Dash Cams? prevent highway accident scam

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

Does anyone have an opinion on particular brand or set up?

I commute into Nashville during rush hour and after seeing the video linked below I have got to get one.

http://www.break.com...am-fail-2300255

[Guest GregK]

A guy I know drives a dump truck everyday. He has a regular video camera mounted in his cab. Its on all day while he is driving through the city.

[Guest ArmyVeteran37214]

http://gopro.com/products/

Kind of expensive but if you add a nice sized memory card you can drive for a long time without having to switch out cards.

Edited March 11, 2012 by ArmyVeteran37214

[TLRMADE]

http://gopro.com/products/

Kind of expensive but if you add a nice sized memory card you can drive for a long time without having to switch out cards.

You will have to turn the gopro on and off. A more ideal setup would be something that turns on and off. You would also have to empty off the card everytime.

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

This one seems to be resonably priced with decent reviews.

Itronics ITB-70G Car Black Box Dash Camera

http://www.amazon.com/Itronics-ITB-70G-Camera-Recorder-Record/dp/B004ASMDA8

[wareagle]

I have a contour. It works great for the auto events. Not so sure about daily use.

[Jonnin]

you can get a fairly cheap camera that will wireless broadcast the stream to a PC to record. Might be useful if you had a laptop anyway.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Never saw anything like that video. Screw the camera. Whip some ass. Is this some kind

of new scam?

[kb4ns]

I forgot the name of it (a quick Google search would probably turn it up), but there is a smartphone app that allows you to use your cell phone as that type of camera. Just get you a mount of some sort and it'll sit there recording on a loop (your choice of times). You'd probably have to keep your phone plugged in to the power port, but it's a very cost-effective solution. I learned about it after seeing a video on the news of a guy who used the app to catch someone trying to scam him in a very similar way.

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

Cool! Thanks.

I found a link for a whole bunch of them.

http://www.dailyroads.com/blogs/entry/Car-black-box-solutions-from-mobile-apps-to-hardware-dashcams