Dash cameras: good idea or paranoia

[*insertusernamehere*]

I'll have to disagree with Ryan too. Especially in this area. The left lane, like Polen said, is for people continuing through and turning left. The right lane is cluttered with all the people turning off and people pulling into traffic very stop and go, that's not lane to drive in. I get what you're saying about "silent understood rules" and the one you're trying to say should be followed here doesn't exist. It's simply just not for this area, this ain't big open suburbs with low traffic. It's congested small streets.

[Sijray21]

The law doesn't apply to fine you, no. General driving etiquette I feel should still apply.. It's like people who don't use turn signals or any other crap that always happens out there now-a-days that's not particularly "fine worthy" but is still done but shouldn't be...

Very few roads within Nova are completely possible to adhere to this.

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I can only think of a few and even those have caviats and plenty of left-sided exits and entrances... (mildly irritating)

RT 28, FFx Parkway, I-66, I-495, RT1, GW parkway, Dulles toll road

[rherold9]

[ScottyB]

I love the interview at the end of this video: https://abc13.com/uber-driver-shoots-and...m/4090800/

got 4 words into reading the title and won a bet with myself

[Apoc]

I love the interview at the end of this video: https://abc13.com/uber-driver-shoots-and...m/4090800/

got 4 words into reading the title and won a bet with myself

Florida?

[ScottyB]

I love the interview at the end of this video: https://abc13.com/uber-driver-shoots-and...m/4090800/

got 4 words into reading the title and won a bet with myself

Florida?

if its a crazy news article, the odds are at least 50% that its "Florida Man" or associated with Florida.  my guess was right.

[rherold9]

you can take your "opinion" and "etiquitte" and put it up yer butt.

And you can take yours and suffocate on your gouch

[Ryan T]

I love the interview at the end of this video: https://abc13.com/uber-driver-shoots-and...m/4090800/

got 4 words into reading the title and won a bet with myself

Florida?

if its a crazy news article, the odds are at least 50% that its "Florida Man" or associated with Florida.  my guess was right.

I don't blame that driver. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[CaptainHenreh]

you can take your "opinion" and "etiquitte" and put it up yer butt.

And you can take yours and suffocate on your gouch

My what now?

[rherold9]

My what now?

Exactly

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[ScottyB]

you guys may complain about traffic but this is every day for me.  

dread it, run from it, geriatrics still think they should drive


its sped up 300% but this was 30mph in a 45.  wandering all over.  i passed them right after the GIF ends and, completely predictably, 2 old ladies who can barely see over the dash.

[Senor_Taylor]

Drop a gear and pass on the apron.

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[ScottyB]

watch as an elderly man struggles to navigate a decreasing radius on-ramp without spilling his metamucil shake



speaking of which, this is my favorite place to surprise hotshots in muscle cars that try to embarrass me if i'm behind them at the start of the ramp.  they come up waaaay early on the turn in, panic, and i'm coasting on their bumper by the time it straightens out, every time.

[Kaan]

poorly executed double apex

[rherold9]

He'd been off track in oak tree at VIR

[Sijray21]

so what are people actually using for Dash Cams for the moment?

I've been looking at systems that have front and rear facing cameras that can hardwire into the fusebox, but not sure if there are simpler ways to do it. I don't want wires everywhere, so i'll be hiding most of them and want something that turns on/off with the vehicle (so no Go-Pros and the like).

[ScottyB]

Jay my personal limit is $100 for a camera and i've had pretty decent luck with whatever's on Amazon.  Currently using the SpyTec A118C which has US support unlike a lot of the chinacams.  i like that that particular cam design has been around a long time now so the formfactor is easy to hide, pretty bug proof, and it uses an internal capacitor for its own power when the car's off that withstands interior heat better.  its not the latest or greatest but clear enough you can read plates pretty easily at reasonable distances and i didn't want GPS tracking for my own liability reasons (not that i ever don't behave obviously).  you can set it to run full time, awaken when it feels a bump triggered by a g-sensor, or fully off when the car's off.  we have it set to the latter. given your track record you might want to g sensor setting for when the scumbags find your honda...

for memory i'm using Samsung EVO 32GB Class 10 micro SDHC cards in both our cars, together with the cams they have withstood really high interior temps in the summer months down here reliably.  I still get a new card about every 2 years though just in case.

hardwiring is really easy for what you're used to doing.  i just grabbed this add-a-fuse hardwire kit yesterday to install into our 4runner.  when cabling its easy to hide the lines under the headliner edge, A-pillar trim, and under the door jamb kick plates if/when running cable rear to front.

i've seen the front/rear combo cams and haven't tried any yet, that's out of my depth.  i think Evan set up a rear cam in his CX5 though?

[Evan]

so what are people actually using for Dash Cams for the moment?

I've been looking at systems that have front and rear facing cameras that can hardwire into the fusebox, but not sure if there are simpler ways to do it. I don't want wires everywhere, so i'll be hiding most of them and want something that turns on/off with the vehicle (so no Go-Pros and the like).

Ive been through at least 10 different cameras and this is my current favorite and what I run front and rear
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072FGL63X/

It has all the basic requirements.   Wide angle lens,  capacitor not battery,  good sony sensor,  small and low profile mount, cheap.
It goes on sale for $50 pretty frequently.  Keep an eye on slickdeals and set an alert.

Im not a fan of the 2 in one cameras .  It doesn't save you any money over buying 2 separate and its a single point of failure.   Even if you only have switched power in the front its still better IMO to run a wire to the back from the fusebox.  Youre running a wire either way so the 2 in 1 cameras are no better with wires.

make sure you get an endurance rated sd card.

[Ken]

I bought this one a little over a year ago, been working really well. I just tucked wires along the interior to get to power. 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0742D...UTF8&psc=1

Turns on and off with car and has the parking mode to sense if the car is hit when off.

[SlimKlim]

I have a "Rexing" brand one from Amazon and it does what it's supposed to do, but I would strongly advise against installing one in an MK7 GTI because of the soundaktor thing which vibrates the windshield to create fake sporty engine noises, which in turn vibrates the little retaining clip that holds the lens at the selected viewing angle, making an irritating sound under load. I took it apart and gooped a bunch of plastic epoxy in there in an attempt to disable any moving parts, but it didn't do the trick and now the fucking thing is epoxied shut. Probably going to eventually replace it with a different style.