Non Preventable Incident

I have this dash cam and have been completely satisfied with it; http://www.dod-tech.us/product/dod-ls460w/

 

Cheap dash cam are just that, cheap.

I'd recommend one that has GPS in it so that it show speed at the time of the incident. (though that can backfire as it made me look like an ### when I showed myself speeding through a construction zone).

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My drive cam footage doesn't show blindspot mirrors. Need a new camera. All it shows is traffic move forward in front of me, me not moving at all to let space build up, the clicking of my turn signal for 5 minutes, a crunching noise, me saying "what the #### was that?!" And the unclicking of my seatbelt and setting of my brakes, followed by "you stupid ### mother####er" and me yelling at him to pull the #### off to the side of the road. Then there's about 3 minutes of honking while I moved over to the shoulder and parked behind him so traffic wouldn't take them out while we handled paperwork. There's a 911 call and me explaining it in detail and you can half ### hear him asking me if I saw him at all, followed by me saying "did you not see ME st all?!" And it cut to the next clip.

Sent it all to claims and safety, showed the DOT, showed the driver review "board" or whatever and they all said it was my fault because DOT said it was basically.

 

Seems to confirm his version of events. I wouldn't be worried if I were him.

 

I ordered my dashcam on a Saturday. The following Tuesday (Before the cam arrived) a young girl hit me head on. Luckily, all the evidence at the scene proved that I was at the extreme right of my lane when I was hit and that I had gotten my truck stopped before she hit me.

I always run my dashcam and I take it out every night. All you have to do is clean the windshield and suction cup in the morning when you attach it.

Make sure you can reach it from the driver's seat to do a capture for near misses and other "interesting" happenings.

 

NO GPS!

Why? Because GPS can lag. It can get confused. Do you really want to try to explain that you weren't doing 65 mph in a 45 zone, it was just that your GPS glitched and didn't update in real time?

But please trust my dashcam footage! That I just put into question...

No data is much, much better than BAD data.

NO GPS!

 

I've had a dash cam with GPS for 4 years and it never has done anything like what you described. If GPS was commonly that unreliable all of our GPS navigation units would be pretty much useless.

Sounds like you just had a cheep or defective unit.