Do you own a dash cam?

A dash cam MUST be the next thing fitted to all vehicles as standard because the standard of driving today is pathetic and at times dangerous you need to have a record of idiotic driving seen very day Too many distracting things are fitted to day as standard so why not something useful for a change not just fitted as a gimmick to sell cars

I have had a dash-cam for years, had a cash for crash incident at a roundabout and the insurance and police were not even interested!

Dashcams are the best thing ever invented. I was hit by driver in roundabout ,when i pointed the car camera ,driver admitted her fault..my car repaired without any cost to me…. Priceless!!!

I have a dashcam fitted to my car and works (taxi) vehicle. Yes, I have recorded silly mistakes and saved them, reviewed them but then deleted them. Not yet recorded anything to cause alarm like dangerous driving, but the day will come and it will be invaluable. I think they are now a necessity where every vehicle should be fitted with them.

Many new cars have parking assist cameras fitted now. I think it would be a good idea if these recorded video all the time the vehicle is being driven and not just when parking.

I have a dashcam and always turn it on before driving. I have caught two seperate incidents of bad driving through red lights which have been sent to the police.

There are other incidents i have caught but the perpetrator has been lucky enough to not have their registration caught clearly, such as a motorcyclist doing a wheelie.

I think dash cams are a great idea and encourage all offences to be reported. If you drive badly or illegally, why should you get away with it? No indicating, undertaking and speeding are ones that annoy me.

But the amount of near misses due to running a red light due to lack of patience, especially at road works, defies belief.

i think its a great idea, how often do you see people tearing along the motorway only to slow to 70 whn they approach a camer, i realise dash cams dont reocrd MPH, but the wanton disregard of the laws might be less than it is now knowing that anyother car might just have recorded the infraction and the driver might then upload it, its probalbly going to be used as payback for being cut up.

My wing mirror was damaged by a driver who was overtaking parked cars, who tried to force me to swerve off the road to avoid him. He drove off but the incident was recorded on my dashcam. The police collisions unit decided there was insufficient evidence to warrant further action. My insurance company thought otherwise and after eight months (and the threat of civil prosecution) I received payment. I would not drive now without a functioning camera, but I am less inclined to send footage to the police. Not only do they not have the resources to have a presence on the roads, they don’t seem to have the backroom staff either.

I’ve recently experienced two highly dangerous incidents. First, an articulated lorry tailgated me very closely and aggressively for about 20 miles, finally blasting his horn while lurching forward to within inches of my bumper – so close that I thought he was going to ram me. The end result was he almost forced me off the road. (I understand this wasn’t the first time this particular company’s drivers have engaged in such dangerous activities, presumably just for fun.). Second incident two weeks ago: an idiot texting while driving a Karcher service van on the M5 behind me nearly ran into me as he hadn’t seen me slowing down for roadworks. That near miss didn’t stop him texting and he almost ran into me a second time a couple of minutes later. That stupidity was followed by abusive gestures when I signalled I had seen him texting. I wouldn’t hesitate to send dashcam footage of either incident to the police.

On the subject of privacy, I tend to agree with wavechange. Dashcams are essentially mobile CCTV systems; and static ones – e.g. on your house – are subject to the Data Protection Act if any part of the image they capture is of a public or private space, even if it’s incidental to the main purpose of the image (data) gathering. Even private householders (not just businesses since 2015) have to register with the Information Commissioner’s Office in such circumstances; and they have to abide by reasonable-use guidelines which includes restrictions on publishing images online. Maybe dashcam users should be subject to the same provisions.

SPEED TRAP DETECTORS…………………….a slightly different topic but I cannot find anyone who has one & finds them usual…..the Daily Mail recently had a model from “Aguriworld”

Yes I do. After a woman backed into me in a Tesco car park and the only witness drove off, I had nothing to prove I was in the right outside of the photos of the damage. This was complicated by the other driver saying I backed into her-clearly not possible- and a dash came would have helped. So I got one and use it all the time. With the increase in deliberate crashes I need backup and filmage, like in the fake motorcycle accident scam, will do that.