Vantrue N4PS Serious Crash Parking Mode

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Friend of mine who was given a Vantrue Dashcam as part of Vantrue's Earlier Testing, shared his Low Bitrate (15FPS) Parking Mode Vantrue N4 Pro S with me via Email. I have blurred out the plates for privacy. A car backing up PLOWED into his vehicle causing Side Damage. This is the value of parking Mode. Thanks to this video, he can file an insurance claim as the full license plate was captured in the unedited video.

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Did the driver of the other car get out, take a look, then drive away?

This also shows the value of a cabin camera for capturing what happens to the side of a car. I expect the front and rear videos didn't capture any usable evidence?
 
Did the driver of the other car get out, take a look, then drive away?

This also shows the value of a cabin camera for capturing what happens to the side of a car. I expect the front and rear videos didn't capture any usable evidence?

From what I was told: Driver did stop and track down my friend. Police were called and report was made. However, I believe insurance claim is still up in the air and the video will help with that process. He was iffy on the woman's insurance prospects, and will have the video on hand now if using his own insurance becomes necessary.

Front and Rear camera caught the car "Jolting" but couldn't see any of the accident take place. Only cabin camera was useful!
 
Front and Rear camera caught the car "Jolting" but couldn't see any of the accident take place. Only cabin camera was useful!

I'm thinking what I'd really like is to mount an additional camera facing out the side windows. My Volvo doesn't have those little triangle windows in the back seat that are fixed to the car (they open with the doors), so I can't do this right now. Another car I am looking at buying does have fixed triangle windows in the rear sides. That would be perfect for a 2-ch system with the front cam out one side and the rear cam out the other side.
 
I'm thinking what I'd really like is to mount an additional camera facing out the side windows. My Volvo doesn't have those little triangle windows in the back seat that are fixed to the car (they open with the doors), so I can't do this right now. Another car I am looking at buying does have fixed triangle windows in the rear sides. That would be perfect for a 2-ch system with the front cam out one side and the rear cam out the other side.

Interior camera is only work around for those of us without fixed side windows. It's not the greatest or best work around, but it does help per the video!

You really have to get a CUV / SUV / or Station wagon to get that permanent side window. Sedans generally don't have them.
 
That would be perfect for a 2-ch system with the front cam out one side and the rear cam out the other side.
Personally, I would choose the A329S plus two RCC360 units, each with a 6-meter cable.
The A329S can be mounted on either the windshield or the rear window—whichever you prefer—while the two RCC360 cameras go on the side windows.
 
Personally, I would choose the A329S plus two RCC360 units, each with a 6-meter cable.
Ah, that's an interesting choice. I have currently have an A329T (front, front telephoto, & rear). Might be interesting to put another one in the rear window with two additional channels on the sides! The wide angle lens plus IR lights would provide excellent coverage. Hmmm....
 
Ah, that's an interesting choice. I have currently have an A329T (front, front telephoto, & rear). Might be interesting to put another one in the rear window with two additional channels on the sides! The wide angle lens plus IR lights would provide excellent coverage. Hmmm....

The Vantrue N5S with two interior facing cabin cameras is quite nice. Side viewing cameras just aren't possible without a fixed window.
 
Side viewing cameras just aren't possible without a fixed window.
I think they are.
BUT ! you would then have to mount on the door trim plastics where the window roll down into the door, but this is a often curved surface so some kind of multi mount would be needed.
But i think it could be done in that regard, but then you have meddling kid fingers to account for too.

So the camera would mount somewhere along here.

door.webp


Also just thought.
You know those wind deflectors you can put on your front doors, wouldent it be possible to do something like that that just go on the rear door and hold a camera on the inside of course, either on the top or bottom.
Maybe just a vertical adapter that would mount on the very front part of the rear window, and of course still be in a transparent material like most of the wind deflectors are.

Of course this do not need to be curved fanch smancy stuff like wind deflector, plain flat so really you can mount the camera anywhere you like.

So the adapter could be mounted here.

door 2 A.webp


Or here.

door 2 B.webp


I assume mounting a adapter like the wind deflectors would be OK on the inside of the glass slit VS the outside that is the norm for the deflectors.
I had a couple of the wind deflectors on my Mitsubishi pickup, tool less install.
 
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