Android Phones Can Be Converted To Dash Cams

In-car cameras, which are the biggest trump card in protecting your rights in traffic accidents, are sold in a wide price band up to thousands of TL today. Alright, Why can’t we use our phones as dash cams?

Of course, this question has many answers. Storage space, camera overheating, not being able to use the phone… This possibility finally came to Google’s mind. It was seen that Google is working on the in-car camera feature in the Android operating system. The first screenshots from the feature have also arrived.

Google’s dash cam feature:

In the screenshots shared by 9to5Google, the feature is ‘available on Pixel phones’.Personal Security‘ appeared in the application. There were also pleasing details about the feature.

The feature’s setup page also hosts critical information. According to the information here, users will also have the opportunity to record ambient sound with their phone’s microphone. Also, all recorded videos are saved to have the lowest footprint. will be optimized.

Google’s dash cam feature, for 24 hours will be able to record and automatically delete records made after three days. In addition, commands such as “start when device is connected to X device via Bluetooth” can be set so that the recording is not started manually.

There are already third-party dash camera apps for phones, what’s the difference with Google?

Many applications released to date have not been able to compress high-resolution recordings well and therefore take up little space. The most basic difference of Google is that you can get 24-hour records and do this. without wasting much storage space to be able to save.

On the other hand, when we keep our camera on for a few minutes our phones get hot is also a fact. It is not known how Google will take action against this.

It is also unknown which Android version the new feature will be available for phones.