Car dashboard cameras ?

[H2O_Doc]

http://www.goodiyz.com/?utm_source=...+Mount+Night+Vision+Camera+with+12+IR+Sensors

Just an FYI.

 

[Burt]

Everyone knows police record for their safety and for false accusations made from the driver.

Now for civilians it's against the law to record anyone whether audio or video without their prior knowledge and consent. Courts will throw that out.

That's my feeling and why I have signage informing people of video surveillance on my property. Being more passive is the key. No need to escalate into a violent road rage incident. Just call law enforcement if tensions are present, a must if anyone is injured.

 

[H2O_Doc]

I pulled the trigger on one of these for $50:

There is a pretty good review http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2012/9/18/a-car-dvr-with-a-wired-rear-camera.html here of the same or similar camera.

It seems to have a number of the important standard features:

Auto start
Event save (based on Gs or by pressing a button)
Auto over write
Dual cameras
Microphone

The second camera is interesting. It has a long cable and can be mounted remotely. It can be used as a sort of backup camera ( the LCD will support viewing of either camera or both at the same time albeit on a small screen).

I'll post some additional comments after it arrives.

 

[NJshadow93]

Very understandable. I might be able to ask one of my buddies who works at an audio shop to look into this, but I doubt he wil be able to take on a project like this. I would rather not use cheap cameras that comes with the HU or whatever...I don't know, I'd feel much more content having external cameras operating while not depending on anything else rather than operating through HU.


NJShadow, can you take a picture of your camera's placement please? I still have to figure out how to mount the back camera as well. I don't care too much for 1 TB storage space but then I have no idea how much space it takes up, lets say 15 minutes of driving so I should probably consider getting a 1TB. I'm interested in your camera, but the issue is that I noticed it didn't really clearly show the plates. Granted not all cameras are HD, but I would not mind spending a little extra money for the HD quality if needed because I would love to vigorously go after whoever hit me knowing I have proof of them appearing on camera as well as the license plates showing on my camera. You just never know...they can always deny saying, yeah I have the same truck but who is to say it's my 4R that ran into yours? Where are the license plates pictures?


I'm also going to have a holster installed inside the 4R as well. I still have to figure out which locations are illegal & legal because I want to install one inside center compartment space, but I'm tempted to install one underneath the steering wheel. I'm also looking into buying a mini gunlocker where I can bolt it to the floor & leave my gun in there locked away. Although this may be an unsafe decision, but what are the odds of your vehicle being carjacked while you're inside a business that prohibits guns from being brought in, whether they're loaded or not? I would definitely not leave it in my truck at the airport longterm parking for days, though. I'd only leave it in there for hours at the most, not days.

Sorry for the delay. This is a quick picture I snapped the other day. The screen folds up and can record either way, I prefer to keep it down to make sure it's recording and it has the correct angle.