCqYsR_2wI (from the China thread in GBS)
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totalnewbie posted:Honestly, some of the ramp designs I've seen (e.g. off and on ramps that share a paved segment and are only separated by a small median) seem to be a deliberate attempt to confuse an unfamiliar driver into turning into the wrong lane. This is almost always due to right of way. Sometimes it just isn’t there but mainly cities / dot don’t want to pay extra and just squeeze whatever ramps they can where they can.
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Jul 10, 2017 17:36
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Gorilla Salad posted:The crash is pretty horrific, but the dash cam footage is simply incredible.  Pretty sure whatever was on the inside of that vehicle under the front of the bus is dead now.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:35
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For regular driving to protect my Prius from drunk idiots on weekends, I assume the A119 V2 is my best bet. Is the GPS worth the extra $10? What about the circular polarization filter? Seems like the adhesive filters on Ebay for $8 should be okay.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:46
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Josh Lyman posted:For regular driving to protect my Prius from drunk idiots on weekends, I assume the A119 V2 is my best bet. Is the GPS worth the extra $10? What about the circular polarization filter? Seems like the adhesive filters on Ebay for $8 should be okay. Don't get a GPS unless you want an insurance company asking why you were doing 2mph over the limit when someone ran a light in front of you. GPS speed sensors are a bad idea.
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CPL filter is always a good idea when you're putting a lens behind a window. Really cuts down on glare, though you'll need to rotate the filter until you find the sweet spot. And yeah... what nm said.
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The Locator posted:
Yes, but did you note the stability and quality of the image  Where do you even buy a dash cam that good? \/\/ It looks better than 95% of the dashcam footage I've ever watched 
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Jul 11, 2017 08:35
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Gorilla Salad posted:Yes, but did you note the stability and quality of the image 
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I'm looking for a dashcam but finding it hard to find one with what I want for around >$100. It's my first so want to keep it reasonably priced. The features I definitely want are WiFi, decent video quality for a dash cam, has a capacitor, and be able to use in extreme temps. It got to 110+ here in the last week. I prefer discrete but it's not a must like the others. Anything for that price point or is it a pipe dream? If I can't buy one at that price point what is good one with the features I want?
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Mainly ease of use if I want to view footage right after something happens and everyone is not watching me grab my dashcam. I'm probably overthinking this since I do that.
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Jul 12, 2017 04:37
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I kinda wish there was a dashcam that would connect to the wifi when I get home and upload everything to my fileserver 
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IOwnCalculus posted:I kinda wish there was a dashcam that would connect to the wifi when I get home and upload everything to my fileserver You mean that there are dashcams with wifi and that’s not what they use it for? 
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Things get a lot easier if you drop the wifi requirement.
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Just ordered an A119 from an AliExpress type website. The GPS version was only $5 more, so I could use that for long road trips but use the regular non-GPS mount for normal city driving.
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`Nemesis posted:Things get a lot easier if you drop the wifi requirement. If I drop it is the recommendation the A119? I was looking at that or the WR1.
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A119C I think. Capacitor version since you're in hot weather. I've had the 118C in my car for a couple years now. I replaced the sticky tape on the mount once. Other than that it was just plug and play, works great. It's regularly over 100 here all summer long. It was 112 last week. (Los Angeles area)
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Platystemon posted:You mean that there are dashcams with wifi and that’s not what they use it for? Every one I've seen with wifi on Techmoan's channel just seems to use it to connect to a smartphone app, along the lines of a Gopro or drone wifi. It acts as an AP, not as a client.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Every one I've seen with wifi on Techmoan's channel just seems to use it to connect to a smartphone app, along the lines of a Gopro or drone wifi. It acts as an AP, not as a client. I assumed they worked like wifi SD/CF cards of years past.
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Josh Lyman posted:Just ordered an A119 from an AliExpress type website. The GPS version was only $5 more, so I could use that for long road trips but use the regular non-GPS mount for normal city driving. --A lawyer (unless you're suing my client, then please keep buying them) It serves precisely no purpose other than to gently caress you over. Also, the first question I'm asking when you turned the speed off on your GPS enabled dash cam is "why?" (Because you're a loving speeder and reckless driver! Who else would turn it off?) Any major speed differences are going to be able to be determined by the video (not going to be able to say you were doing 100 in a 55) through basic forensics. OTO, what GPS dashcams are great for is showing that you were doing 5 over the limit (or that is what it says because these things suck) and the other party's insurance wants 50-50 liability now. The speed might not even be admissible in court, but the reason you buy a dashcam is to stay the gently caress out of court. ---- Re: wifi. I have wifi on my bike "dash cam" and 9 times out of 10, it is easier to take the micro-SD card out and plug it into something. I have used it to show a cop something, but it was a minor benefit. nm fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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I THOUGHT WIFI CONNECTED TO AN AP AND UPLOADED VIDEO WHY IS THAT NOT THE MAIN loving FEATURE
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I just installed an A119S v2 and it's pretty nice coming from a mini 0803 in terms of form factor and UI/quality. It's stealth as gently caress but for whatever reason the sharpening is cranked to 11 with no way to change it. I did a preview video of my keyboard at work which is black with white lettering and the lettering appears as black with a white outline Video wise when used for its purpose it's ok but the sharpness definitely reduces the quality a bit for zero real advantage. Initially I figured it would make plates easier to read but that isn't true. They seem frequent with updates to the firmware so I'm not too worried. Maybe I should try a downgrade to see if that improves it at all
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I THOUGHT WIFI CONNECTED TO AN AP AND UPLOADED VIDEO I suppose it is theoretically possible that if you had a wifi AP in your garage and you added an always-on feed to your camera, it would be possible to do this (32GB takes 1.5hrs over a good wifi connection) You'd end up with terabytes of your commute filling up your home PC though.
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spog posted:I suppose it is theoretically possible that if you had a wifi AP in your garage and you added an always-on feed to your camera, it would be possible to do this (32GB takes 1.5hrs over a good wifi connection) A good wifi connection is 48 Mbps? 🤔 Ditch your WRT54g and get something with 802.11ac. e: Dropped a factor of eight. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Platystemon posted:A good wifi connection is 6 Mbps? 🤔 https://techinternets.com/copy_calc?do - have a play with the numbers, but you aren't going to dump an entire card in a hurry. Also, I am jealous if you have wifi in your garage.
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A wifi extender is magic. I've got one in my garage. Gives me wifi in the car parked out front, and a wired AP for the security system.
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Huh, I have a ton of experience with streaming multimedia and product building. Is a wifi enabled dashcam that can connect to a remote point in the car and save files there something people would really want? I could literally make that product from start to finish and sell it in ~6 months. *edit* I could even add RTSP if that's something people would find useful.
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ratbert90 posted:Huh, I have a ton of experience with streaming multimedia and product building. If you could make it so that if you press a button on the dashcam and it posts the last 30seconds straight to Facebook/Twitter along with an emoji, then i would probably invest in your company with my life savings.
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quote:dashcams w/wifi upload The tech was definitely out there even 8 years ago, but the only cams I know that do it were designed for fleet applications and likely cost $500/unit. However, chump change compared to defending/paying out on a lawsuit as a commercial operator. The cam would record events triggered either by a G-sensor or a big red button on the side, and the saved clips would automatically upload and wipe from the cam when it connected to wifi in the garage. Might be overkill for the home user, but worked well for a company with 120 vehicles spread over 5 bases and one safety officer to review the event clips. Would have been impossible for the safety officer to jump in and swap out SD cards every night, and half the point of the cam is that the driver doesn't have access to the recorded media.
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ratbert90 posted:Huh, I have a ton of experience with streaming multimedia and product building. I've been playing with a DIY dashcam build on a Pi Zero W that does exactly this. It doesn't offload the entire card of course, just the flagged recordings. Right now I just have it doing so over SMB when I get home, but a long-term goal is to build a basic web service that'll let it submit video remotely either through open WiFi or tethering for those of us who use it. Cooling the Pi in a black car has proven to be complicated, and I need to use something better than PLA for the cases for basically the same reason. I'd be all over a decent camera that had WiFi client mode support and could use some kind of standard file transfer protocol to automatically transfer flagged recordings to my personal server when it sees a valid AP. Bonus points for supporting multiple SSIDs. Keep AP mode for local smartphone control/streaming support. Some kind of synchronization interface to allow multiple cameras to turn on/off and flag recordings simultaneously would probably be nice.
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