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Hm, let's see: Do I want to wear out the flash memory in an $800 phone, or get a $150 dash cam? This comment applies to Android phones that wouldn't let this t

Hm, let's see: Do I want to wear out the flash memory in an $800 phone, or get a $150 dash cam? This comment applies to Android phones that wouldn't let this thing write to a micro-SD card, of course.

disillusioned 3y ago
Yeah, all I could think of was "that's an insane amount of thrashing on the storage on this very expensive phone" alongside my second thought which was: "My Pixel 7 Pro can't record video for more than a couple minutes before it microwaves itself into oblivion, there's absolutely no chance it survives for even a couple seconds as a dashcam."
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  I mean, if you've got to put in a dock/holder anyway, why not use external storage?
ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
Time to put that 5G hype to the test, stream it directly to google servers like Nest cam cvr
guilhas 3y ago
And their flash is known to brick a lot I had a pixel 3xl bricking after an update. They get a lot of updates and wear the ?cheap flash https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/rt6tn9/my_pixel_6_bricked_suddenly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/rt6tn9/my_pixe... https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/mmcn93/my_pixel_3_xl_bricked_overnight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/mmcn93/my_pixe... https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xtwgap/pixel_5a_bricked/ https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xtwgap/pixel_5...
- delfinom 3y ago
  Bad flash in phones isn't that uncommon or specific to Google. There's at least a few Samsung phones whose flash dies after two years due to a firmware bug in the emmc. Samsung of course never fixed it since they just ran the clock on the warranty. There was at least once individual once refurbishing said failed phones by using a exploit to update said emmc.
awestroke 3y ago
It'll probably be an in-memory circular buffer of the last n minutes, and then you get to save it if anything happens
- pphysch 3y ago
  +1 and copy buffer to storage immediately if the gyro detects a abnormally sharp movement
Aunche 3y ago
One problem is that virtually all dash cams use the same sensor that kind of sucks. You're usually not able to make out people's license plates.
- AHOHA 3y ago
  I installed a new one with the new sony starvis 2 sensor, it can read license plates at night pretty good I would say.
- thriftwy 3y ago
  My dashcam was priced like a new iPhone but the recording quality is superb, licence plates of a car 10m away is clearly readable.
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    Do tell!
    - thriftwy 3y ago
      I believe it's called Aviline DVR-B
    - propogandist 3y ago
      you can buy comma.ai hardware, its base use is "dashcam" you can, at your discretion, load self-driving software (openpilot), which can take over driving for you, in addition to maintaining dashcam footage they have a subscription that will store footage in the cloud too, iirc https://github.com/commaai/openpilot https://github.com/commaai/openpilot
AHOHA 3y ago
And the $200 dashcam usually have super capacitor instead of battery for reliability
8note 3y ago
You've worn out the memory in your phone before? How do you pull that off?
- fomine3 3y ago
  I've never worn out NAND flash on my phone, but I'm not sure if I record 3h of video everyday. 16Mbps * 3h = 20GiB, so 6 TBW for 300 days)
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disillusioned 3y ago

Yeah, all I could think of was "that's an insane amount of thrashing on the storage on this very expensive phone" alongside my second thought which was: "My Pixel 7 Pro can't record video for more than a couple minutes before it microwaves itself into oblivion, there's absolutely no chance it survives for even a couple seconds as a dashcam."

hammyhavoc 3y ago
I mean, if you've got to put in a dock/holder anyway, why not use external storage?

ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago

Time to put that 5G hype to the test, stream it directly to google servers like Nest cam cvr

guilhas 3y ago

And their flash is known to brick a lot I had a pixel 3xl bricking after an update. They get a lot of updates and wear the ?cheap flash https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/rt6tn9/my_pixel_6_bricked_suddenly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/rt6tn9/my_pixe... https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/mmcn93/my_pixel_3_xl_bricked_overnight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/mmcn93/my_pixe... https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xtwgap/pixel_5a_bricked/ https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xtwgap/pixel_5...

delfinom 3y ago
Bad flash in phones isn't that uncommon or specific to Google. There's at least a few Samsung phones whose flash dies after two years due to a firmware bug in the emmc. Samsung of course never fixed it since they just ran the clock on the warranty. There was at least once individual once refurbishing said failed phones by using a exploit to update said emmc.

awestroke 3y ago

It'll probably be an in-memory circular buffer of the last n minutes, and then you get to save it if anything happens

pphysch 3y ago
+1 and copy buffer to storage immediately if the gyro detects a abnormally sharp movement

Aunche 3y ago

One problem is that virtually all dash cams use the same sensor that kind of sucks. You're usually not able to make out people's license plates.

AHOHA 3y ago
I installed a new one with the new sony starvis 2 sensor, it can read license plates at night pretty good I would say.
thriftwy 3y ago
My dashcam was priced like a new iPhone but the recording quality is superb, licence plates of a car 10m away is clearly readable.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  Do tell!
  - thriftwy 3y ago
    I believe it's called Aviline DVR-B
  - propogandist 3y ago
    you can buy comma.ai hardware, its base use is "dashcam" you can, at your discretion, load self-driving software (openpilot), which can take over driving for you, in addition to maintaining dashcam footage they have a subscription that will store footage in the cloud too, iirc https://github.com/commaai/openpilot https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

AHOHA 3y ago

And the $200 dashcam usually have super capacitor instead of battery for reliability

8note 3y ago

You've worn out the memory in your phone before? How do you pull that off?

fomine3 3y ago
I've never worn out NAND flash on my phone, but I'm not sure if I record 3h of video everyday. 16Mbps * 3h = 20GiB, so 6 TBW for 300 days)

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