Crash Camera
 

Installed a crash camera in my X5, its a DOD GSE550, has GPS, speed, time, 120deg angle, its also HD 1080.

Wired it into the top console and comes on when I start the car, has a 16gig mini SD but can take a 32gig.

Why?

I do a lot of city driving, the X5 is my DD, between people running red lights, running stop signs, not giving way on roundabouts, push bike riders & motorbikes cutting you off and people changing lanes without warning and predestrians "J" walking and finally buses just pulling out infront of you and trucks that have not cleaned there trays droping debris on the road and last but not least, idiots weaving in and the traffic that cause multiple pileups on the freeway and being pulled over by the Hwy Patrol asking why you did not see the 60klm speed sign hidden behind that tree?

PS. There's one more, 80 year old's driving at 80klm in the middle or right lane on a 110klm speed hwy!

PSS. There one more, its great to play back when you have your car serviced as it records voice as well?

So is the plan to submit the video to the police and file a complaint whenever those things happen?

Already have, wrote a letter to the Police Commissioner and they investigated and pulled the ticket.

Cool. If I had that setup I'd be at the police station every week.

I think its a great idea. I wish I had one. I recently had a psycho vandalise my car, while I was in it. He went on to vandalise others as we watched. Since missus was with, and wouldn't let me kick his ass, a video of the event wouldve been great for court (which is coming up soon)

I had a arguement with a Policemen a while back, then six months later he tried to book me, but I was one step ahead of him.

i've been done a bit research on this, have you considered blackvue? they are the most popular incar camera on the market, google it, plenty of reviews etc.

Have been thinking of installing a small USB Camera on the back window, there is the 12volts plug in power supply in the rear cargo hatch so it would be pretty easy.

Will check the Backvue camera out! the DOD camera is not bad for a couple hundred dollars, the position its in is just set and forget until you need the vision etc, then you just pull the mini SD card out.

Also I travel up to the beach house alot, (there is no road) and its very interesting to watch the vision back when its full tide and you rally for 14klms up the beach at 80kph.

Blackvue comes with an optional power kit that connect directly to your battery with sleep mode so it does not drain your battery whilst parking at stationary.

I connected the DOD to the accessory wire in the top lighting console so it only powers up when the X5 is running or its turned to accessory mode.

For under a couple hundred dollars its A good investment and I can always remove it and install the camera into my next BMW!

what a great idea! nice work

OMG, i thought you were describing traffic in India or Philippines... for God's sake, where do you live? so i will try to avoid posting there!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

i thought you were describing my town

One of the Queensland Senators here said he wants to bring in a congestion tax for Brisbane.

If they stopped taking overseas trips and stopped wasting money we would have good roads. It's amazing how they can be in power for so long and then wakeup one day to realise they should been spending money on roads.

You can see why Politician's are the bottom run of the ladder, had my way they would not be allowed to touch the ladder at all.

Does DOD offers parking mode function?

Blackvue provides:

Parking Mode Recording with Motion Detection
In parking mode, recording will be triggered only in case of a detected motion or impact to save the storage space

http://eng.pittasoft.com/sub1_view.php?idx=49&s=20

I have upgraded from standard def to hi def after I couldn't recognized the guy who spat at my car. Blackvue400 in front, finevue200 at the back. Looking forward to dob-in anymore offenders.

Make sure to post to youtube if you happen to catch anything intersting on the road.
All the video register videos are from Russia outthere on youtube. Need representation from Australia! :)

The next full tide rally up the beach to the beach house I will post. Its great fun at 80kph, dogging debris, waves, coconuts for 14klm.

Is that camera thats part of the rear view mirror strictly for highbeam assist, or does it also work for speed limits. I've seen the Euro setup can read the speed limit signs and alert you.

To have speed limit you need the lane departure system, the camera in the rearview mirror only see's black & white, whereas the lane departure cameras see red also.

BMW cameras
 

I've asked this before, cant remember where...
If I could tap into the factory cameras ( already five, I would add two more to show the side along the doors ) then I can plumb them into a analogue to IP encoder, then store it all on a solid state HD NAS. Anyone have any info on the factory cameras? I wonder if they are analogue or digital. Does the factory screen take an analogue input - like an external DVD? If so then its likely that the cameras will input to the screen in analogue.