I'm only going to speak in animated gifs in this thread. ;)

MattKeil · 2011-04-16T20:47:12.000Z

Lunch of Kong:

I do. I keep a high-def in-car camera running with a view of my windshield and my speedometer. I use it so that I have reliable video evidence when I need:

to refute an officer who pulls me over for a traffic infraction I did not commit.

unbiased eyewitness testimony of events leading up to a collision.

Notice I said when and not if. That’s because these situations are almost inevitable if you drive your car every day.

I have the technology available, so I use it.

Ben_Sones · 2011-04-16T21:42:29.000Z

Bahimiron:

That’s a 20-footer.

nutsak · 2011-04-17T00:59:36.000Z

Lunch of Kong:

I do. I keep a high-def in-car camera running with a view of my windshield and my speedometer. I use it so that I have reliable video evidence when I need:

to refute an officer who pulls me over for a traffic infraction I did not commit.

unbiased eyewitness testimony of events leading up to a collision.

To show off your driving skillz on teh interwebs.
( Seriously though I’d like you to make a thread in hardware about your setup ).

WarrenM · 2011-04-17T03:00:08.000Z

Pogo:

The problem is that she has edged up to these two trucks, which provide shitty visibility ahead and tend to kick things up from the road all the time anyways

WTF? Where are you people driving? Kong has to video tape his apparently frequent run-ins with the police and Pogo has trucks flinging debris into the air “all the time”. My drive to work and back is pretty painless in comparison…

TranquilityBase · 2011-04-17T07:40:23.000Z

I found myself wishing I had a camera in my car just last week, when I spotted someone driving down the street with a couple wooden pallets stacked on the hood of his truck, and then two hours later, encountered another guy driving with a wheelbarrow fully loaded with dirt in the backseat of his Altima.

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-04-17T12:22:01.000Z

WarrenM:

WTF? Where are you people driving? Kong has to video tape his apparently frequent run-ins with the police and Pogo has trucks flinging debris into the air “all the time”. My drive to work and back is pretty painless in comparison…

Construction trucks are the worst. Rocks and shit always coming off those things. Driving on the freeways in Vegas during the construction boom was a nightmare.

TimElhajj · 2011-04-17T12:59:40.000Z

Have you seen Kong’s new wheels? No one who has is surprised by this news about his surveillance.

MattKeil · 2011-04-17T15:32:47.000Z

I would be surprised at that level of batshittery even if he drove a fucking Veyron.

Walter_Yarbrough · 2011-04-17T16:43:14.000Z

frank austin:

Call me crazy, but I thought this was the fucking ANIMATED GIF THREAD. Now kindly

Apparently others cannot read . . .

lips

Mightynute · 2011-04-17T18:46:04.000Z

sinnick · 2011-04-17T18:51:42.000Z

TranquilityBase · 2011-04-17T21:10:27.000Z

Lh_owon · 2011-04-17T21:11:56.000Z

Is that from a recent Top Gear? Don’t think I’ve seen it, looks worth a laugh.

nutsak · 2011-04-17T21:22:10.000Z

Pretty sure that’s when they drive to the North Pole.

LesJarvis · 2011-04-18T08:08:29.000Z

I’m almost positive this one doesn’t have any penises in it.

Marcus · 2011-04-18T08:41:35.000Z

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-04-19T00:00:12.000Z

Hans_Lauring · 2011-04-19T00:34:48.000Z

LesJarvis:

I’m almost positive this one doesn’t have any penises in it.

This does… (I hope that’s not a problem)
Linky (it’s probably NSFW… prudes)

Lunch_of_Kong · 2011-04-19T00:49:29.000Z

Marcus:

Thats crazy train right there.

With respect Marcus, as a cop you should recognize how unreliable witness testimony is. People swear to see things that never occurred. It’s part of the reason why patrol cars carry audio and video recorders. If you’re instead commenting that’s it’s crazy to need to refute police testimony, I never said it was because police lie. It’s because machines make mistakes. My protest that your radar must be wrong is much stronger if I can have you lean over and look at my speedometer video that indicates 37mph in the intersection and not the 56mph your radar claimed.

WarrenM:

My drive to work and back is pretty painless in comparison…

If you drive somewhere with zero risk, consider dropping your auto insurance.

I got mine after this happened:

My buddy ran a red light thinking that it was green and accused the driver who side-swiped him of running HIS light. The other driver happened to be running a dash cam and showed my buddy the video. My buddy says that until he saw the actual video, he would have sworn on his mother’s grave that his light had been green. This could have become a prolonged he said/she said situation, but thanks to a convenient camera, it was not.

Also… have you ever reviewed video of yourself driving on the road? Watching some footage of my own driving help me recognize the unnecessary risks I was taking in maneuvering through traffic in my daily driver. Recognizing what a jerk I was driving my SUV has helped me change my street driving behavior for the better and be safer.

You bunch of yentas.

JMR:

How do you have your camera mounted in the car?

Like this!

Lunch_of_Kong · 2011-04-19T01:21:04.000Z

JMR:

How do you have your camera mounted in the car?

Marcus:

Thats crazy train right there.

With respect Marcus, as a cop you must already recognize how unreliable witness testimony is. People swear to see things that never occurred. It’s part of the reason why patrol cars carry audio and video recorders. If you’re instead commenting that’s it’s crazy to need to refute police testimony, I never said it was because police lie. It’s because machines make mistakes. My protest that your radar or your vehicle ID is wrong is much stronger if I can have you lean over and look at my speedometer video that indicates 37mph in the intersection and not the 56mph your radar claimed.

WarrenM:

My drive to work and back is pretty painless in comparison…

I got mine after this happened:

My buddy ran a red light thinking that it was green and accused the driver who side-swiped him of running HIS light. The other driver happened to be running a dash cam and showed my buddy the video. My buddy says that until he saw the actual video, he would have sworn on his mother’s grave that his light had been green. This could have become a prolonged he said/she said situation, but thanks to a convenient camera, it was not. I was going to get one–plus a data acquisition module–for my driving/racing school purposes anyway. Now I just hit the record button every time I get in.

Also… have you ever reviewed video of yourself driving on the road? Watching some footage of my own driving help me recognize the unnecessary risks I was taking in maneuvering through traffic in my daily driver. Recognizing what a jerk I was driving my SUV has helped me change my street driving behavior for the better and be safer.

You bunch of yentas.