In Car Video!

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In Car Video!

June 25, 2005, 01:35:16 PM

I've been doing my homework and looking around on Crutchfield.com and have decided that eventually I will want some mobile video. The thought of living in my car is suprisingly quite welcoming... Anyways, I want to be able to watch movies on the go, but every system I have seen is spidered into the parking brake so it won't work without the parking brake on. However, on one of the user reviews someone said they just had to ground the parking brake 'wire' and now they can watch movies whenever. I didn't even know there WAS a parking brake wire... SO, if anyone could tell me how I might go about grounding this PB wire, I would be extremely grateful. THX!

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Reply #1 – June 25, 2005, 03:09:12 PM

Just don't hook up that wire and run the video output rca off of the rear outputs.
Had to do that with my pioneer roof mounted screen and indash dvd.
Although i think you're talking about one of thoses all in one in dash units,if so just ground the wire to` a good body ground and all will be good.

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Reply #2 – June 25, 2005, 09:38:17 PM

Oh boy, just what we need some idiot riding around watching DVDs.

If you have to watch TV, stay the **** home!!

I hate to see more laws, but I'd favor a ban on watching and driving, should be treated just like drunk driving...

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Reply #3 – June 25, 2005, 09:45:27 PM

To be fair, Tom, maybe this is being installed in the back seat area, or in the trunk...

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Reply #4 – June 25, 2005, 10:36:18 PM

Quote from: EricCoolCats

To be fair, Tom, maybe this is being installed in the back seat area, or in the trunk...

OK... but I'm doubtin that.....

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Reply #5 – June 25, 2005, 10:52:20 PM

Quote from: TurboCoupe50

Oh boy, just what we need some idiot riding around watching DVDs.

If you have to watch TV, stay the **** home!!

I hate to see more laws, but I'd favor a ban on watching and driving, should be treated just like drunk driving...

I think cell phones are worse than that. At least movies aren't interactive.

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Reply #6 – June 25, 2005, 11:22:57 PM

Quote from: amooset

I think cell phones are worse than that. At least movies aren't interactive.

I've seen how people get watching something intersting, just like they're in a trance. First thing you know, they've run a stop sign and over top of some kid on a bike....

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Reply #7 – June 26, 2005, 09:27:20 AM

people who drive cell phones act the exact same on the road as a drunk right under the limit in the usa.

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Reply #8 – June 26, 2005, 09:51:22 AM

I saw something like that on a show I think called Mythbusters. They compared driving drunk to using a cell phone. Under their controlled tests, it proved that using a cell phone while driving is just about as dangerous as driving drunk.

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Reply #9 – June 26, 2005, 10:06:24 AM

OK I see this is drifting a bit..... Maybe it's true for a lot of cell phone users, but most of the problem is people looking up numbers or dialing them(I can see that is compareable to watching a video. But the video may be hours long not just a few seconds of dialing). As far as talking on one, how can it be much different than talking to your buddy or girlfreind who is in the car with you??? If you can't carry on a conversation and drive, you shouldn't have a license...

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Reply #10 – June 26, 2005, 10:37:49 AM

Yeah but how much diffrent is listening to music then watching a video..... Nevermind that was dumb. I am still gonna do the whole carputer thing. Wether Tom is okay with it or not. And it is gonna be made so that you CANT see it from the back seat. So ha!

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Reply #11 – June 26, 2005, 10:45:53 AM

Quote from: TurboCoupe50

If you can't carry on a conversation and drive, you shouldn't have a license...

I couldn't agree more. For some reason though I find it more difficult to hold a sucessful conversation when I'm driving talking on a cell phone than if someone is in the seat next to me. Maybe I'm just weird. I see that using the cell driving takes away from how much I pay attention from my driving so I don't do it. I have no problems carrying a conversation with someone who is siting next to me. But that's just me personally.
As far as watching a movie as you drive, major no no. There is a reason that manufacturers who have dvd players as options on minivans and suv's put them behind the vantage point of the driver.

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Reply #12 – June 26, 2005, 04:30:18 PM

I'd say that whole problem with talkin' on a cell, and driving, is that people who aren't the greatest of drivers in the first place, drive with one hand, and wave the other, making gestures and other stuff, while in traffic, etc etc.
I got a cell, and I try not to use it when driving.
In my truck, which is 5 speed, it takes both hands anyways, (Ford truck, typical steering woes-It's

)
Too many people can't f'ing drive very good anyways, let alone the ole blue haired lady who nearly took me out a coupla weeks ago, so yeah, I'm still kinda pissy about it. I think it's a good idear for a law against yakking and driving!

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Reply #13 – June 26, 2005, 09:33:49 PM

Quote from: TurboCoupe50

OK I see this is drifting a bit..... Maybe it's true for a lot of cell phone users, but most of the problem is people looking up numbers or dialing them(I can see that is compareable to watching a video. But the video may be hours long not just a few seconds of dialing). As far as talking on one, how can it be much different than talking to your buddy or girlfreind who is in the car with you??? If you can't carry on a conversation and drive, you shouldn't have a license...

Unless you're using a hands-free cell phone, it is a lot different than just having a conversation. You're holding something to your ear which creates a huge blind spot and a major distraction. And cell phone use is a lot more widespread. I've almost been hit several times on my motorcycle because of cell phone users.

Anyway, back on topic - I don't see any reason why having a video system installed in your dash is such a big deal. It's just another distraction like anything else and should be used responsibly. People read and drive, should we take away newspapers because they're too stupid to know when it's okay to read?

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Reply #14 – June 26, 2005, 10:35:02 PM

This is one case where I'm definitely going to have to disagree with Tom.. I think people have no business talking on the phone when they're driving. Driving is a ed serious and potentially lethal activity, and if you're chatting about what to have for dinner while you're in control of 2 tons of steel aimed at MY car, I'm not going to be happy about it. I've seen way too many people (especially SUV drivers, seem to think they're invulnerable) buzzing along at 20-30 mph above the speed limit yakking away as if they were sitting in their living room, and near take my bumper off in the process.

Unless it's far more important than your grocery list, like vital work info or an emergency, HANG UP AND DRIVE. It's the lives of everyone else around you that you're toying with.. and you well better believe that if my life is in that mix, I'm going to say something about it.. and you aren't gonna like what I say. And if someone ever wrecks one of my cars because they were yakking on the phone about trivial shiznit, I may just beat them senseless with that phone.

Anyway, back to the topic: I recall some case where a guy in Alaska had video available to him while he was driving, and his attention to the road drifted off and he ended up killing someone. I believe they were attempting to throw the book at him to make an example of him, but I don't know how it ended up. Personally, I thought it was illegal to have video screens where the driver could see them while the vehicle was in motion or some shiznit like that. To me, that sounds worse than a cell phone conversation (and yes, people more scientific than the Mythbusters have tested it) because you might tend to watch what's going on. It's like the occasional idiot who reads the paper on the way to work. All I have to say is, it's a good thing I don't own a pistol.. because if I saw more people doing shiznit like that, (reading or watching TV while driving) I'd get their attention REAL quick. I don't care how illegal it is to display a firearm down here like that. To me, that's just a complete ignorant and arrogant disregard for everyone else on the road with 'em.

I think anything more than sipping from a bottled drink is pushing the attention capability of the average driver.