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[dieseldoo]

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Does all the advice and information mean that both Rick and Sparky will be photographers in charge of recording the event for posterity?

[fat_rick]

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Nice idea Rick. Looks expensive?

£200 mate. Which if it saves you one knock-for-knock quote has more than paid for itself!

[smartsparks]

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£200 mate. Which if it saves you one knock-for-knock quote has more than paid for itself!

£200 !

Might be OK for you wealthy teachers but for us self-employed tradesman !






sounds a good price for what it is mate, seriously!

do you have a subscription or contract to pay for anything? or is that just a straight deal?

(have wrote all this then I thinks I should have looked at the website link more but can't be arsed to ! )

Anne, should think there will be more than just me & Rick doing this? Hope so anyway?!? :redface:

[Hogster]

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That's a very neat looking device! Might have to put that on my wishlist .... It would provide good peace of mind knowing that any incident I'm involved with is captured on camera ... I haven't been involved in one yet after 55000 miles, but you never know .... and I've probably just jinxed myself! :eek:


David

[fat_rick]

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That's the straight deal, it doesn't connect to anything outside the car. Basically it records on an endless loop whenever the car's running. and tracks GPS data alongside it. It *isn't* a tracker for a stolen car or anything like that.

I've got a bad attack of want .

[smartsparks]

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Genral rule of thumb is to look at the disk size - <80GB will be Solid State, >=80GB will be spinning disc. Of course this will change as time progresses.

Listen closely to your netbook as it boot up (put your ear against the case), you will always hear a fan, but you may be able to hear an irregular clicking which would be a regular hard drive. No additional noise probably means an SSD.

80gb on my netbook and no 'clonking' of a HDD so I would say it SSD.

Should imagine I can store a fair few hours of video on that!

[Hogster]

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Just spoken to MSM Insurance out of interest and sadly it won't lower your insurance premiums using one of these cameras ... but they still would highly recommend it to make settling claims easier

I wish they sold a version where you could fit four cameras around the car looking out of the front, back, left and right, and then have the video recorded as a four-way split screen ... otherwise what if you get hit somewhere other than the front of the car!

Guess we would be into big bucks though for something like that .....


David

[fat_rick]

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They do now have a version that uses a pair of wide-angle lenses to give 320 degree recording, which should be enough .

I just bought the one I linked to before. Shiny toy to arrive next week .

[madDan]

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Rick don't forget to delete the data if the accident was your fault ;-)

[sii]

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I've had a Road Hawk for a year or so, very good piece of kit. Got a 32gig SD card (level 4) in there. No problems so far, I used to record my weekly 700+ commute. So far I have recorded 3 accidents, 10+ very close calls. All NOT my fault.

I had it in my Glanza V Turbo (track car) and it recorded perfectly, then in my Monaro, even with the V8 rumble it still recorded perfectly.

Now it's in the 451 54bhp CDi, mounted behind the rear view camera, I can hardly see it from the inside. Even when looking into the car from the front, it's not very visible.

I have it set on continuous, also have the G rating alarm set at 2.5 which means it doesn't recognise bumps in the road and speed bumps as 'incidents' thus not filling up the long term memory partition.

Records the sound inside the car so you can generally hear my Hed Kandi CD followed by me shouting "watch out, watch out, watch out, you absolute sh*t blistering crab w*nking f*ck tard" before beeping at the car/truck that has decided to cut me up or simply shove me out of the way.

Nice google map of where you are and what speed you were doing and how'd you'd been driving before the 'incident'. So you can prove you weren't changing lanes, swerving, being a pest etc.

I bought one after seeing some clips, this being one ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZbQ_KOGBcQ

I have noticed that going from a car that would make a Lamo of Ferarri cry when they heard it pass them to a Smart (3rd one I've had) that you have a much smaller motorway '*****' and everyone MUST show that they have a larger one every time.

Even in town, if you pull away quickly, cars in the other lane MUST show they can then whizz past, even if they have to slam on at the next set of lights.

I pass someone at 65mph, pull in after 3-4 car lengths have passed. They will then overtake, only to pull in and slow me down AGAIN. I understand it comes with the ownership of a small car, but still. I sat at 68mph in the Monaro all the way to Reading and I now do it in the Smart. 6.0l V8 Supercharged with cam and head work producing 680bhp, then down to 54bhp, still does the same thing.

[fat_rick]

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Rick don't forget to delete the data if the accident was your fault ;-)

I'm compulsively honest, so even if I did have an at-fault prang I expect it wouldn't magically be the day I forgot to put the card back in...

That said I've been driving 17 years and not had a prang yet apart from one reversed into in car park (other driver admitted liability immediately) and dropping a motorcycle once in the wet when a kamikaze pedestrian ran out without looking.

I've mostly bought it to document runs with the various clubs, and as an easy and effective way to see where runs have been so I can reproduce 'em.

[fat_rick]

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I have it set on continuous, also have the G rating alarm set at 2.5 which means it doesn't recognise bumps in the road and speed bumps as 'incidents' thus not filling up the long term memory partition.

First thing I noticed trying it out last night going home with it on the sucker mount - it was triggering for bumps I didn't even notice, spent more than half the journey on "incident". When I got home I took the thresholds up from the 0.4 default to 2 straight away .

I've got a 16GB card in mine, which apparently should do about 16 hours in goodish quality high frame rate. Cool.

[sii]

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Why did is censor p e n i s ?

It's not swearing, for christ's sake.

[10:45PM]

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that you have a much smaller motorway '*****'

a motorway ***** ?

[fat_rick]

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Sii - how have you cabled yours up (I'm about to do mine, albeit in a roadster)? I'm thinking to run the wires inside the A pillar on the passenger side and then across inside the screentop trim, and make a small forward-facing exit hole near the mirror/light bit.