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Dash cam saves your ass (no Roundabout stuff please :)

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  • #842
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,085 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    BenThere wrote: »
    Anyone bought this? http://www.carcameradirect.com/?gs50dashcarcamera-dash%20cam

    Looks tidy and good value.

    Ben

    I imagine it's probably very similar to the one I have above:

    https://livingsocial.com/products/uk/1828-prestigio-high-definition-dashcam


  • #843
    BenEadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,539 ✭✭✭BenEadir


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    I imagine it's probably very similar to the one I have above:

    https://livingsocial.com/products/uk/1828-prestigio-high-definition-dashcam

    Looks very similar all right. How do you find it?

    Ben


  • #844
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,085 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    BenThere wrote: »
    Looks very similar all right. How do you find it?

    Ben

    It's not bad actually, the quality is fairly alright and it lasts for about two days on battery. For the money I certainly can't complain. I know there are cameras with substantially better video but they cost a lot more so this is a happy middle ground.


  • #845
    [Deleted User]
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    Another driving in Russia videos. Not entirely dash cm footage, but still brilliant!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkE2hHneP4


  • #846
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    BenThere wrote: »
    Anyone bought this? http://www.carcameradirect.com/?gs50dashcarcamera-dash%20cam

    Looks tidy and good value.

    Ben
    i have one and it's alright for the price, but it's not going to win any awards.

    it's fussy about what SD cards you use, if it's not a higher priced name brand one it might not work at all, or will only work intermittently and it seems to be fussier with higher capacity cards. anything 2gb or less will work, but with the bigger capacity cards it's a lot more fussy. i got a class10 32gb 7dayshop branded card and it doesn't work at all, despite working perfectly in the half a dozen other devices i've tested. i also can't get it to work at all with any microSD cards with (several tested and working) SD adapters.

    i think i have a 16gb fujitsu branded card in it now from powercity and it's working okay with that.

    quality is okay, but could be better. file sizes are pretty big too, in hidsight i should have payed extra and gone with something that does h.264 encoding to keep file sizes down.

    it also doesn't like it when i start the car up and quite often cuts out. i have a diesel, so i have to wait about 5 seconds before i start the car and although it's set to start recording when the cig lighter gets power and stop when the ignition is off, it sometimes detects the fluctuation in power when i turn the car over as me turning the engine off and shuts itself down.

    i also can't get the looping recording function to work properly and i have to keep an eye on it and just format it any time it doesn't automatically start recording, which can be a real PITA as the menu system can be a little awkward to navigate with the unit in place.

    it's okay for the money though, although iirc i got mine a bit cheaper off ebay.


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  • #847
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    I don't think this driver even saw me until I nearly broadsided her,she was too busy chatting to her friend.
    She had a left turn followed by a right turn into her estate parking area-but drove diagonally across instead to save time.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od_leuS6sDk


  • #848
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    housetypeb wrote: »
    I don't think this driver even saw me until I nearly broadsided her,she was too busy chatting to her friend.
    She had a left turn followed by a right turn into her estate parking area-but drove diagonally across instead to save time.

    To be honest, it looks like she had a right of way here - you should have yield to her.
    (obviously unless there is some extra signage which we can't see on the video)


  • #849
    [Deleted User]
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    CiniO wrote: »
    To be honest, it looks like she had a right of way here - you should have yield to her.
    (obviously unless there is some extra signage which we can't see on the video)
    To me it looks like the road the OP was driving was the main road, and the womans road (right turn) was a side road. So OP would have right of way.


  • #850
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    housetypeb wrote: »
    I don't think this driver even saw me until I nearly broadsided her,she was too busy chatting to her friend.
    She had a left turn followed by a right turn into her estate parking area-but drove diagonally across instead to save time.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od_leuS6sDk
    You were totally in the wrong!

    And so what if she was talking to someone?! At least she had the cop on to notice you weren't stopping anytime soon and she braked!


  • #851
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    No, I shouldn't have yielded to her, she made a left turn off of a main road and then should have waited 'til I passed before turning right into her estate.


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  • #852
    Tallon
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    LaughingJoker91 wrote: »
    To me it looks like the road the OP was driving was the main road, and the womans road (right turn) was a side road. So OP would have right of way.
    Really?

    Are there two different videos? Because what I see is the op coming out of and estate / cul de sac, and the lady entering it from the main road...


  • #853
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    Tallon wrote: »
    You were totally in the wrong!

    And so what if she was talking to someone?! At least she had the cop on to notice you weren't stopping anytime soon and she braked!

    I was the one who had the cop on to brake as I saw she wasn't stopping anytime soon.


  • #854
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    housetypeb wrote: »
    No, I shouldn't have yielded to her, she made a left turn off of a main road and then should have waited 'til I passed before turning right into her estate.
    You're joking, right?

    'Right' of way...


  • #855
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Deleted User wrote: »
    To me it looks like the road the OP was driving was the main road, and the womans road (right turn) was a side road. So OP would have right of way.
    housetypeb wrote: »
    No, I shouldn't have yielded to her, she made a left turn off of a main road and then should have waited 'til I passed before turning right into her estate.

    The place you meet her looks like another junction of 3 roads (one coming from the main road, road leading from her estate, and the road you drove from).

    Could you give us a view from google maps?


  • #856
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    housetypeb wrote: »

    I was the one who had the cop on to brake as I saw she wasn't stopping anytime soon.
    She clearly was, you can see her brake, and jam on!!!

    She probably got startled when she realised there was someone heading at her without yielding


  • #857
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    housetypeb wrote: »
    I was the one who had the cop on to brake as I saw she wasn't stopping anytime soon.

    Exactly as opposite. She had to cop on the brake as she saw you weren't stopping anytime soon.


  • #858
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    Tallon wrote: »
    Really?

    Are there two different videos? Because what I see is the op coming out of and estate / cul de sac, and the lady entering it from the main road...
    I'm basing it on the fact that the road the women is driving onto (turning into) is looking only wide enough for one car, whereas the OP is driving on a road which is wide enough for two cars. And therefore the two lane road would have right of way in most situations, as I assumed this is the case as I see no signs?

    Edit:
    I think we can all agree this is a place where signs should have been erected! After looking again at a higher quality vid, I'm not sure if the road is wide enough for two car. Seems like it is?


  • #859
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    LaughingJoker91 wrote: »
    I'm basing it on the fact that the road the women is driving onto (turning into) is looking only wide enough for one car, whereas the OP is driving on a road which is wide enough for two cars. And therefore the two lane road would have right of way in most situations, as I assumed this is the case as I see no signs?

    Edit:
    I think we can all agree this is a place where signs should have been erected!
    So you think that people have priority depending on the width of the road? Wow

    The op Is clearly leaving an estate, the place between the two walls is a junction, at a junction, You yield to traffic coming from the right,..


  • #860
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm basing it on the fact that the road the women is driving onto (turning into) is looking only wide enough for one car, whereas the OP is driving on a road which is wide enough for two cars. And therefore the two lane road would have right of way in most situations, as I assumed this is the case as I see no signs?

    Edit:
    I think we can all agree this is a place where signs should have been erected!

    I think you can't assume that wider road is the main road.
    If there is completely no signage, then it should be considered a junction of roads of equal importance, and therefore vehicles coming from the right side have right of way. (so in OP's case other car was coming from the right side).


  • #861
    [Deleted User]
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    Tallon wrote: »
    So you think that people have priority depending on the width of the road? Wow
    When a two lane road has a one lane side road off it, generally the two lane has priority.
    CiniO wrote: »
    I think you can't assume that wider road is the main road.
    If there is completely no signage, then it should be considered a junction of roads of equal importance, and therefore vehicles coming from the right side have right of way. (so in OP's case other car was coming from the right side).
    I agree.


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  • #862
    Tallon
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    LaughingJoker91 wrote: »
    When a two lane road has a one lane side road off it, generally the two lane has priority.


    I agree.
    Any link to that legislation?

    Also, can you show me how it's a two lane road? I don't see any markings

    Just because a road is wide enough for two cars, doesn't make it a two lane road


  • #863
    JJJJNR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    I'd like to setup a dash cam myself but would like to record 12 hours of footage at a time, is there many setups under 200euro that would do this.


  • #864
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    JJJJNR wrote: »
    I'd like to setup a dash cam myself but would like to record 12 hours of footage at a time, is there many setups under 200euro that would do this.

    Mine can record longer than that, with the right sized card ;)

    The dash cam doesn't matter!


  • #865
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    housetypeb wrote: »
    No, I shouldn't have yielded to her, she made a left turn off of a main road and then should have waited 'til I passed before turning right into her estate.

    She left the main road though onto a secondary road, and was on it before you were, hence it became the new main road and you seem to have just barged your way onto it from a secondary road.


  • #866
    [Deleted User]
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    Tallon wrote: »
    Any link to that legislation?

    Also, can you show me how it's a two lane road? I don't see any markings

    Just because a road is wide enough for two cars, doesn't make it a two lane road
    I don't know legislation as I'm not a solicitor or know the contents of all of the RTAs. But if this was a two lane, then I'm sure the rules of give way to oncoming traffic would apply.

    Fair point above no markings. As you, and CiniO said, it is wrong of me to assume it a two way road just because of width.

    OP should post a link to google map, make it clearer.


  • #867
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    It's is an exit/ entrance to a petrol station leading onto a bypass-the main road the woman made a left turn from, I'm already on the exit road where according to you I should now wait for her to to make a right in front of me to get into her estate,instead of her waiting(and perhaps indicating her intentions) until I pass her before making her right turn.


  • #868
    Tallon
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    LaughingJoker91 wrote: »
    I don't know legislation as I'm not a solicitor or know the contents of all of the RTAs.

    FFS! Typical Irish driver.. Haven't a clue what your arguing about, but by god, you'll argue it anyway

    Learn the ROTR and then come back and tell me the op was in the right :rolleyes:


  • #869
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    housetypeb wrote: »
    It's is an exit/ entrance to a petrol station leading onto a bypass-the main road the woman made a left turn from, I'm already on the exit road where according to you I should now wait for her to to make a right in front of me to get into her estate,instead of her waiting(and perhaps indicating her intentions) until I pass her before making her right turn.
    You were 100% in the wrong!

    The exit / entrance DOES NOT lead to a bypass! It leads to a sub road which services the estate and petrol station, she was on this road, and you were totally wrong to not yield to her.


  • #870
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    housetypeb wrote: »
    It's is an exit/ entrance to a petrol station leading onto a bypass-the main road the woman made a left turn from, I'm already on the exit road where according to you I should now wait for her to to make a right in front of me to get into her estate,instead of her waiting(and perhaps indicating her intentions) until I pass her before making her right turn.

    The only reason you were "on" the exit road a fraction before she was is because you failed to give right of way to the traffic which actually had the right of way. Your argument seems to be that you should have been magically gifted the right of way just so you wouldn't have to wait for her to make her turn, which she is entitled to do.


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  • #871
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    Tallon wrote: »
    FFS! Typical Irish driver.. Haven't a clue what your arguing about, but by god, you'll argue it anyway

    Learn the ROTR and then come back and tell me the op was in the right :rolleyes:
    The ROTR are not legislation. Do you expect every driver to learn every Section of every Road Traffic Act?

    I explained why I thought what I thought. And I agreed with you that I may have made a mistake with my assumption.


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