Should cars have built-in dash cams? Howdy, With a price tag around $ 50-100 (and even less when supplied in industrial quantities), should it be mandatory for cars to have built-in dash cams from the factory? I mean, it could save many questions in a situation - the police should just watch the video and see who's fault it was. Plus one could capture a crime on the street by chance and the video could potentially help catch the evildoers. So, what do you think? WARNING: Graphic video, those are real footages - people are being hurt and killed. If you are sensitive, do NOT watch. P.s. I dedicate this thread to zoom_copter 66, those Russian car crash videos should make him happy.
Mandating the hardware isn’t really the difficult part (though not without problems), the complicated questions come from how the data it recorded would be managed.
buy it yourself. We have a sickening level of data being recorded about us as it is. If I want my car recording me...Ill buy the camera myself.
Well, just like they do it in Russia - the dash cam records loops (1 min, 2 min, 5 min, etc) of videos. If nothing happens, when the SD card is full, it starts all over again and overwrites old files. If something happens, you take the card out and transfer the video on a computer. That is to say, if there is no accident, there is no reason for the video to be "managed". Well, if the camera is connected to the Internet and the CIA can hack it, that is another story. I refer to the option when the dash cam is somewhat autonomous and only works like a "black box".
Wrong. Your camera will record other people and other people's cameras will be recording you, so even if you don't have a dash cam yourself, you may be recorded from multiple angles.
oh I had no idea cameras in your car couldnt record your voice, your driving or travel data. Technology really hasnt come that far.
I always wonder why things must be mandatory. The reality is that there isn't currently anything stopping you from installing a dash cam. There are, probably, personal consent issues though if you fill others without their consent. If these were mandatory, your personal right not to be filmed by not having provided consent would be forfeit. I would also point out that a dash cam doesn't have the ability to provide more information that the recording of the visual event that is recorded. That is actually very limiting.
It's all about the insurance industry if they had their way they would be recording every detail of your driving..
Russians really like their techno. Was that last one another auto pilot accident since he switched seats after the crash?
You can't sneeze on a street corner without someone filming it already, violation of privacy or not. Traffic cameras, security cameras, body cams, dash cams. I'm glad I live in the country. Problem is, you just never know who has a body cam.....
