fitting cameras in your car...

ankspon

If you look at bid tv or price drop they sell one that activates automatically when there is a chance of accident,

Incyder

davidhwdn wrote: »

If you look at bid tv or price drop they sell one that activates automatically when there is a chance of accident,

But how can they tell its a woman coming at you and begin filming ?

Gordon_Hose

davidhwdn wrote: »

If you look at bid tv or price drop they sell one that activates automatically when there is a chance of accident,

lol, how does that work?

Strider590

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

lol, how does that work?

Moisture or methane sensor on the bottom part of the drivers seat.... :rotfl:

Gordon_Hose

Strider590 wrote: »

Moisture or methane sensor on the bottom part of the drivers seat.... :rotfl:

Yeah!

I was thinking maybe a sensor that recognised the word "SH*******************T"... :rotfl:

Lum

The easiest way to implement that would be to film constantly and discard film after, say, 5 minutes.

Then when an accident is detected (accelerometers or something, I guess), dump the 5 minute film to some form of permanent storage.

Not quite as described in the ads, but that could be down to oversimplification so that they can fit it into a 30 second slot aimed at the kind of people who impulse buy off home shopping channels without doing any research into their purchase.


(Just to clarify: I'm not saying that everyone who watches home shopping channels is like this)

ankspon

http://www.bid.tv/ProductDescriptionPage.aspx?Id=4345618&Cat=6&Sub=15&Type=Categories.
This is the one i mean

pwllbwdr

Strider590 wrote: »

By all means get one of the ebay camera's, send me a PM if you want any info as I own 3 of them.

Which sort do you have? How often do you download the videos?

Strider590

^^ I have the one that looks like a small torch, it comes with a sucker device to attach to your windscreen and ive got an 8GB memory card in it.... It will record without a recharge for 2 and a half hours, for long journeys it can be connected via an adaptor to the lighter socket while it's recording.

I plug it into my PC every night to recharge the battery and I clear any unwanted footage at the same time. It splits footage into 5 min segments.

It's supposed to automatically over write old data with new and should never need to be emptied, but i've fouind this can cause problems if you don't have a class 6+ memory card.

pwllbwdr

Thanks. I suspect I'd have forgotten to charge the thing up on the occasions when it turned out to be useful.