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Dashboard camera with driver alerts

Garmin Southern Africa has announced the new Dash Cam 30 and Dash Cam 35, high-definition standalone driving recorders which easily mount to a windshield and record footage in a continuous loop. Garmin dash cam starts recording when the vehicle is turned on and stops when it is turned off, serving as a driver’s eyewitness on the road.

With the Incident Detection (G-sensor) feature, video footage will automatically save should an impact occur. Additionally, new driver alerts offer helpful alerts that encourage safer driving behaviour for customers while dash cam records the drive ahead.

Driver alerts are available only on the Dash Cam 35 model. These features include ‘Forward Collision Warnings’, which alerts users when they are driving too close to the vehicle ahead. Plus with ‘safety camera warning’ alerts, drivers have the advantage of knowing where red light or safety camera zones are located.

Garmin dash cam models are available with or without GPS. The GPS-enabled Dash Cam 35 allows the camera to label footage with date, time, latitude, longitude and speed so that drivers know exactly when and where events take place. The date and time may be manually set on Dash Cam 30.

The Dash Cam 30 has a compact 1.4-inch LCD display and Dash Cam 35 offers a larger 3.0-inch LCD display. Both Dash Cam 30 and 35 have excellent fields of view and capture video in 1080p or 720p.

With the inclusion of the snapshot feature, drivers can remove the dash cam from the mount and snap close-up shots of their vehicles or property damage. Additionally, users can conveniently play back video footage directly on the display of the device, or download the free Garmin software at Garmin.com/dashcamplayer to review and organise video files at a later time on a computer.

Video footage is stored on the replaceable microSD memory card, which is included.

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