For those with dash cams - do you enable or disable speed recording?

JustAnotherSaver

It'll depend on other factors i suppose. Obviously whether your dash cam shows the speed you're travelling or not will be a huge factor, as will whether your dash cam supports the option to turn it off/on.

So if you don't have a dash cam, have one but don't have this feature on your dash cam or have one but can't turn it off then obviously this thread isn't for you :beer:

So for those of you who DO have a dash cam and CAN turn on/off where it displays the speed you're travelling on your recordings ...
...do you enable or disable this?


If you're someone who wont go 1mph over the limit under any circumstances then i can see why you'd leave it on


Personally, there's times i drive quick & times i don't. If i'm on the back roads for example i'll drive quite slowly. When i approach bends i'll take them very carefully because simply i don't want to be flying where i can't see, plus so many idiots on the back roads drive at 100mph on the wrong side of the road.

If i'm on straights or quiet open roads then i'll drive fast. There's a long long straight on the drive to work & it's a 50. At the time i travel in a morning i'll do 60-70 on there as it's practically empty, yet when i return home & it's evening traffic i'll do the limit because the conditions dictate it.

So for now i've left it enabled on my dash cam. Whether that will end up saving me or crucifying me i'll find out one day

robin58

Well give me your licence plate number and I will pass it onto the Police then will find out.

Put it down as an instructive exercise.;):D

JustAnotherSaver

I'll get back to you on that one...

forgotmyname

They don't need your speed stamped into the video they can tell from the video or from the data embedded into it.

If they have your video for evidence it wont take much work to show your speed.

neilmcl

+ the above. Generally the GPS data will be embedded in the data file regardless of whether you display your speed or not. Most insurers wont care but if you have an incident where your speed was a factor and the police are involved then they, in theory, could get the information from your camera data for evidence should they need it.

Personally I don't display it but I'm aware the data is in there.

Warwick_Hunt

forgotmyname wrote: »

They don't need your speed stamped into the video they can tell from the video or from the data embedded into it.

If they have your video for evidence it wont take much work to show your speed.

However it maybe cost prohibitive.

Comms69

Use a dash cam if you have 'clean hands' is my position.

EmmyLou30

Same as the OP I speed regularly on roads where I'm using my 20 years of driving experience to judge the road conditions, weather conditions and traffic volume and knowledge of where the usual danger areas/junctions are. Yes I'm breaking the law but I also don't believe I'm doing anything dangerous. By contrast I have people driving up my backside near schools when I stick to the limit or in housing areas where I'll go 25mph or slower, it's all about judging the situation as oposed to adhering to a limit imposed by a guy in and office who's never used that road.

I digress....I have just bought a dash cam and had exactly the same dilemma. Do I hide the speed (as I know I speed) or not? Then I decided that my most likely accident was going to be down to the other person driving like a tit and not me and that speed was unlikely to be a deciding factor. In fact a slow impact crash on a roundabout or junction or in a built up area was more likely so my speed being known wouldn't be an issue and may even help to show I was innocent as those are places I don't speed.

So it was a calculated risk to leave it visible really. At the end of the day all driving is risky and you use your own judgement, so feel free to berate my speeding, I won't feel guilty :-)

n217970

Where are you lot driving to be able to break the speed limit? I always seem to be stuck in a procession of traffic doing 50mph. Chance would be a fine thing.

System

Warwick_Hunt wrote: »

However it maybe cost prohibitive.

Not at all. Count the number of central white lines you pass in a second. The distances between them are known. Page 4 of this document. Between the start of one and the start of another on the short dashed lines it si 6000mm or 6 metres. Easy to extrapolate your speed with a bit of rudimental maths.

If you are on a motorway and pass say 5 in a second that is 30 metres you've travelled in a second. 3600 second in an hour so you would have travelled a total of 108,000 metres or 108km in an hour so was driving at 67.1MPH in that second.

z1a

Not bothered about speed recording but have audio recording off. Reason being I could have incriminated myself a year ago when a driver catching me up rapidly from behind, and was about to undertake me by using a cycle lane. I was watching him and made sure he couldn't, when we got near traffic lights I braked rather heavily, saying to my passenger who was also watching him in door mirror, "I'll have this winker"
Sure enough he ran into the back of me, writing off his BMW. Police called, by him, who advised him that whatever the circumstances he is at fault.
Only when I viewed the recording did I realise that my comment to passenger was loud and clear!