Case for a dash cam on your car

[CRNG]

On 19 Feb 2013 03:49:01 GMT, ktos wrote in Re Re: Case for a dash cam on your car:

What they mean is "everyone who is cool".

[HeyBub]

No, the FIRST thing to do is get the names of potential witnesses before they vanish.

[CRNG]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:43:33 -0600, "HeyBub" wrote in Re Re: Case for a dash cam on your car:

Wow! Check this one

the truck totally demolished that SUV. Unbelievable if I didn't see the video. I wonder what their speeds were.

[krw]

I heard that John Kerry pushed a button in his office because the Rooskies wouldn't return his call.

[krw]

I guess we should ban all dash cams, then.

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Cliff H:

Thanks. That got me started nicely.

As you observe, they all do rotating files and on/off with ignition.

Some even do a "standby" mode where they're just sitting there looking for motion - as when the vehicle is parked - and wake up fully when motion is detected.

I'm probably over thinking this as usual, but now I'm looking to see if anybody has remote or mirrored storage - my assumption being that after a crash from which they have to cart me away and tow the vehicle that the dash cam is going to be stolen or impounded.... and if there's an SD card hiding somewhere else in the vehicle the chances of recovering data are greatly increased.

Right here, right now though I'm thinking:

- Low-End:

- High-End:

But the selection is mind-boggling - and there seems to be a lot of little guys taking a certain device and semi-customizing (sometimes degrading it a lot...) it to become their own product - yet named the same or very closely to the original root device.

I'm thinking I could care less about "Parking" mode, yet I want the clearest, highest-rez that I can get.... which seems to mitigate in favor of devices that have bells and whistles that I otherwise don't really want or need...

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Ed Pawlowski:

We had occasion to hire somebody from Moscow some years back.

If a stranger had told me stories she told about the place I would not have believed them. Sounded to me like rule of law was pretty much absent.

[gpsman]

Based entirely on: "Blackboxmycar is the 1st Authorized Finevu Distributor in North America. Our Finevu CR500HD will be the 1st Official English Version to be sold. Our Finevu CR500HDs are factory built with English software and provided with English manual. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us directly at [e-mail]...???

I haven't found anything available in the US that isn't a ridiculously overpriced unreliable piece of shit.

It appears one must move to Russia to get a decent HD dash cam. -----

- gpsman

[krw]

Sorta like Chicago.

[Kurt Ullman]

NBC's evening news had a story on this. See if you can find it on the Internet because the s*** that went down in front of cars in Russia was something you had to see to believe (maybe)

[Nate Nagel]

Stuff happens here too, just not as often. There've been a couple times in my life that I wish I'd had a dash cam running. One time it was another driver that I to this day believe was trying to do a "swoop and squat" on me but I managed to avoid him because my skills were still pretty sharp from a previous job that involved some test track time. Had I had a dash cam I definitely would have turned the footage over to the cops.

nate

[Nate Nagel]

GoPro seems to be popular on one of the forums I follow. I haven't taken the plunge yet, but it seems to get more mentions than all the other dash cams combined.

C&D did a comparo last year...

nate

[harry]

Hah! That is rife over here (UK). Mostly f***g Poles and other East Europeans. They go for insurance claims on fake whiplash injuries.

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Nate Nagel:

Maybe I did not read deeply enough, but I came away with the impression that the Go-Pro and Countour, at least, were outdoor action cams kludged for use as dash cams. i.e. They both rely exclusively on their own batteries for power.... and I did not pick up any mention of rotating files...

[gpsman]

Thanks, I've been living in a cave for the last 10 years. -----

- gpsman