Comment by ndsipa_pomu
1 year ago
Dashcams (including bikecams and helmetcams) are a great idea and AFAIK there's not much of a privacy concern with them as they record to local storage and usually in a common video standard (e.g. mp4).
Hopefully as more people use them, there should be more chance of video footage being available from other vehicles if you're involved in a RTC and don't have one yourself. There's also the protective effect of people uploading bad driving to the police where the police are interested in road crime - hopefully providing the police with a very cheap way of having visibility in lots of places.
A number of dash cams now use cloud storage. If anything, when I last purchased I had to go out of my way to find one with decent enough video that also stays local.
That's surprising - I would guess that cloud storage would add to the price of them as they'd need a mobile data connection and presumably monthly costs. They must be designed for fleet management where you don't necessarily trust the driver to not delete footage.
Your personal information is valuable. See also why smart TVs are/were cheaper than "dumb" TVs when the latter was even still an option.