Does anyone use a car camera?

I've given a lot of thought to this, and I'd only do it if I could have the following setup:

It's *very* well concelaed so that I don't ever have to take any of it out of the car, and that the police would be unlikely to find it should the evidence not be in my favor.

I have two button the back of my steering wheel outside of normal grasp:

Button 1 - Someone else just did something stupid! I wish to record it forever.
Button 2 - I just did something stupid. NO ONE MUST EVER KNOW.

Button 1 saves the last ~ 30 seconds of footage. Button 2 deletes/ejects/sets fire to the storage medium.

Can I be bothered to set all that up? Nah :P
 
Atomicbanana, you only need the delete button. What happens if someone hits you, you're then knocked out as can't press your magic save button?

A simple wipe card button is enough.
 
tigerstyle said:
Atomicbanana, you only need the delete button. What happens if someone hits you, you're then knocked out as can't press your magic save button?

A simple wipe card button is enough.
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That's why proper car cameras G-force sensors, they automatically save any footage then where the G-force exceeds a pre-determined amount.
 
tigerstyle said:
Or just have them save footage anyway? Who says what you need to save would have excessive G-Force?
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So it can be a set and forget device, do you want to have to keep wiping it every night?

It will auto overwrite any footage that's not been marked as an incident.

If there's no excessive g-force (remember you can set what you deem to be excessive, even sharp braking could trigger it) then you should be in a fit state to press the 'save footage' button yourself.
 
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PiKe said:
So it can be a set and forget device, do you want to have to keep wiping it every night?

It will auto overwrite any footage that's not been marked as an incident.
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I was going to say but you can set it to auto record over what it's saving anyway, loop recording it's called maybe? But then you mention that in your next sentance, so I'm confused.

I meant you might record someone else having a crash and you can then email them the footage as proof/evidence, you might not ever brake in that situation to 'set it off' so just have it recording al lthe time anyway, if you need to 'save' something you put the card in your PC and save, then it's safe, not just the camera recording short clips all the time?

For me loop mode makes sense, if I'm going to do something silly/impress mates Ill just turn it off myself first.
 
tigerstyle said:
I meant you might record someone else having a crash and you can then email them the footage as proof/evidence, you might not ever brake in that situation to 'set it off' so just have it recording al lthe time anyway, if you need to 'save' something you put the card in your PC and save, then it's safe, not just the camera recording short clips all the time?
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Presumably you would stop at the scene of the accident, where you could just hit the button as you got out the car.
 
Whats needed is to buy a camera without an SD slot on it and some other 'disposable device' that you can remove the SD slot from, You then engineer a fake SD slot into your camera, and have it in a position that is very obvious with a blank 4gb SD card sticking out.

In case of an accident, you 'surrender' the card to them and inform them you dont think the camera was running. This or you have your system record to storage somewhere in the car that wouldnt be confiscated if they take your camera
 
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Probably best to just not drive like a berk. I'm more worried about other people's driving than mine. If I cause an accident that turns out to be my fault then so be it. If you fancy a 200mph hoon across some country lanes just turn off the GPS speed overlay on the video :p
 
Blackvue has a handy parking mode too so if anyone hits you whilst parked you should have a nice clear record of their numberplate.
 
Howard said:
Probably best to just not drive like a berk. I'm more worried about other people's driving than mine. If I cause an accident that turns out to be my fault then so be it. If you fancy a 200mph hoon across some country lanes just turn off the GPS speed overlay on the video :p
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Idd, but even so if i'm caught one day going slightly over the limit and a police officer has difficulty proving it.. I dont want my own camera to incriminate me.

Its not just black and white, say you have an accident where someone else does something.. you swerve to avoid and end up having an accident with someone else as a result. The police arrive and take the video evidence and find it doesnt show the person you avoided, it just looks like you wrecklessly swerve and cause the accident and get landed with a charge of wreckless driving

Or or ... what if after you swerve you hit a patch of oil and slide into a ramp and are launched through the air dukes of hazard style into the side of a school bus, your fuel leaks and ignites horrifically burning 40 children alive... and you are branded a wreckless maniac that caused 40 children to suffer a horrible and painfull death
 
PiKe said:
Blackvue has a handy parking mode too so if anyone hits you whilst parked you should have a nice clear record of their numberplate.
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Do you know what the power consumption is like in parked mode? Say if you left your car parked up for a week with this running would you end up returning to a car with a flat battery?
 
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