More than two years after saying it, the Ring Car Cam is now out there for preorder. Starting right this moment, January fifth, you may order the corporate’s first dashboard safety digital camera at Amazon.com or Ring.com for $199.99, a financial savings of $50 over the common value. It will ship to US clients starting February fifteenth.

The Ring Car Cam is the video doorbell firm’s first foray into safety away from the house. Featuring dual-facing cameras that may document inside and outdoors of the automotive, each when it’s in movement and parked, the Ring Car Cam additionally has a microphone and speaker in addition to sensors to detect occasions and movement in and across the automotive.

Video recording can occur routinely whereas driving or on demand. You can pull up a dwell view from the digital camera whenever you aren’t within the automotive in case you pay for a Ring Protect Go plan, which prices $6 per thirty days, or $60 per 12 months, for LTE connectivity.

The subscription additionally provides real-time alerts within the Ring app for occasions and cloud storage of movies for as much as 180 days. The digital camera has native storage, accessible when it’s related to Wi-Fi — say, when parked in your driveway or related by way of your cellphone’s hotspot.

The Ring Car Cam works with a Traffic Stop characteristic the place the command “Alexa, record” will shortly begin a recording throughout a cease or after a fender bender, for instance. However, that’s the extent of any Alexa integration; the voice assistant isn’t in-built.

The machine is powered by the automotive battery by way of the OBD-II port. It attaches to your windshield and comes with a device that will help you safe the cable neatly between the windshield and the dashboard.

The digital camera works with the Ring app for viewing dwell and recorded video from its two cameras. You can even use its built-in microphone and speaker for two-way discuss from the automotive or to speak with anybody who’s in your automotive whenever you’re not there.

The digital camera flashes an LED mild when it’s recording, and there’s a bodily shutter the driving force can shut at any time to close off all inside video and audio. The Ring Car Cam additionally helps optionally available video end-to-end encryption. 

The arrival of the Ring Car Cam two years after it was first introduced means there’s some hope that the opposite missing-in-action Ring digital camera — the Always Home Cam, a surveillance drone to your house — should still make an look. It was introduced in 2020, and regardless of Ring opening preorders by way of invites in 2021, we’re nonetheless ready to see one in motion. Ring CTO Josh Roth assured The Verge that whereas the complexity and challenges of constructing an in-house flying autonomous automobile are huge, “it will come out at some point.”