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TechRadar Verdict

Non slap-up for making movies, just an splendid blackness box solution.

Pros

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Total GPS functionality for location and speed
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Supports wired-in installation
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Auto-record functionality

Cons

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Mediocre image quality
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Not suitable for making movies
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Tin can add to in-car cablevision ataxia

Using a camera to log your driving in the event of an accident is an increasingly popular pastime, especially for bikers and cyclists. But the Roadhawk DC-1 takes the concept of in-auto black box to another level.

Put merely, the Roadhawk DC-1 might plow out to be the divergence between keeping or losing your no-claims bonus. It might even brand the difference in a serious road-accident related court instance.

Roadhawk DC-1: What'll it do?

In simple terms, the Roadhawk DC-1 records audio and video. Where things get clever is by adding GPS functionality. That enables the speed and location of your car to be logged all along the recorded route, besides.

Roadhawk has too thrown in a G sensor. The upshot of all this is that you lot can record and later review journeys in forensic item. You can even play them back alongside a Google map display of the car's location.

Several benefits come up out of this. Yous've a log of exactly what happened in the event of an accident, for starters. You can also use it to plan or share routes, amend your driving and more.

What it's not, however, is the optimal device for recording snazzy in-auto videos. The video is limited to 640 x 480 pixels at 30 frames per second. Budding movie makers will be better off with something like the GoPro car kit.

Roadhawk DC-1: What'south information technology similar?

Compact and fairly discreet, the ideal mounting position for the Roadhawk DC-ane is probably behind the principal rear-view mirror. Power comes from a standard cigarette lighter adapter, but yous can as well hard wire it to the auto'due south power circuit and cut down on the cables. Not an expensive job and well worth doing, we reckon.

The Roadhawk DC-1's safety aspect is covered by automatically recording when the car is started. Information technology records in a constant loop of up to 6 hours and has an emergency push button to protect files from being overwritten. You can also set the Roadhawk DC-one to protect data when the g-force sensor detects an accident or impact. Apparently, this isn't a feature we were fully able to test.

It's all recorded onto a 4GB SDHC memory carte du jour which you tin remove any time y'all want to review the information. There's a software app for doing only that, which includes the aforementioned Google maps functionality.

It's not a pretty app, merely it gets the job done efficiently. You can also view the video in most media players, simply you won't have access to the speed and location data.

Every bit for the quality of the video, it's non going to worry a GoPro. Just it's absolutely fit for purpose thanks to a usefully-broad 125 caste field of view.

Roadhawk DC-1: Verdict

Achieving the best setup for the Roadhawk DC-one does crave some wiring. Merely it works pretty well just sticking it in the screen and plugging into the lighter socket.

One time y'all're up and running, the machine tape and accident features mean you can leave it to do its matter and basically forget about information technology. This is critical, as you tin can be sure the one time you really needed to have it running, is the in one case you'd forgotten to prepare your camera to record.

You lot can get black box apps for phones, of course. But the Roadhawk DC-1 is a more permanent solution that can be hard wired for constant ability supply and do everything without you ever needing to think about it.

All told, it's a great way to protect yourself on the route, though information technology's worth pointing out that it will tape your own bad driving just as efficiently equally everybody else'southward. Only and then maybe the knowledge that it's all existence recorded will encourage you to behave a little better backside the wheel.

Contributor

Engineering and cars. Increasingly the twain shall run across. Which is handy, considering Jeremy (Twitter) is addicted to both. Long-time tech journalist, former editor of iCar magazine and incumbent car guru for T3 magazine, Jeremy reckons in-auto technology is about to go thermonuclear. No, not exploding cars. That would be empty-headed. And dangerous. But rather an explosive period of unprecedented innovation. Savour the ride.