Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
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Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
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Re: Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
#2"a new feature called “Dashcam” that, as the name suggests, records video (and audio, optionally) while you are driving. If your phone is mounted in the right spot, the recording should provide helpful information in the event of an accident or other unexpected situation."
A perfect way to collect information about your driving habits and vehicle. Insurance companies, auto sales and maintenance companies, and others would love to find new customers this way.
Re: Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
#3The 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.
Re: Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
#4alternate title:
google includes more crap most people won't use, making the OS interface have more crap to go through to find your thing.
here in the real world, if you want your phone to be a dashcam, you've been able to do that with an app for over a decade.
what we need is the phone to natively convert between british, us, and metric, specifically for paprika measurements during the cooking of various dishes. google should put those conversions in the first top-swipe. if you swipe again, then you see notifications. if you swipe a third time, it'll tell you that you've turned your data off, and give you an option to turn it back on. forth time swipe you'll be able to adjust brightness.
Re: Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
#5The 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.
> I’ll just take it from the sdcard
What about in the situation of a theft?
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#6"a new feature called “Dashcam” that, as the name suggests, records video (and audio, optionally) while you are driving. If your phone is mounted in the right spot, the recording should provide helpful information in the event of an accident or other unexpected situation." A perfect way to collect information about your driving habits and vehicle. Insurance companies, auto sales and maintenance companies, and others…
They already collect tracking data with Google Maps and already use car engine type to estimate gas usage on different routes.
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#7No need for a system one if there's an app... But... Is there a FLOSS dashcam for Android? Nothing that I could see on F-droid when I looked a few months back.
Re: Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
#8The 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.
Nothing in the settings shows any way to upload the videos to the cloud.
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#9Re: Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
#10I thought there were already apps to do this with most phones. The phone itself has a poor form factor for a dashcam though, and it uses too much power.