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by speeder 2386 days ago
I am very tempted to do that...

I had people cut me off ilegally, pass another vehicles by going in the wrong way (risking a frontal collision with my car), turn while texting, miss the radius and climb on the sidewalk (that one was scary, I genuinely believed the guy would hit a nearby trash truck)...

I saw several crashes, including cars literally flipped over in a straight avenue, dunno how that one happened.

Yet... I started driving only one year ago, in one year I saw much, much, MUCH shenanigans on the road, it is just ridiculous, I don't like using my horn yet there were days I had to use it more than once to avoid collisions (ie: people not paying attention were about to crash on me, 4 DIFFERENT people mind you... and it was a 10 minute drive!)

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Definitely get one. You can get one for under $100 these days, some even under $50. The quality starts to drop at that price point, but they'll be good enough to establish fault in a crash.

They're super easy to use. They constantly write in a loop, deleting old footage to make room for new footage as the memory card fills up, so you don't have to maintain them. And they'll usually have a button to press that will move the last couple minutes of video to a location where it won't automatically get deleted when full.