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People are idiots, that why you're supposed to leave it on until you've completed your turn. 
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What's the rule there btw? You both have a stop sign and you're turning left – I'd also assume you'd have to yield to them.
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Jan 27, 2020 14:20
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Dog on Fire posted:What's the rule there btw? You both have a stop sign and you're turning left – I'd also assume you'd have to yield to them. Whoever got the to the stop sign first has the ROW.
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Jan 27, 2020 14:22
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I'd get back into the habit of making the turn signal fully click, just so the sound is on your dashcam so you can prove that you had your signal on any time it might be important to prove that.
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Jan 28, 2020 01:32
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Whoever got the to the stop sign first has the ROW.
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Jan 28, 2020 01:41
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Rusty posted:In Oregon at least, whoever is in the intersection has the right of way. The common courtesy is to give it to the person who stops first and the person on the right, but not by law. This isn’t the intent of the law. By this logic you could never stop at a stop sign and once you’re in the intersection you have the right of way, everyone else be damned, but that isn’t the case.
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Jan 28, 2020 01:53
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:This isn’t the intent of the law. By this logic you could never stop at a stop sign and once you’re in the intersection you have the right of way, everyone else be damned, but that isn’t the case. "Stop signs. A driver approaching a stop sign shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering the marked crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if there is no marked crosswalk, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering it. After stopping, the driver shall yield the right of way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when the driver is moving across or within the intersection." In our driver test books, they emphasize the common courtesy aspect everyone grows up with, but it has nothing to do with the law.
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Jan 28, 2020 02:04
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Rusty posted:In Oregon at least, whoever is in the intersection has the right of way. The common courtesy is to give it to the person who stops first and the person on the right, but not by law. Drivers in Oregon were only recently allowed to pump their own gas, though. In most states the law at a four-way stop is first come, first served. If you arrive at the same time and there would be a conflict, then it's either straight-over-turning, right-turn-over-left-turn, or priorité à droite.
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Jan 28, 2020 02:10
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Sagebrush posted:Drivers in Oregon were only recently allowed to pump their own gas, though. Edit: Also, we definitely cannot pump our own gas, that's only in remote parts of Oregon Rusty fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Jan 28, 2020 |
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Jan 28, 2020 02:12
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This is the best I have at the moment. Jerk very slowly turned left in front of traffic and got in the center turn lane to merge (which you're not supposed to do). Caused multiple cars in heavy traffic to brake hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZsdUqkKBQ
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Jan 28, 2020 14:14
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No points for that driver's poor timing but suicide lanes are definitely allowed for turning left into, at least in AZ - but you have to stop as soon as you get into it and wait until you can merge.
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Jan 28, 2020 18:15
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IOwnCalculus posted:No points for that driver's poor timing but suicide lanes are definitely allowed for turning left into, at least in AZ - but you have to stop as soon as you get into it and wait until you can merge. If you look, there's left turn arrows painted on the road in that lane. I believe here in Indiana they're explicitly for left turns only, not for turning into and using to merge. I could be wrong though.
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Jan 28, 2020 19:28
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IOwnCalculus posted:No points for that driver's poor timing but suicide lanes are definitely allowed for turning left into, at least in AZ - but you have to stop as soon as you get into it and wait until you can merge. If I'm driving toward you and you're turning left to join my lane, how in the hell am I supposed to understand that you're turning into the center lane, and not directly into mine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZGS826yhg Also, that's not a harmonica toot, but the stock horn on a '09 VW
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Jan 28, 2020 19:36
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NoWake posted:If I'm driving toward you and you're turning left to join my lane, how in the hell am I supposed to understand that you're turning into the center lane, and not directly into mine? When you cross through an intersection, how in the hell are you supposed to understand that the cars on the cross street are going to stop, and not just drive straight into you? Answer: you understand the rules of the road and expect that other drivers do too and will follow them. I used to live in Arizona and turning left into the suicide lane was normal and expected, because it is understood that drivers doing so have to give way to drivers heading straight through. That said, I don't really fault you for being cautious here because people are extraordinarily bad at staying in their lane even when they know the rules.
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Jan 28, 2020 19:56
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Sagebrush posted:I used to live in Arizona and turning left into the suicide lane was normal and expected, because it is understood that drivers doing so have to give way to drivers heading straight through. It's even spelled out in the AZ driver's manual. You can't use it as an acceleration lane, you're supposed to just turn left into it and stop until you can merge.
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Jan 28, 2020 19:58
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We don't have those lanes here, or at least the markings are way different and make it obvious what's supposed to happen and where you're supposed to go. Is that how the markings are supposed to work? That truck's gonna have to cross unbroken double lines to be going the way it's going, which is definitely not allowed here.
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Jan 29, 2020 12:17
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That center “lane” appears to have diagonal yellow stripes in it, so probably not its intended purpose but is instead to accommodate a lane/road taper in one direction, or the left turn lane at the signal in the other direction. I think each state can develop its own standards as long as they comply with federal MUTCD. I’m not a traffic engineer. In California you are allow to cross over double yellows to make a left turn, unless it’s two sets more than 2 feet apart from each other.
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Jan 29, 2020 16:23
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The suicide lane *should* be half dashed on either side once its "open" and that can lead to some weird confusion if you try to interpret it with normal lane marking rules. Here's an example from FL: 
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Jan 29, 2020 16:32
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CornHolio posted:If you look, there's left turn arrows painted on the road in that lane. I believe here in Indiana they're explicitly for left turns only, not for turning into and using to merge. I could be wrong though. We have the same lanes here, and they're used for merging with traffic all the time. It's the only way to make a left turn on a lot of roads here. I routinely turn left into them, stop, and wait for an opening. You're not meant to use it as an on-ramp, just wait until there's a gap to merge into, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Jan 29, 2020 19:09
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CornHolio posted:This is the best I have at the moment. Jerk very slowly turned left in front of traffic and got in the center turn lane to merge (which you're not supposed to do). Caused multiple cars in heavy traffic to brake hard. What? This is exactly what you're supposed to do...
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Jan 30, 2020 18:26
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Laws regarding using the center turn lane for merging varies from state to state.
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Jan 30, 2020 19:25
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Laws regarding using the center turn lane for merging varies from state to state. Big part of why I was so confused/alarmed when I saw people doing it here in Illinois, I'd never seen it before and had to assume they were gonna sideswipe right into me. I get it, you're never gonna find an appropriate gap in both the eastbound & westbound lanes at the same time, so you've gotta barge into the center when eastbound clears and wait for a gap westbound. This is a perfect situation for roundabouts though, even if every intersection doesn't have them. Right-turns only at all 2-way intersections, then cruise to the next roundabout and do your U-turn to get going the direction you need.
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Jan 30, 2020 20:44
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I don't tend to use the center lane like that, but people do it, whatever, what makes it dumb is when they drive in the lane and try and match traffic speed and not just stop and wait for an opening.
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Jan 30, 2020 22:28
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Rusty posted:what makes it dumb is when they drive in the lane and try and match traffic speed and not just stop and wait for an opening. I'm pretty sure that every state that allows you to turn into it specifically prohibits this type of behavior.
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Jan 30, 2020 22:40
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NoWake posted:Big part of why I was so confused/alarmed when I saw people doing it here in Illinois, I'd never seen it before and had to assume they were gonna sideswipe right into me. This sounds like you grew up with Mayberry levels of traffic. That would be a goddamned nightmare here. Edit: Actually thanks to construction it's pretty much how a good section of a major road here is right now, and it is in fact a nightmare. Most of us seems to prefer parking on the highway fighting THAT construction instead.
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Jan 31, 2020 09:29
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Dog on Fire posted:What's the rule there btw? You both have a stop sign and you're turning left – I'd also assume you'd have to yield to them. If we had arrived simultaneously then yes. My understanding in Texas is that it's first-in-first-out. In my clip I got there just after two oncoming cars, so I stop until they both go, then I go. While I was turning another oncoming car behind the first two also decides to drive forward, hence my issue. Got another one last night, what I get for driving through sketchy parts of town at 2am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVZQ_pbj1bE It's obvious in the dashcam, but the 3rd car was right behind my A column until they were almost in front of me. The extra honking was about half and half 'gently caress this guy' and 'please car behind me notice me senpai and also stop'. Also I really need to wipe down the inside of my windshield. And yeah I'm always a little nervous using center turn lanes to step across big roads, but when the alternative is to wait for both directions to clear up at the same time sometimes you just gotta take the gap.
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Feb 2, 2020 02:37
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Check this guy out.  edit: here's an imgur link in case that isn't loading. Toe Rag fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Feb 7, 2020 03:58
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How do you not hear that?
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Feb 7, 2020 04:03
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flakeloaf posted:How do you not hear that?
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Feb 7, 2020 15:16
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Just a few things from the last few months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kTeHvXZXMk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlE0i2bSKuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvdrQbuE2RY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THvUx04tJjw
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Feb 7, 2020 16:31
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wolrah posted:Dunno about you, but I know a number of people whose solution to their car making a bad noise is to turn up the radio. Whereas I turn the radio down and yell at my passengers to shut the gently caress up.
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Feb 7, 2020 20:09
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TotalLossBrain posted:Whereas I turn the radio down and yell at my passengers to shut the gently caress up. "What? What's going on?" "My car made a noise, dammit!" Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Feb 7, 2020 22:24
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So it seems my dashcam is about ready to go. It will still write video files when it reaches the time limit I set for file length and rolls over to a new file, but any file that isn't the full size (i.e. I turn the car off in the 'middle' of a file) then it gets corrupted and no video player can render it, despite them all having appropriate file sizes. Obviously this is a pretty fatal flaw for a dashcam, so I need a new one pretty quick. Are there any obvious caveats between the AUKEY 1080P for $75, the A119v2 for $95 and the A119v3 for $120? Is the AUKEY somehow better than the other two, or did they screw something up with the A119 between v2 and v3?
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Feb 11, 2020 01:49
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072FGL63X/?pldnSite=1 How long would a camera similar to that last on a portable charger like this one? My work truck just plain doesn't have a 12/24V socket to plug into.
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Feb 11, 2020 22:10
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072FGL63X/?pldnSite=1 Is your work truck your property? I'd recommend you wire in a USB power source to the fuse box before relying on one of those for a dashcam.
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Feb 11, 2020 22:19
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Beach Bum posted:Is your work truck your property? I'd recommend you wire in a USB power source to the fuse box before relying on one of those for a dashcam. It isn't, and there's a decent chance that if I asked (again) for the port to be fixed, they'd just remove something else instead and tell me it's fixed. Thanks for the answer, though.
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Feb 11, 2020 22:22
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Admiral Joeslop posted:It isn't, and there's a decent chance that if I asked (again) for the port to be fixed, they'd just remove something else instead and tell me it's fixed. Thanks for the answer, though. My bad. It ought to run it no problem. Dashcamtalk posts seem to say a couple watts for consumption, so napkin math at 5v says like 12h on a 5Ah battery. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Feb 11, 2020 22:29
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072FGL63X/?pldnSite=1 How handy are you? You can run a wire directly to the battery with a $20 fused install kit. Easy to mount and easy to remove.
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Feb 11, 2020 23:07
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You undoubtedly already have a mobile phone anyway - why not get a power bank that doesn't have a built in charger? It'll be a bit cheaper per mAh. I think I paid $30 for my Aukey 10000 mAh, with two USB A ports and one USB C port. One USB A port has Qualcomm Quick Charge, the USB C port supports Power Delivery - so you have the two major quick charging standards handy for your phone, and it'll still crank out 1 - 1.5 amps on the regular port for your dashcam. Downside is when you decide to get a Chinese phone that uses VOOP for its fast charging standard (hello OnePlus, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc - guess who's rocking a OnePlus these days  ). That particular pack can be charged either via USB C or a micro USB port.
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Beach Bum posted:My bad. It ought to run it no problem. Oh, sorry if I seemed dismissive or anything, I was genuine in my response. 12h is way more than I would need so that might work! Nitrox posted:How handy are you? You can run a wire directly to the battery with a $20 fused install kit. Easy to mount and easy to remove. I could probably figure it out but no way in hell I'm touching anything in that truck, for various reasons. STR posted:You undoubtedly already have a mobile phone anyway - why not get a power bank that doesn't have a built in charger? It'll be a bit cheaper per mAh. Because I already own that specific charger  . I use it for my phone since I'm missing that power port.Ideally, I would be able to get a second (unless it comes with a second?) attachment pad so I could move the cam from my work truck to my car depending on what I'm driving.
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