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I see lovely lane changes every day but even relatively speaking this is pretty impressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdZIUY2PLY From a KDLINKS X1 dashcam about to enter it's 3rd Texas summer. Not great quality but it is still chugging along.
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Takes No Damage posted:I see lovely lane changes every day but even relatively speaking this is pretty impressive I go through there every day, but in the lanes going towards 30 Eastbound. I've got to be in that middle lane because it turns into an exit only for the exit I need (Second Avenue). I loving hate that area with a passion and I block people trying to do that poo poo whenever I can. Ninja edit: Leaving to go to work in about five minutes, so I'll be there in about fifteen. Let's see if I get any bad lane changes on my camera today.
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Takes No Damage posted:I see lovely lane changes every day but even relatively speaking this is pretty impressive
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Apr 9, 2018 04:51
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Not sure what the gently caress was going on here. Though it is nice to hear my two year old cheer me on when I call him an idiot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkDoaS6ykds
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Nitrox posted:I like your choice of classical music. E6 stealth grew into one of my favorite bands over the last year or so. The only reason the clip goes on that long was to fade out with the lyrics. That was volume 3 of my custom made Best Of CDs that i listen to in the car. 3 out of 9 
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Apr 9, 2018 08:30
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Latest Dash Cam Owners Australia crash compilation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyOt5wgIvI
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Takes No Damage posted:That was volume 3 of my custom made Best Of CDs that i listen to in the car. 3 out of 9 Hah, well hey now, you're doing better than me! I've never gotten around to bothering to burn some compilation disks (since at this point I might as well rip them and put 'em on an iPod or something) so I've still got two 50-disk CD books by the driver's seat, which are both very nearly full!  EDIT: Also, I think your choice in music is probably more widely acceptable...since I witnessed a near double-crash a week or so back, while Warrant's "Cherry Pie" was being blasted from the speakers.  What can I say, I've always liked '80s rock haha(I was tempted to upload the video, but I dunno, it didn't seem 'exciting' enough to warrant -see what I did there- posting it) Major Isoor fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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You Am I posted:Latest Dash Cam Owners Australia crash compilation video: Cartoon posted:Move over Russia! There's a new kid on the block!
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Holy poo poo that rollover with the two stolen cars 
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Apr 10, 2018 02:23
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loving  at the tree falling down.
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Takes No Damage posted:From my local subreddit, a biker narrowly avoids getting creamed and does a sick edge grind on the underside of a flipped SUV Not only holy gently caress, but literally down the street from my parents house.  That dude needs to buy 100 lotto tickets. The road he was on is a 45 that people regularly do 55-60 on, and the cross road is a 40 that people usually do 50+ on. Nocheez posted:I felt the same way about backup cameras until I got into a car with a decent one and a nice, large screen. It saw a car coming around the large SUV parked next to me way before I could, and now I'm a fan. The rental I'm driving now has one, along with an annoying (but useful) as gently caress beeper if I'm getting close to something when backing up. The rental is also a 4x4 crew cab pickup with "what turning radius?", and I've been driving economy cars most of my life. So it's a bit of a challenge for me to park it (then get back out of parking spaces). TheFonz posted:What's defacto dashcam nowadays? I see the OP has the G1W, but it's from 2013, so what does everyone use now? I'm using a Roav (Anker) dashcam, but I know that's not the most popular choice . Got sick of dashcams crapping out on me and went with a company that's known for excellent customer service, but definitely paid a bit more for it vs the normal Chinese choices. I've had 3 G1Ws, they're definitely only good for 1-3 years. I got 3 out of the last one before the battery decided to turn into Stay Puft. Takes No Damage posted:I see lovely lane changes every day but even relatively speaking this is pretty impressive I go through there every day myself, not the least bit surprised.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I'm using a Roav (Anker) dashcam, but I know that's not the most popular choice . Got sick of dashcams crapping out on me and went with a company that's known for excellent customer service, but definitely paid a bit more for it vs the normal Chinese choices. I've had 3 G1Ws, they're definitely only good for 1-3 years. I got 3 out of the last one before the battery decided to turn into Stay Puft. I'm using the Roav cam also. Not the best, not the worst but I've never had a problem in the year I've had it. Might get another one so I don't have to swap between cars. Customer service was great when I emailed asking for another mount. Got it within a week.
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Don't buy cameras with internal batteries, unless you're out of options or somehow.
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That rules out pretty much every camera ever, aside from a handful that have a supercap hacked in.Meydey posted:I'm using the Roav cam also. Not the best, not the worst but I've never had a problem in the year I've had it. Might get another one so I don't have to swap between cars. Customer service was great when I emailed asking for another mount. Got it within a week. Yeah, just emailed them asking for another mount, since my car got totaled. It originally came with 2 mounts (not sure if that was intentional or not), but the extra got misplaced.  Hopefully it'll be pretty painless.
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I have a roav, but the picture isn't as sharp as my ancient g1w (rip). Hard to read plates off of.
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nm posted:I have a roav, but the picture isn't as sharp as my ancient g1w (rip). Hard to read plates off of. Yeah, I've noticed the same thing with my A119S, unless the car is ahead of me in my lane. No idea if it's just something with the polarizing lens I bought at the same time as the cam though, I suppose...? (Just thought of that then, so I haven't tested with/without) I think I might have to start shouting out the license plate so I can hear it in the recording, if I see anything sus happen.
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I've noticed the Roav has a much wider lens, and seems to be a bit more aggressive with sharpening. That combo makes it hard to read plates for sure. I keep audio on; if someone's doing something fishy, I just yell out the license plate (like Major Isoor does). Twice. At least that way I have an easy to retrieve audio recording of the plate number, and doing it twice makes sure I can still easily hear it if I happened to call it out when it hit the 3 minute marker and started a new file. It's easy enough to edit out audio, and doesn't take up poo poo for space on the memory card. Major Isoor posted:Yeah, I've noticed the same thing with my A119S, unless the car is ahead of me in my lane. No idea if it's just something with the polarizing lens I bought at the same time as the cam though, I suppose...? (Just thought of that then, so I haven't tested with/without) I think I might have to start shouting out the license plate so I can hear it in the recording, if I see anything sus happen. Polarizing lens should make it easier to see; they cut down on reflections. Same reason I'll never buy another pair of sunglasses that aren't polarized. Just keep making an audio record of the plate. The trend toward pretty much fisheye lenses means it's going to be a lot harder to read plates, but the video should at least make plates visible enough to verify if you recorded the plate info audibly. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Polarizing lens should make it easier to see; they cut down on reflections. Same reason I'll never buy another pair of sunglasses that aren't polarized. Just keep making an audio record of the plate. The trend toward pretty much fisheye lenses means it's going to be a lot harder to read plates, but the video should at least make plates visible enough to verify if you recorded the plate info audibly. Yeah, I thought it would be unlikely it would impact it sufficiently, but as I'm new to dashcams I wasn't 100% on if it might sliiightly decrease quality in non-glare/dimmer scenarios, which might make-or-break being able to read plates properly in some situations. Thanks for the confirmation though; I won't worry about the lens then - I'll just try to make sure I read out the plate, if something does happen.
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Nitrox posted:One thing I learned from skateboards and bicycles is that you want to minimize the contact with asphalt as much as possible. So when you fall, tumble and move, never freeze up. Every second your skin is touching the pavement, the less skin you have. That skillset served me remarkably well during a 65 mph motorcycle accident. I am afraid of motorcycles for this very reason. I have strapped my dumb teenage self into a 600HP 1991 CRX-HF with no roll cage before and had a blast, but a motorcycle? No thanks, I'm good. I had a friend in high school who crashed once on a motorcycle with just regular shirt and jeans on. He said the worst part about the accident was the hospital when they had to get the asphalt out of his skin. He always wears full leather and jeans now, even in 100F heat. The scars on arms remind him to.
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ratbert90 posted:I am afraid of motorcycles for this very reason. I have strapped my dumb teenage self into a 600HP 1991 CRX-HF with no roll cage before and had a blast, but a motorcycle? No thanks, I'm good. My unmodified 90hp motorcycle does low 11's in a 1/4 mile and still quiet, comfortable and easy to commute on. If I were to replicate the experience in a car, huge sacrifices would be made.
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ratbert90 posted:I am afraid of motorcycles for this very reason. I have strapped my dumb teenage self into a 600HP 1991 CRX-HF with no roll cage before and had a blast, but a motorcycle? No thanks, I'm good. At speeds attainable by that pocket rocket, I'd assume the "crash structure" probably wouldn't do much anyway.
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So how many sets of tires did it burn through to get through 1st and 2nd gear?
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I bet that fucker hooked up good in reverse though.
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I've done a few turbo kits on daily driven Hondas and they actually perform well as daily drivers. Usually because the turbo doesn't do anything until 5k+ rpms and you can mosey around town without going into boost. Don't know about "600hp"
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nm posted:I have a roav, but the picture isn't as sharp as my ancient g1w (rip). Hard to read plates off of. My g1w-c started playing up  Freezing up, corrupt files, not recording etc.I worked out it was the USB lead failing where the cable goes into the hard plug (as cheap cables often do fail there) and the LED kept going from blue or purple to just plain red. Soldered on a known good cable w plug, all good again. Video a lot clearer than many more expensive or newer cameras too. Not bad for $40, 5yrs and now a cable repair. Suction cup still good which is very suprising - I've went through 2 cheapy GPS from 2006-2012 just because suction cups melt and warp if you leave them mounted, or break/fail if you take them off every day.
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I'm always surprised at the image quality of the G1W vs a lot of the more expensive cameras. I guess the trade-off is a bit more uncertainty in the QA department but I'm watching a lot of videos from cameras a lot more expensive and thinking "man, there's no way I'd read a plate off this" which to me sort of defeats the purpose. The one in my wife's car is acting a bit weird, the case has warped a bit where the mount point is, and the red blinking "record" light just sort of marches to its own drum beat now but it comes on every time we start the car and the image still looks the same so I have no interest in replacing it, going on almost 4 years now I think.
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Mine was doing that before failure too, a dodgey cable often causes shorts and stuff that makes everything play up. Other symptoms of mine was that record 'dot' wouldn't flash, it wouldn't turn off when pressing the power button, and sometimes wouldn't turn on unless I used a pin to press the reset. Mines hardwired as there's no cig socket that is use-able in the e34, and I manually have to turn it on/off as I couldn't find an ignition switched power source (It's all constant hot +12v, with -ve switched through controller modules and was all too hard for me, plus no interior fusebox...) Fo3 fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Someone posted this on the Kia Stinger forums I'm on and features two assholes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoKXtzs_Xr0
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https://mobile.twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/984216570854625280
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Saw her at the last second or she would have crushed me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUdAp_fLSqE
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Saw her at the last second or she would have crushed me. She's in the wrong for running the stop sign, but it wouldn't have been such a close call if you actually stopped.
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chrisgt posted:She's in the wrong for running the stop sign, but it wouldn't have been such a close call if you actually stopped. Yeah I know, check the name of the video.
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From watching US dashcam/TV/movies/videos that no one ever fully stops at a stop sign in the US. Should just swap them all out for yield signs, but I guess people will not even slow down for those?
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MrOnBicycle posted:From watching US dashcam/TV/movies/videos that no one ever fully stops at a stop sign in the US. Should just swap them all out for yield signs, but I guess people will not even slow down for those? Half of stop signs should become yields; half should be removed outright. The only nice thing I can say about all‐way stops is that a steady stream of traffic on the main road can’t shut down the other road, but if that’s a real concern the intersection probably warrants a light. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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MrOnBicycle posted:From watching US dashcam/TV/movies/videos that no one ever fully stops at a stop sign in the US. Should just swap them all out for yield signs, but I guess people will not even slow down for those? Rolling through a stop sign is literally called a 'California Stop'. The story goes that's because it's legal to do so if there's no oncoming traffic, but that's probably an urban legend.
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Platystemon posted:Half of stop signs should become yields; half should be removed outright. Yeah that's something I noticed as well. You guys have a shitload of stop signs.
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Takes No Damage posted:Rolling through a stop sign is literally called a 'California Stop'. The story goes that's because it's legal to do so if there's no oncoming traffic, but that's probably an urban legend. It is an urban legend. An officer can and will pull you over for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign.
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Most of the stop signs in the US should be replaced with roundabouts. Mainly so I can see all the useless olds flabbergasted.
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