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Sagebrush posted:ironically, the people who get the most upset about children possibly hearing ~~~~the f-word~~~~ are also the ones who drop terms like "towelhead" or "wetback" or worse in front of their kids all day long I see you've met my mother and stepfather. melon cat posted:Hope this is cool to post up here- I got my hands on the new Street Guardian SGGCX2PRO dashcam and put together a really exhaustive review on it. Low light footage testing, extreme weather test performance included. Can I be Taro in the next video?  (kidding... mostly)
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Feb 14, 2019 09:04
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Nitrox posted:Were you cursing with a child in the car? Yep, and she agreed with my assessment.
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Feb 14, 2019 14:28
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melon cat posted:Hope this is cool to post up here- I got my hands on the new Street Guardian SGGCX2PRO dashcam and put together a really exhaustive review on it. Low light footage testing, extreme weather test performance included. Thanks for this. I've been looking for a good camera for my car. It's Aus$300 here which isn't too bad either. So, it works in -40°C? Great, now I just need to find out how it handles +40°C. Well, it would actually need to be more like +70°C, because cars are ovens if you leave them in the sun.
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Feb 14, 2019 14:47
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Thanks for this. I've been looking for a good camera for my car. It's Aus$300 here which isn't too bad either. STR posted:Can I be Taro in the next video? 
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Feb 15, 2019 00:41
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Thanks for this. I've been looking for a good camera for my car. It's Aus$300 here which isn't too bad either. I've had the Viofo A119S for almost 2 years without problem, parked daily in the sun. the device itself is usually fine, its the lithium batteries some models have that cant handle the heat. anything with super capacitors is fine.
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Feb 15, 2019 05:08
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Tesla built in dashcams are proving to be pretty cool https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-dashcam-model-3-instant-karma-video/amp/#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s
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Feb 18, 2019 11:00
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Late to semi trailer chat, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaqru5ScGI At least the first guy indicated he was about to try and murder me. I thought Canadians were supposed to be polite 
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Feb 20, 2019 01:31
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Takes No Damage posted:Late to semi trailer chat, but The first event was really a nothing matter but then it just kept going.
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Feb 20, 2019 16:46
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Look at these awesome deer playing in the road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PlD-c4-drc&t=26s
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Feb 23, 2019 03:30
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dexter6 posted:Look at these awesome deer playing in the road That seems a bit hot out for snow on the ground.
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Feb 23, 2019 04:17
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Oof that's a really low bitrate. Please tell me that's on YouTube's end.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:47
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Charles posted:Oof that's a really low bitrate. Please tell me that's on YouTube's end.
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Feb 23, 2019 17:00
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Takes No Damage posted:Late to semi trailer chat, but You need to come commute in Miami.
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Feb 23, 2019 22:06
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MrYenko posted:You need to come commute in Miami. I'm working hard enough keeping all the paint on my own car in this city TYVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJEgIu6NHsw I saw them creeping on the other side of the bushes but still didn't expect the mad bastard to just drive through me like that 
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Feb 26, 2019 23:22
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Those are some really loving badly placed hedges. I can really see the driver look left as you were coming up, look right as you were behind the hedge, and then just go. He could probably still see you behind the hedge but obviously you'd be very obstructed. Also, lol for the other driver not even trying to stop.
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Feb 27, 2019 01:33
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That's the front of a hotel so the most charitable scenario I can come up with is some clueless lost out-of-towner staring at their GPS trying to work out our freeway system. But yeah gently caress those hedges. The turn-in to my apartment complex has a row of trees down the median, and since I'm facing them at such a sharp angle when turning left they all merge together into a solid wall of wood. Sometimes I can't even see oncoming headlights until they're close.
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Feb 27, 2019 06:51
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Apparently the point of those sorts of view obstructions is to make people slow down and drive more carefully. I contend that they only actually work when they appear to impair visibility, but do not actually do so.
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Feb 27, 2019 13:44
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Mar 13, 2019 17:59
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Did he manage to avoid hitting the pickup truck?
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Mar 13, 2019 22:00
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MomJeans420 posted:Did he manage to avoid hitting the pickup truck? I think he somehow avoided hitting anything. He straightened out and pulled off at the next exit. The CHP guy right behind me followed him off.
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Mar 13, 2019 23:51
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All things considered I think that went as well as could be expected
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Mar 14, 2019 00:07
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PT6A posted:Apparently the point of those sorts of view obstructions is to make people slow down and drive more carefully. I contend that they only actually work when they appear to impair visibility, but do not actually do so. Also the people driving down the road that the hedges are along don't give a poo poo about traffic coming from the sides, so it's just people in cars pulling out into full speed traffic with their fingers crossed. Lots of them like that in parts of Birmingham, AL, where if you're in a small car you're just plain hosed. But gosh they look so nice, think of the property values!
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Mar 15, 2019 17:13
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Man, gently caress that truck driver. They have no business in the left lane on a dry sunny day, let alone in the snow. And he was clearly following too closely for conditions.
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Mar 15, 2019 17:26
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Erwin posted:Man, gently caress that truck driver. They have no business in the left lane on a dry sunny day, let alone in the snow. And he was clearly following too closely for conditions. I agree on riding too close, however I suspect he got caught out in the left lane. I've seen that happen before. It did appear he had his hazards on, so he was trying to be smart. Just don't know why he had to ride that close. Unless everyone was being an rear end in a top hat and cutting into that space so was unable to get the distance needed.
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Mar 15, 2019 17:55
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Has anyone tried the Mobius Max yet? I installed mine yesterday, but haven't had a chance to see how the 2k footage looks yet. It beeps when the car is off which is weird. Maybe that's the capacitor slowly giving up its juice. The USB port it's plugged into isn't supposed to be powered by the car battery, so who knows.
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Mar 15, 2019 23:27
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JuffoWup posted:I agree on riding too close, however I suspect he got caught out in the left lane. I've seen that happen before. It did appear he had his hazards on, so he was trying to be smart. Just don't know why he had to ride that close. Unless everyone was being an rear end in a top hat and cutting into that space so was unable to get the distance needed. You can kind of see the plows ahead at one point. He got over in the left lane for some reason when he caught up to the pack that was trailing them and then just sat there. I don't know if he thought he'd be able to get around or something but they were doing the 3 plows across 2 lanes thing and no one was getting by. He definitely had opportunities to get back over in the right lane but never took them.
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Mar 16, 2019 00:39
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Trucks that don't follow "too close", always have an army of assholes, eager to get into the gap they leave in front. Especially in slow moving traffic
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Mar 17, 2019 11:35
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Is there a standout choice in the ~$100 price range or should I just go on Amazon and pick whatever has the design I like best?
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Mar 22, 2019 21:12
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I haven't shopped in a while but the general favorites were the A118-C or the Mobius and both were under $100. I have both and prefer the A118 It looks like the A119S is the successor to the 118 and without the GPS (don't get one with GPS) it's $90 on Amazon. https://dashcamtalk.com/a119/
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I don't know too many models, I'm a Mobius fan but it's got no screen, something some people want. Check Dashcamtalk.com, they have some decent categories. I just checked and the Viofo A119S is ~$120 and considered best all around camera by their criteria. e;f,b
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Mar 22, 2019 23:10
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The Mobius Maxi is now out, although everything seems to ship from China so expect a couple of weeks for shipping. I’m liking mine. Looks pretty slick positioned under my rear view mirror. I think it cost about $80 with the capacitor and my mount, microSD card, and USB cable added another $50.
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Ooh, now I want one! Sadly just like the Mobius 2 they flipped the drat mini-USB plug. Since I hardwired mine with a right angle plug I'll need to rewire.
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Couple of little ones. The camera distorts it a bit, these were both a lot closer than they look. In both, the front of my car was next to the rear of theirs, if I hadn't braked and in the 2nd case swerved blindly into the next lane we would have hit  Also checking out the quality since getting a bigger mem card and going back to 1080 resolution.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTtSJ6wfNXE vvv Fair, I try and anticipate stupid and actually had my eye on both those cars, that's how I was able to react as quickly as I did. The 2nd one still surprised me because I was full on halfway up his car's body when he started coming over, that wasn't an instance of not checking his blind spot well enough, that dude just didn't look at all. I always hope people will obey yield and right-of-way laws, but I never expect them to
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Mar 26, 2019 19:34
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Neither of those other drivers were in the right. However, it's highly likely that cars entering the freeway will want to change lanes and get out of the rightmost lane, and so you could have avoided the problem in the first clip by anticipating that and either slowing down or changing lanes, even before the entering car turned on his turn signal. In clip number two you drove in the other car's blind spot for awhile and he may not have seen you, and assumed you were someplace else. He should have checked better and have seen you, but you could have also either sped up or slowed down to not be in his blind spot. Craptacular fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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Mar 26, 2019 20:02
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After recognizing where this happened, I guarantee #2 knew OP was there, they were just hoping Takes No Damage would have lived up to his username so they could hit him with an ambulance chaser (and I wouldn't be surprised if they started brake checking and swerving at TnD when OP tried to pass after). That's just a lovely area in general - to live in, drive in, etc. I drove that same stretch of road multiple times a day for 2 loving years. Go a little further south to the next interstate and it's essentially a demolition derby once someone gets pissed off. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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Mar 27, 2019 08:18
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Does anyone have a backup camera recommendation? I just need the camera but most review blogs ive seen are all about the full systems with separate screens and crap. I've somewhat settled on this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M5W3243 I hate the idea of having the camera on the outside though, and I'd much rather have one that's designed to flush mount in the bumper or door
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STR posted:After recognizing where this happened, I guarantee #2 knew OP was there, they were just hoping Takes No Damage would have lived up to his username so they could hit him with an ambulance chaser (and I wouldn't be surprised if they started brake checking and swerving at TnD when OP tried to pass after). That's just a lovely area in general - to live in, drive in, etc. You talking about going down to 20? I went eastbound through that area this morning and there was a car on fire in the westbound side. When I came back through there going westbound this evening, I counted six separate accidents in the stretch between 287 and 360 where it was painfully obvious that one car was following too close to the next and just slammed into the front car in the stop and go traffic. I'm so glad that I work nights. I go against the flow of traffic during the evening rush hour and then there's barely any traffic when it's time to go home.
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Craptacular posted:In clip number two you drove in the other car's blind spot for awhile and he may not have seen you, and assumed you were someplace else. He should have checked better and have seen you, but you could have also either sped up or slowed down to not be in his blind spot. I loving hate when people hang out there. Just loving pass or don't, I don't care, but don't hang out exactly where I can't see you easily. Yeah, I might be at fault, but avoiding an accident is everyone's responsibility.
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Tex Avery posted:You talking about going down to 20? I went eastbound through that area this morning and there was a car on fire in the westbound side. When I came back through there going westbound this evening, I counted six separate accidents in the stretch between 287 and 360 where it was painfully obvious that one car was following too close to the next and just slammed into the front car in the stop and go traffic. Yup, just didn't know if you wanted me to out the highway you were on.  I've been hit once by someone not checking their mirrors on that same stretch of 30 (pretty much right at the Beckley sign you drove under IIRC), and their insurance kept insisting that I merged into them (from what, the shoulder? I was in the right lane when they cut across 2 lanes trying to make an exit - my insurance finally got them to agree to accept responsibility after almost a year), and I've seen so many loving road ragers through that area.I was usually driving against rush hour too (usually worked 4pm-11pm in Dallas, but lived almost in Rockwall), but 30 is still hosed no matter what direction you're going, especially around downtown. I particularly do not miss the zipper HOV lane; that was probably a great idea on paper in the 80s, but in practice it just fucks traffic even more when everyone's trying to dodge the zipper truck (whatever the gently caress it's really called). 20 between 35 and 635 just needs to be nuked from orbit. But I say the same thing about 35 now that I'm in Austin - everything between Oltorf and Airport on 35 is hosed. And during rush hour, 35 is just hosed completely all the way from Kyle to Georgetown. Somehow Austin also has both a 183 and 360... and they both intersect, just like in DFW - but they're different types of highways. But now that I'm used to the Austin version of those highways, I'd probably be completely lost if I tried to drive on them in DFW again, even though I've driven tens of thousands of miles on the DFW versions. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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