A recommended dash cam brand/model?
After being a witness to a three-car pileup (someone slid between two cars, rear-ended the car in front, and the car behind rear-ended him), it got me thinking about doing like people do in Russia, an...
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I know this thread is an old one, but I wanted to give a followup:
I run my dash camera all the time (with the light on), and it was recording without issue for at least several months after I purchased it, so I stopped periodically checking the footage.
However, yesterday, I had an incident where I needed footage from it. I powered the camera down and pulled the SD card... the recordings were useless, even though it should have been just quietly recording and rolling over old files. It stopped a couple months ago for some reason, never gave any errors that it did, even though it kept showing it was filming.
Let this be a lesson: When you need your dash cam to work, you NEED it to work. I am lucky that I took pictures with my smartphone, but having the footage of the collision would have been a help as well. I am going to buy another dash cam, but this time, it won't be a cheap one off the Chinese slowboat.
I run my dash camera all the time (with the light on), and it was recording without issue for at least several months after I purchased it, so I stopped periodically checking the footage.
However, yesterday, I had an incident where I needed footage from it. I powered the camera down and pulled the SD card... the recordings were useless, even though it should have been just quietly recording and rolling over old files. It stopped a couple months ago for some reason, never gave any errors that it did, even though it kept showing it was filming.
Let this be a lesson: When you need your dash cam to work, you NEED it to work. I am lucky that I took pictures with my smartphone, but having the footage of the collision would have been a help as well. I am going to buy another dash cam, but this time, it won't be a cheap one off the Chinese slowboat.
