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Old July 21st 05, 12:40 AM
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Scott en Aztlán > wrote in
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> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:42:58 -0500,
> (Brent P) wrote:
>
>>In article >, Scott en
>>Aztlán wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:17:29 GMT, Dave Head >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think I'm going to start carrying my little point-n-shoot camera
>>>>again, the one with the flash built in, and start taking pictures of
>>>>these idiots and see what they do...
>>>
>>> Tomorrow's headline:
>>>
>>> "Man Killed While Taking Pictures While Driving"

>>
>>To avoid this carl-taylor style problem I would like to install small
>>video cameras in my car. The cameras are pretty cheap, it's recording
>>the video where it gets difficult and more costly.

>
> Not at all.
>
> I used a piece of masking tape to affix a $50 webcam to the top of my
> dashboard. The cable plugs into a laptop resting on the passenger's
> seat. Once you hit "record" it will capture the video to your hard
> drive until your disk fills up without requiring any further attention
> from you.
>
>


It would probably come out a jittery mess that would be barely viewable.

I don't know how much vibration a laptop's hard drive can take and still
be accessing with a high enough through put to handle video images.

Doug
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