Anyone else have a dash cam in their car?

[Doppel]

Sorry to bump an older thread, but I bought this guy a few weeks ago and have been using it daily. It's almost to the point where I feel uncomfortable without it, and I am minding my driving much more lately because of it. It supports GPS mapping and has a gyropscope so you can find areas in the video that may be of interest.

Here's a short clip of how it looks - YouTube kinda mangled the quality a little bit, but it's not far off the real quality. I was disappointed at the quality at first, but honestly, I probably don't need anything higher res.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtY_kQnrA2I

EDIT: I just realized the camera they show in Amazon has changed from what I originally bought.

Where is the one you actually bought? Also, do you have vid of JUST the road? I want to see how good it is.

That said and I like HD I bet low res is perfectly fine for an accident. You need not identify a face, but simply see in general what happened prior to an event.

 

[Doppel]

I did another perusal of Amazon and basically it's full of ebay junk still. There seems to be only the absolute bottom of the barrel crap for $30 or decent ones for $300+ that actually seem to work. One company has for $150, well reviewed, a cam that replaces your rear view mirror. That's kind of stupid, though; I don't want to replace my rear-view mirror.

I also have no idea in the world why these are obsessed with putting an LCD screen on the device, which increases cost and size. These should be recording devices only, and video watched elsewhere, similar to the various small helmet-cam type HD cameras on amazon. If ANY of those spent the extra 15 seconds development time and two bucks on another button for continuous cycle recording I'd buy one as a dash cam.

 

[HowlerMonkey]

We use a smartycam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk9vMQRIp1E

The guy who formely used to do the data acquisition forgot that the camera acceleration sensors needed to be calibrated in addition to the evo4 acquisition unit.

It works in standalone with gps speed but it's quite pricey.

 

[foghorn67]

We use a smartycam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk9vMQRIp1E

The guy who formely used to do the data acquisition forgot that the camera acceleration sensors needed to be calibrated in addition to the evo4 acquisition unit.

It works in standalone with gps speed but it's quite pricey.

Awesome vid. But lol at the experts in the YT comments.

 

[Doppel]

Awesome vid. But lol at the experts in the YT comments.

YT experts always know more than the guy driving in the vid. Every time.

 

[amdhunter]

I did another perusal of Amazon and basically it's full of ebay junk still. There seems to be only the absolute bottom of the barrel crap for $30 or decent ones for $300+ that actually seem to work. One company has for $150, well reviewed, a cam that replaces your rear view mirror. That's kind of stupid, though; I don't want to replace my rear-view mirror.

I also have no idea in the world why these are obsessed with putting an LCD screen on the device, which increases cost and size. These should be recording devices only, and video watched elsewhere, similar to the various small helmet-cam type HD cameras on amazon. If ANY of those spent the extra 15 seconds development time and two bucks on another button for continuous cycle recording I'd buy one as a dash cam.

I'd way rather have one without a cam, that was tiny and could mount away without attracting thieves. Although I've gotten used to mounting/dismounting the camera every day, it's getting tiresome.

I feel a lot better having it with me though. A few times I've caught people doing incredibly stupid things, and once with me almost slamming a NYPD car when he cut me off and I was being aggressive. lol

 

[Doppel]

I'd way rather have one without a cam, that was tiny and could mount away without attracting thieves. Although I've gotten used to mounting/dismounting the camera every day, it's getting tiresome.

I feel a lot better having it with me though. A few times I've caught people doing incredibly stupid things, and once with me almost slamming a NYPD car when he cut me off and I was being aggressive. lol

i WISH there was a good app for the iphone. it has an HD camera and makes perfect sense, but all the apps I've seen appear to take control over the phone. I.e., they won't run in the background and so you can't apparently use the phone for stuff like music.

 

[SandEagle]

if anyone's interested in getting a grest dash cam, i'd say hold off for a month. blackvue will be releasing the DR500GW-HD which fixes the overheating issues AND comes with built in wifi. you can stream video to ios, windows, and android compatible devices. expect it to be $300. Itronics is also introducing this feature in the upcoming ITB-250HD model. i hear this will be in the $200 range. videos out on youtube somewhere