Dash cameras and the law....

[460Fred]

In a recent “almost carjacked“ thread, the issue of dash cams came up.
I‘m clueless about them so maybe some in the know can fill us in.
One of the things that was brought up was deleting video before police confiscation. My thought is....if you’re involved in a situation like a car jacking attempt, maybe the last thing you’re going to be thinking about is deleting incriminating footage of past events. I like the idea of auto delete of anything except the last fifteen minutes or so.

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[460Fred]

Not to mention....
What if you’re incapacitated and cannot delete incriminating footage of past violations? I’m thinking it wouldn’t matter as a court order wouldn’t involve you speeding four hours prior.

 

[m3incorp]

I do agree with your assessment of probably not taking the time to delete incriminating videos from the past. First, I would suggest not running the dashcam if you intend to be doing something that may be incriminating. Let's say you were in a roll race the day before or some other time, pull that sd card and move the contents if you feel the need to save the proof of the win or loss. If you didn't do anything criminal leading up to an incident where the police are involved, I imagine they wouldn't pay it too much mind...unless you happen to be possibly at fault or not for this incident and there is proof of more like it on your dashcam. Just my thoughts.

 

[The Demon]

My dash cam writes over itself on the memory card so anything incriminating is gone unless it just happened. The amount of recording time is based on the size of the card. As mentioned before you can always remove the SD card if needed.

 

[Tony_the_Brit]

There are cameras everywhere these days. My advice is assume that everything you do outside your house is being recorded. Act accordingly and you won't have to worry about a dash cam.

 

[Blwnsmoke]

I can set my dash cam to rewrite at certain intervals. Currently set at 48 hours because I don't drive like an ass. However I can shorten that down to 3 hours.

However I'm not concerned with my driving, it is everyone else's.

 

[CJJon]

In a recent “almost carjacked“ thread, the issue of dash cams came up.
I‘m clueless about them so maybe some in the know can fill us in.
One of the things that was brought up was deleting video before police confiscation. My thought is....if you’re involved in a situation like a car jacking attempt, maybe the last thing you’re going to be thinking about is deleting incriminating footage of past events. I like the idea of auto delete of anything except the last fifteen minutes or so.

I have one to protect me and I am not too concerned about any extra things it may catch. I am not a criminal and I don't drive like a jackass too often. Figure those things would be the least of my worries in case something really bad happens.

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