Dashcam - Asking for trouble?

[sonnenschein3000]

This is an interesting article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffor...

[Osinjak]

Well, that was an entertaining hour or two!

[MB140]

My blackvue has a format button press and hold for 5 seconds I think and it formats the card. I contacted blackvue and they said it would require sofisticated software to recover the data from the card.

I have mine to a mate who works in IT and he couldn’t recover it.

My other backup is a switch wired in to the earth for the dash cam routed to a switch. Want to have a play somewhere. Simple switch it off with a switch just by the seat electronic controls.

[Derek Smith]

MB140 said:

My blackvue has a format button press and hold for 5 seconds I think and it formats the card. I contacted blackvue and they said it would require sofisticated software to recover the data from the card.

I have mine to a mate who works in IT and he couldn’t recover it.

My other backup is a switch wired in to the earth for the dash cam routed to a switch. Want to have a play somewhere. Simple switch it off with a switch just by the seat electronic controls.

I ran courses for substantive breath test machine operators. One of the exercises was to come up with ways to defeat the SBTM that would negate a charge at court. Some ideas were imaginative, fewer were interesting in their implications, and fewer still made a lot of sense.

They all had a failing though; the person being tested required coordination unlikely in someone over the limit.

The time footage from the dashcam would most likely be used to implicate a driver is after a crash. Best of luck remembering to press a button for five seconds, or even finding it after a serious accident.

As an aside, there was one way out of a charge that defeated all attempts to reject. It was ingenious although the officer didn't think of it. It had been tried, unsuccessfully, with one of his prisoners. The chap had telegraphed his intentions. I couldn't figure out a way around it. I was going to CPS but these were lawyers. I didn't want to give them an out.

[Gary C]

Osinjak said:

Well, that was an entertaining hour or two!

Didn't happen

Nothing to see here

[MB140]

Derek Smith said:

MB140 said:

My blackvue has a format button press and hold for 5 seconds I think and it formats the card. I contacted blackvue and they said it would require sofisticated software to recover the data from the card.

I have mine to a mate who works in IT and he couldn’t recover it.

My other backup is a switch wired in to the earth for the dash cam routed to a switch. Want to have a play somewhere. Simple switch it off with a switch just by the seat electronic controls.

I ran courses for substantive breath test machine operators. One of the exercises was to come up with ways to defeat the SBTM that would negate a charge at court. Some ideas were imaginative, fewer were interesting in their implications, and fewer still made a lot of sense.

They all had a failing though; the person being tested required coordination unlikely in someone over the limit.

The time footage from the dashcam would most likely be used to implicate a driver is after a crash. Best of luck remembering to press a button for five seconds, or even finding it after a serious accident.

As an aside, there was one way out of a charge that defeated all attempts to reject. It was ingenious although the officer didn't think of it. It had been tried, unsuccessfully, with one of his prisoners. The chap had telegraphed his intentions. I couldn't figure out a way around it. I was going to CPS but these were lawyers. I didn't want to give them an out.

I don’t drink and drive EVER. I lost my cousin to a pissed lorry driver. If however, I was to go for a spirited drive I have a convenient switch to turn it off.

[Driver101]

MB140 said:

My blackvue has a format button press and hold for 5 seconds I think and it formats the card. I contacted blackvue and they said it would require sofisticated software to recover the data from the card.

I have mine to a mate who works in IT and he couldn’t recover it.

My other backup is a switch wired in to the earth for the dash cam routed to a switch. Want to have a play somewhere. Simple switch it off with a switch just by the seat electronic controls.

Doesn't it take a computer a long time to properly format a memory card?

Doesn't the quick format just make it look empty, but data easily recovered?

[MB140]

Driver101 said:

MB140 said:

My blackvue has a format button press and hold for 5 seconds I think and it formats the card. I contacted blackvue and they said it would require sofisticated software to recover the data from the card.

I have mine to a mate who works in IT and he couldn’t recover it.

My other backup is a switch wired in to the earth for the dash cam routed to a switch. Want to have a play somewhere. Simple switch it off with a switch just by the seat electronic controls.

Doesn't it take a computer a long time to properly format a memory card?

Doesn't the quick format just make it look empty, but data easily recovered?

Probably but as I said. It’s very easy for me to turn off my dash cam. That way it’s not recording at all. How the blackvue process works I don’t know when erasing video.

[anonymous-user]

As i understand it most modern cars with computers store data which can be accessed after an event,so in a really bad event better burn it all fast.

[rich888]

Alan535 said:

As i understand it most modern cars with computers store data which can be accessed after an event,so in a really bad event better burn it all fast.

Wow, you beat me to the post, was just about to say the same.

I thought all modern cars collected data on the way they were being driven so that in the event of an accident the data could be examined. Am pretty sure main dealers use this info to check the 'real' mileage on the cars, how they have been driven, and how many times they have been red-lined. Bit like a black box.

Getting back to the OP dilemma over whether or not to purchase a dash-cam, buy one, then treat it like an air-bag or ABS system, forget about it and let it work silently in the background, until that fateful day when/if st happens, when you will be so pleased you fitted it.

Obviously if you drive like a nob then it's probably not a good idea. Do a search on YouTube for 'Russian dash cam videos' if you are still hesitant.

[swagmeister]

SO you want to record someone driving like a knob but dont want it to record YOU driving like a knob ? or as you used the phrase "driving progressively" I would also add talking like a knob.