Dash Cams: Good idea or Not

To those saying the dash cam might "hang you" -- in the vast majority of those cases you'd already be hung just by virtue of being a commercial driver.

I agree. Heck I look at the ice sheet video I posted in this thread and I think "#### I was kinda riding that bobtail's ###." But just 2 months ago when it happened, I was thinking my following distance was pretty good...

 

Are you sure she wasn't texting or on the phone? That's usually how they drive. And they cant see a bright yellow fire truck with flashinv lights and sirens, let alone a normal 18 wheeler.... sad.
Mary
Mary

 

I gotz me a camera in my truck so I can make you tube videos of myself while driving, cause im so friggin cool lol

 

Dlkeur seems to thank every poster that'll through some #### up on the thread.

You can say I wiz walking down the street and I slipped on some doggy doodoo. And you"ll get thanked.lol.

 

Wow full speed, that definitely wasn't needed. Do you even know why we use the thanks button or how to use it??

 

I wiz rollin in my ride and some cow tird hit my windshield cracking the window. But I caught it on my dash cam and all wiz good.haaaahaa.

 

Giant small small little mini bigs, rizing around town with little zeez dash camz. On zee dash dash caught some bird tird hitzting za widow. Haahaa. Lol

 

It's additional insurance and it's under your control. It's piece of mind if something goes wrong. I have one that has a wide angle and a zoom lens, two lenses built into one unit. Zoom lens captures a plate number and wide angle captures everything up front including what is in my blind spot mirrors. I can turn the volume on - I don't. I can turn either camera towards the inside of the cab if I wanted. I don't.

The way I look at it, I may never actually need it. It might be $160 spent towards nothing but that one time when someone doesn't something stupid or aggressive it may just save my ###. Plus, outside of an accident or other type of driving event, it captures cool stuff on the road that I personally like to look at later. I've used it to record and later view storms and crazy weather events, cool places that I wouldn't otherwise see such as driving under the earth at Springfield Underground, etc. It's priceless to me.

If I was on the fence I would just go for it and buy it.

 

Here goes some compiled video I put together with some music. It's something I like to do on my spare time.