The concept separation of concerns I apply every where, and I like my dashcam not connected to any cloud, if I ever needed a footage, I’ll just take it from the sdcard.
What about in the situation of a theft?
But then you're playing an arms-race game against inventive thieves with jammers and portable Faraday cages.
Another solution is legal. Make a dashcam phone a "Protected Insurance Entity" or some shit. Maybe have it always streaming as part of some Citizens on Patrol Star Watcher campaign. Bump the punishment to federal level insurance fraud.
Jesus, this fucking future.
Obviously, we will save lives, and that is great. It just takes one drunk driver and one teddy bear falling from the sky.
I imagined a future hopping between cyber corps if you have that power.
But this feels different.
After all, if you're parking in a high crime area - would you leave your smartphone on display in the front windscreen?
Good luck with getting stabbed.
(this is a joke, HN)
(Not literally everyone, of course, but it's entirely normal, non-threatening, and fairly common to carry a pocket knife or knife-including-multitool in the US—anywhere you go that's not screening for metal objects, some of the people there probably have knives, it's not on anyone's radar as something to be worried about. It's like being warned that everyone's wearing underwear, or something)
These sort of things are what they mean: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zombie+knife&iax=images&ia=images
(Used to be Glasgow, these days it's London, always young men in "gang" contexts)
This means the original "tape a knife to the dashcam" gag would be illegal. For car self-defence purposes you're better off with a tyre iron, "breaker bar", socket extender or something else that's a plausible car tool that you just happen to grab.
Right, yeah, I got the intent, it just comes off real goofy in a place where sometimes you see people open-carrying guns, and a hell of a lot more are concealed-carrying, and I was certainly imagining long-side-of-normal folding pocket knives, not something closer to combat knives.
Thanks for explaining, the context does help.