I took a 90-minute test drive of the chase vehicle and the technology onboard
Here’s a list of issues I’ve found:
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- The camera mounts easily loosened up. Fortunately, the camera “droop” did no damage to the cameras.
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- The GPS puck is seen by Franson GPSgate, but it’s output is not seen by GRlevel3 or other applications.
- The dashcam needed to be tested beyond seeing it power up and display a video of the road ahead.
- The cabling clean-up has yet to begin, but should be a fast task. Last year’s set up is unchanged, except for the mysterious disappearance of the original dashcam micro-USB cable. I replaced it today, but have some disconnected cables dangling.
- The rear seat’s Android tablet needs to be re-installed.
- Luggage space needs to be reclaimed. It’s full of bric-a-brack at the moment.
- The iPhone bracket need to have the stabilizer arm glued into place. It came off in my hand! WTF??
- The antenna cluster needs to be road tested. It was ‘indoors’ today. One antenna needs to be glued to its mag-mount.
All this amounts to another weekend afternoon spent with this new ‘to do’ list.