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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / February 2007More Great Snow/Ice Videos Are Coming Soon
Thanks to that great storm in the midwest, look for more great videos of shitheads sliding into each other on snow and ice to hit the Internet RSN. If Brent or 223rem only had video cameras, we'd have seen some already. :)  SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! > Thanks to that great storm in the midwest, look for more great videos > of shitheads sliding into each other on snow and ice to hit the > Internet RSN. If Brent or 223rem only had video cameras, we'd have > seen some already. :) > -- > I'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! You keep this up; I'll have to invest in a video camera myself. ;) I was wishing I had one the other day in St. Louis. I took some photos of unsigned MO 799. That's the official designation of the ML King Bridge on the Missouri side. The video would have lasted 30 seconds. Scott, do you use a webcam+laptop setup? 223rem <223rem@gmail.com> said in rec.autos.driving: >Scott, do you use a webcam+laptop setup? Not anymore. The framerate isn't so great, and for not much more money you can get a used camcorder on eBay. This video was shot with a laptop + webcam: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4388138191155175700 This one was shot with a Hi8 camcorder: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6993275178558790543 The webcam was about $80; the camcorder was $107. SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! > 223rem <223rem@gmail.com> said in rec.autos.driving: > >> Scott, do you use a webcam+laptop setup? > This one was shot with a Hi8 camcorder: How and where did you mount the camcorder? Me, I'm thinking of using velcro, my camcorder is light enough for that. 223rem <223rem@gmail.com> said in rec.autos.driving: >How and where did you mount the camcorder? http://www.chasecam.com/mounts-suction.htm Scroll down to the "SM31 Camcorder Window Mount" section and you'll see photos of exactly what I did. >Me, I'm thinking of using velcro, my camcorder is light enough for that. Please post your first video - especially the part where the adhesive backing on the velcro loses its grip on your dash and your camera goes flying. :) SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! > Thanks to that great storm in the midwest, look for more great videos > of shitheads sliding into each other on snow and ice to hit the > Internet RSN. If Brent or 223rem only had video cameras, we'd have > seen some already. :) Actually all I saw this weekend was an SUV bashed in on both ends on the NB edens expressway as I was heading southbound. I stayed off the roads during the ice storm because the idiotcy out there. tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in rec.autos.driving: >> Thanks to that great storm in the midwest, look for more great videos >> of shitheads sliding into each other on snow and ice to hit the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >NB edens expressway as I was heading southbound. I stayed off the roads >during the ice storm because the idiotcy out there. I agree, stay off the roads - but taking a nice, brisk walk with your camcorder might have proven fruitful. :) SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! > tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in > rec.autos.driving: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I agree, stay off the roads - but taking a nice, brisk walk with your > camcorder might have proven fruitful. :) I did take a walk out to the main road, the sleeting rain would have likely destroyed a typical camcorder without some special protection. But yeah, I should get a digital camcorder so I can show some videos... Could have had a good one today... as I was going southbound out of the loop some asshat comes down the left hand on ramp immediately before the right hand exit to the ike. Takes that SUV all the way across all lanes without any concern to whom is being cut off. Driver in front of me had to nail the brakes pretty hard to avoid a collision. And it wasn't that this person was clueless, the move showed that the driver had every intent on doing that and probably had done it before. Of course reasonable people just drive a couple blocks on the surface streets and enter directly on to the ike. tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in rec.autos.driving: >Could have had a good one today... as I was going southbound out of the >loop some asshat comes down the left hand on ramp immediately before the >right hand exit to the ike. Takes that SUV all the way across all lanes >without any concern to whom is being cut off. I thought they were going to eliminate all of those left-side ramps? Or is that just on the Ryan? But yeah, I have missed TONS of great footage because I didn't have a camcorder set up and taping. Ideally, I would like to get a small "lipstick" camera, mount it permanently inside the car, and connect it to a permanently-mounted digital recorder with removable memory cards. The recorder would continually record video into a ring buffer, with the newest material automatically overwriting the oldest. If something happens that I want to save, I can hit a button and dump the contents of the ring buffer into a file. To get the recorded video out of the car, I just pop out the memory card and bring it over to my main computer inside the house. ChaseCam makes something that would work, but it's pretty expensive: http://www.chasecam.com/recorders/pdr.htm $600(!!!) for the recorder, plus another $275(!!!) for the camera. My 3-CCD miniDV camcorder cost less than that! SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! > tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in > rec.autos.driving: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>right hand exit to the ike. Takes that SUV all the way across all lanes >>without any concern to whom is being cut off. > I thought they were going to eliminate all of those left-side ramps? > Or is that just on the Ryan? There are no left ramps on at least what I consider the ryan proper and are from about 10th on the south to ohio on the north. They have closed every other one. So it's not a total elimination, just half of them. > But yeah, I have missed TONS of great footage because I didn't have a > camcorder set up and taping. Ideally, I would like to get a small [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > car, I just pop out the memory card and bring it over to my main > computer inside the house. > ChaseCam makes something that would work, but it's pretty expensive: > > http://www.chasecam.com/recorders/pdr.htm > > $600(!!!) for the recorder, plus another $275(!!!) for the camera. My > 3-CCD miniDV camcorder cost less than that! Yeah... that's the kind of set up I would like, but the cost is more than I want to spend on it. But maybe it would be worth it just for self protection. tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in rec.autos.driving: >> I thought they were going to eliminate all of those left-side ramps? >> Or is that just on the Ryan? > >There are no left ramps on at least what I consider the ryan proper and >are from about 10th on the south to ohio on the north. They have closed >every other one. So it's not a total elimination, just half of them. They just closed them? Not replaced? Sheesh! IDOT sucks!! :) >> $600(!!!) for the recorder, plus another $275(!!!) for the camera. My >> 3-CCD miniDV camcorder cost less than that! > >Yeah... that's the kind of set up I would like, but the cost is more than >I want to spend on it. But maybe it would be worth it just for self >protection. I suspect you could build something yourself for less - IF you are good at embedded systems. Maybe an ARM9-based microcontroller with a hardware video compression chip and an SD card slot... How are your hardware design skills? :) SignatureI'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it! >>There are no left ramps on at least what I consider the ryan proper and >>are from about 10th on the south to ohio on the north. They have closed >>every other one. So it's not a total elimination, just half of them. > They just closed them? Not replaced? > Sheesh! IDOT sucks!! :) Actually a little more than closed, they cut a section out of the structure so nothing can drive down them without taking a 10 foot fall.. > I suspect you could build something yourself for less - IF you are > good at embedded systems. Maybe an ARM9-based microcontroller with a > hardware video compression chip and an SD card slot... How are your > hardware design skills? :) All I do is hardware design... gears, drive shafts, brackets, housings, cutters, etc etc.... But somehow I think a mechanical computer is going to be a wee bit too big. |
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