Dash Cam Captures of Human Stupidity

Costco has a nice sale on this Cobra CDR 840. Has anyone had any experience with it?

http://m.costco.com/Cobra-Drive-HD-...keyword=Cobra+dashcam&langId=-1&storeId=10301

 

No experience with that one but I did have a Cobra CDR820. Great quality picture but...

The cord started to catch fire one day, luckily we were in the truck at the time. Sent it back to Cobra and took them like two months for them to send a new cord. Bought a second one to use in the meantime, didn't work right out of the box, would cut off after a few minutes. They overheat easily and shut off. Our first one lasted for a few months but inevitably would overheat and shut off. Then it kept recording in one minute increments no matter how many times I changed the setting not to. Now it will not stay powered on. Seems a lot of people have the same issue with them dying after a few months.

I had a Cobra CB radio too that died after a few months. I'm moving away from Cobra now lol.

Not sure if that one has the same issues but it seems like Cobra quality has gone down.

 

Thanks for the heads up. That power cord problem scares me.

 

Even your rear cam seems to have better video quality/higher bit rate than my front cam...might be time to retire this X300

Seen this old guy do this at least 3 times now and use the emergency lane to cut folks off at the end of the freeway entrance. Annoyingly enough, he doesn't even speed away once on the freeway. Just wants to be in front I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEem1LEO1E

 

no human stupidity here, just day and night views of the mini 0805 camera. looks like it works pretty good to me! don't mind the time/date stamp. i still need to figure those out so they are inaccurate at the moment lol



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcBi6BfUCyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdvW0bAC8Eo

 

Thanks Detective_Dan, I have 801s for me, the GF, and my Dad. They've worked real well, although mine (after 2.5 Phx summers) is starting to flake out a little. I'm looking to go to the 805s for Front/Rear in the near future. Too many negative reviews on the 806s. Your vids reaffirm for me that the 805 is the next logical choice for my needs out of dashcam.

 

Glad I could help. The video is much much clearer before it was uploaded to YouTube. They like to murder video quality lol

 

I picked up the one from Costco today. Been thinking about getting one for a while. I am happy with it so far, it is easy to use and you can adjust some things on it to your preferences. Records about a 2 hour loop with the included card, which is more than enough in my opinion, but you can get a bigger card if you want.

 

I have mine set up to record as many 5 minute intervals that will fit on a 32g card. Makes it easier to find something. And it constantly overwrites the oldest file and with one touch of a button it stops from overwriting a certain file if something happens

 

I've got mine set to 1 min loops. Easier to find/edit when I find something worthwhile for this thread. I'm looking forward to the 805's larger capacity though. I run my cam 24/7, since I park outside both at home and work. I'm hoping to score usable surveillance video someday, in case something happens while I'm parked.

 

I set mine at 3mins. 5 min clips take too long to load in the computer editor. And 1 min clips are too short for when I need to lock a clip, sometimes when I capture something and go to lock the clip, it's too late and started a new clip.

 

http://youtu.be/Vm_upotu2YY

 

Nothing really stupid here, besides me. The folks in that Mustang were driving well under the speed limit, to enjoy the view probably. But anyways, picked up a Street Guardian SG9665GC and finally got to looking over some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJgeZtO8poI

 

Walmart has some dash cams for like $25. Thinking about getting one and testing it as a rear camera. It's one of their Christmas items.

 

How are the mounts on the various cams that y'all are using? I'm hoping to get one that I can turn around to face me, to record the cop if I get pulled over.

 

The cobra I got from Costco has an awesome mount and it is 360 degrees. It suction cups on super tight and the camera is in a ball swivel attached to that. I can turn it around to face me and the window in about two seconds and will do that if I get pulled over.

 

And a deer hit my truck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojp2B2kB7fo

 

Did it get your door, or bumper?

 

It hit the door and bed side and bumper.

 

Bummer