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Lord Stimperor posted:Do you guys feel that your driving changed after getting a cam? If I see dash cam vids on YouTube, I often have the feeling that cam drivers are much more aggressive and even let accidents happen rather than, say, make room for someone who did something wrong
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Nitrox posted:My driving mellowed out with age, dashcam or not. But even when driving an overpriced clunker with way too much insurance on it, I couldn't bring myself to stay the course and let some red-light-running rear end in a top hat crash into my quarter panel. As much as I regret not letting that accident happen, the instincts took over, and I violently swerved out of his way at the last second. Fucker must have been drunk or high, looked right through me with a thousand yard stare. It's easy to say "let accidents happen" until you looking at 2 tons of steel and stupidity heading in your direction. I've got a really hosed up shoulder from t-boning someone at 40 in my Subaru. My car did burst into flames, which was kinda cool. But jfc, why would anyone want that purposefully. loving idiots. To vindicate your red light runner, yesterday I was at a light in the left lane and a cop was next to me in the straight/right lane. Someone ran the light just as ours went green. I looked over at the cop, we made eye contact, he shook his head and started laughing... Then flipped all the "lol you're an idiot" switches. It was gold.
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From the gif thread: "What a loving rear end in a top hat" indeed.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:From the gif thread: That escalated pretty quickly.
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Catching up, so replying to older posts...JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Welcome to Dallas, worst highway system and suburban sprawl outside of Houston! Allow me to present Exhibit A - I-35 in central Austin. I spent 20 years in DFW (most of it driving for a living), coming up on 5 months in Austin. 35 in central sends me into an eye twitching, foaming at the mouth rage no matter what time of day it is. The rest of the highways are a clusterfuck during rush hour too (and I'm pretty sure I'd never seen that shade of red on Google Maps before), but rush hour here is an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours... instead of 3pm-7pm.  But goddamn do I agree on the suburban sprawl... I was so used to driving 45 minutes just to get to a doctor's appointment or really do anything aside from grocery shopping (which was still a 15+ minute drive). I'm on a road that's nothing but apartments in a suburb of Austin, and I'm right at a mile away from two different grocery stores (Randall's, aka Tom Thumb in DFW, and H-E-B). Easily walkable. Heners_UK posted:High Endurance cards, such as this one, are generally considered the go to for constant record systems like dashcams and security cams: Silicon Power warranties their cards for dashcam use, but only makes high endurance cards up to 64GB. They're significantly cheaper than SanDisk and Transcend high endurance cards.
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Dec 18, 2018 09:28
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Megillah Gorilla posted:From the gif thread: That dude is about to have an insurance nightmare
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That's exactly why police shouldn't pursue fleeing vehicles on the road. Either use a helicopter or just get a plate number and track down the rear end in a top hat later. There's no good reason to put the public at risk, short of the guy being a spree killer with a gun or something.
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Dec 18, 2018 13:50
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Yeah but cops don’t chase their own.
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Dec 18, 2018 13:52
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Beach Bum posted:That dude is about to have an insurance nightmare Better hope he has collision coverage because nobody else will pay for it.
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Dec 18, 2018 15:02
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STR posted:Silicon Power warranties their cards for dashcam use, but only makes high endurance cards up to 64GB. They're significantly cheaper than SanDisk and Transcend high endurance cards. Flash storage has always worn out, and the way to make a card last longer is to include more storage than directly exposed to spread out the wear. A 64GB high endurance card might have 128GB or more of real storage, so making a high endurance card with even more capacity might go too far out of what anyone wants to spend.
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Dec 18, 2018 15:06
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Better hope he has collision coverage because nobody else will pay for it. If police were liable for the entirely foreseeable results of their dumbshittery, maybe they'd do less dumb poo poo.
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PT6A posted:If police were liable for the entirely foreseeable results of their dumbshittery, maybe they'd do less dumb poo poo. Yeah, as far as that goes the cop who ordered the spike strip laid out and every other cop who was there and capable of stopping it from being laid out should get sued. The simple fact that the video shows they themselves ran behind the guiderail as they knew of the danger yet instructed the civilians to remain in their cars is proof positive that they knew this was a lovely idea and were cool with civilian injuries and possible casualties to get the fleeing suspect. It’s a loving disgrace. Everyone that was pulled aside for that shitshow needs to get a lawyer, pronto.
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Ripoff posted:Yeah, as far as that goes the cop who ordered the spike strip laid out and every other cop who was there and capable of stopping it from being laid out should get sued. Reality: officers have their qualified immunity upheld in court, and damages are paid out by a taxpayer-funded insurance policy that does not impact the department at all - assuming they even accept that much responsibility. Like any other stupid decision made by the police that results in property damage and/or injury to bystanders they'll blame it on the suspect.
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Dec 18, 2018 21:38
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Sovereign immunity is a hell of a thing.
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Lots of departments self-insure. It doesn't relate specifically to this, but I know of some officers (due to my public defender days) who were taken off patrol due to having cost the department way too much money (normally excessive force, but not always), so it can have an impact.
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nm posted:Lots of departments self-insure. Have you ever seen one where paying out a claim or damages meant they had to cut something else from the budget?
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nm posted:Lots of departments self-insure. It’s interesting to read the police monitor reports. Tons of at fault accidents by officers, almost never in the course of an active pursuit. Just bad driving. Lot of DUIs, PIs, and sadly domestic stuff as well.
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Dec 18, 2018 21:46
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Geoj posted:Have you ever seen one where paying out a claim or damages meant they had to cut something else from the budget? I mean, they're not going to say "because we lost this lawsuit, not helicopter" but the aggregate would have an impact the higher ups would notice, and poo poo rolls downhill. Bigger departments don't have pursuit policies only because they think it is a good idea morally. Sueing is one of the few things that gets results.
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Geoj posted:Like any other stupid decision made by the police that results in property damage and/or injury to bystanders they'll blame it on the suspect. Crosspost from the OSHA thread: Malek posted:Here's the police statement
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NoWake posted:Crosspost from the OSHA thread: actually, sir, you see, when you swerved to avoid the deer you commanded the car to go into the ditch, so the accident is determined to be your fault. if you had struck the deer then you would be covered. this case is closed, thank you for being a customer this is how insurance really works, at least for some companies
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Sagebrush posted:actually, sir, you see, when you swerved to avoid the deer you commanded the car to go into the ditch, so the accident is determined to be your fault. if you had struck the deer then Fixed.
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Dec 19, 2018 00:29
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Not only is hitting wildlife covered; it's covered under your comprehensive (if you have it). Hitting humans, however, is considered a collision claim.
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Sagebrush posted:actually, sir, you see, when you swerved to avoid the deer you commanded the car to go into the ditch, so the accident is determined to be your fault. if you had struck the deer then you would be covered. this case is closed, thank you for being a customer It’s because comprehensive coverage is a defined list of perils vs a collision loss which is a broad coverage. Also every moron would just claim they were avoiding a deer when they bin their STI into a ditch.
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Also, the US has made being litigious such a dirty word, no one will even talk to a lawyer unless they lost a limb or something.
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nm posted:Also, the US has made being litigious such a dirty word, no one will even talk to a lawyer unless they lost a limb or something. Yup. I have to tell people to lawyer up all the time. "Naw man, I don't wanna do all that" okay then bud you can kiss that $1000 goodbye because he won't pay you unless you make him pay your lawyer too. Then again, I was raised by a pack of lawyers, took my own brother to small claims over $800, and currently have two open cases for $100 and $300. I needs my money dammit
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Beach Bum posted:Yup. I have to tell people to lawyer up all the time. My favorite was a driver was going down rural highway, it intersected another road where the cross traffic had a stop sign. The cross traffic ran the stop sign and hit the driver on the high, insurance first denied the claim stating the driver on the highway didn't take evasive action by hitting their brakes. Pictures of the skid marks were sent to show the driver had in fact tried to brake, and the insurance company replied that they were at faulf because if they didn't hit their brakes they would have cleared the intersection before the cross traffic ran the stop sign. Bottom line is most claims under a few thousand are not worth enough to hire a lawyer. For a larger claim, the insurance company will try to outspend you until you drop the case because they don't want a blemish on their record for being successfully sued.
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Crotch Fruit posted:if they didn't hit their brakes they would have cleared the intersection before the cross traffic ran the stop sign  Time only works like that in a Delorean.
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nm posted:Also, the US has made being litigious such a dirty word, no one will even talk to a lawyer unless they lost a limb or something. You've obviously never been to Maryland.
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Beach Bum posted:Yup. I have to tell people to lawyer up all the time. "Naw man, I don't wanna do all that" okay then bud you can kiss that $1000 goodbye because he won't pay you unless you make him pay your lawyer too. It cannot possibly be worth the time and hassle of small claims for $100. Why not just mail your avdesary a box of dog poop and move on with your life?
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SlapActionJackson posted:It cannot possibly be worth the time and hassle of small claims for $100. Why not just mail your avdesary a box of dog poop and move on with your life?
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stevewm posted:Can someone recommend a 12v to 5v hardwire power adapter that doesn't blast out a bunch of EMI? A bit late to this, but I've used these in combination with fuse taps without any issues. It has a female USB port on it, so you can use the appropriate length USB-A to Mini or Micro USB cable to connect to the dashcam.
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Thanks for your input. I guess looking at Dashcams on YouTube just gives you a really biased sample, of people who're narcissistic enough to seek out dangerous situations for internet points. I was wondering because I wanna get a cam myself but I don't wanna become one of those YouTube assholes who sees a hazard a mile away and then barges into it because they have on camera that they were in the right.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Thanks for your input. I guess looking at Dashcams on YouTube just gives you a really biased sample, of people who're narcissistic enough to seek out dangerous situations for internet points. I'd say that the dashcam assholes you are seeing are simply the people who, without cameras, would be winding down their windows and hurling abuse at people 2-3 times per week. If you get a cam, you get excited for the first 2-3 weeks and it rapidly dwindles once you realise how mundane your daily drive is. I forget I have one most of the time.
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I recorded this with my dash cam a couple weeks ago and the main reason I pulled the chip was I was semi-curious if it still worked. https://mm.bonzoesc.net/media_attachments/files/000/211/272/original/5d233e010eeaf269.mp4
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It's ... a mobile crane. What exactly are we supposed to be looking at that's so interesting?
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Apologies for the reflection, but... medians are hard, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9B_yfYHjjQ
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My girlfriend (am I supposed to capitalize that still?) got me a Crosstour CR300 cam for Christmas. It's a fairly generic Chinese rig, but I'm tickled as hell that she even thought to get me one in the first place since I've only mentioned picking one up a couple of times offhand. She's pretty drat awesome. The weather's gonna have to warm up some before I install it though, it's loving cold out there and my garage isn't heated.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPGvDPLHX8
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That's quite impressive 
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