in-car "black box" video cameras

The person had them fitted after they were held to blame for an
accident that was not their fault.

"Nomen Nescio" <nob...@dizum.com> wrote in message

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On the news last week, there was a story about in-car
video footage being used in a road rage court case.
Supposedly the victim's car had 4 cameras (front, rear,
left, right I presume). I wonder if it's like the shitty
CCTV in my uncle's shop - it does a mosaic of the 4 cameras
so you only get 288 lines resolution each picture (same as
VHS tape). I doubt you could identify an armed robber off it.
It should be HD only for this sort of thing.

One has to wonder about what sort of person thinks it's necessary to fit 4
cameras to their vehicle.

Some possible 'justifications' include:
1. Someone who's been a repeated target of abuse for their crappy driving,
but hasn't figured out that THEY are the root cause of the incidents.
2. Someone tin-foil hat wearing wacko looking to make money via vexacious
legal claims.

Based on the limited info above, sounds like both a viable.

"Golden One" <jpburns_at_westnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:0df0246b-a91b-47d9-8be5-a7f9a731537e_at_i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
The person had them fitted after they were held to blame for an
accident that was not their fault.

Wish I had them fitted when I was fined for driving carefully through a
faulty red arrow after I waited 5 minutes for it to change (at 2AM and
nothing else on the road except an unmarked cop car apparently
I would have at least enjoyed playing the footage in real time in court
until THEY go tired of waiting! But whether such evidence would even be
accepted is another matter of course.

On 2010-08-17, Mr.T <MrT_at_home> wrote:

"Golden One" <jpburns_at_westnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:0df0246b-a91b-47d9-8be5-a7f9a731537e_at_i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
The person had them fitted after they were held to blame for an
accident that was not their fault.

Wish I had them fitted when I was fined for driving carefully through a
faulty red arrow after I waited 5 minutes for it to change (at 2AM and
nothing else on the road except an unmarked cop car apparently
I would have at least enjoyed playing the footage in real time in court
until THEY go tired of waiting! But whether such evidence would even be
accepted is another matter of course.

If you stop in the wrong spot the metal detector loop might not 'see'
your car. sometimes reversing a bit triggers the lights.


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Wonder if it was Toowoomba Qld. Going back about 15 years ago, the lights never

In article <i4dlep$m8...@reversiblemaps.ath.cx>, ja...@xnet.co.nz says...

On 2010-08-17, Mr.T <MrT_at_home> wrote:

"Golden One" <jpbu...@westnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:0df0246b-a91b-47d9-8be5-a7f9a731537e_at_i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com....
The person had them fitted after they were held to blame for an
accident that was not their fault.

Wish I had them fitted when I was fined for driving carefully through a
faulty red arrow after I waited 5 minutes for it to change (at 2AM and
nothing else on the road except an unmarked cop car apparently
I would have at least enjoyed playing the footage in real time in court
until THEY go tired of waiting! But whether such evidence would even be
accepted is another matter of course.

If you stop in the wrong spot the metal detector loop might not 'see'
your car. sometimes reversing a bit triggers the lights.

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Wonder if it was Toowoomba Qld. Going back about 15 years ago, the lights never
change late at night if you are on a motorcycle... sitting there and there is no
other traffic for fuck*ng kilometers. It would be one giant arseh*le of a cop
that would book you for going through them.

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

Athol <athol_SPIT_SPAM_at_idl.net.au> wrote:

3. The driver frequently sees other drivers doing really stupid things
and wants to record these types of events to put on u-tube, etc.. :-)

There's not enough space for that on the whole Internet, Athol.

On 16/08/2010 2:28 AM, terryc wrote:
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:50:12 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:

On the news last week, there was a story about in-car video footage
being used in a road rage court case. Supposedly the victim's car had 4
cameras (front, rear, left, right I presume). I wonder if it's like the
shitty CCTV in my uncle's shop - it does a mosaic of the 4 cameras so
you only get 288 lines resolution each picture (same as VHS tape). I
doubt you could identify an armed robber off it. It should be HD only
for this sort of thing.

No idea, but I'd love to know the tech details.

It has been feasible for about a decade to just have a computer running a
capture card storing pictures/video to a hard disk. Limitations were the
quality of the cameras that you could afford and the size of the hard
disk that you could afford, which implied the limit to the amount of
recording(history).

These days a dvr at 500 or 600 tvl per-cam and 20 to 25 fps is under 400$
it's getting very affordable

In article <i4dlep$m8q$2_at_reversiblemaps.ath.cx>, jasen_at_xnet.co.nz says...
On 2010-08-17, Mr.T <MrT_at_home> wrote:

"Golden One" <jpburns_at_westnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:0df0246b-a91b-47d9-8be5-a7f9a731537e_at_i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
The person had them fitted after they were held to blame for an
accident that was not their fault.

Wish I had them fitted when I was fined for driving carefully through a
faulty red arrow after I waited 5 minutes for it to change (at 2AM and
nothing else on the road except an unmarked cop car apparently
I would have at least enjoyed playing the footage in real time in court
until THEY go tired of waiting! But whether such evidence would even be
accepted is another matter of course.

If you stop in the wrong spot the metal detector loop might not 'see'
your car. sometimes reversing a bit triggers the lights.


--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news_at_netfront.net ---

Wonder if it was Toowoomba Qld. Going back about 15 years ago, the lights never
change late at night if you are on a motorcycle... sitting there and there is no
other traffic for fuck*ng kilometers. It would be one giant arseh*le of a cop
that would book you for going through them.

Al
--

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:25:07 +1000, Albm&ctd
alb_mandctdNOWMD_at_connexus.net.au> wrote:

In article <i4dlep$m8q$2_at_reversiblemaps.ath.cx>, jasen_at_xnet.co.nz says...
On 2010-08-17, Mr.T <MrT_at_home> wrote:

"Golden One" <jpburns_at_westnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:0df0246b-a91b-47d9-8be5-a7f9a731537e_at_i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
The person had them fitted after they were held to blame for an
accident that was not their fault.

Wish I had them fitted when I was fined for driving carefully through a
faulty red arrow after I waited 5 minutes for it to change (at 2AM and
nothing else on the road except an unmarked cop car apparently
I would have at least enjoyed playing the footage in real time in court
until THEY go tired of waiting! But whether such evidence would even be
accepted is another matter of course.

If you stop in the wrong spot the metal detector loop might not 'see'
your car. sometimes reversing a bit triggers the lights.


--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news_at_netfront.net ---

Wonder if it was Toowoomba Qld. Going back about 15 years ago, the lights never
change late at night if you are on a motorcycle... sitting there and there is no
other traffic for fuck*ng kilometers. It would be one giant arseh*le of a cop
that would book you for going through them.

There are no kilometers in Australia.

OK kilometres then

In aus.cars Bernd Felsche <berfel_at_innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
Athol <athol_SPIT_SPAM_at_idl.net.au> wrote:

3. The driver frequently sees other drivers doing really stupid things
and wants to record these types of events to put on u-tube, etc.. :-)

There's not enough space for that on the whole Internet, Athol.

Indeed, but my point was that there is a rational explaination for
doing so.

I suppose if you instigated a road rage incident it would look like the victim

If you stop in the wrong spot the metal detector loop might not 'see'
your car. sometimes reversing a bit triggers the lights.

Wonder if it was Toowoomba Qld. Going back about 15 years ago, the lights
never
change late at night if you are on a motorcycle... sitting there and there
is no
other traffic for fuck*ng kilometers. It would be one giant arseh*le of a
cop
that would book you for going through them.