Posted in Buyer Advice. It recent years, in-car cameras have found their way into passenger cars as a way for drivers to monitor and record incidents that happen on the road. The demand for dash cams was borne out of the same need that they had been installed in emergency vehicles or trucks β to record any actions by the driver in the event of an incident. Dash cams simply record any trip taken to show what has happen on a drive. This footage is useful in case of a crash β to show any insurers or police officers what was happening on the road immediately before the incident.
Basic cameras are usually just windscreen-mounted with a forward-facing camera to record outside the car; while more advanced models have a rear-facing camera to record your behaviour as a back up, to prove you were not distracted i. Dash cameras do not record one continuous video like a regular video camera; instead they record a short time usually to an SD card before deleting it and recording another short video.
Some cameras have a sensor that detects a car suddenly stopping, which tells the dash cam to hold on to the video being recorded in case of a crash. Most commonly, drivers use them to prove their innocence in crashes, or if another driver takes out their road rage on their car. In Australia, it is legal to have an dash cam, but be aware that you are not allowed to distribute any recording of any acts that a person would reasonably expect to be kept private β such as if you are driving on private property.
Installing a dash cam is relatively easy, generally plugging into the 12V socket at the front older cars may still have a cigarette lighter in the socket. Very few car manufacturers offer in-car cameras as standard or even an option on their cars β the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray was one of the first cars to even consider it, but it has certainly not been announced on any mainstream, volume-selling cars delivered to Australia in the near future.
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