Car Black Boxes

Hamish

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I was thinking of buying a car black box like this one http://dod-tec.us/dod-gs600-car-camera-dvr-black-box-with-gps.html and was wondering if anyone had experience with them.
Where I live people pull out on you and cut you up all the time and if you rear ended them the insurance would probably put you at fault.
I quite like the idea of one of these to cover myself. For the price of around half of my excess this could potentially save my excess, no claims bonus and future years insurance premium increase. Seems like a good idea to me.

Does anyone else have experience with one of these? I'm suprised they're not more popular, both as an accident recording tool and as a recorder for track days or when you lend your car to someone.
 
There's actually an app for Android that does the same thing.

An old HTC Hero is probably cheaper than one of these blackboxes.
 
MikeHiow said:
There's actually an app for Android that does the same thing.

An old HTC Hero is probably cheaper than one of these blackboxes.
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Sounds good in theory but in practice I think if I had to start an app every time I got in the car i'd quickly get lazy/forget, not to mention i'd have to find a way to mount it to the windscreen, find a long power cable and the lens viewing angle isn't big enough.

I just want a solution I can put in and forget about really.
 
Feintly recall someone having fitted one of these and it ended up showing their garage effectively joyriding their car during a service, and another occasion where the video showed one of those "crash for cash" setups. I'd imagine if you do a lot of miles it would be a godsend really.

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Found the vids..


 
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How's that last one a crash for cash? The Merc driver braked to avoid the **** turning off late and the camera vehicle was too close to the Merc to stop in time.
 
Infact doesn't it show the downside of a Roadhawk? He's basically uploaded video evidence of the fact the accident was his fault.
 
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How's that last one a crash for cash? The Merc driver braked to avoid the **** turning off late and the camera vehicle was too close to the Merc to stop in time.
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"Police believe this to be a "decoy rear end shunt" two cars are involved. Watch the video carefully. When the lorry driver pulls in to the left hand lane the Mercedes closes the gap between itself and the car in front. The VW Golf makes a sudden turn causing the Merc to brake hard. The Golf is used as a decoy to give the Merc the excuse of having to stop quickly."

Seems a bit of an extreme shunt to me though, I can understand stopping as you pull onto a roundabout, minor tap, no harm, but claim for thousands in whippy compo mayte but that is a proper smack, surely that would actually hurt you? Not convinced that was done for money - if it was, they're retarded.
 
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Kenai said:
"Police believe this to be a "decoy rear end shunt" two cars are involved. Watch the video carefully. When the lorry driver pulls in to the left hand lane the Mercedes closes the gap between itself and the car in front. The VW Golf makes a sudden turn causing the Merc to brake hard. The Golf is used as a decoy to give the Merc the excuse of having to stop quickly."
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If it was it was timed well with that white van in the outter lane..!
 
I have a camera installed in my car for this reason. It doesn't have GPS like the GS600 does though. The GS600 is probably the best one out at the moment and I will probably buy it soon.
 
I'd need a lot more than cash to convince me to fake an accident by getting a truck travelling at 56mph on a dual carriageway to smack into my stationary car filled with rear seat passengers :eek:
 
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