Dash cam, 24 hours?

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Boosted LS1

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21,187 posts

260 months

Tuesday 12th April 2016
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Out of interest can you buy and fit a dashcam with a 360 degree view that monitors continually ie that can see around the car when you're driving. Or film scrotes screwing you over when the car's parked up at night?

Flooble

5,565 posts

100 months

Wednesday 13th April 2016
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24 hours or 360 degrees or both?

You can get cameras which have front and rear cameras and wide angle lenses. That will still leave blind spots to the sides of the car though, you won't be able to see much even if the rear-facing camera is on the windscreen looking backwards.

As for powering it for 24 hours, you'd have to wire it into the car and I'd be a little nervous about exactly how much current it would drain. You can get cameras which are theoretically motion-sensitive and only wake up to record when they detect movement - but of course by the time they have recorded, the event has happened.