WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760 Here's a product that everybody needs, and not enough people are talking about. 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:06.840 It's a dash cam. And Ventrue sponsored this ShortCircuit 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. 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 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:21.040 with a thermal camera. And you might be like, brother, 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 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:31.800 to make this product was actually there was a really bad crash in China in 2023 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:36.560 where thick fog very unfortunately claimed the lives of 19 people and injured 20 others. 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 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.080 that have happened. It actually has a little entertainment unit 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:48.920 that can give you advanced forewarning to help keep you safe on the fly. 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:53.040 First, let's finish unboxing all this stuff. We have our 12 volts adapter. 00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:56.420 We have our very long C to C number one. 00:00:56.420 --> 00:01:00.100 We have our slightly less long C to C two. 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. 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. 00:01:09.140 --> 00:01:12.260 We have our front camera that's in the front of our cabin 00:01:12.260 --> 00:01:15.260 that's facing out, but then also driver side in. 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. 00:01:19.460 --> 00:01:25.300 Let's see what else we got. Okay, we have a little cable management Bidu Hickeys. 00:01:25.300 --> 00:01:29.980 I think that's the technical term. We have other Velcro style cable management. 00:01:29.980 --> 00:01:33.260 We have what is a panel lifter for your car. 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 00:01:38.100 --> 00:01:43.100 the heart of the system is this 6.25 inch touchscreen display. 00:01:43.660 --> 00:01:48.380 They call it their HUD display. This just like feels like a giant phone. 00:01:48.380 --> 00:01:52.020 This is so weird, especially like an iPhone 8 with the freaking return button. 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. 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, 00:02:01.020 --> 00:02:04.900 which is about $150. You don't have to replace the whole system all at once. 00:02:04.900 --> 00:02:09.900 So I think that's a smart consideration for making this a pretty decent value package. 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:13.220 Oh, the back actually comes off and that's really cool. 00:02:13.220 --> 00:02:17.580 Venture is actually releasing the 3D printing schematics. So you could either print theirs 00:02:17.580 --> 00:02:20.620 or you could customize and make something that will work better for your vehicle. 00:02:20.620 --> 00:02:24.100 So we have on the back our little mount. We have a lot of cooling. 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. 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:32.100 We also have an oxport. We have a type C, which is our power in. 00:02:32.100 --> 00:02:35.980 On the top, we have our primary physical button, 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. 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. 00:02:43.700 --> 00:02:46.860 And especially if someone dings your car 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. 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. 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. 00:03:01.380 --> 00:03:04.740 You can actually connect it to your entertainment system. It has Bluetooth. 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. 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:12.180 So while you're driving, you can communicate safely, which is huge. 00:03:12.180 --> 00:03:16.660 Avoid those really expensive distracted driving tickets. Don't text and drive people, be smart. 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 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:26.140 and more seamless connection to your phone device that you're offloading these videos to. 00:03:26.140 --> 00:03:30.640 Next up, we have this little buy 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:34.900 is actually our thermal camera and this is the weatherproof housing for it. 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, 00:03:40.460 --> 00:03:44.740 maybe just like a vampire. One thing of note is that this has to be 00:03:44.740 --> 00:03:48.780 on the outside of your vehicle because thermal imaging doesn't really work through glass. 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. 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, 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:00.900 which means that it's fully waterproof. And then you also have weatherproof housing. 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:04.300 What else we got? We have our front and cabin camera. 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 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, 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 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. 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, 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. 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 00:04:39.400 --> 00:04:43.240 buttload of things in the box. We're outside, if you haven't noticed. 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. 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.920 There's four mounting holes. So you could potentially screw it to something. 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. 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:01.320 We are not gonna worry about cable management because this is just a temporary install. 00:05:01.320 --> 00:05:04.400 That's actually nice that I can take this off the stand 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:08.000 so I can more easily plug things in. And then we got power. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:13.320 Step one, complete. Next, we're gonna install our front and cabin camera. 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. 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. 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:26.220 Step aside, bread. Next is the part of this installation process 00:05:26.220 --> 00:05:29.720 that has probably been the reason I haven't actually installed the dash cam, 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:33.600 which is running all the wires. Next up, rear camera. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.680 Same process, VHB pointed backwards, baby. 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:40.560 And then, of note, the rear camera actually plugs into the front camera. 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.880 The idea being that you only have to run a wire through the top. 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:48.400 And finally, we have our thermal camera. And then that leaves our oxport empty, 00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:52.200 which is designed so that we can connect our phone 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:56.160 to the Bluetooth of this device and then ox out from this to the car, 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. 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. 00:06:05.080 --> 00:06:09.760 Five gigahertz or 2.4 gigahertz. We're gonna stick to five. Whoa, all right. 00:06:09.760 --> 00:06:13.960 We have our front camera, our thermal camera, our rear camera that is upside down. 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:17.760 I'm hoping we can flip that. Okay, we can manage to flip it back. 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 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:24.440 when I'm filing an insurance claim, although it is quite peaceful. 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:28.440 And then we have our cabin one, is actually doing a really good job catching everything. 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 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 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.640 for a little drive and see how we do. The thing I'm really curious about 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:44.200 is how good the latency on the thermal camera is, 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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 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. 00:07:18.320 --> 00:07:23.360 But it's working for us. We live in an overcast eternal purgatory. 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.520 One thing that's important is not to get distracted by looking at yourself. 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. 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. 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:38.920 And I wouldn't be using the entertaining features, although you might want to. 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. 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. 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:52.560 You do need to connect via aux cable is a great option, 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.880 but you still do have other CarPlay features like Siri. 00:07:56.880 --> 00:07:59.720 Hey Siri, direct me to the Linus Media Group offices. 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.960 Easy peasy, baby. We want to make sure that our footage was actually recording. 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 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:13.840 from like normal videos. So just the continuous camera. We have a vent video. 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, 00:08:17.840 --> 00:08:21.040 which we don't have, because we haven't been running a little parking, and photos. 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. 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:29.520 Let him drive around for the weekend and convene on Monday 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, 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. 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:43.600 I didn't want to play this, he wanted to play this. 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 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 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. 00:08:55.560 --> 00:08:58.760 Did you wish you had a dash cam at the time? Maybe. Yeah. 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? 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 00:09:07.920 --> 00:09:11.600 is this was me not being let out of a merge lane. 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 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 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, 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. 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. 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.280 And that was, I think, over 50 gigs of footage. 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 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 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 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 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:56.360 to the drive, so. Yeah, we can actually pull that open 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.720 and you can see normal and event in the folder. 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:03.000 And photos, if we took any photos. I would just take selfies all day. Yeah. 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.160 All right, so here is. Oh, this looks good. 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, 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. 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.640 But this is the type of drive where the sun is kind of directly at us. 00:10:15.640 --> 00:10:18.960 The infrared camera would turn off sometimes. In a sense. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:23.560 But all other drives all over the weekend coming to work today, everything was no problem. 00:10:23.560 --> 00:10:25.960 All right, so here he is, just coming over. 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. 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. 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.360 Yeah. Nice job, Andrew. I see you there. 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. 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:44.840 What is this guy doing? So legally, I think he is right. 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.080 I think you're supposed to yield when you're emerging. Damn. 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, 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:58.400 the smart move for him is not to box you out. 00:10:58.400 --> 00:11:01.640 Like that's a basic school, like driving school thing of like, 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:11:18.920 --> 00:11:21.960 So like when we pull this footage off, you don't get these green boxes, 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, 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. 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 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. 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 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:46.040 the thermal camera footage is. All right, here's another one where it's like, 00:11:46.040 --> 00:11:49.520 am I a bad driver or was it a bad situation? 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:53.200 Before David says anything watching this back, I will say the wide angle makes it look 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, 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.560 it's your responsibility to yield to the traffic that's already there. 00:12:01.560 --> 00:12:05.160 So any, if she doesn't leave you in our room 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. 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. 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. 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 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:28.480 through Gastown. So there should be lots of people, lots of things. 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.920 Maybe a little too bright, never do. It actually does pretty okay on the contrast. 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. 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. 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. 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:49.240 Ventrue, that thermal camera will identify the animal and help you avoid hitting that deer. 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. 00:12:54.280 --> 00:12:58.960 Found out a lot about myself here. I am going to sit quietly and think about 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.480 things that I've done. Just like I'm gonna be thinking about 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. 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. 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, 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. 00:13:20.640 --> 00:13:22.840 It's a very different vibe, but it's a good one.