Archive for year: 2017

To avoid unnecessary responsibility and road fraud in traffic accidents,more and more car owners considering to buy or already bought a driving recorder. Ms. Lee spent around $50 to buy a driving recorder. a month later, the plastic case edge of the driving recorder has been spoilt since the installation is close to the front windshield. Professionals warning that during purchase and use of driving recorder,consumers should be careful, because poor quality products may cause the vehicle to spontaneous combustion.

Car owners:buy driving recorder for different purpose

Reporters found that car owner buying driving recorder for different purpose. Most owners are to protect their own rights when the traffic police or insurance claims investigation on site after accidents.There are owners think that the vehicle damage is affordable, if involved in the casualties of traffic accidents, if there is no monitor or no witness, then there may be a big trouble, driving recorder may be useful at this time. While the owner Mr.Zhang has another purpose,he is particularly fond of self driving travel, during rest on weekends he often drive whole family to the suburbs to have fun, usually there are beautiful scenery along the road, but as he need to drive all the way, so he can only ignore these beautiful scenery, a driving recorder can help to automatically photographing beautiful scenery during driving .

Driving recorder industry insider:poor quality driving recorder may cause spontaneous combustion to the vehicle

A dealer told reporters in Beijing Automotive Products Exhibition, a dealer told reporters that although driving recorder has been popular for years, but there are still many bad quality driving recorder on the market,below are some common knowledge about driving recorder:
A).Driving recorder and GPS navigator is similar, tconnect the driving recorder to the cigarette lighter, it can only work during the car running , once the car stopped the driving recorder can’t work too. If the battery is installed, some recorders can only work less than two hours after parking. The vechiles being designated, stolen and other issues, the driving recorder simply can’t achieve 24 hours a day video recording functions.
B).The shooting angle is not wide enough. Recording angle recorded by driving recorder lens from 70 degrees to 170 degrees range, no matter how you adjust the driving recorder, it can only taken the video in corresponding angle.
C).There are a wide range of driving recorder in the market now, ranging from 30USD to 500USD. Usually those hidden built in mounting style driving camera quality is better. For driving recorder cost only 30-70USD, owner should pay more attention during purchase and use. Because those driving recorders will be connected to the cigarette lighter. The more cheaper the driving recorders are, the more inconsistent with the car part , once the driving recorder with poor power protection and poor accessories, it may easy happen line ignition phenomenon, it is likely to cause the vehicle spontaneous combustion. With the rising temperature, the overall temperature of the car will continue to rise too, especially in summer, the maximum temperature of inside the car may up to 60 degree, if the driving recorder accessories quality is not good, the ignition point is too low, it is easy to catch fire, and then causing vehicle spontaneous combustion.

Insurance company: they have encountered only a few driver with the recorder evidence

In a motor vehicle rapid claims center, the company’s staff told reporters that they are agents of many insurance companies quickly claims business, they has only encountered a few car owner use the driving recorder evidence.
It seems that most of the car owners install driving recorder with the original intention of evidence taken for the accident, but only a few of them really use these evidence .However,driving recorder is still considered to be necessary equipment for either old car or new car. But car owner should pay attention to the driving recorder quality. In addition, the driving recorder appearance is almost same as a mobile phone, better to install in a hidden place inside the car, so it won’t bring security risks to owner.

Tesla Model S is considered to be leading a revolution in the electric car market, from the Tesla new generation Model X SUV models, the company founder Elon Musk once again set off a change trend : replacing the traditional rear view car mirror with mini camera.

When Tesla Model X SUV debuted, its many features let people shine, such as “wing” style door, no traditional rear view mirror.Actually, Model X replaced the rear view mirror with a mini camera, and the images captured by the camera will displaying on the electronic touch screen lcd inside the cabin. Although this reduces the Model X wind resistance, but it also violated some of US security requirements.

The regulations of the US authorities on the use of car mounted cameras should originally in effect in 2013, during which Tesla had been lobbying legislators to revise the law, allowing mini cameras to replace traditional rear view car mirrors, so US lawmakers have been postponing the law implementation. In 2016, Tesla,GM, Toyota, Volkswagen and other 12 members from car manufacturers Union ,made a proposal to the NHTSA, and recommended to use the rear view camera to replace the traditional car rear view mirror.

Replacement of the rear view mirror can simplify the car body structure, while reducing the wind resistance at the same time.Currently, improving fuel efficiency and car energy efficiency, become more and more important for car manufacturers and car owners. It is estimated that if use mini camera instead of rear view mirrors, the vehicle wind resistance will be able to reduce up to 5%. In fact, Volkswagen XL1 and some other car models, has been considered no longer using rear view mirrors for energy efficiency, but Tesla is the only one company really want to promote the legislative reform for car cameras.

WDR ( wide dynamic range ) is a technology used to make sure camera can capture video or images under very intense contrast. Broadly speaking, refers to region between change from the maximum value to the minimum or perhaps the minimum value to the maximum .

Usually in the case of strong light exposure or low brightness and other relatively low brightness conditions,the vidoe or image taken by camera will appear particularly bright or may be particularly dark, bright area is due to excessive exposure and dark screen is due to lack of exposure, severely affect video clarity and quality. This restriction is what we usually called “dynamic range”.

In short, traditional dashboard camera when you choose to use 1/100 seconds to obtain the exposured image inside the car, then the images outside the car in the light may will be whiten under strong exposure or low brightness conditions, if continuous in 1/10000 seconds do second exposure to the outside images, then the internal image may be eradicated or be black, when the two images merged together will eventually reduce the final image or video quality,which is also the shortage of traditional camera.

Dashboard cameras with WDR technology can handle the contrast of light source, improve the quality of the images and clarity,even under excessive exposure light source or ultra darkness environment,they are able to shoot high quality images.

Luview Co., LTD is proudly to make a promise to all our customers: all our dashboard cameras, either cheap price ones or specially designed for high end car dashboard camera, are all adopting WDR technology, please be confident in our dashboard cameras.

Since the traffic fraud is more common now, dash cam ( also being called dashboard camera, dashcam, dash camera,dashboard cam;they are actually the same thing ) has become a must buy equipment for car. In addition to retaining evidence and protect drivers themselves, dash cam can also record the funny moments and along landscape during car running.

But there are so many dash cam on the market, the price ranging from a few bucks to several hundreds, and the high price dash cam usually come with many functions, but after use you may found these functions not so useful as the purchasing guide said.How can we avoid buying traps, not waste money? let’s take a look at below.

Trap one: camera lens pixels the higher the better

Some purchasing guide will recommend relatively high pixel dash cam, current dash cam pixels in the market ranging from several millions to 10 million pixels, naturally, the higher pixels the more expensive. But in general, 2 million pixels 1080P dash cam is powerful enough to capture clear driving videos. Higher pixel sensors will not only reduce the recording time, but also greatly increase the number of memory card rewrite times,which will lead to shorter memory card life.

Trap two: the more function the better

Some purchasing guide will recommend consumer to purchase a all-in-one dash cam, with additional electronic dog, reversing camera, GPS navigation function or something besides the basic driving video recording function, and the price will naturally rising. In fact, because multiple functions share the same CPU, all-in-one dash cam performance will be significantly reduced,and the effect can’t up to the effect as it said,besides,the service life will be shorter than the single function dash cam too.

Trap three: dash cam performance with Ambarella chip will be better

Most salesman will tell you that his dash cam is adopt the Ambarella A7 chip, but they just will not tell you the exact A7 chip number.The A7 series Ambarella chip is divided into high,middle,low three different classes, respectively is LA70, LA50 / LA55, LA30, low grade chip A7 chip performance naturally not as good as high end Ambarella A7 chip.

Trap four: view angle the wider the better

Some purchasing guide will recommend super wide angle dash cam, with wide view angle its blind area will be less. In fact,although wide angle can reduce the blind area, but it will distort the screen too, the wider view angle the more serious distortion, video effects will be affected too. In general, 120-150 degrees view angle dash cam can meet most driver’s requirements. Before you buy a 170 degrees or even 200 degrees view angle dash cam,consider it carefully .

Trap five: dash cam can be 24 hour monitoring while parking

Some high end car owners will think about a 24 hour parking monitoring dash cam, because their exposed car used to be damaged while parking.However, on the one hand the cam built-in battery and memory card can only support video of 8-16 hours, it is difficult to achieve 24-hour monitoring; on the other hand the dash cam monitoring angle is limited, certainly can’t achieve all-round monitoring. So you want to have a 24 hours monitoring dash cam for your car is not realistic, if the purchasing guide recommend this feature to you, then he must be lying .

Although is it a bit complex to choose a dash cam driving recorder,as long as you avoid these traps, being cheat choice may greatly reduced.

Most driver driving a car in less than 90 minutes per day, while the 32 G SD card can record 320 minutes full 1080p HD video, recorded video can be saved for more than three days, for most people,it is enough.If you want to record video around your car the whole day, you must adopt a 64 G sd card.So we recommend 32 G SD card for Luview dashboard car camera user.

Besides,SD card reliability and service life is very important,at least class 10 is required, otherwise it can not keep up with high definition video read and write speed. We recommend Sandisk high durable series 32 GB SD card,it can record more than 5000 hours under temperature of -25ºC to 85ºC,which means it can work almost in all areas and conditions.Although it is a bit more expensive than those bad quality ones,but it is more reliable.