Russia is everywhere - #dashcam use becomes ubiquitous
Dashcams are those little cameras fixed behind the windscreen which record everything in front of a car. Russian drivers desperately need them because blackmailing and abuse of traffic regulations are widespread in this slightly corrupt society.
Should I use a dashcam ?
Find out for yourself, but make sure you understand what you do. First choose one that works.
LS300W ▻http://dashcamtalk.com/ls300w
The LS300W was released in mid 2013 under the DOD brand. An identical unbranded model is sold as the GT300W by a company called TioTech. Initial impressions of this camera are excellent. Video quality during the day is very good and night quality is good as well. This dash cam utilizes Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) to improve low light video quality and it appears to be quite effective.
This dashcam comes for about 100 Euros without GPS location recording. If you just want to prove your innocence in a traffic accident, this should not be a problem.
iTracker H.264 FULL HD 1080p ▻http://dashcam-shop.de/gps-dashcam-full-hd-1080p
This is another one but with GPS and shock-intensity recording. Choose it if you are really paranoid.
Mentioning paranoia one has to talk about privacy and legal questions of dashcam use. In Switzerland officials oppose dashcam use, in Germany and France the situation is less clear. If you are a hard-boiled privacy activist you will consider dashcam use another piece in the construction of a surveillance society where everybody is a little #NSA on his own behalf.
On the other hand you might say that dashcam recordings are ephemeral since they are automatically erased once the storage chip is full. If you consider regulations defining limits for photographers when taking pictures of people, you see that dashcams do not really create a threat to privacy. Since they have extreme wide-angle lenses that do not show people’s faces closely enough to let them obtain protection through the right to control the use of images of themselves.
Dashcam is subject of different laws and considerations depending on the intention of the camera operator. If you use them to film a ride through your beautiful city with the project to show your recording to potential visitors, the same rules apply as would to any camera crew.
If you use your dashcam for surveillance and theft-protection you have to take into account limitations governing any #CCTV system.
Last but not least one should ask whether it is really worth it contributing to the omnipresence of surveillance gear just to have an additional proof of your innocence in your next traffic accident. Don’t forget your camera will capture your next mistake as well.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6mQE7rM2U
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