I'd love for Waze to incorporate a Dash Cam. I've used the Witness app, but I can't use it and navigation at the same time. Background dash cam recording (video loop) while using Waze would be the ultimate! Unfortunately in my area, a GPS-enable, speed tracking dash cam is a must due to the crooked cops who lie about a person's speed in order to meet their monthly ticket quotas. So for me, the dash cam is probably the more vital of the two, but to me, there shouldn't be any particular reason why Waze couldn't use the iPhone's camera as a dash cam in the background. Come on, Waze!

Dashcam can be very usefull !

What is a road camera record?

Function that blow your mind

Option "Caméra embarquée", qui filme la route avec la caméra du téléphone quand l'application est lancée.
Avec possibilité de choisir le nombre de dernières minutes à enregistrer selon la mémoire du téléphone.
Un bouton sur l’écran principale pour sauvegarder en un clin d’œil les x dernières minutes dans la mémoire de l'appareil en cas d’accrochage ou accident.

This would be a great idea! I also thought about it. Loop recording is why I use 2 phones in the car. One for Waze and one for loop recording dash cam, which cannot run in background due to Apple limitations. Maybe the hind cmare dash cam option could be an in app purchase. Lots would buy it!!!

Check out the CamOnRoad app! That should be possible in Waze too! :-)

I agree. Most people seem to mount their phones where it could be utilized for a rolling x amount of footage. If you need monies in the R&D I bet a surcharge to go premium for a dollar or two would be well worth it to users.

The police reporting was controversial when Waze originally released.

Instead, allow this DVR idea to make our roads safer by crowdsourcing a 'report reckless driving' option. Wikipedia lists 32,716 automobile deaths in 2013 alone.

Waze can market a simple clip to attach a smartphone to the side of the rearview mirror. The camera can continually record. As a dangerous driver is observed, a user can tap a large target in the center of the smartphone to send the clip to the local authorities determined by GPS.

Dash cam functionality is needed. Us Waze users leave app on when driving so would be of added benefit for Dash Cam function. "Sygic" Nav app already does this for both iOS and Android, I'm using that app instead of Waze because of that feature. Please Waze; Dash Cam feature! Vote now people.

Can you make a way while the app is open to enable the front facing camera to act as a mobile DVR and record for a selected length of time before it records over itself? Basically, it would act as a drive camera. I as the user would be able to select a window of 5,10,30,60 mintues of recording time while the app is open and the phone is in the front window being used for nav. Once the camera uses up the selected amount of time, it would then start recording over the old video and create a loop.

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Run a background video recorder saving video from camera, choices of map, speed, speed limit, etc. overlay,
When reporting traffic or accident, offer to send image at time of report that was captured by background recording.
Keep these photos and videos in app specific storage, not mixed with personal photos/videos.
Overwrite old video unless saved manually or due to high g event.
Supervised driver mode (teen driver) option to time lapse recording to save space I.e. Hyperlapse functionality. Automatically or manual upload of saved or supervised video to cloud service such as Dropbox before deleting.

Yes other Apps have some of these features, but can not run concurrent with wave, and it just makes sense to build into THE app I use while driving, plus makes photo reporting of traffic and accidents easier by capturing image automatically at time of pressing report icon.

This would be a great OPTION. Certain areas are known for accidents. A great idea to protect yourself. How about a way to also download data regarding speed etc. in case of accident.

I was thinking about a video loop, whose length can be selected by the user, with a button to save or upload the video loop contents when something interesting happens. Additionally, to protect potential crash footage, the video loop would be saved after a user specified amount of time elapsed with no detectable vehicle motion. Obviously, users should be able to turn the dash cam off and on.

I can't tell you how many times I wished I had footage of "that idiot" to send to the police.

Some other apps have a dash cam and maps but the maps are not as good as waze so if waze adds a camera it would be the perfect driving app

I am trying to run both Waze and DRV. I can start up DRV and it runs fine in the background until I open up Waze. Within a few seconds DRV stops recording telling me: Low memory, video stopped recording. Any suggestions? I am using a Motorola Droid Razor XT907.

It could be very useful but not for hours of recording. only the last 5/10 minutes could be enough.

I agree this would save us from buying separate black box, which would record last 15min of driving and by crash or by user pressing the button VIDEO SAVE, would save the last 15min of video to the phone....

Introduce the option of recording video, gps position, speed as a black box in case of accident every 30 seconds, 5 minutes or 10 minutes (re-writing video) with the option to keep the video in case of an event. This will help the insurance in case of accidents.