Garmin’s New Dash Cam Is a Baby Monitor for Your Car

How usually have you ever had an evening out ruined after spending many of the night worrying about what’s occurring to the automotive that you simply left in a sketchy parking zone? Garmin’s new Dash Cam Live is sort of a child monitor on your automotive, leveraging an always-on LTE information connection so you possibly can see what’s occurring round your car at any time, even should you’re nowhere close to it.

With autonomous automobiles powered by questionable self-driving abilities now commonly hitting the roads, now’s pretty much as good a time as any to improve your car with a splash cam that continually data what the motive force sees by way of the windshield, probably capturing vital proof ought to you find yourself in an accident. They’re comparatively reasonably priced, and include the peace of thoughts of getting prompt proof you weren’t at fault (assuming you weren’t) however Garmin’s newest mannequin affords peace of thoughts 24/7.

As with most sprint cams, the Garmin Dash Cam Live is mounted to the within of a car’s windshield and data the highway forward at 1440P decision by way of a 140-degree FOV wide-angle lens whether or not it’s day or night time. So as to not be the reason for a recorded accident, drivers can function the Dash Cam Live utilizing easy voice instructions, together with beginning and stopping video recording or snapping nonetheless photos.

The footage is continually recorded to a microSD card and time stamped and preserved within the occasion of an incident, however the machine’s actual advantages are unlocked with an energetic LTE information connection. When linked to the cloud, saved clips are pushed to, and saved on, Garmin’s servers for twenty-four hours (or longer relying on the month-to-month subscription) the place they are often simply accessed remotely by way of the Garmin Drive cell app and completely saved to a different machine.

The always-on LTE connection can be used to alert drivers by way of the Garmin Drive app to incidents that happen with the car resembling a break-in or it getting hit by one other car whereas it’s parked. The Dash Cam Live will even robotically save movies of these detected incidents and tag the clips with the time, date, and placement utilizing built-in GPS, however customers even have the choice to instantly entry a stay view from the sprint cam at any time—whether or not to see what’s happening or to simply carry out an occasional check-in for added peace of thoughts.

The Garmin Dash Cam Live is anticipated to promote for $400 by itself and may perform and not using a mobile information connection. But that characteristic is the true motive to go for this new mannequin. Unlocking LTE connectivity would require a subscription plan that begins at $5/month, with costlier choices permitting incident clips to be saved within the cloud for as much as 30 days earlier than they’re robotically deleted.