Dan203
Active Member
I would recommend to get a real HD Dashcam, like the Blackvue DR900S
I'm actually surprised by how low quality the videos are. They must be higher quality being fed into the FSD computer.
You can install our site as a web app on your iOS device by utilizing the Add to Home Screen feature in Safari. Please see this thread for more details on this.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
I would recommend to get a real HD Dashcam, like the Blackvue DR900S
In the city where I live, there was several traffic lights with a red light camera.Although the other person should not have left, I believe your sister is mostly at fault legally.
From to this page, "According to Section 44 of Ontario's Highway Traffic Act,
a driver is required to stop at a yellow light if they are able to make the stop safely.
I used a high end video editing app to scrub through all 3 videos frame by frame and unfortunately there isn’t a good shot of the plate. There are several frames that should be good shots of the plate, but because of the temporal encoding those frames are smeared or pixelated and there just isn’t a way to "enhance" them like you see on TV.
You reminded me of the super-spiffy low light photos that Google is able to render by combining frames together. OP's wish does not seem so different, at least in principle
I kind of looked at that, because some portions of the plate are clearer in certain frames, but even zoomed in looking very closely I couldn’t see any of the digits clean enough to get a better guess that what's already been posted.
Google's Night Sight is amazing, but it also has its limits. While it does a good job reducing noise, the interpolation does make the photo overall a bit soft/blurry, which for the current application of trying to get a sharper read on a license plate isn't going to help much, unfortunately. (I have a Pixel and Pixel 3a and use Night Sight regularly)
Our brains are still way better at interpreting imagery than any machine. If there's not enough quality in the image for our brains, chances are today's AI is not going to do better. And definitely no amount of post-processing is going to do better. The CSI-style image enhancements you see on TV are total BS.
Here's my best attempt at cleaning up the image with photoshop....
View attachment 454098
LXZT 330 is my best guess.
LXZN
Looking at the right repeater video, it appears the other driver stopped and attempted to have a conversation with your sister and possibly motioned to pull over to the side. It’s not clear what happened from there.
The Hyundai driver's expression is priceless.
Having said that, I'm with C141medic and kavyboy. Your sister was driving thru a yellow, and it seems clear there was a vehicle already turning in front of her. When the front video starts, you can see the light changes to yellow just as you hit 2 secs. Your sister doesn't even cross the pedestrian walkway and enter the intersection until the timeline has passed the 5 sec mark. I counted 137 frames, or 3.8 secs from when the light turned yellow. 3.8 secs. I would be worried if I were the driver entering the intersection 3.8 secs after the light turned yellow.
View attachment 454239
As your sister crossed the pedestrian crosswalk and starts to enter the intersection, the Hyundai has already crossed one lane and is about to enter your sister's lane. The light actually turns RED 7 frames after your sister crossed the pedestrian crosswalk. How many fps is the video? My software says 36fps. That's around 2/10ths of a sec. She's barely into the intersection and it's already red. I'd be very worried about who the police or insurance would find at fault here.
View attachment 454234
Not only that, but if you watch the front video carefully, you actually see that your sister notices the Hyundai turning in front of her BEFORE she enters the intersection. How? She's starting to turn to the right, before she crossed the pedestrian crosswalk.
It's hard to illustrate, you have to watch the video, but this is the moment when her car starts to veer away, well before she enters the intersection. I'd be extremely worried about who is at fault here. The Hyundai is already in the intersection and your sister has yet to enter:
View attachment 454236
Of course, that's no excuse for the Hyundai driver leaving the scene, but that's a separate issue.
Ha, yeah. I grew up north of Montreal. And my dad told me that red lights were optional late at night. Of, course we lived in a small vacation town of 6000 or so, so very little traffic at night.I went to Vancouver once in my car and called my insurance company ahead of time to warn them. (actually had to pay a few bucks for a supplementary policy to leave the country) One of the things they specifically warned me about is that in Canada, or at least Vancouver, it was really common for people to run red lights. So apparently this is just how it works there.
That being said there have been many times in my life where I was focused more on the traffic around me than a light and when I did finally notice the light it was a choice between slamming on the brakes or going through a really late yellow. I've made both decisions and neither is good. Luckily it's never caused me to be in an accident though.
I'm not sure but perhaps showing the insurance company the video might backfire on your sister.
My sister's Model 3 was involved in a hit and run accident today. Brampton Ontario Canada.
Her car was going straight through a light (yellow) and someone turning left hit her. Told the driver to pull off to the side to exchange info but she took off instead. Dashcam was active but there wasn't a good shot of the license plate. Can kind of read it but not enough.
Insurance will take care of the damage eventually, but I am really pissed that someone just drove off like that. Went to the police station but they don't seem to care much. Would want to ID her license plate so the police would actually go after her.
I think it ends in 330 or 390 but can't read the rest. Does anyone some forensic or image manipulation skills that can help?
Front / L / R Repeater video clips can be found here:
Model 3 Accident - Google Drive
The Hyundai driver's expression is priceless.
Having said that, I'm with C141medic and kavyboy. Your sister was driving thru a yellow, and it seems clear there was a vehicle already turning in front of her. When the front video starts, you can see the light changes to yellow just as you hit 2 secs. Your sister doesn't even cross the pedestrian walkway and enter the intersection until the timeline has passed the 5 sec mark. I counted 137 frames, or 3.8 secs from when the light turned yellow. 3.8 secs. I would be worried if I were the driver entering the intersection 3.8 secs after the light turned yellow.
View attachment 454239
As your sister crossed the pedestrian crosswalk and starts to enter the intersection, the Hyundai has already crossed one lane and is about to enter your sister's lane. The light actually turns RED 7 frames after your sister crossed the pedestrian crosswalk. How many fps is the video? My software says 36fps. That's around 2/10ths of a sec. She's barely into the intersection and it's already red. I'd be very worried about who the police or insurance would find at fault here.
View attachment 454234
Not only that, but if you watch the front video carefully, you actually see that your sister notices the Hyundai turning in front of her BEFORE she enters the intersection. How? She's starting to turn to the right, before she crossed the pedestrian crosswalk.
It's hard to illustrate, you have to watch the video, but this is the moment when her car starts to veer away, well before she enters the intersection. I'd be extremely worried about who is at fault here. The Hyundai is already in the intersection and your sister has yet to enter:
View attachment 454236
Of course, that's no excuse for the Hyundai driver leaving the scene, but that's a separate issue.