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

readytosnap · 27-01-2013 05:22PM

Can anyone tell me how to convert files recorded by the Roadhawk 1 ?
i want to convert to avi or mp4 but cannot find any programme (other than a screen capture) that will convert the files, they are recorded in the format
" .ub1 " which, from what i can gather is roadhawk specific.

:(
i want to be able to u/l to youtube as well.

joujoujou · 27-01-2013 05:33PM

Try this:

http://www.ubone.co.kr/cs/etc_view.asp?page=1&num=9&keyword=&s_word=

Not sure if works, as have no file to test it on.

Bruthal · 27-01-2013 06:17PM

Deleted User wrote: »

So much for a "professional" driver, eh?

The only link between taxi drivers and professional driving, is financial.

cats.life · 27-01-2013 08:03PM

yllw.ldbttr wrote: »

Not exactly a close one, but another asshole truck driver on the road.

eh what was wrong with that, you look to be speeding op. he wasnt driving a bike as in you could have slowed a little when you saw him.

Kenny Logins · 27-01-2013 08:06PM

cats.life wrote: »

eh what was wrong with that, you look to be speeding op. he wasnt driving a bike as in you could have slowed a little when you saw him.

Did the truck break the lights?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Watergrasshill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=52.01051,-8.345618&spn=0.021845,0.045962&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.768363,94.130859&oq=watergrasshill&t=h&hnear=Watergrasshill,+County+Cork,+Ireland&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.010002,-8.346207&panoid=QT5RCB8eZ7rsb4xPdu_P5w&cbp=12,35.55,,0,5.88

cats.life · 27-01-2013 08:44PM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Did the truck break the lights?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Watergrasshill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=52.01051,-8.345618&spn=0.021845,0.045962&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.768363,94.130859&oq=watergrasshill&t=h&hnear=Watergrasshill,+County+Cork,+Ireland&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.010002,-8.346207&panoid=QT5RCB8eZ7rsb4xPdu_P5w&cbp=12,35.55,,0,5.88

it looks like that he did break lits on truck side.

readytosnap · 28-01-2013 03:30AM

joujoujou wrote: »

Try this:

http://www.ubone.co.kr/cs/etc_view.asp?page=1&num=9&keyword=&s_word=

Not sure if works, as have no file to test it on.

yeah i found that earlier myself via another route but it wouldn't install properly, so just went back via your link and it installed the player, but the codec was missing to save as avi,but it automatically installed it when i tried to save so all is good i can now save as avi, thanks.

the_syco · 28-01-2013 04:00AM

yllw.ldbttr wrote: »

Not exactly a close one, but another asshole truck driver on the road.

Email the company with a link to the youtube video with the location, date and time. F**k the drivers job; if they're not taken off the road, it's only a matter of time before they wipe someone off the road :mad:

Bruthal · 28-01-2013 12:20PM

the_syco wrote: »

Email the company with a link to the youtube video with the location, date and time. F**k the drivers job; if they're not taken off the road, it's only a matter of time before they wipe someone off the road :mad:

You think they should be taken off the road based on a single incident?

the_syco · 28-01-2013 06:30PM

Bruthal wrote: »

You think they should be taken off the road based on a single incident?

Breaking a red light at full speed (it was green on yllw.ldbttr side coming up to it, so it's not like it "just turned amber" on the other side, it seems like it was no accident. So yes, I do think they should be taken off the road for such dangerous driving.

Bruthal · 28-01-2013 06:51PM

the_syco wrote: »

Breaking a red light at full speed (it was green on yllw.ldbttr side coming up to it, so it's not like it "just turned amber" on the other side, it seems like it was no accident. So yes, I do think they should be taken off the road for such dangerous driving.

You best get emailing so. By the end of the year, you will have the roads to yourself.

It also looks like the truck could have had a green light, he might have just turned across the video car, from the same road.

If it was me, id have just slowed, none of this long duration beeping.

yllw.ldbttr · 28-01-2013 06:53PM

Bruthal wrote: »

You think they should be taken off the road based on a single incident?

Breaking a red light deliberately, in a truck, while he clearly saw oncoming traffic and still decided to drive across my lane, so that he could get home 20 seconds earlier?

Yes, I do, **** him.

Irrelevant to this argument but I had my two year old daughter in the car at the time, so he's basically deciding, whether consciously or not, that his arrival home a few seconds earlier is more important than the safety of any other road user.

yllw.ldbttr · 28-01-2013 06:56PM

cats.life wrote: »

eh what was wrong with that, you look to be speeding op. he wasnt driving a bike as in you could have slowed a little when you saw him.

If this is your analysis of the situation I suggest you have a sit down and good read of the ROTR, as you clearly have no grasp of them.

Bruthal · 28-01-2013 06:58PM

yllw.ldbttr wrote: »

Breaking a red light deliberately, in a truck, while he clearly saw oncoming traffic and still decided to drive across my lane, so that he could get home 20 seconds earlier?

Yes, I do, **** him.

Irrelevant to this argument but I had my two year old daughter in the car at the time, so he's basically deciding, whether consciously or not, that his arrival home a few seconds earlier is more important than the safety of any other road user.

Well I dont know what junction it is, but is the truck not on the same road coming the opposite way through green lights too, rather than red?

Opinicus · 28-01-2013 07:40PM

Bruthal wrote: »

Well I dont know what junction it is, but is the truck not on the same road coming the opposite way through green lights too, rather than red?

Can we get an emergency translator here stat?

taking a guess at what you mean, you're saying the truck has a green light as he's on the same road as the OP, well that still doesn't allow him to cross the Op's lane nearly causing a crash.

Bruthal · 28-01-2013 07:59PM

Opinicus wrote: »

Can we get an emergency translator here stat?

Its an emergency to translate now?

taking a guess at what you mean, you're saying the truck has a green light as he's on the same road as the OP,

Emergency over. Any spelling mistakes?

well that still doesn't allow him to cross the Op's lane nearly causing a crash.

I never said it did. But their is a fair difference between coming to a green light and taking a turn a bit quick across an oncoming car, and breaking a red light to do the same.

The poster was blasting the horn a full 3 seconds before stopping, so had plenty of time to see what was happening. Again, perhaps your super-stat translator will tell you that that does not mean I am of the view that the truck driving was great.

Kenny Logins · 28-01-2013 08:05PM

Bruthal wrote: »

Well I dont know what junction it is, but is the truck not on the same road coming the opposite way through green lights too, rather than red?

I posted a streetview link above but I'm not sure how the lights work there.

Bruthal · 28-01-2013 08:26PM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

I posted a streetview link above but I'm not sure how the lights work there.

Me either, was just pointing out that its possible, if not likely, that the truck went through a green light rather than the red claimed by posters, and just mis-judged speed and distance of the cam car. It didnt seem like a huge emergency braking by the car anyway.

Junction does look a bit dodgy if both truck and car had green lights all the same, so maybe the truck did have a red light.

A meal made of it imo anyway. Forget blasting the horn for long durations, and just drive on.

yllw.ldbttr · 28-01-2013 08:40PM

Bruthal wrote: »

Me either, was just pointing out that its possible, if not likely, that the truck went through a green light rather than the red claimed by posters, and just mis-judged speed and distance of the cam car. It didnt seem like a huge emergency braking by the car anyway.

Junction does look a bit dodgy if both truck and car had green lights all the same, so maybe the truck did have a red light.

I've already said it did have a red light, I know the junction and I drive it everyday.

Bruthal wrote: »

Forget blasting the horn for long durations, and just drive on.

I disagree fundamentally here, allowing idiots like this to drive as they please endangering others without so much as a protest or warning (a horn in this case) only leads them to think that what they are doing is acceptable.

Lawless2k12 · 28-01-2013 08:45PM

Bruthal wrote: »

Me either, was just pointing out that its possible, if not likely, that the truck went through a green light rather than the red claimed by posters, and just mis-judged speed and distance of the cam car. It didnt seem like a huge emergency braking by the car anyway.

Junction does look a bit dodgy if both truck and car had green lights all the same, so maybe the truck did have a red light.

A meal made of it imo anyway. Forget blasting the horn for long durations, and just drive on.

Think I agree with your point.

Studied Kenny's link to the street view and by the looks of things they were both on green so the trucker didn't blow a red. If you view it from the truckers side on the street view, a silver nissan primera (I think) is approaching the OP's set of lights. Keep going backwards and you'll see that the truckers sides lights stay green but the silver nissan continues thru his set as well, so unless everyone just ignores red lights in that area, the OP and the trucker both had a green and the trucker just mis-judged OP's speed or expected OP to give him a chance to get across.

At the end of the day, drivers are supposed to expect the unexpected, and if the unexpected happens they are supposed to do their best to react to the situation. I don't see the OP doing their best there tbh and it was a very tame incident and there was a HUGE amount of time to react early so extremely minor IMO.

Kenny Logins · 28-01-2013 08:48PM

That silver Nissan has stopped, just after the Kia goes through, no?

Lawless2k12 · 28-01-2013 08:51PM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

That silver Nissan has stopped, just after the Kia goes through, no?

No it continues further but the Kia and the picture move faster than it...

Go a little further and there are pictures from a different day and you can see truckers set are green but there is a stream of traffic coming from OP's direction also...

Bruthal · 28-01-2013 08:57PM

Well if the poster says he knows the junction well, who are we to argue.

I dont know how many times I had trucks go out in front of me on roundabouts, but I just slow or stop. No big deal, and continue on then. Feck the long duration horn blasts. They achieve nothing. People that regularly do it, will say different.

Lawless2k12 · 28-01-2013 08:58PM

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Watergrasshill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=52.01051,-8.345618&spn=0.021845,0.045962&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.768363,94.130859&oq=watergrasshill&t=h&hnear=Watergrasshill,+County+Cork,+Ireland&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.010002,-8.346207&panoid=QT5RCB8eZ7rsb4xPdu_P5w&cbp=12,35.55,,0,5.88

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Watergrasshill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=52.01051,-8.345618&spn=0.021845,0.045962&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.768363,94.130859&oq=watergrasshill&t=h&hnear=Watergrasshill,+County+Cork,+Ireland&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.010002,-8.346207&panoid=QT5RCB8eZ7rsb4xPdu_P5w&cbp=12,35.55,,0,5.88

I think that shows that the nissan moved through his set of lights after the Kia

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Watergrasshill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=52.01051,-8.345618&spn=0.021845,0.045962&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.768363,94.130859&oq=watergrasshill&t=h&hnear=Watergrasshill,+County+Cork,+Ireland&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.010002,-8.346207&panoid=QT5RCB8eZ7rsb4xPdu_P5w&cbp=12,35.55,,0,5.88

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Watergrasshill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=52.01051,-8.345618&spn=0.021845,0.045962&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.768363,94.130859&oq=watergrasshill&t=h&hnear=Watergrasshill,+County+Cork,+Ireland&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.010002,-8.346207&panoid=QT5RCB8eZ7rsb4xPdu_P5w&cbp=12,35.55,,0,5.88

^This also shows stream from OP's side coming thru with a jeep at truckers side (Land rover me finks) indicating right while waiting at green light.

EDIT: that didn't work

Seems google street view link doesn't change as often as I thought... it can be seen if you go thru truckers side road!

Chris_Heilong · 28-01-2013 09:17PM

dash cams are funny sometime, they always make it look like you are going faster then you really are, in that video it did seem like the car was not slowing down or stopping, an almost "right of way warrior" attitude, but it was probably just the dash cam making it look that way. I know if a truck was moving fast in front of my car I would stop straight away.

rameire · 28-01-2013 09:30PM

i have driven that junction a few times as have family in watergrasshill.
the junction would be near enough a T junction,
when the road the op comes from is green the lights for the traffic on the right and on the left are red.

when the lights are green for the traffic on the right ( truck side ) and left side.
the light is then red for the op.

edit, was this junction not questioned a year or two ago due to the same reason.

Bruthal · 28-01-2013 09:32PM

rameire wrote: »

i have driven that junction a few times as have family in watergrasshill.
the junction would be near enough a T junction,
when the road the op comes from is green the lights for the traffic on the right and on the left are red.

when the lights are green for the traffic on the right ( truck side ) and left side.
the light is then red for the op.

Bit of dodgy driving by the truck alright so.

rameire · 28-01-2013 09:46PM

just looked at the video again.
there seem to be new road markings I have never seen before.
so it could be that they have amended the junction.
meaning the truck had a green light to go down the road the op came from, but had a turning box to wait in if he wanted to go the way he went.

Lawless2k12 · 28-01-2013 10:44PM

rameire wrote: »

just looked at the video again.
there seem to be new road markings I have never seen before.
so it could be that they have amended the junction.
meaning the truck had a green light to go down the road the op came from, but had a turning box to wait in if he wanted to go the way he went.

Actually since street view was made a few year ago it could be the case that they changed the order of the traffic lights in which case the OP was 100% correct in what they did.

@ OP, any chance you'd know if they changed the order of the lights in the past few years? Just out of curiosity... really didn't mean to head into this much detail about the video. Getting more off topic every post :pac:

rameire · 28-01-2013 10:46PM

its only been done in the last 6 months.

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

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