They tried to upsell me with my new car a few years ago. $1200 for one of these dashcams, Jesus. I said no and bought a $80 one at Officeworks.
But they said that basically the idea is if your SD card is destroyed or lost you have no evidence. This device always streams to the cloud, so theoretically it’s more robust. If the police takes your SD card at a crash (common in Australia), and then it’s lost or “lost”, your SOL. But of course you get privacy problems with any cloud…
I guess it’s good if your vehicle goes up in flames after being hit by a tanker or something. Grabbing my dashcam’s SD card might not occur to me on the way out of escaping my burning vehicle.
Why do dash cams or their apps need any connectivity at all?
They tried to upsell me with my new car a few years ago. $1200 for one of these dashcams, Jesus. I said no and bought a $80 one at Officeworks.
But they said that basically the idea is if your SD card is destroyed or lost you have no evidence. This device always streams to the cloud, so theoretically it’s more robust. If the police takes your SD card at a crash (common in Australia), and then it’s lost or “lost”, your SOL. But of course you get privacy problems with any cloud…
Cop sees camera, cop grabs camera, no proof of camera.
I guess it’s good if your vehicle goes up in flames after being hit by a tanker or something. Grabbing my dashcam’s SD card might not occur to me on the way out of escaping my burning vehicle.