There is a setup program that runs on Windows, which allows you to change the many settings of the camera. (There's also a way to do it with text file editing on an Apple or other operating system.) I don't have my Mobius yet (ordered it yesterday) but from the videos I've watched, the camera doesn't have a "car mode" as such. It has parameters to set it to start recording automatically when power is applied from an external power cable, which is what you'd want for a car camera -- turn the car on, power comes up on the 12 volt outlet, powers up the camera, and you're recording; shut off the car, camera shuts down. There is another parameter to set for recording when motion is detected. That's good for a security camera. There is a setting to choose how large a video file can get before a new file is started, with sequential numbering in the file names. One of those settings is for "max" which records until the micro SD card is full to capacity. You can also set it to do time lapse recording, with several different time intervals between frames. This would be good for recording a long trip without taking up a lot of space on the storage card but of course it will playback at faster than real time, which is good for getting a general idea of a trip without sitting through the whole thing in real time. There is a mode button on the camera which lets you switch between real time recording and time lapse or still-photo mode. You can also do slow motion recording by choosing the frame rate to be faster than the playback rate. That is, most playback is at 30 frames per second (such as on YouTube), but the camera can record at 60 fps, which would make everything look like it's moving half as fast as real time -- good for sports action shots. You can find some videos demonstrating these effects on YouTube or Vimeo.