09-09-2014, 05:48 AM | #1 |
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Dash cam for the X1
Bought this Blackvue camera a little while back, mostly in case of an accident. But it works as a witness for other things like this car fire the other day going into work.
I come up on this guy's honda that has caught fire in the engine compartment. As I drive up he's on his cell phone walking back toward the car, as you can see on the left, (I assume calling 911) so I park and get out and ask him if he has an extinguisher (shakes his head no). So I grab mine and attempt to put it out, but it's not enough. So I asked him did he just call 911, and he says no. So I tell him to call 911 and get a fire truck on the way, then walk back to my car to put up the empty extinguisher. Walk back to him and ask if the fire dept was on the way, he says "no speak english good" Told him to go ahead and call they have people that speak spanish. Walk back to the car to get my cell phone to call work and say I'll be late, and turn around as he's handing his phone to me to talk to 911 and get a truck on the way. So you'll see a break in the video from when I first pull up on it, then as it starts back after all that in the description is done and were waiting on the fire dept. (you'll also notice me back up a little from time to time as the fire continues to spread on the car)
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09-11-2014, 04:12 PM | #2 |
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Did you install and wire everything up yourself? What does this cost, all-in?
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09-12-2014, 07:26 PM | #3 |
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Right now that model car cam is just over 200.00 on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/BlackVue-Wi-Fi...-fi+dr500gw-hd It comes with the windshield mount and a really long power cable/wire that can be plugged into the cig lighter or hardwired, whichever is your preference. They have multiple models depending upon what you're looking for in features. It writes the video to a microSD card. My 32gig card is good for about 3 weeks worth of daily driving video before it overwrites. Plenty of time to go back and pull it if you need it.
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09-12-2014, 08:39 PM | #4 |
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I have one that I bought from Amazon. The cost was less than $75.00. It has a front and rear facing camera, IR for night time, 2.0" TFT LCD screen, and a 1 MP front camera. Both the front facing are rear facing camera are wide angle cameras. It also records sound and a G sensor to automatically save the incident surrounding a crash. I can not find the name anywhere on the box but if you search on Amazon for Car DVR, it should show up. It also supports up to a 32 GB micro SD card.
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http://www.amazon.com/Internal-Origi...dp/B00HFZZSK0/ Several of us do own the Blackvue cameras and have been pleased with them. I actually have two, one front facing and one rear facing. Quote:
http://blackvue.com/en/contents/sub1.asp?idx=16 Here's another video from several months ago. I thought I was going to get to catch a red blooded redlight runner smash a car right in front of my camera, but luckily the person making the left hand turn opposite of me was paying attention and saw the person coming through the redlight and stopped. Note the light runner ends up going into the opposite traffic's left turn lane as they go on through the intersection.
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09-13-2014, 09:11 AM | #7 |
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CIWS, thank you for your reply. I find the quality of your video very satisfying for camera's purpose. I need to look better into it and do my homework, but I definetely need one.
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If you look for it. at it. you'll see it. Which can be a good thing if you want people to know they're on video. This was taken last year at one of the meets. If you look just to the left of the rearview mirror mount point near the top of the glass you see it. If there was any glare on the front glass it would be much harder to see.
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