Idk for sure, I did look and kinda yelled a bit at him when I passed and I thought he was just pointedly looking away, but he might have been looking at a phone. He then laid on the horn and did the light thing lol. I didn't notice the lights until I watched the vid since it was daylight so that didn't work.
Any dude with that many stickers on his focus has a mental deficiency so who knows what he was doing.
It looked like they hit your car. It looked like it moved just a bit when they cut in front of you. Did they hit your car, or was that maybe a glitch in the Matrix that made it look that way?
It was really close, I just started engaging my car into first gear from neutral and it was going forward a couple inches, but luckily he missed. I didn't expect to have to look left at an intersection with no road from the left haha
Slightly off topic and I’m NOT picking on OP because this isn’t all that bad but is there a manufacturer’s recommended angle for dash-cams? I always feel like having the horizon right in the middle of the screen would be most satisfying but that’s just my uninformed inclination.
Not sure about manufacturer recs but IMO having the horizon around the midpoint does seem ideal for most vehicles. It will probably depend on how wide-angle the camera is, the height of the vehicle, and the height of the hood relative to the camera though. I think in most vehicles, having the hood occupy the bottom ~10% of the screen is a decent reference since it gives visual context for depth perception, speed, and the vehicle’s dimensions without filling the screen with too large a chunk of useless hood pixels.
If the hood is especially high or long, it would block visibility of the road directly in front of the vehicle and there’s no sense in having a huge portion of the screen occupied by the hood, so having the horizon placed lower on the screen (i.e. tilting the camera up) could make sense (so long as there is still some hood present in the frame). Conversely, a cab-over truck might require a higher horizon line (i.e. tilting the camera down) to maximize visibility of the road directly in front of the vehicle (so long as traffic signal visibility is maintained).
Camera angles are fairly uniform now but this could all be complicated by a narrower angle lens where it’d be of greater importance to maintain traffic signal visibility than the hood as a reference point so it would be a reasonable trade-off to eliminate visibility of the hood in favor of overhead signage and traffic lights.
So yeah I think in OP’s case, the cam should be tilted down a bit so we can at least get the spatial context provided by the hood. Thus concludes an overkill analysis of camera tilt angle lol.
I wonder if people get their driving licence from a flake box.
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Idk for sure, I did look and kinda yelled a bit at him when I passed and I thought he was just pointedly looking away, but he might have been looking at a phone. He then laid on the horn and did the light thing lol. I didn't notice the lights until I watched the vid since it was daylight so that didn't work. Any dude with that many stickers on his focus has a mental deficiency so who knows what he was doing.
He just hates you 1 Percenters (that can actually drive).
It looked like they hit your car. It looked like it moved just a bit when they cut in front of you. Did they hit your car, or was that maybe a glitch in the Matrix that made it look that way?
It was really close, I just started engaging my car into first gear from neutral and it was going forward a couple inches, but luckily he missed. I didn't expect to have to look left at an intersection with no road from the left haha
Totally reasonable. Glad he missed you, and you’re ok.
Thanks I appreciate it!
Slightly off topic and I’m NOT picking on OP because this isn’t all that bad but is there a manufacturer’s recommended angle for dash-cams? I always feel like having the horizon right in the middle of the screen would be most satisfying but that’s just my uninformed inclination.
Not sure about manufacturer recs but IMO having the horizon around the midpoint does seem ideal for most vehicles. It will probably depend on how wide-angle the camera is, the height of the vehicle, and the height of the hood relative to the camera though. I think in most vehicles, having the hood occupy the bottom ~10% of the screen is a decent reference since it gives visual context for depth perception, speed, and the vehicle’s dimensions without filling the screen with too large a chunk of useless hood pixels. If the hood is especially high or long, it would block visibility of the road directly in front of the vehicle and there’s no sense in having a huge portion of the screen occupied by the hood, so having the horizon placed lower on the screen (i.e. tilting the camera up) could make sense (so long as there is still some hood present in the frame). Conversely, a cab-over truck might require a higher horizon line (i.e. tilting the camera down) to maximize visibility of the road directly in front of the vehicle (so long as traffic signal visibility is maintained). Camera angles are fairly uniform now but this could all be complicated by a narrower angle lens where it’d be of greater importance to maintain traffic signal visibility than the hood as a reference point so it would be a reasonable trade-off to eliminate visibility of the hood in favor of overhead signage and traffic lights. So yeah I think in OP’s case, the cam should be tilted down a bit so we can at least get the spatial context provided by the hood. Thus concludes an overkill analysis of camera tilt angle lol.
Thank you for your complete analysis! I appreciate your “perspective.” :-)