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Drivecam... How Does It Even Work?

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Think of it like a DVR, it is always recording so that when you manually trigger a recording, or an incident is detected, it can go back and get the some footage leading up to the trigger moment and then continue recording for a another minute or so.

But at the same time, the "continuous" recording will basically fill the drive and start recording over its footage once it runs out of space. It's not necessarily intended for review, but is still available to view outside of the internal operating system.

In effect, the continuous recording is just there so that the vehicle is prepared to capture anything at any moment.
 

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Fyi, the incident camera does not work properly. Hit a deer this week and the car didn't even know it happened. No sensors went off, no recording. The car didn't even know it hit something. Not as safe as you would think it is.
 

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Fyi, the incident camera does not work properly. Hit a deer this week and the car didn't even know it happened. No sensors went off, no recording. The car didn't even know it hit something. Not as safe as you would think it is.
Sorry it didn't auto trigger, but you can manually trigger by pressing the Drive Cam icon on the center screen.

Edit: Really this is all just Incident Cam, but Drive Cam (if you had it set up) still should have captured the entire event to your thumb drive for offline playback.
 
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