1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 Here's a product that everybody needs, and not enough people are talking about. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,840 It's a dash cam. And Ventrue sponsored this ShortCircuit 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:12,800 of the unboxing of their P2, which is the second in the pilot series of dash cams. 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:17,000 And the cool thing about it is that this is the world's first dash cam system 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,040 with a thermal camera. And you might be like, brother, 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:26,800 why do you need a thermal camera nighttime? And Ventrue told us that the reason they were inspired 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,800 to make this product was actually there was a really bad crash in China in 2023 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,560 where thick fog very unfortunately claimed the lives of 19 people and injured 20 others. 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,960 And one of the big advantage of this system is that it's not just recording the things 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,080 that have happened. It actually has a little entertainment unit 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,920 that can give you advanced forewarning to help keep you safe on the fly. 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:53,040 First, let's finish unboxing all this stuff. We have our 12 volts adapter. 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,420 We have our very long C to C number one. 14 00:00:56,420 --> 00:01:00,100 We have our slightly less long C to C two. 15 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:04,300 And then we have a C to proprietary connector that we'll plug into our third camera. 16 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:09,140 That's because this is a quad camera system. There's our thermal camera that's gonna sit on the hood. 17 00:01:09,140 --> 00:01:12,260 We have our front camera that's in the front of our cabin 18 00:01:12,260 --> 00:01:15,260 that's facing out, but then also driver side in. 19 00:01:15,260 --> 00:01:19,460 And then we have our rear camera. So this has kind of got you covered all around your car. 20 00:01:19,460 --> 00:01:25,300 Let's see what else we got. Okay, we have a little cable management Bidu Hickeys. 21 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:29,980 I think that's the technical term. We have other Velcro style cable management. 22 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:33,260 We have what is a panel lifter for your car. 23 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:38,100 We're gonna talk a little bit more about the installation when we get there. The next thing we have, and this is kind of 24 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:43,100 the heart of the system is this 6.25 inch touchscreen display. 25 00:01:43,660 --> 00:01:48,380 They call it their HUD display. This just like feels like a giant phone. 26 00:01:48,380 --> 00:01:52,020 This is so weird, especially like an iPhone 8 with the freaking return button. 27 00:01:52,020 --> 00:01:56,100 And most of the processing that's happening with all the units is happening in the screen. 28 00:01:56,100 --> 00:02:01,020 So that means that if you actually have to replace a camera, you only have to replace that camera and cable, 29 00:02:01,020 --> 00:02:04,900 which is about $150. You don't have to replace the whole system all at once. 30 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:09,900 So I think that's a smart consideration for making this a pretty decent value package. 31 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:13,220 Oh, the back actually comes off and that's really cool. 32 00:02:13,220 --> 00:02:17,580 Venture is actually releasing the 3D printing schematics. So you could either print theirs 33 00:02:17,580 --> 00:02:20,620 or you could customize and make something that will work better for your vehicle. 34 00:02:20,620 --> 00:02:24,100 So we have on the back our little mount. We have a lot of cooling. 35 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:28,140 We don't know a ton about the processing, but it is a dual core high performance chip. 36 00:02:28,140 --> 00:02:32,100 We also have an oxport. We have a type C, which is our power in. 37 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:35,980 On the top, we have our primary physical button, 38 00:02:35,980 --> 00:02:39,300 as well as our micro SD slot. That's good for up to a terabyte of storage. 39 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:43,700 I mean, the whole point of a dash cam is to be able to have a good coverage of any accidents that have happened. 40 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:46,860 And especially if someone dings your car 41 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:50,380 and you need to be able to go back through your footage. It's nice to be able to have that one terabyte. 42 00:02:50,380 --> 00:02:55,260 On the other side, we have our thermal cameras and then our front cabin and rear port. 43 00:02:55,260 --> 00:03:01,380 One thing that's really cool about this unit is that it's not just designed to control the cameras. 44 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:04,740 You can actually connect it to your entertainment system. It has Bluetooth. 45 00:03:04,740 --> 00:03:09,040 It's a huge upgrade, especially if you have an older car. You can do texts via chat. 46 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,180 So while you're driving, you can communicate safely, which is huge. 47 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:16,660 Avoid those really expensive distracted driving tickets. Don't text and drive people, be smart. 48 00:03:16,660 --> 00:03:21,780 Another thing to mention is that it's not just Bluetooth connectivity. It actually has Wi-Fi 6 so you can get faster 49 00:03:21,780 --> 00:03:26,140 and more seamless connection to your phone device that you're offloading these videos to. 50 00:03:26,140 --> 00:03:30,640 Next up, we have this little buy 51 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:34,900 is actually our thermal camera and this is the weatherproof housing for it. 52 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:40,460 So this will actually amount to your hood. This goes forward and this sees in the dark of night, 53 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:44,740 maybe just like a vampire. One thing of note is that this has to be 54 00:03:44,740 --> 00:03:48,780 on the outside of your vehicle because thermal imaging doesn't really work through glass. 55 00:03:48,780 --> 00:03:51,860 And so it has to be on the outside. You can mount it to your roof. You can mount it to your hood. 56 00:03:51,860 --> 00:03:56,080 And important to note, because this is gonna be on the outside of your car, the camera is IP67 rated, 57 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:00,900 which means that it's fully waterproof. And then you also have weatherproof housing. 58 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:04,300 What else we got? We have our front and cabin camera. 59 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:08,420 We have our Type-C out. We have our two cameras. We have our one facing forward 60 00:04:08,420 --> 00:04:12,900 so we can capture the accents. And we have the one facing the cabin. This might be something that you want, 61 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:18,320 especially if you're like an Uber driver, you can record for your safety. Or in a lawsuit, someone's claiming you were on your phone 62 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,640 or you didn't have your seatbelt on. You can prove them right and defend yourself in the court of law. 63 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:28,560 Lastly, we have our backup camera, which looks a fair bit like the front and cabin ones, 64 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:35,160 but is smaller with one single camera. And it faces the rear and it captures your butt. 65 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,400 That's everything that's in the box. I say that as if there wasn't a fricking 66 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,240 buttload of things in the box. We're outside, if you haven't noticed. 67 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:48,600 We're gonna install this in a real goodness to gracious car. So let's start with our HUD. 68 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,920 There's four mounting holes. So you could potentially screw it to something. 69 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:57,280 This is someone's real car, I don't wanna do that. So we're just gonna VHB the stuff here. 70 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:01,320 We are not gonna worry about cable management because this is just a temporary install. 71 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,400 That's actually nice that I can take this off the stand 72 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,000 so I can more easily plug things in. And then we got power. 73 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,320 Step one, complete. Next, we're gonna install our front and cabin camera. 74 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,880 We're gonna get it high. So it's kinda hidden by the visor thingy, my boober. 75 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,040 It's called a rear view mirror for those who don't know. Top side tapes, the Graves invention. 76 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,220 Step aside, bread. Next is the part of this installation process 77 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:29,720 that has probably been the reason I haven't actually installed the dash cam, 78 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,600 which is running all the wires. Next up, rear camera. 79 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,680 Same process, VHB pointed backwards, baby. 80 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,560 And then, of note, the rear camera actually plugs into the front camera. 81 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,880 The idea being that you only have to run a wire through the top. 82 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,400 And finally, we have our thermal camera. And then that leaves our oxport empty, 83 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,200 which is designed so that we can connect our phone 84 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,160 to the Bluetooth of this device and then ox out from this to the car, 85 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:01,120 depending on the kind of car you have. We can change the refresh rate to 50 or 60 Hertz. 86 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,080 We can change our speed unit. I'm not a crazy person, so I'm gonna do kilometers. 87 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,760 Five gigahertz or 2.4 gigahertz. We're gonna stick to five. Whoa, all right. 88 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,960 We have our front camera, our thermal camera, our rear camera that is upside down. 89 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,760 I'm hoping we can flip that. Okay, we can manage to flip it back. 90 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,440 We're gonna have to tilt it down a little bit because I don't really need to see the clouds 91 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,440 when I'm filing an insurance claim, although it is quite peaceful. 92 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,440 And then we have our cabin one, is actually doing a really good job catching everything. 93 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,560 I put it really close to the mirror, so we were worried we wouldn't see enough 94 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,040 of what's happening in the cabin, but this looks great. I think it's time for us to take this out 95 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,640 for a little drive and see how we do. The thing I'm really curious about 96 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,200 is how good the latency on the thermal camera is, 97 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:50,520 because this is what I'd actually want to use if I was driving on dark streets at night to see animals. 98 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:56,720 So one thing that's cool is that this can act as an sort of AR heads up and identify people 99 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,360 on your screen with like a little square so that it's a little bit easier to spot them 100 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,560 even in the dark. If you're going for runs at night though, wear reflective assets, pretty important to stay alive. 101 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,480 You know what I'm saying? So the thing to note is that the thermal camera is not really meant for day use. 102 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,480 It actually has a protection feature that it'll turn off the sensor if it's too bright 103 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:18,320 or if it senses three seconds of bright lights coming at it so it doesn't damage that sensor. 104 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:23,360 But it's working for us. We live in an overcast eternal purgatory. 105 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,520 One thing that's important is not to get distracted by looking at yourself. 106 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,600 I mean, with one button press, you can turn it off. You don't have to worry about it. 107 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:35,240 And in my case, I probably would keep it off because I do find myself constantly looking at the screen. 108 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,920 And I wouldn't be using the entertaining features, although you might want to. 109 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:45,240 So let's take a look at those. We connected our phone via CarPlay. It took almost no time at all, really fast actually. 110 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,240 The way that this car is set up, we are not going to connect to the entertainment system. 111 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,560 You do need to connect via aux cable is a great option, 112 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,880 but you still do have other CarPlay features like Siri. 113 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,720 Hey Siri, direct me to the Linus Media Group offices. 114 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,960 Easy peasy, baby. We want to make sure that our footage was actually recording. 115 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:10,160 So we're going to check, oh yeah, it's there. And one thing that's cool is that it's actually sorted 116 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,840 from like normal videos. So just the continuous camera. We have a vent video. 117 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,840 So if it knows that something happened, it'll be saved there. And then we have stuff from parking, 118 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,040 which we don't have, because we haven't been running a little parking, and photos. 119 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:26,240 So it's kind of nice that it's organized a little bit for you. I think now it's time to hand the keys back to Brad. 120 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,520 Let him drive around for the weekend and convene on Monday 121 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,080 and take a look at our footage. We're back, it's Monday. Brad had the camera over the weekend, 122 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:40,480 so we're going to review some footage. I'm going to need some help. We're going to play a fun game of how bad of a driver is Brad. 123 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,600 I didn't want to play this, he wanted to play this. 124 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,120 Life had different ideas. I have to play this. To fill everyone in, I moved out here 125 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:52,200 and crashed my car immediately. And so we are now learning if I was in a bad situation 126 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,560 or if I'm a bad driver. Did you have a dash cam at the time? No. 127 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:58,760 Did you wish you had a dash cam at the time? Maybe. Yeah. 128 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,640 It depends on if you were at full turn. Yeah, yeah. I was trying my best, all right? 129 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:07,920 Sometimes things just go wrong for people. So first footage, or first clip I guess we should say 130 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,600 is this was me not being let out of a merge lane. 131 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,480 I felt like this guy was being a huge asshole. David's going to determine if he was an asshole 132 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,280 or if I am a poor driver. This is way more fun than I thought. I thought we were just going to open up a folder 133 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,640 with all the footage and kind of scrub through. Actually, on that note, before we get into this, 134 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:28,480 what we should mention is we accidentally forgot to turn the car off when we installed it. 135 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:34,960 So it ran from about 12.30 in the afternoon to about 6.45 7-ish when I got home. 136 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,280 And that was, I think, over 50 gigs of footage. 137 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,960 Obviously we had that running for an extremely long period of time, but that's just kind of an estimate 138 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,560 on how much footage you're getting. Because there's four cameras in here. And one of the features of this camera 139 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,600 is that you actually don't need to record all the time. It'll sense when there's events 140 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,040 and give you 10 seconds of pre-recorded footage. So it is always recording, but it's not saving 141 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,360 to the drive, so. Yeah, we can actually pull that open 142 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,720 and you can see normal and event in the folder. 143 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,000 And photos, if we took any photos. I would just take selfies all day. Yeah. 144 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,160 All right, so here is. Oh, this looks good. 145 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,200 It's really clear. Yeah, it was pretty good learning. Although I will say on this drive, 146 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,440 I didn't have a B-roll cam set up, so we don't have any footage of it. 147 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,640 But this is the type of drive where the sun is kind of directly at us. 148 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,960 The infrared camera would turn off sometimes. In a sense. 149 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,560 But all other drives all over the weekend coming to work today, everything was no problem. 150 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,960 All right, so here he is, just coming over. 151 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,080 And I'm just, you know, I'm just trying to drive. This lane, I guess what we saw in the earlier clip was that it ends. 152 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,080 Like there is no way for me to stay in this lane. I have to come out. Oh, that license plate's really clear. 153 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,360 Yeah. Nice job, Andrew. I see you there. 154 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,840 He finally backs out. Look at how much space I had there. And then he's like right on my ass. 155 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,840 What is this guy doing? So legally, I think he is right. 156 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,080 I think you're supposed to yield when you're emerging. Damn. 157 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:55,080 This is not my one of those girls. But I feel like as a social contract on the road, 158 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,400 the smart move for him is not to box you out. 159 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,640 Like that's a basic school, like driving school thing of like, 160 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,840 hey, you see someone coming into that merge lane? Give them room or get ahead of them. 161 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:11,680 Don't do this. This is just bad driving. It's not necessarily illegal, but this guy, thumbs down. 162 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:15,280 Yeah, I'll take that. So this is kind of like what you see when you're driving. 163 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,920 You see these like four things. I've got like an iPhone attached to the roof here. 164 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,960 So like when we pull this footage off, you don't get these green boxes, 165 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,680 but this is what you see when you're on the road. It's like there's somebody, personally, 166 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:30,440 I think it would be nice if it was like a little bit of a wider angle. It makes sense that it's not the widest. 167 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,280 And they kind of make up for it for depth sensing. There's 500 foot thermal detection range 168 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:39,400 and then a 200 foot AI detection range. And so it goes pretty far, which is useful. 169 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,600 And for the price that this comes in it, I'm actually pretty impressed at how clear 170 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,040 the thermal camera footage is. All right, here's another one where it's like, 171 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,520 am I a bad driver or was it a bad situation? 172 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,200 Before David says anything watching this back, I will say the wide angle makes it look 173 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,200 like there's more space. Maybe this is where I want less of a wide angle. So when you're merging, or when you're changing lanes, 174 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,560 it's your responsibility to yield to the traffic that's already there. 175 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:05,160 So any, if she doesn't leave you in our room 176 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:09,720 where you have to slow down, that is on her. Yeah. So you did okay on this one. 177 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:14,960 All right. This rear camera is surprisingly sharp. Like it's really easy to see things than all the details. 178 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,120 Here's one where at night you can see the license plate's pretty good. Oh, that's super clear. 179 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:25,280 This has convinced me that I think it's time for me to get a dash cam. Okay, so here is a front rear clip driving 180 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,480 through Gastown. So there should be lots of people, lots of things. 181 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,920 Maybe a little too bright, never do. It actually does pretty okay on the contrast. 182 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,040 Like the fact that there's so much light and dark and that everything is still visible is pretty impressive. 183 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,400 Boom, do you clock those guys? Oh yeah, those are right. Credit or vision, there they are. 184 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,720 Oh, and I shouldn't forget, if you're worried about hitting animals in the dark at night, worry no more. 185 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:49,240 Ventrue, that thermal camera will identify the animal and help you avoid hitting that deer. 186 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:54,120 They send over B roll of what it looks like. All right, I'll leave you guys to it. 187 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,960 Found out a lot about myself here. I am going to sit quietly and think about 188 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,480 things that I've done. Just like I'm gonna be thinking about 189 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,080 the value of this product. The Ventrue Pilot 2 starts at $500 right now on pre-order. 190 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:12,200 That gets you the full camera system and a micro SD. You can order more, get slightly bigger discounts. 191 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,600 But that's it for ShortCircuit. That's our unboxing. If you want more dash cam content, 192 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,640 why don't you check out the time that LTT compared a bunch of dash cams all at once. 193 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,840 It's a very different vibe, but it's a good one.