Dash Cameras...Why?

['01LS1]

Friend showed me a dash cam video of 2 - 18-wheelers in a accident. One 18-wheeler (left lane) was over-taking another (right lane) on snow covered roads in Nebraska when the 18-wheeler in the left lane started to loose control and crossed into the right lane where it was T-boned by the truck in the right lane, at the just back of the rear duals and pushed down the road a long way and end up on the right shoulder. Both trucks were totaled, T-boned trucks cargo was scattered all over the interstate. The trucks were in so many pieces they brought in snow plows to clear the roads of all the debris (interstate shut down for hours). Without that video it was unclear to the police who was the cause of the accident and they were grilling the truck driver who hit the T-boned truck as possibly at fault as the driver who was hit claimed it was not his fault.

 

It was a friend of a friend and I just seen the video this past week.

 

Saw one video posted where a 10 car hauler had police waiting for him after he ran over a tow trucks safety cones. Had he not had a camera showing there was a U haul truck in the left lane & the tow truck was

around a corner of an exit leaving him no where to go without ample room to stop/slow down, he would have been written a ticket.

[Spurshot]

Is there a DVR type system similar to a home security system, that records continuously and over writes past recordings? I would want a system that records at normal speed while driving and either had several days worth of recording capacity when parked.

 

I would want to 2 camera system, with one in the front and one on the back of the topper.

[SnakeEyeSS]

no not really. Mine is small enough that I can remove easily if I want

 

This is the one I have

 

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/156747-mini-dvr-0801-from-ojocam/?do=findComment&comment=1452929

I think you said you got yours from amazon n, did it have the GPS with software? Phantom said his eBay one does. Seems like a lot of different places sell it.

[RyanbabZ71]

I did not get the gps option

 

 

Ryan

[j-ten-ner]

Is there a DVR type system similar to a home security system, that records continuously and over writes past recordings? I would want a system that records at normal speed while driving and either had several days worth of recording capacity when parked.

 

I would want to 2 camera system, with one in the front and one on the back of the topper.

 

As far as I know pretty much every dash cam does the "loop recording" thing.

You should have at least a 16 GB sd card. Better is 32 GB especially when the truck is parked for a longer period of time.

The lower the recording quality and the smaller the frames per second rate the longer is the recording time before the cam starts to over write files.

 

This is a site were you can get an idea about the different cams, the pros and cons and average prices.

http://dashcamtalk.com/

 

so long

j-ten-ner

[bass mechanic]

Is there a DVR type system similar to a home security system, that records continuously and over writes past recordings? I would want a system that records at normal speed while driving and either had several days worth of recording capacity when parked.

 

I would want to 2 camera system, with one in the front and one on the back of the topper.

this is exactly how they work and I have the dual channel in my lexus. 720p in the rear 1080p in front. they will hold about 8 hours of video I think on a 32gig microSD but the time it holds I have found is not that important. there is an app for my phone that allows me to connect to it via wifi, I can replay the video for a cop after the fact or live. once I find the file I need I can save it to my phone and upload to YouTube in a few minutes if necessary.

since the oldest videos get overwritten the one you want if it just happened is easy to capture.

 

also someone mentioned about the video being used against myself. 1 I would say I am a safe driver. 2 I control the data that I collected. it gets saved in 3 minute clips. I can decide what video I want to use and what I choose to discard. I can also decide if the video I capture supports my case or incriminates myself and use accordingly.

[Blue2500CC]

TY for the replies!

 

I know it seems like it wouldn't be a sought after item if seen, but we had a clarinet swiped out of our 'Nox, which is how we found out about the rash of thefts! Even a co-workers' kid had a gym bag swiped out their car, probably to make other thefts easier to grab, stuff & run!