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  M Morrison, 26 Sep 2005 @ 10:52am

  
  

  You're On Candid Hit And Run Camera!

  I remember seeing a presentation at a local university conference last year about a similar system that ran on a 2-minute long continous recording loop, with 4 cameras mounted front, rear and both sides of a car. This system was designed for finding out, in the event of an accident, which car was responsible for the accident. The system was hooked up to the crash sensors used for the airbags, so that the recording would stop about 30 seconds after the crash happened - thus leaving 90 seconds of video before the accident (and some afterwards) to ascertain what happened.

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  Randie, 26 Sep 2005 @ 12:02pm

  
  

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  Wouldnt it be easier to enable every car with a Bluetooth device, everytime one car touches another a event is logged that identifies the cars VIN numbers, or another type of identifying #?

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Sep 2005 @ 12:32pm

    
    

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    then someone hacks it to show that you hit them...

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  Ben Mc, 26 Sep 2005 @ 12:59pm

  
  

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  Use a 360 virtual tour camera in the car that uses a mirrored-device. We use them for Real Estate home pictures quite often.
  
  What kind of wireless technology is it using to send that picture? Guess I have to read the site before commenting.

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    genius omnicient, 26 Sep 2005 @ 1:11pm

    
    

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    they should just make everyone report to a parole officer and make everyone check in everyday. Then no one would could get away with anything. Do the words 'police state' mean anything to anyone anymore?

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      Mousky, 26 Sep 2005 @ 4:21pm

      
      

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      They mean nothing, so long as there is a promise of better security and safety. After 9/11, a number of Americans are willing to trade a few liberties here and there in the name of security and safety. Freedom is not supposed to be easy.

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        Matt, 26 Sep 2005 @ 6:12pm

        
        

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        What is everyone so worried about? Now I'm as nervous about government intrusion into my life as anyone, but this isn't "Big Brother", this is a high-tech car alarm. It just snaps pictures of what happens to the owners property.

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  Gary, 26 Sep 2005 @ 1:24pm

  
  

  easy to catch the culprit

  basically 4 cameras pointing at the four corners of the car, all equipped with fish eye lenses, bam you have a 360 degree view of the car when it gets vandalized or hit. not cheap but fairly easy to set up.

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    mole, 26 Sep 2005 @ 1:31pm

    
    

    Re: easy to catch the culprit

    i think the point is to have this on the car itself. itd be easy to monitor a car in a more permanent parking space. but parked on a random city street? you cant set up the cameras surrounding the car on the street itself. a self contained monitoring system is what is being discussed. someone correct me if i'm wrong

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    Chris Olson, 26 Sep 2005 @ 1:31pm

    
    

    Re: easy to catch the culprit

    unless the camera is hit, then what?

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  Anonymous Coward, 26 Sep 2005 @ 2:32pm

  
  

  automated sentry

  interestingly, there was a story on Slashdot about an automated sentry bot that was built by students using off-the-shelf components and an air-soft gun... why couldn't something similar be done here? Have the sentry activated by the alarm and the sentry probes a 360* viewing field multiple times taking pictures of anything moving in the area. With cheap components, this shouldn't be too tough.

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  Vash, 26 Sep 2005 @ 3:04pm

  
  

  Car?

  If the car with the camera was stolen .. the camera would still be sending messages of where the theif was at any time he got in an accident or even where he lived or so forth..
  
  *interesting.*

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  todd, 27 Sep 2005 @ 6:54am

  
  

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  You don't need motion sensors -- just an algorithm to detect motion from a stream of pictures (this is used in several inexpensive web cam software packages).
  
  So mount 4 cmos cameras, front/back/side/side, all sending 640x480 5 fps pics to a PC w/ HD in the car.
  
  When you are in traffic, it is storing every frame; when you are parked, it records only occasional bursts of movement (more if you're on a city street); at night, it records next to nothing.
  
  This would be very valuable for accidents, reporting "road rage", and yes, hit-and-run damange in parking lots.
  

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