Almost crashed my car coming home, or died, but survived without a scratch... :o
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Ever since I discovered Photoshop can export videos as gifs with customisable quality I've been using that which retains excellent quality and the ability to reduce areas of the colour space that are not needed and so reducing file size, That scene is all dark so there's no need for any brighter colours to dominate the frame!
That sounds like a major BTM! I'd have had to go grab a tea at the next service after that
Camera saving the video from the heavy breaking I think
I haven’t seen the video but the closest one I had was a cow in the middle of the A1 in the middle of the night.
I wasn’t speeding and I managed to get the car stopped with a few meters to spare but I was nearly collected by some larger vehicles behind me who were not paying attention which was very unnerving.
I wasn’t speeding and I managed to get the car stopped with a few meters to spare but I was nearly collected by some larger vehicles behind me who were not paying attention which was very unnerving.
Soldato
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I've not seen it!)
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I've not seen it!)
Was due to the potholes pal
i drive that road all the time and my low profile tires dont like potholes so i anticipated taking a slight wide route to get through them..
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Was just a file upload site link I think...
Was due to the potholes pal
i drive that road all the time and my low profile tires dont like potholes so i anticipated taking a slight wide route to get through them..
Link to the vid pretty please!
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They've escaped from a field someone left the gate open presumably. Reminds me of when driving down a similar lane a large deer jumped over a hedgerow immediately in front of me ran in front of the car and jumped over the opposite hedgerow into the next field must have missed the bonnet by millimetres I mean I could reached out the window and touched it
Oh had a similar moment going over a hill when it decided to snow it wasn't much maybe half an inch or less but reaching the apex the grip went completely swung left and right there was a sharp bend ahead with woodland and for a moment could see myself sailing straight into a tree not sure how but managed to straighten it up I think by just keeping the wheels straight and not wildly pulling the wheel left or right as would be natural reaction anyway a moment later the tyres found their grip again it was ok but that was scary
Actually the aquaplaning reminds me of the main road dual carriageway around here everytime theres heavy rain you can bet theres going to be a accident and sure enough yesterday there was a 4 vehicle smashup the road was closed all day massive tailbacks everywhere took me half an hour to get 3 miles down the road last night, anyway I'm sure its because aquaplaning there a few stretches where the water just streams across the road running off the sides of the embankment and since its a wide stretch at that point everyone guns it and someone always comes a cropper young girl was killed last year on that stretch I've had a few hairy moments myself
Video link! Needed! Good to be safe and alive though isn't it
I am reminded of the brown pants moment from few years ago steadily overtaking a lorry during rain and then aquaplaning feeling the car about to go sideways into lorry or central res
(it looks faster than it was because the lorry was going slow, and the video was 60fps)
Oh had a similar moment going over a hill when it decided to snow it wasn't much maybe half an inch or less but reaching the apex the grip went completely swung left and right there was a sharp bend ahead with woodland and for a moment could see myself sailing straight into a tree not sure how but managed to straighten it up I think by just keeping the wheels straight and not wildly pulling the wheel left or right as would be natural reaction anyway a moment later the tyres found their grip again it was ok but that was scary
Actually the aquaplaning reminds me of the main road dual carriageway around here everytime theres heavy rain you can bet theres going to be a accident and sure enough yesterday there was a 4 vehicle smashup the road was closed all day massive tailbacks everywhere took me half an hour to get 3 miles down the road last night, anyway I'm sure its because aquaplaning there a few stretches where the water just streams across the road running off the sides of the embankment and since its a wide stretch at that point everyone guns it and someone always comes a cropper young girl was killed last year on that stretch I've had a few hairy moments myself
Video link! Needed! Good to be safe and alive though isn't it
I am reminded of the brown pants moment from few years ago steadily overtaking a lorry during rain and then aquaplaning feeling the car about to go sideways into lorry or central res
(it looks faster than it was because the lorry was going slow, and the video was 60fps)
I'm confused... What kind of camera is this, it looks like it's sitting outside on the roof yet once the wipers go by you can see it's inside. Yet it don't look fisheye.
Man of Honour
It was this dashcam I had back then. Has a rectilinear wide angle lens so doesn't look fisheye but has a wide FOV.
Was very good for picture quality day and night and I had custom settings installed that used a higher bitrate. Sadly I don't think airflow to expel heat was great on these as it lasts a year or so before slowly dying, error beeps etc and would go through MicroSD cards every so often (corruption/errors). I used it in 21:9 mode 60fps which was really nice quality. I have not had a dashcam since though as just cba any more
That's what the M275 is like here where that gif was captured. Either always people forgetting how to drive and crashing, or crashing because of adverse weather! It's not uncommon to have queues build up because someone before or after the Wallington interchange has made an error in driving judgement!
Was very good for picture quality day and night and I had custom settings installed that used a higher bitrate. Sadly I don't think airflow to expel heat was great on these as it lasts a year or so before slowly dying, error beeps etc and would go through MicroSD cards every so often (corruption/errors). I used it in 21:9 mode 60fps which was really nice quality. I have not had a dashcam since though as just cba any more
That's what the M275 is like here where that gif was captured. Either always people forgetting how to drive and crashing, or crashing because of adverse weather! It's not uncommon to have queues build up because someone before or after the Wallington interchange has made an error in driving judgement!
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This. A Thousand times this. Fair play mate.
A cow is a lot of mass to hit at speed.
I was driving back home down a tiny country road one night and a sodding cow just ran across from one gap in the hedge to the other side. Luckily I wasn't going very fast as that would have destroyed my little 90's hatchback and probably killed me.
Yeah we have a dog that is constantly on Nextdoor or the village facebook page where people have found it. And it's always the same dog. Don't know what the owners are doing...
To the OP, when you just missed them was that noise the sound of air escaping from your nether regions?
Good job you were in the middle of the road to avoid the potholes as not sure you would have missed the one on the left otherwise.
Hop you rang the police?
Good job you were in the middle of the road to avoid the potholes as not sure you would have missed the one on the left otherwise.
Hop you rang the police?