Stupid Drivers and Near Misses (Near Hits?) - December, 2011

*** I apologize for the "jittery" video in a lot of the clips. I just installed a new camera and software and was inadvertently capturing at too high of a frame rate for my computer's processor, which caused Interleave Errors in the output AVI files ***

Dashcam footage from my Ford Ranger as I trundle about the City of Pittsburgh, capturing the inane, insane and downright stupid drivers out there.

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Locations:
00:00 - Intro - I-79 Northbound, Mile Marker 83
00:09 - West Liberty Ave at Potomac Ave, Dormont
00:37 - N Neville St at Ellsworth Ave, North Oakland
00:45 - Bausman St at Mathews Ave, Knoxville
01:06 - Park Manor Blvd at Ikea, Robinson Township
01:19 - 40th St Bridge at Route 28 (Allegheny Valley Expressway), Millvale
01:42 - Liberty Bridge Outbound, over the Monongahela River, South Shore/South SIde
03:02 - Library Rd Approaching Grove Rd, Castle Shannon
03:23 - Saw Mill Run Blvd (PA-51) between Lewis St and Woodruff St
03:43 - I-79 Northbound, Mile Marker 83


My Dashcam is a Logitech QuickCam C260, mounted behind my rear-view mirror and connected to an IBM Thinkpad T42 with an SSD for recording.

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[crf156]

@1:36 ... you made a left hand turn even though there is a sign that says no left hand turns...

[lildobe]

@crf156 If you look under the sign, you can see that there is text written there - giving the times of day that sign is in effect. (9a-4pm, M-F, iirc). The turn was legal.

[crf156]

@lildobe Ah, alright. Thanks for the correction! :D

[lildobe]

@crf156 It can be hard to read the road signs in my videos (and will be until I get a faster laptop and 1080p camera) so I highlight and type out the contents of them usually. I just missed that one.

[mattbjrs]

Nice to see another dashcam from Pennsylvania. That's an interesting setup with the webcam+laptop. Too bad the laptop's CPU isn't efficient enough to crunch all that video and audio data like a DSP is. I always thought of trying a setup like that, but I couldn't justify the cost of buying a SSD for my laptop. 0:40 and 1:12 were pretty scary with the sound effect added lol.

[lildobe]

@mattbjrs The laptop itself is an old Thinkpad T42 (Pentium M, 1.6GHz) with only 1gb RAM, so it lags quite a bit when crunching a lot of data :-/

I plan to replace it with a new Dual- or Quad-Core machine in the near future.

[theamazinbagman]

Its like grand theft auto

[RPSC02]

you should submit to the website jagoff.com

[lildobe]

@DrivingandDashcam It's called "MiniCam" and is made by curioustech . net

[DrivingandDashcam]

I like the camera that have GPS and stuff. What is it called?