Dash cam thread 2 (car videos only, no commenting on videos)

wexford awake

wexford awake wrote: »

Hi I'm thinking of getting a dash cam, for the obvious reasons, accidents etc. However there is someone hanging about the outside of our house. A few metres above our gate nearly every night. I'm afraid to go out and look and don't want to ring the Garda as its not a crime.. I would just love to know who it is. Firstly can dash cam record when car is parked up.?. Secondly this is a rural area that is not lit up, can dash cams record in the dark with no lights on. Thanks.

Some dash cams have a "parking mode" that record when parked, but without light will not pick up anything.

You would probably be better off speaking to a neighbour (in a rural area most people know "everything"), there might be a totally rational reason for them waiting there. Waiting for a lift for example.


Otherwise you could look at getting an infrared security camera and light mounted on the wall overlooking where they stand.

punisher5112

If in range the wifi link on my ddpai m6 plus can show me live footage from inside the house.

Put up a sensor light and if you do feel something isn't right call the local Garda station phone number.

Just let them know something strange is happening etc.

dickwod1

Isambard wrote: »

wouldn't want to travel with Joe O'Neill

Zatoichi wrote: »

You can watch him get a top score in Candy Crush.

The cammer who sent me the clip said he was on the phone too!

dickwod1

Mini compilation of submitted clips ...

Isambard

wexford awake wrote: »

Hi I'm thinking of getting a dash cam, for the obvious reasons, accidents etc. However there is someone hanging about the outside of our house. A few metres above our gate nearly every night. I'm afraid to go out and look and don't want to ring the Garda as its not a crime.. I would just love to know who it is. Firstly can dash cam record when car is parked up.?. Secondly this is a rural area that is not lit up, can dash cams record in the dark with no lights on. Thanks.

like 12 feet up in the air? anal probing the main danger here.

artanevilla

That first one. Infuriating.

StereoSound

First capture on my new Dash cam. Lad on scooter Liffey Valley roundabout. Assumed unregistered for road use.

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

Alanstrainor

StereoSound wrote: »

First capture on my new Dash cam. Lad on scooter Liffey Valley roundabout. Assumed unregistered for road use.

Yeah there's no way they're legal for road use, not without tax insurance and the rest.

fritzelly

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=529185074145235&id=303125643417847

Funny one (not really dash cam but) can someone embed it

Sterling Archer

Karma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f02tRu3zIbk

andy69

Ok, so literally nothing happens* for the entire 2-mins so I FFWD'd the vid - point is for the entire time there is an empty Lane-1. No reason for the red Golf, or the two trucks, or even the 'speeding Insignia' (what other types are there I hear you say!) to be staying in Lane-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCMHI3hlQs

Lucan by-pass inbound, it's like no one even cares that there's a Lane-1. But sure no one enforcing the law, people will stay clueless/careless :rolleyes:

*I just got fed up of making the move across from L1 to L2 to L3 and back to L2 then back to L1 again just to be past the day-dreaming drivers who insist on hogging the lanes - probably I'd get done if some Garda had seen this :mad:

Zatoichi

People will get right up your arse in L1 when an exit is approaching, and then you have people merging into L1 further up who will absolutely blow you out of it without even looking. And of course the people sitting in L2 blocking you in won't help. That seems to be the mentality on Irish roads; 'as long as I'm good screw everyone else'. Outbound is even worse on the M4, numerous times I've seen a long chain of cars sitting in the overtaking lane while the driving lane was largely empty.

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.finch.5891/posts/2110014552609474

Bellend extraordinaire!

Truckermal

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.finch.5891/posts/2110014552609474

Bellend extraordinaire!

I would have just rear ended that cnut he wouldn't be in a hurry to try that again!

bazz26

Octavia playing brake testing games with what looks like an HGV? The mind boggles.

tedpan

Dropped my car in for a service and this happened. Forgot about the dashcam, rewatched the footage as it was unplugged when I picked the car up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiPq083a3yI

Here's a link to the thread for more detail

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057867000

Samuel T. Cogley

Craig I think you've upset the natives.

jimmynokia

Got this conbrov T17 claims to be the worlds smallest dashcam check out these two clips and see what you think

https://youtu.be/yuEjFVa6nhI

https://youtu.be/Ck9tTkOYoRI

dickwod1

Mini compilation of submitted clips ...

Cantona's Collars

https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7429967/40baad67/auto_vervoeren_redneckstyle.html

punisher5112

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7429967/40baad67/auto_vervoeren_redneckstyle.html

If they were avensi I would have bet money they would be traveling Irish ;-)

reklamos

Let's overtake a slow rider using bus lane. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJNGT08gIPA

P.S Watch it on full screen

Sam Quentin

I'm not one to bash or berate cyclist:: And with over 20yrs driving experience and 100s of thousands of miles on the road..... well I found this behaviour totally unacceptable and downright disrespectful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9eSYSjDrDo

sameoldname

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I'm not one to bash or berate cyclist:: And with over 20yrs driving experience and 100s of thousands of miles on the road..... well I found this behaviour totally unacceptable and downright disrespectful.

Their hobby is more important than your time apparently...

GreeBo

^

What they will tell you:
Cyclists have every right to be on the road
That was only 2 abreast, it's an optical illusion that makes you think it's more
Don't over take on s solid white line
If you can't overtake safely then don't
Etc etc


The correct thing is to be a patient driver, overtake when you did, move back in far left and then crawl at 15kph and see their reaction!

fritzelly

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I'm not one to bash or berate cyclist:: And with over 20yrs driving experience and 100s of thousands of miles on the road..... well I found this behaviour totally unacceptable and downright disrespectful

Ok, what did I miss?

GreeBo

reklamos wrote: »

Let's overtake a slow rider using bus lane. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJNGT08gIPA

P.S Watch it on full screen

Was bus lane in service?
Looks like entrapment to me!

Sam Quentin

fritzelly wrote: »

Ok, what did I miss?

What did you miss???
You obviously missed manners from life experience!?
That's if you think the cyclist in my video were in anyway respectful to other road users or had any road etiquette and common knowledge of what's acceptable behaviour in what can be a very dangerous environment!? eg: A road.

thelad95

GreeBo wrote: »

Was bus lane in service?
Looks like entrapment to me!

Cannot undertake a car unless they are turning right and it is safe to do so, neither of which apply in this situation.

endacl

Sam Quentin wrote: »

What did you miss???
You obviously missed manners from life experience!?
That's if you think the cyclist in my video were in anyway respectful to other road users or had any road etiquette and common knowledge of what's acceptable behaviour in what can be a very dangerous environment!? eg: A road.

They took up a dominant position on the road, which prevents a driver potentially zipping past on a windy stretch of road where oncoming traffic could be anticipated, but not seen. At around 1’20”, for example. Manners don’t come into it. That’s simply good practise.

Perfectly acceptable. Annoying, but that’s life. I drove Sligo to Dublin this morning. Got ‘stuck’ behind a mobile library, a car doing 65 on a perfectly good 100kph stretch, several tractors, and a Spar truck just past Maynooth overtaking a line of trucks at a speed only a couple of kph above the speed they were doing. Took him almost two minutes to get to a position where he could pull back in. Life is full of little irritations. I don’t own the road. I just get to use it.