a dash camera for your car
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Recently I went to Home Depot to get some items I needed for a small home
improvement project I was working on.
When I came out to the parking lot to get into my truck, I found the side mirror from the driver's side of my truck resting on the
hood of my truck.
If you have ever watched shows like "World's Wildest Police Video's", then you
know what a dash camera is.
But now the technology of a dash camera, or dash cam, is beginning to catch on with
everyday drivers like you and me.
They can be mounted on a vehicle with a suction cup mount, by using Velcro, sticky
rubber pads and can even be built right into the design of your vehicle.
They also come in various sizes and have a variety of designs from single lens to
multiple lens designs.
Of course, as previously mentioned, they have been used by law enforcement for many years,
but their use has also become commonplace in a variety of commercial applications like buses, taxis, over the road trucks and now passenger
vehicles.
Potential uses for passenger vehicles range from being able to capture something funny or unusual, to being used as evidence in the
case of an accident.
Before I exited my vehicle I turned on my cell phone and was able to capture the
driver of the 18-wheeler admitting fault.
Later, when I talked to the insurance agent of the trucking company I was told that the driver of the 18-wheeler claimed that I was
at fault.
If I had had a dash cam installed on my vehicle, I would have had even more
evidence that the driver of the 18-wheeler caused the accident.