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July 25, 2007

Clarion DriveEye Records Accidents

Clarion DriveEye is a camera housed in a titanium enclosure that mounts to the windshield of your car. Inside the camera is a G-sensor that can sense emergency braking and begins to record video automatically to a 128MB CF card.

The camera holds 15 seconds of footage in the buffer from right before the crash occurred and keeps an additional 5 seconds in the buffer from after the crash. The footage can be moved to a computer later for help supporting a case against a lawsuit.

Currently the DriveEye is only available in Japan for about $412. The camera uses no moving parts to help reduce the chance that it is damaged in the crash that it is recording. You can also trigger recording manually if you just want to shoot footage as you race around town. Via Technabob

Posted by shane at July 25, 2007 12:09 PM