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Noted, thanks for the recommendations.
But if you watch the video that is linked above you'll see that video quality can be sketchy among all makes and models, including the highest end models.
I just purchased 2 myself for the first time in the last month.
I like the plug and play option - I don't keep cars over 12-18 months and would like something connects to an existing port. Is the video quality OK?
It's what allows it to record speed (as well as location, obviously).
I assume it gives you location information during an incident
Yeah, I think it's pretty decent, especially for the money. I bought the 2k front/1080p rear version but I noticed (just now) that for $50 more they have a 4k front version w/1080p rear. I don't think that was available when I bought mine a couple of years ago.
They are all plug and play. You can plug them into the cigarette lighter outlet. But then they don't work when the car is off. If you want it to work for parking monitoring, then you get the "hardwire kit" for most of them (like $15-20) which is basically a different cable that has fuse attachments to connect to your fusebox instead of your lighter or an OBD port to plug into that.
Why?
People are driving like freaking maniacs out there and there is little to no traffic enforcement.
Go down the rabbit hole of watching some dashcam videos and you'll see. I suspect in your neck of the woods it's not nearly as prevalent, but people will actually cut in front of cars and brake check to get an insurance payout. Having a dashcam as evidence for something like that or just any accident where fault may not otherwise be apparent can pay for itself many times over. It's actually a pretty low cost investment/insurance item ($100ish).
For the cost of roughly $100-$200 you can have peace of mind that you'll have evidence if needed to prove you aren't at fault in an accident. The main benefit being that your insurance rates won't go up. I'm not sure what the rates are like where you live but if I lost my clean driving record then I'd be facing probably $1000 more per year on mine.
Don't know but she was happy with it so #winning.
One would hope she doesn't have the need to extract the SD card too often.
I installed this in my ID4 about 3 years ago. It works great, and yeah it looks OEM.
I’ve experienced pretty bad behavior on a (non-motorized) bike, but what you’re describing can’t be remotely prevalent, can it? Seems on par with the likelihood of violence from severe road rage.
Yes, frequently. But I do work in car insurance.
What kind of stuff have you seen? Any brake-checking scams?
I don't look at the footage myself but can often see in the case notes that it's made a difference. Would work for brake checks (but typically only where someone has pulled in front of you from another lane and then brake checked, if you're just tailing someone too closely in the same lane for ages and then get brake checked then that's likely different), but more useful in circumstances where the third party has changed lanes, collisions at junctions or, at things like roundabouts, both of these at the same time. If you're going across a junction on green and then run into the side of someone going across running a red light, having the footage that shows "well my light is on green" makes liability much easier to decide
She text me this morning and said 8:49am is the time we will be looking at her card tonightOne would hope she doesn't have the need to extract the SD card too often.
Ah, that would be the occasion where the dashcam was oddly not working then
If you knew you were at fault, who cares? Just pay up.
If I get into an accident, can the other driver’s cam footage be submitted as evidence against their will?
Upon review of the tape, she was doing about 42 mph in a 45 zone and a person did, in fact, pull out from a store in front of her causing her to decelerate to about 15 mph to avoid a rear end collision. About a 1/4 mile up the road D2 put on her turn signal to get over into the right turn lane and the same person almost ran into her again trying to do the same thing. They put on their turn signal just as they started getting over, noticed D2, hit the brakes and let D2 continue on. Was actually pretty cool.
I’d be honking at that car so much
She always tells me, "I should have honked." She gets super tense when stuff like that happens and forgets. I've tried to coach her but she'd rather shout at the driver than hit the horn. I remind her that, much like me yelling at the screen when the Browns **** up yet another game, they can't hear you.
