Smart dash cams? This sounds like an opportunity to buy a couple dupes of my current dash cam before they enshittify the whole market segment.

I made the comment to my passenger a year ago that the image quality of most current dashcams is trash but didn’t full understand it yet. It makes sense now. They’re holding back the good quality, (phone/action cam quality picture) until they can counterbalance it with some bad features. A little bite of poison on a big bite of food is how you get the rats to eat out of the trap. I expect the next gen will be fully connected to he police department at all times.

I’ve been looking into buy a dash cam but I’m always shocked at how bad the picture quality are on them. Which do you recommend? Would love a decent non-smart dash cam.

That’s because low res is perfectly fine for dash cams. You need super high res and to be pretty close in order to capture license plates, so you shouldn’t be relying on the cam to grab the plates. The best thing to do in any situation is to say the plate out loud to capture it on the audio.