Originally Posted by turbo1889

Personally I'm waiting until the sun-glasses cameras get to the resolution and price point where I can get one good enough to usually catch license plate numbers for not much more then $100-USD. I think it will still be a few more years.

As to cyclists not needing one, I agree that it isn't absolutely needed I'm not currently running a camera. But there are times where it would have been nice to record evidence. As to those who view cycling not as needful transportation but rather a hobby or form of leisure pleasure like croquet they aren't really in a position to make comment in the first place about those of us who have been use the roadways to travel fully within the rules of the road and our legal rights and have been deliberately and knowingly subjected to felony ADW attacks by motorists and have had the cops tell us that they can't do anything because there is no proof being desirous of next time having a recording instrument to get that proof or at the very least serve as a "black box" if we should be killed in such an attack. I'm not quite to that point yet myself because such incidents although they have been perpetrated against me have been rare enough that I'm not quite ready to start pro-actively running a camera all the time, but I have absolutely no problem with those who of their own free will choice choose to do so. In fact I'm strongly suspicious that those making such nasty comments about others exercising their free will and at their own cost installing "dash cams" in any vehicle might be afraid of evidence of their own mis-behavior being recorded and them not being able to get away with things they are doing. The whole guilty conscience thing being the root of campaigning against the increasing use of recorded records by private individuals in public places. When the guy/gal you attack might have a camera recording you in the act its a lot harder to get away with it with a "his word against mine" defense. And if it becomes common enough it can serve as a significant deterrent to substantial mis-behavior against others since you never know who is running a recorder.

I fully understand the potential abuses of government or even private corporate mass surveillance, but private individuals installing dash cams and/or black box recorders in their vehicles at their own personal cost with non-networked records I hardly see as any threat to anyone but perps. and criminals.