Car hit me from behind. He said it was my fault

Grumpy_chap

BOWFER said:

anyone who uses a mobile phone with an SD card.

I do.      

BOWFER

Grumpy_chap said:

BOWFER said:

anyone who uses a mobile phone with an SD card.

I do.      

I don't know you.

Jenni_D

I can't say I know anyone who doesn't have an SD card in their phone. 🤷‍♀️

BOWFER

Jenni_D said:

I can't say I know anyone who doesn't have an SD card in their phone. 🤷‍♀️

You don't know anyone with an iphone?

Jenni_D

Surprising as it seems - No

Everyone you know (that has a mobile phone*) has an iPhone? None of them have an Android phone? So you're 100% certain that nobody you know uses an SD card (e.g. for storing music and photos)?

* Added for clarity to prevent the next obvious act of pedantry.

BOWFER

Jenni_D said:

Surprising as it seems - No

Everyone you know (that has a mobile phone*) has an iPhone? None of them have an Android phone? So you're 100% certain that nobody you know uses an SD card (e.g. for storing music and photos)?

* Added for clarity to prevent the next obvious act of pedantry.

Hahaaa OK!!
Yes, everyone in my family and circle of friends has an iphone.
Teeny wee SD cards in a phone.....welcome to 1994.....haha!

Grumpy_chap

BOWFER said:

Grumpy_chap said:

BOWFER said:

anyone who uses a mobile phone with an SD card.

I do.      

I don't know you.

I didn't say you do.

Herzlos

BOWFER said:

Jenni_D said:

Surprising as it seems - No

Everyone you know (that has a mobile phone*) has an iPhone? None of them have an Android phone? So you're 100% certain that nobody you know uses an SD card (e.g. for storing music and photos)?

* Added for clarity to prevent the next obvious act of pedantry.

Hahaaa OK!!
Yes, everyone in my family and circle of friends has an iphone.
Teeny wee SD cards in a phone.....welcome to 1994.....haha!

Those are the phones that can get the memory upgraded in a matter of moments. Need more memory in an iPhone? You're buying a new phone. Non-expandable phones seems more like 1994 than being able to drop in 1GB of storage at the drop of a hat.
SD cards (in various forms) are ubiquitous, so I don't see the problem with using them. Cheap, high capacity, easy to store.
My current car has a SD slot on the dash for playing music, there's no reason it couldn't do similar to store dash cam footage. Or possibly a USB stick but SD is cheaper.

neilmcl

BOWFER said:

neilmcl said:

Yes, you can argue that micro SD card storage is old, but it's very cheap, most people use them in their phones, and it does the job very well. Cloud storage for something like a dashcam which by it's nature is always on the move isn't going to be cheap nor that reliable.

Also, I'd question why you think a dashcam can't be installed discreetly. It took me less than half an hour to install mine a few years back and I don't have any wires hanging down and you wouldn't notice it was there unless you looked for it.

I literally don't know anyone who uses a mobile phone with an SD card.
I also didn't say they "can't" be installed discreetly, I said it's a pain.
I'm not taking trim panels off my car, or trying to find a live feed.
The pitfalls of having a camera outweigh the benefits for me, by a big margin.

It really, really isn't. I didn't have to take a single panel off to route the cable in my car, and as I said, took half an hour tops.

neilmcl

BOWFER said:

AdrianC said:

neilmcl said:

BOWFER said:

Then constant SD card errors, SD cards are so 1990s and I can't believe they still need them.
Manufacturers need to start offering dashcams as part of the car equipment so they're discreet, like built into the rear view mirror and make them cloud compatible so the footage isn't stored on old tech SD cards.

You're asking for stuff that really isn't needed. Yes, you can argue that micro SD card storage is old, but it's very cheap, most people use them in their phones, and it does the job very well. Cloud storage for something like a dashcam which by it's nature is always on the move isn't going to be cheap nor that reliable.

And when you're driving somewhere with zero mobile coverage...?

What sort of bandwidth is needed to livestream HD video? And what sort of data volumes are required to do that constantly...?

I was looking at it from the point of view that the footage could be uploaded when you're in a wifi zone.
Maybe this is impractical, no idea, but the SD card thing hacks me right off when 2 x Nextbase cameras I bought both rejected the SD cards that had worked for months.
Both cameras shoved into a cupboard, old tech user unfriendly rubbish.

I think this says more about you than anything else.