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Wow, Brandon. That sucks. Glad you're ok.

 

Sounds like you were on Sooner Road? South of I-240, that is a favorite area that the cops like to go "fishing." I avoid Sooner like the bubonic plague. I would go down Sunny Lane/Porter.

I play hockey with an Oklahoma City cop and I will ask him on Sunday on what he thinks. No, it should not have been him. He is an Evil Knievel.

 

The Oklahoma City police officer told me that it should not be your fault. However, I would agree that it would probably be in your best interest (but a loss to your bank account) to get a lawyer and constest the citation.

I had an incident and tried to represent myself and I should have bit the bullet and got a lawyer. Do not know what they would cost but I would think about $500. Anybody correct this?

 

I didn't get a citation. I didn't get anything but a headache, and a sorry from a policeman.

 

sorry brandon that sucks!!!! Hope everything works out for you!

 

Who checks the police for their insurance verification?

At least you avoided any litigation.

One funny thing, but it happened quite awhile ago, an OHP was doing a uturn on the grass median northbound on 44 right by OCCC. He/she got both bumpers on their interceptor high pointed and got STUCK in the center median. Somebody got quite lucky and I got the laugh.

Nice that the cop gave you an apology and nobody was hurt.

 

i lived in ok for 3 years, i still hate oklahoma, tinker, and the lying cops...
taken from another post of mine...

After I received a traffic ticket for something I did not do, going to court twice and have the officer lie in court, I decided I would never let that happen to me again. To this day, almost 2 years later, I'm still upset about the incident.

I did not post this project upon initial creation but since I had to take it apart for an update, I thought I would share.
Cost breakdown:
Camera: $150
Wide angle lens (not required): $25
Electronic parts: $25 not including the stuff I had in my pile of spare electronic parts.
Other junk: $25 ish

Time breakdown: I did the project in stages over about a year, but total time working on it was about 160 hours, or a month of full time 9 to 5 work, with no lunch.
And at less than, greater than, or equal to ~$35/hr as engineer: $5600.

So, a of total less than $200 for a fully automatic, self reliant, in car video monitor system and proof against lying cops

The camera turns on and off with the car. This is good because you don't have to remember to turn it on and off each time you get in and out of the car. It's always there, like the radio or something. After having the camera in the car for about a year, I don't like driving my other car without it. It provides a lot of security and it you can back up your word, because your testimony in court is insignificant against a lying corrupt cop. I will be making another version for my other car.

To start recording, I set it up so that when I go over a defined throttle threshold, it starts recording. So basically, it starts recording whenever I drive because I have the threshold set low.

That's all nice and good, but what happens when the memory chip is full of video? If you remember to look every time you get in the car or keep track of how many minutes per resolution you have been recording, you can delete the old video files yourself. That was too much for me.

To solve that, I made it such that the program will delete video based on certain conditions; record time being one several conditions. It will also reduce the resolution so that more video can be recorded, if according to the conditions it is necessary to reduce resolution, rather than deleting files. This helps keep the video on memory for longer drives, and longer periods of time, for you to review later.

You can also set it to not delete anything (while operating in the car) by pressing an external switch. You would do this if you recorded something important/interesting that you do not want to be deleted by the auto delete routine. Later, after downloading the video, you can reset the program back to normal operation with the same switch. This comes in handy when you recorded something with the camera outside the car (using camera as a hand held), and then mount the camera back in the car for the drive home.


AIPTEK A-HD+
You can find specs of it online anywhere.

Here are the internals with my wire harness connections attached. The wires are tiny and soldering was not easy.




After camera is put back together, this is the only external visual clue. I didn't want a bunch of extra wires hanging out of the camera because I may want to use it as a hand held unit as well. This is nice and clean, easy to disconnect from the wire harness.






Breadboard work getting the software and hardware to mingle with each other.




The software can be updated while on the PCB.

Here is the control box case. It came from an old power supply that I took apart (cheap ftw). It mounts to the underside of the dash with some Velcro strips. Total weight with circuit board is only a few ounces; 4"x 3"x 1.5" dimension. Control box with circuit board installed. The connectors is a Honda 8pin connector, looks factory, haha.

Camera mounted in the car on my $5 camera mount, with a quick release wing nut.
Yes, the mount scratches the case some. Not a big deal to me.


Dust included



Here is a video taken the first week I had the camera installed. It is this type of thing that I catch all the time. No wide angle yet. Webshots kills the quality, but I have the original files on my PC and can read the truck's license plate. You can also see the speed on the original file. However, you can see the stability on the terrible roads. Not perfect, but good for 5 bucks.
in car video

 

I know exactly where that video was taken at, and I see that there ALL the time. Well, it happens everywhere here...

By the way, you're a smart dude.

Also, why have you never been to any meets?

 

no longer live there

also, take some advice from someone (you say) is smart... get out of the AF, and oklahoma as soon as you can.