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After my brand new 2021 was backed into, in a parking lot hit-and-run, I've decided that I need a new dashcam with dual channel and parking mode. My years-old camera is a single channel and has no parking mode. I've been recommended BlackVue, and an older thread on this topic seemed to be enthusiastic about the brand. Has anyone changed their opinion on BlackVue? Which model do you recommend? I'm looking at the DR750X-2CH Plus. What are your thoughts? Any other brands/models you recommend?
This is the one I got. I enjoy this one because the Park mode works well, dual facing camera and small so it doesnt impede outwards view. Also easy to download the clips to your phone with their app.
I’m using a 750 2-channel right now in mine with Blackvue’s power magic pro module. Camera quality is great. The module is important if you want to save your battery, as you can set a run time after your car is turned off or when your battery reaches a certain voltage.
Not sure if it applies in the USA, but over here, after an accident or incident, your own dashcam can be used to show you were speeding or otherwise driving wrongly. Just so you're aware!
Not sure if it applies in the USA, but over here, after an accident or incident, your own dashcam can be used to show you were speeding or otherwise driving wrongly. Just so you're aware!
I'd be curious to find out how that works in the US as the 5th amendment to the Constitution provides protection against "self-incrimination". I suppose IF you wanted to use the recording to demonstrate something that helps your case, you would also have to accept any part of the recording that might hurt your case as well.
I believe in the US, law enforcement can read the crash data from the car’s computers, maybe without your permission. Happily, I’ve never had to find out.
Evidence is evidence and if there is a crime committed any record of the crime can be subpoenaed. But, typically, you are convicted (in traffic) by the officers sensors (radar detector, car camera, body camera). You'd use your camera to provide a defense argument For instance a few years back I got a ticket for going 90 in a 55. Problem is I was doing under 65 and breaking heavily into traffic when the officer saw me. His evidence was a radar feed showing I was doing 90 but there was no way he got a read on my car in heavy traffic (he didn't even see me until he was about 3 feet from my door). He testified I was on the road by myself and that I didn't even slow down when he passed me. Had I had my camera running I could have shown he was lying. First ticket in something like 30 years. It took me a while to figure out why I was targeted. I had been doing 90 two counties away having come from a track day and been on a road by myself. 90 felt slow as I'd been driving on the track around 120, once I realized this I did slow down. Some other officer must have picked me up and flagged the car (which still had the track number on the side) but that officer didn't catch me and I never saw him. So the second officer lied to give me a ticket I actually deserved. I don't struggle with the ticket, I deserved it, it still bothers me that the officer lied to give to me. I think folks that carry a badge should be held to a high standard. But the point is that odds are the camera will be more of a defensive tool than one used against you.
Evidence is evidence and if there is a crime committed any record of the crime can be subpoenaed. But, typically, you are convicted (in traffic) by the officers sensors (radar detector, car camera, body camera). You'd use your camera to provide a defense argument For instance a few years back I got a ticket for going 90 in a 55. Problem is I was doing under 65 and breaking heavily into traffic when the officer saw me. His evidence was a radar feed showing I was doing 90 but there was no way he got a read on my car in heavy traffic (he didn't even see me until he was about 3 feet from my door). He testified I was on the road by myself and that I didn't even slow down when he passed me. Had I had my camera running I could have shown he was lying. First ticket in something like 30 years. It took me a while to figure out why I was targeted. I had been doing 90 two counties away having come from a track day and been on a road by myself. 90 felt slow as I'd been driving on the track around 120, once I realized this I did slow down. Some other officer must have picked me up and flagged the car (which still had the track number on the side) but that officer didn't catch me and I never saw him. So the second officer lied to give me a ticket I actually deserved. I don't struggle with the ticket, I deserved it, it still bothers me that the officer lied to give to me. I think folks that carry a badge should be held to a high standard. But the point is that odds are the camera will be more of a defensive tool than one used against you.
So, presumably, he could not, at the time of the citation, have "shown" you the read-out from his RADAR/Lazer gun? I have heard of people asking to see the actual readout, but have never done it. I would think that would have put a damper on his ability to write you a ticket. In light of your post, I will definitely ask IF I get pulled over in the future.
When I realized what had happened I should have, and could have, asked for his dash cam footage which would have shown the traffic he lied about. But this didn't occur to me until after the trial. I'll also admit I was a bit intimidated by the officer who was a really big guy with tats and seemed to have anger control issues. He could be fired for doing what he did and I'd just finished a fight with a neighbor who had tried to run me over and threatened me with explosives (he was dying of cancer and had become delusional) but I know if you get someone fired they may decide to personally escalate and one ticket for $250 wasn't worth that potential outcome. I still struggle with that decision however because the right thing was to do what I didn't do. My younger self would have kicked me in the butt for that logic tree and now I'm living with a bit of regret (my younger self also had a lot of protection that I no longer have). One of the gifts of age I guess. One of the things that Tesla does better than anyone else is how they use the built in cameras far more aggressively for theft protection and accident recording, that is a feature I'd always pay extra for.
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