Most parking modes sleep until something hits the car, so the minute that actually matters is already gone. This one runs Always On Video instead. Both lenses keep filming the entire time the vehicle sits parked, which means the approach, the impact and the walk-away all land on the same file.
It also has a SIM in it. Open the app from work and you get the live picture from both lenses, the vehicle on a map, its road speed and the route it has driven. A radar sensor at each end raises its own alert when somebody steps in close, and a PIR sensor reads body heat so a person registers differently from a shadow.
One thing to know before you buy: the rear lens faces INTO the vehicle. It films the interior and the people in it, not the traffic behind you. That is exactly what rideshare, taxi and courier drivers want. If you need the road behind on video, this is the wrong model.
Parking modes on most dash cams wait for a bump, then start saving. This one never stops. Both lenses record continuously the whole time the vehicle is parked, so you get the sixty seconds before the scrape as well as the scrape itself. Nothing has to wake up, and nothing is missed while it does.
Two radar sensors, one at each end of the unit, cover the nose and the tail of the vehicle. Each raises its own push alert, so the notification already tells you which end to look at. A PIR sensor reads body heat alongside them, so somebody walking up registers differently from a shadow crossing the bonnet.
Built-in GPS reports where the vehicle is right now, how fast it is going and the route it has taken, straight to the free app. Most dash cams only log a speed stamp onto the card. This one tracks live, so a vehicle that has been moved can be followed rather than reported.
Two 3MP sensors record in 2K. The front lens looks out through the windscreen at the road. The second faces back into the vehicle and covers the people aboard. Read the second sentence twice: this is a road plus interior camera, not a road plus rear-window camera.
Four 940nm infrared emitters and a light sensor sit around the interior lens. 940nm is the no-glow wavelength, so the camera sees the interior in the dark without putting visible red dots in front of whoever is sitting there. Cheaper interior cameras use 850nm and passengers notice them.
A built-in supercapacitor drives the unit instead of a lithium battery. That matters for something that lives on a windscreen through an Australian summer: nothing in there to swell in the heat, nothing to go flat, and nothing you ever have to charge.
Parking cover normally means an auto electrician and a wiring job. Not here. The supplied cable is USB-C at the camera and OBD2 at the other end. It plugs into the diagnostic socket under the dash, which is the connection that stays live with the ignition off. Nothing to cut, nothing to wire.
A microphone and speaker let you talk to whoever is in the vehicle from the app. When you would rather not be recorded at all, one long press of the Privacy Mode button stops recording and blocks remote viewing until you press it again.
The G-sensor seals a file as protected the moment it feels an impact, so a loop cannot write over it. The One Key REC button on the unit does the same by hand, for something the sensor would shrug off, like an argument or a near miss.
A fare disputes the route or claims damage that did not happen. The interior lens has the cabin on file with a timestamp and the GPS log puts the vehicle on the route, so the complaint gets answered with footage instead of recollection.
Nobody reports the hit and the driver finds the damage in the morning. Because the camera never stopped filming, the approach and the vehicle responsible are already recorded, and the radar alert timestamps exactly when to look.
A teenager takes the car for the night. The map shows where it actually went and how fast, and the interior lens shows how many people were aboard. It turns a guess into a conversation with facts in it.
Vehicles sit at depots and job sites out of sight. Live tracking shows where each one is now rather than where it last was, and the 4G link keeps the interior view open while the location is passed on.
Not included: microSD card. Use a card up to 256GB.
No. The rear lens is built into the body of the unit and faces into the interior, so it records the people in the vehicle. If you need the road behind on video, choose a model with a separate rear-window camera on a cable.
Yes, provided it is on the supplied OBD2 lead or a fuse box connection. USB and cigarette-lighter sockets cut power with the ignition, which is why they cannot support parking mode. With constant power both lenses keep filming and the radar keeps watching.
A SIM is in the box, and it carries no data until you register it and pick a plan. You are not tied to it. Any Australian SIM on a data plan works just as well.
The G-sensor reacts to contact, so it only knows once the vehicle has been hit. The radar sensors detect someone approaching before contact and push an alert, which gives you a live view while the situation is still developing.