[AT] OT - Dash cams

[Mike M]

That's a good idea about reformatting once in a while. I had forgotten
that they freeze filming after a hard stop or collision.

Mike m

On 12/4/2019 6:11 AM, William Powell wrote:
> I have a cheap one that i got off amazon. It works ok. I need to
> remember do reformat my memory card from time to time. It fills up due
> to hard stops, it makes those segment read only. I missed pulling off
> some idiot motorcycle footage because my writeable memory was down to
> 15 minutes. I should have bought a bigger sd card.
>
> Check the reviews on amazon.
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 4:10 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com
> <mailto:meulenms at gmx.com>> wrote:
>
>     Carl, that is some good advice.
>
>     Mike M
>
>
>     On 12/2/2019 4:00 PM, szabelski at wildblue.net
>     <mailto:szabelski at wildblue.net> wrote:
>     > Any type of memory card can only store so much. It sounds like
>     your camera doesn’t auto delete after a prescribed time and then
>     keep recording (ie: it records for two days and on the third day
>     it overwrites the first day, so you always have the last two days
>     recorded).
>     >
>     > You can still go to court and fight any ticket you may have
>     gotten, this would help if you have to pay a deductible on your
>     insurance because you were not totally in the clear based on the
>     police report. If she ran a stop sign, having your turn signal on
>     wouldn't have kept her from doing so, and wouldn’t have made her
>     stop in time. Make a good sketch of the accident scene to explain
>     to the judge what happened.
>     >
>     > Good luck.
>     >
>     > Carl
>     >
>     >
>     > ----- Original Message -----
>     > From: Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com <mailto:meulenms at gmx.com>>
>     > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>     <at at lists.antique-tractor.com <mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com>>
>     > Sent: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:46:41 -0500 (EST)
>     > Subject: [AT] OT - Dash cams
>     >
>     > Anyone of you guys use a dash cam?  I bought one for my with
>     after using
>     > one in my truck for a while. It worked great, or at least I
>     thought it
>     > did, until some one decided to run a stop sign, and plowed into
>     my read
>     > passenger side last night. I was in the right lane of a 4 lane
>     road with
>     > a turn lane. As I said, I was in the right lane, and this girl rolls
>     > through a stop sign and plows into my rear quarter. It had to be
>     towed
>     > home. Cop can came and said we were both 50% at fault, because I
>     failed
>     > to signal.  That's not true. Then I told the cop that I had a
>     dash came,
>     > and we tried to make it work, but it didn't. When I got home,
>     plugged
>     > the card in and the last recording it shows is from June of 2018
>     :/. It
>     > would have totally exonerated me, it's failure screwed me.
>     >
>     > Does anyone have a brand they like and has proven itself? Mine was a
>     > Viofo 119, and I certainly wouldn't trust that one again. The other
>     > question would be do any come that will take a regular SD card
>     and not a
>     > mini? TIA
>     >
>     > Mike M
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