erkme73

I can't speak for anyone else, but the 'option' to have a dash cam would be for the owner's benefit. Any recordings would be put to flash card (mine is SD) and removable. Having it somehow communicate, or relay the information to anyone other than the owner isn't part of my vision. I figure it this way; If the video is to my benefit, I use it. If not, no one needs to know I have it.

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I work for an aerospace company and we produce Digital Video Recorders (TransVu) for public transportation (Air/Sea/Land). They work great as security systems because if someone opens your door and you have access to the internet, you can have pictures emailed to your phone and at the same time you could type up www.mycarblahblah.com and see where your car is and such.. pretty wild... anyway, DVR's wont be standard for a few years because most of the stuff available to the public is crap and breaks easy and the good stuff is really expensive there are also insurance liabilities with having devices like that distracting the driver.

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erkme73

Just this evening on ABC Evening News they had a story on Drivecam cameras that will be offered for free to parents who insure teenage drivers. This is exactly what I was after with my camera - an extra witness for when something goes wrong.

BTW, take a look at the attached image. This is a screen grab from me driving past a portable radar-based speed sign. Notice how my GPS imprint and the display are DEAD-ON? You'd think my GPS would be 4MPH slower. Hmpf...

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erkme73

Court date was yesterday. Judge reduced citation from 72 to 68 based on the video evidence. Also withheld points. Probably the fairest of outcomes. In the end, my speed infraction went from 17 over to 13 over, and my insurance company won't know.

On the down side, less than 24 hours after my court date, my wife was pulled over - doing 18 over. No dash-cam or GPS. It won't be here until next week

StaticDet5

Good work on this. It's inspired me to try and put this kind of setup into my car.

ccsnet

Its an intresting technology which can be just as damming in as much as been helpful.

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ALonDonThinG

Really cool to see your setup got a result in court , anyone know if i could overlay the GPS info onto a webcam recording?

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Morphes

So how does this system work? Do you record everything all the time or just when you get pulled over? I am really curious as to how this works. Is your cam in the front or back or both? Awesome work getting ticket reduced, sorry to hear about your wifey

Toxic0n

This would be awesome in case of an accident as well.
Does anyone know how to record from a webcam in Windows Xp and make so it only stores the last 1 hour of video?

sebberry

What software did you use to capture the video with the speed overlay?

knorf

I realise it's a little too late to be of assistance, but FYI the laser speed measuring devices used by Western Australian Police, the LTi 20-20 are tested prior to and following completion of speed checking duties, beginning and end of shift. The laser, which the above item is, is calibrated against a range, a measured distance set out at each station to test the above item. The distances are rechecked annually, in case they move? and signed off on. After completing the distance check successfully the scope is checked against an item approx 200m away, chimney, power pole, for alignment, the unit makes a certain noise when it crosses the item and has a red dot, noise together with visual confirmation means scope aligned correctly.

msb5150

A reiteration: is there any chance you can go into greater detail about your gps-embedded video setup? I'm very impressed and want to learn more.

a1wake

If they had challenged the accuracy of the GPS, couldn't you simply have run the video and calculate speed off of the points and distances of the road (lane dividing lines, telephone poles, etc.)?

ironfinger

dude erkme73! Can you please show us the components needed to get a setup like yours working? Perhaps links to the various parts for this setup, e.g. video overlay box, camera, software, etc.. THANKS!

JoeKamel

Congrats to you for two things:

1) You took it like an adult when it came to the ticket and its consequences. You could have shot for the moon to get the ticket tossed, but you took the high road.

2) Good job standing up for yourself against the man.

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