Personal Dash Cams

My Gopro can record for 14 hours before writting over itself.

 

i know that guy, it was listed for him as non preventable, in that case the mini van owned up to being dumb, the crappy thing for Guy was there was a 2 year old in a car seat right where the van hit him, the kid was fine though.

And its reasons like that i have bought dash cam. Too many people driving with the head stuck to a cell phone and not looking to not have one.

 

This is an excellent post. I'm seriously thinking about getting one of these in the very near future. I drive mostly at night so does anyone have a recommendation for a high quality dash cam with night vision??

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FONBG1A/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

that is what i just bought, no night testing done yet, but it seems decent so far. I was not gonna drop 300+ on a dash cam yet

 

The night vision isn't that great on any of the cams so get whatever you want. If you think your going to catch a license plate with any camera your wrong. They have special cams that are connected to a computer and know where to look and zoom in. You can pretty much check out any YouTube trucker video and you can't make out the plate.

The GoPro is kind of expensive but records high def and 170 degrees. Depending on the SD memory card you can record up to 14 hours and more non stop before it writes over itself. The GoPro also breaks up videos into 20 minute chunks that can be put back together if needed. This is a nice feature because if something happens on the road you can just write down the current time then select the 20 minute chunk later to watch.

 

go-pro = 400 bucks the one i listed was under 100 after buying a high quality SD card... also recording at 1080p you can get a decent look at a plate if you need to. Remember youtube compresses videos which costs quality.

 

this is from my dash cam........ if you look at the left side hood mirror you will see I can't move over because I was being passed by a pu....... then look at the right mirror and see just how close I was to getting sideswiped by the motorhome......

I have a (2) 4-sight 720 hd with 32gb sd cards, 8 hr's of hd video before it loops set for 1mim blocks of record time......
true YOU can't make out a plate but LOE have software that will..... remember the truck (Canada) that was almost hit head on buy a truck passing a snowplow last year (it was on here and the news) couldn't see much in the video but after 3 weeks of LOE working on the dash cam video they had the name of the company, truck number, plate number and a clear pic of the driver.....

http://vid206.photobucket.com/albums/bb139/fwalton/MOVI6829_zps2800257e.mp4

 

Had one when mentor. Saved bacon when a student tried to say one thing and cam showed a different story