Dash cam
Add dash cam features in background, auto record when car is moving, just enable feature and everything runs in background. Similar to app called witness. Record 10 segments, 6min each. Store date,time and GPS. Thought of this after learning that every car in Russia has a dash cam (all those meteor recordings).
Eric
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Great thinking! We’ll share with the team; they’re always interested in new feature ideas.
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Andris Kurmis
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About the potential battery drain: I am constantly running the mentioned DailyRoads Voyager in background and Waze in foreground on SGS3 (large screen, automatic brightness), and charger is able to charge phone (just ~ +200mA, but still it gives ~+1% each 5 minutes). So this should not be a problem.
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Zachare Sylvestre commented
I have a video recorder running in the background called "DailyRoads Voyager". If you have android, you can use this (iOS can't do background mode). If you mount it to a mount you get online, it will record. But, yeah, I would love if a feature was integrated like this. Maybe Waze and DRV can get together to integrate their features.
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Mikus Āriņš
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+1
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Kaspars Foigts commented
Lexxus, not sure. This can be tested, though, I believe that iPhone alone with proper charger (think - enough amps) could not be drained that easy.
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Lexxus Borovenskis
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I guess this feature is going to drain the battery quicker than your car charger is able to charge....
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Janis M-ics commented
Agree on that! Awesome idea.
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TL;DR It would be extremely helpful, if Waze could continuously record and store video from front facing camera.
Me and many of my friends would install a car video recorder. Main functionality is to continuously record anything that happens in front of your car, storing last few hours of recorded material.
There could be many uses for this. Mainly - helping in crashes, where you are not guilty, but you cannot prove that.
Functionality could be minimum. An option to enable or disable continuous recording through road facing camera. Setting, which indicates - how many minutes or hours of recording to keep. Easy way to extract data via iTunes. Video can be split in smaller chunks (10min max), and work like FIFO queue - when recording next 10 minutes, oldest 10 minutes chunk is removed from device.
Solution may not be trivial, but result would be greatly appreciated by many of fellow wazers.
And, yes, I know that this is not a 'quick fix' type of suggestion.
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Danidek
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waze may function as a blackbox camera during driving.