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Drive Recorder only deals with issues during driving — it's right there in the name :-). It will record up to 20 seconds before and up to 20 seconds after manual trigger or what the car systems consider to be an accident. It records on 4 cameras simultaneously: front, rear, and each of the side mirror cameras. It does not record anything while parked or car off. As such, it is useless for parking incidents and if you need that, you need to augment with dash cam(s) that do so.
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In fact, it would have been an order of magnitude better design by BMW to implement parking incident recording into "Drive Recorder" and there is mostly no technical reason for them to not have done so. They would need battery monitoring/management (as do the dash cams) and that would limit the duration of parking incident recording, but all the data to support the function reliably is at BMW's hands and recording mall parking incidents for an hour or three would fit 95% of the use cases. But alas, they give us almost toy features instead.
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Already the Drive Recorder in the current configuration is illegal in Spain and some other European countries, and a more capable dashcam even more so. |
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