Does anyone use a car camera?

cokecan72 said:
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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Drains about 150mA as it's constantly recording in parking mode, the detection of movement in the frame or motion by g-force just makes the unit save it and not overwrite.

You could always supplement it with a solar charger as they put out about 100mA.

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Parked mode seems a little pointless, 4 directions in which someone could hit you, this will only cover one, also if you park forwards the front recording view is almost worthless.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Parked mode seems a little pointless, 4 directions in which someone could hit you, this will only cover one, also if you park forwards the front recording view is almost worthless.
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Then you have to reverse in to spaces, you will see a car pulling away from the left or right of you as the lens angle is rather wide.
 
The cigarette lighter has a permanent live on my Mondeo which will make it handy for parked up footage. I'm going to hard-wire it in though to keep the socket free. I'm quite looking forward to getting it and seeing how well it all works :)
 
Wire it into the fuse box with a fusetap, it's easy enough, plus you can hide the wire behind the trim and make it nice and discreet.
 
n3vrmind said:
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
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You trust them to carry out there investigation as normal and not just take one video as gospel of what happened blinkering themselves to other crash their also investigating that happened just 2 metres away...

But agree the system isn't infallible! And good to have options of loop recording or push button recording for those that want it...
 
PiKe said:
Then you have to reverse in to spaces, you will see a car pulling away from the left or right of you as the lens angle is rather wide.
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It can help identify the driver/car, and can prove it the car drives into your car while in the cameras FOV but as I've found out it doesn't actually help prove things that happen outside the FOV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIEhmmB2A9Y - Guy comes in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=parxAL88vhM - Guy dings door

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hv8wswuo8c - He disagrees it's him

I can't prove it :(
 
Muffin` said:
It can help identify the driver/car, and can prove it the car drives into your car while in the cameras FOV but as I've found out it doesn't actually help prove things that happen outside the FOV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIEhmmB2A9Y - Guy comes in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=parxAL88vhM - Guy dings door

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hv8wswuo8c - He disagrees it's him

I can't prove it :(
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In that instance I would have got him to open his door and watch as the crease lines up perfectly with the edge of his door.
 
I saw it on a 'World's deadliest car chases' or something on Channel 5 a couple of weeks back. I think it was real.


I have my Blackvue fitted and working nicely now. Great bit of kit and I'm hoping I never need to refer to the footage for accident reasons but it's handy knowing it's there!

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Have to see if Fox is right and you're involved in a massive pileup and people die and you go to prison for forever :(

Can I have you stuff?
 
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