Dashcam Thread: Yes I ran the red light pretty badly, but

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no_tears: Dec 20, 2020; Bing Bong

Man, I really need to get around to buying a cam that comes with rear view one as well. Especially now that the roads are slick

# ? Nov 12, 2021 06:56

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Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

https://twitter.com/swe6i_/status/1458822234231951376?s=20

# ? Nov 12, 2021 17:34

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Baghdad Drift :rice:

This morning an actual seemingly out of control red light runner, and later on a bonus group bullying of a semi trailer. Luckily he was able to just lay on his horn and force his way across two lanes of heavy traffic to not miss his exit, being spitefully occupied by those bastard cars driving in his way :argh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTorMK75Ns

# ? Nov 15, 2021 05:28

BIG HEADLINE: Jun 13, 2006; "Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

I've been seeing way more people just flip a bitch wherever they like and try to turn from active lanes of traffic across other active lanes at places where that's completely illegal. Like, I've been driving for nearly 25 years and it's never been this bad. It's like no one has any impulse control anymore.

If it wouldn't be a crippling expense and massive drain on the system to most people I'd mandate everyone have to take a road test again at their next license renewal. I think COVID has gone HAM on people's squash and melted the part that prevented people from doing extremely stupid poo poo.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Nov 15, 2021

# ? Nov 15, 2021 06:11

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Big same

Did a year of quarantine cause us to skip over a generation of driving exams or something? And now there's an entire crop of kids with even less driving instruction than the paltry amount they usually get in the US?

My gently caress You Learn to Drive^TM fantasy is to make everyone drive a stick for their first year. At least its harder to dick around on a phone that way.

# ? Nov 15, 2021 07:18

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

Hope this one is exciting enough for this esteemed forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIP3Mqi7F0

# ? Nov 18, 2021 08:59

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

That's a real one-two punch there :stare:

At least the plate is clearly visible as they flee the scene :cop:

# ? Nov 18, 2021 10:16

Major Isoor: Mar 23, 2011

Cartoon posted:

Hope this one is exciting enough for this esteemed forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIP3Mqi7F0

Wow! I was expecting them to just bolt, but hitting the dashcam car too?! hahaha so bad - at least they're sure to get what's coming to 'em, with their plates being nicely captured

# ? Nov 19, 2021 06:56

Nitrox: Jul 5, 2002

https://i.imgur.com/ieRO23z.mp4

Not technically a dashcam, but just as entertaining!

# ? Nov 19, 2021 17:12

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

This used to be a weekly occurrence when I lived in NJ, but now I've only seen about 3 deer in the last 6 years.

https://i.imgur.com/l2ilU1o.mp4

FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Nov 23, 2021

# ? Nov 23, 2021 15:19

Hypnolobster: Apr 12, 2007; What this sausage party needs is a big dollop of ketchup! Too bad I didn't make any.

Hypnolobster posted:

Got the Garmin Mini 2 and I'm super happy with it. Super small, no glitchy problems, app works really well. I'm going to buy two more for my other cars. It's tempting having a rear camera but I think this is good enough for the moment.
I sincerely hope I never post any footage from it here

Update:

https://i.imgur.com/ckR9MgH.mp4
do imgur video embeds work?

e: apparently yes!

# ? Nov 24, 2021 02:21

Godzilla07: Oct 4, 2008

Instead of using the left turn lane to make a left turn, this driver turned right to turn left

https://i.imgur.com/4ZkHkch.mp4

The Mercedes driver was behind the Trailblazer driver, and did not want to wait to turn left

https://i.imgur.com/V5Gt0hU.mp4

# ? Nov 24, 2021 03:59

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

This is from the $30 70mai cam I posted above earlier. Even downscaled it's visibly not great in terms of IQ but definitely good enough for the purpose. As I suspected, driving just 50km today was sufficient to collect some material!

1st clip is something I complained about but what doesn't seem to be a common issue elsewhere. Some impatient morons try to overtake a car that's merging in front of them, thus making it dangerous for them to complete the merge and potentially endangering the cars already on the road. As we can see in the second clip later today.

https://i.imgur.com/lvghCgx.mp4

The last one is bonus material, I was stuck behind the truck and had to wait until the BMW flew by before taking the exit, when that guy had to make sure he didn't miss his exit.

# ? Nov 24, 2021 23:10

Krakkles: May 5, 2003

I don't see anything wrong with the first clip - as long as you're checking that the lanes are clear (I.e., don't do what someone almost did in the second clip) and you give it the beans, that's a perfect valid move.

I see much more of an issue with people merging below the speed of traffic, aka the van/car in front of the black car in the second clip.

# ? Nov 24, 2021 23:16

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Krakkles posted:

I don't see anything wrong with the first clip - as long as you're checking that the lanes are clear (I.e., don't do what someone almost did in the second clip) and you give it the beans, that's a perfect valid move.

I see much more of an issue with people merging below the speed of traffic, aka the van/car in front of the black car in the second clip.

First guy drives right over a solid line. People merging way below the speed of traffic is a huge problem, but that guy is still an rear end in a top hat.

mobby_6kl posted:

1st clip is something I complained about but what doesn't seem to be a common issue elsewhere. Some impatient morons try to overtake a car that's merging in front of them, thus making it dangerous for them to complete the merge and potentially endangering the cars already on the road.

It is very definitely also a problem in North America.

# ? Nov 25, 2021 00:45

Krakkles: May 5, 2003

PittTheElder posted:

First guy drives right over a solid line. People merging way below the speed of traffic is a huge problem, but that guy is still an rear end in a top hat.

Oh no, not a solid line!

I'm all for obedience to lane markings when they matter. The line exists to encourage people to speed up before merging into traffic. There was no traffic (and again, I'm basing my ok-ness with this on the idea that the driver actually looked and validated this, which ... we'll never know), and they sped up. Sounds like they did the needful.

# ? Nov 25, 2021 01:10

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

It�s legal to cross single solid white lines.

# ? Nov 25, 2021 03:49

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Not to pass or change lanes though, unless there's some difference between Canada and wherever you/the OP lives.

And yeah here the consequences are nil, but it's still a pointlessly aggressive manoeuvre that could have been executed better all of three seconds later. It's the lack of any patience that's galling.

Rules of the road are important because it makes trajectories predictable, which is important for safety :shrug:

E: to cap it all off that guy is like barely over taking lol

PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Nov 25, 2021

# ? Nov 25, 2021 04:07

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

bird with big dick posted:

It�s legal to cross single solid white lines.

Every anglo who's ever driven in Quebec just winced a little

# ? Nov 25, 2021 06:09

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

I don�t know where you live or the OP lives but it�s legal in the US.

# ? Nov 25, 2021 06:39

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Dragonstoned posted:

https://i.imgur.com/XrpS5ZL.mp4

sound for the dashcam owners reaction lol

# ? Nov 25, 2021 07:30

NFX: Jun 2, 2008; Fun Shoe

Based on the traffic sign for Plzen imma guess that OP was driving in Czechia :v:

So US rules don't apply.
Here in Denmark crossing those solid lines would be illegal, and yellow lines are only used for temporary road markings (during construction etc.), in which case they supersede white lines. With all the standardization going on in the EU would expect it to be similar there.

# ? Nov 25, 2021 09:04

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Yeah you're not supposed to cross the solid white line here. The first clip is obviously not the end of the world, it was just a clear example of what I meant. But I'm definitely not a fan and not because of the magic white line (I cross it too in the last clip :v:

), it just creates a more dangerous situation for no good reason:

The car darting across two lanes has a higher chance of cutting someone off (like the black bmw was about to do in the second clip)
They're likely to start passing the slow(er) merger when they already started to merge
The slow merger now has to check if the passing car cleared them completely and it could be difficult to tell at a glance if the other car is still in their lane partially
While this is happening, they can run out of merge lane, or rear-end the car in front of them (like the red van) if it had to slow down for some reason

So in conclusion, slow mergers are annoying but this isn't helping it

# ? Nov 25, 2021 11:29

Godzilla07: Oct 4, 2008

I-10 E yesterday felt like I was in another country since everyone on the road practiced correct lane discipline. Then I got on I-75 S, and was transported back into hell.

Here's a textbook example of why you have to keep your head on a swivel when driving in Florida. The white-haired Lexus driver has become a rolling roadblock since they've parked themselves in the left lane at 10 MPH under the pace of the left lane. The Kia Soul driver can only see exactly 1 car in front of them, and cannot see the semi clearly indicating that they want to merge left.

https://i.imgur.com/ZRp5kPx.mp4

Someone took creative inspiration from track limits in F1:

https://i.imgur.com/uYvopkr.mp4

# ? Nov 28, 2021 14:21

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

What are yall's thoughts on playing a nice song for people while you admonish them for driving like sociopaths? I'm all about that Terminator 2 theme myself :awesomelon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yne2O5RtoxY

# ? Nov 30, 2021 23:17

Flint Ironstag: Apr 2, 2004; Bob Johnson...oh, wait

Takes No Damage posted:

What are yall's thoughts on playing a nice song for people while you admonish them for driving like sociopaths? I'm all about that Terminator 2 theme myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yne2O5RtoxY

I have seen that car IRL. Yeah, sociopath is a good word.

# ? Dec 3, 2021 20:27

Snazzy Frocks: Mar 31, 2003; Scratchmo

Does audio take up a lot of space or not really. I just got a Garmin dc 67w and I've kept it off for a while. It's got voice commands to turn it on and off as needed so I figured I'd there was a reason to turn it on I could do that

# ? Dec 17, 2021 19:38

Nitrox: Jul 5, 2002

Snazzy Frocks posted:

Does audio take up a lot of space or not really. I just got a Garmin dc 67w and I've kept it off for a while. It's got voice commands to turn it on and off as needed so I figured I'd there was a reason to turn it on I could do that

Turn it on and compare to existing video files?

# ? Dec 17, 2021 19:47

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Audio is maybe like a megabyte a minute? Negligible for 1080p video. I just have it off so it's not recording my criminal conspiracies.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 20:17

StormDrain: May 22, 2003; Thirteen Letter

mobby_6kl posted:

Audio is maybe like a megabyte a minute? Negligible for 1080p video. I just have it off so it's not recording my criminal conspiracies.

I have it on so I can narrate when I see something stupid but it's probably more likely that I'll incriminate myself.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 20:31

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

I can think of very few reasons why it would be beneficial to have your dash cam audio recorded, I turned mine off and I�m glad I did I don�t want a defense attorney listening to a million hours of my wife and friends and I talking about stupid poo poo not do I care to listen to my own post accident injury whimpering.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 20:32

Bondematt: Jan 26, 2007; Not too stupid

StormDrain posted:

I have it on so I can narrate when I see something stupid but it's probably more likely that I'll incriminate myself.

I keep it on in case I need to read a license plate.

Also for admissible evidence against me in any trial.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 20:33

opengl: Sep 16, 2010

Bondematt posted:

I keep it on in case I need to read a license plate.

This is the only reason I have mine on, plates don't become readable on camera until much closer than you can make them out by eye.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 20:37

Kilonum: Sep 30, 2002; You know where you are? You're in the suburbs, baby. You're gonna drive.

I keep it off because lol two party consent state

# ? Dec 18, 2021 03:48

Nitrox: Jul 5, 2002

Kilonum posted:

I keep it off because lol two party consent state

You might want to look up what it actually means

# ? Dec 18, 2021 05:06

Leperflesh: May 17, 2007

I leave audio on but say "I do not consent to being recorded" every five minutes while I drive, so that the audio won't be admissable

I'm sure that's how the law works

Anyway so we got a fancy new(ish) car, a VW Tiguan SEL and it has a backup camera that is pretty great. If I buy a dashcam, is there one that can tie into the stock rear cam? Or is it pretty much necessary to install a second rear camera to continuously record video?

# ? Dec 18, 2021 08:00

SlowBloke: Aug 14, 2017

Leperflesh posted:

Anyway so we got a fancy new(ish) car, a VW Tiguan SEL and it has a backup camera that is pretty great. If I buy a dashcam, is there one that can tie into the stock rear cam? Or is it pretty much necessary to install a second rear camera to continuously record video?

If the rear cam doesn�t communicate via canbus you can split and duplicate the wiring to the head unit and the recorders, if it does talk via canbus you are better off adding a second one.

# ? Dec 18, 2021 09:10

Deeters: Aug 21, 2007

https://i.imgur.com/w6eVw1n.mp4

My wife caught a good one on her dashcam. Apparently the red car had been tailgating her for a while, so she assumed they'd do something dumb. The people who got hit were very happy she stopped to give them the video because the red car tried to lie to the cop about whose fault it was (or had 0 idea about how roundabouts work)

# ? Dec 18, 2021 14:20

Kia Soul Enthusias: May 9, 2004; zoom-zoom; Toilet Rascal

but....but..... they just drove into the side of them

# ? Dec 18, 2021 19:03

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chrisgt: Sep 6, 2011

Deeters posted:

https://i.imgur.com/w6eVw1n.mp4

My wife caught a good one on her dashcam. Apparently the red car had been tailgating her for a while, so she assumed they'd do something dumb. The people who got hit were very happy she stopped to give them the video because the red car tried to lie to the cop about whose fault it was (or had 0 idea about how roundabouts work)

Maine handicap license plate... Of course they don't know how a round-about works.

# ? Dec 18, 2021 20:06

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