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Originally Posted by SteveAus
They also record visual events on the road, resulting in no impact, that the Drive Recorder would not pick up, ie near misses, dickheads, etc. They also record GPS speed so that you could supply this info in the event of a contested speeding event. A further reason is to see what happens to the car during servicing at the dealer - providing the bastards don’t pull the power lead out, as has happened in the past.
To me the drive recorder is my secondary set of cameras to the primary dashcams.
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I have a cheap dashcam in my Merc at the moment. When it comes back from MB service, it's disconnected. But when I've taken it to my independent guy, it stays connected and records when the ignition is turned on.