Dictionary

dashcam en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈdæʃˌkæm/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Blend of dash(board) + cam(era).

Meanings

1. A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.
   • By dissolving from the last frame of the dashcam video clip into the same scene in animated form, the montage associated Murtha with the "good" officers in the other cruiser, embracing him in the group rather than singling him out as the renegade shooter who, to the unprepared viewer of the dashcam video alone, he might well have appeared to be. 2016, Neal Feigenson, “‘That’s What I See!’”, in Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 65:
   • [W]e can connect the episode to the rise of "dashcams": small cameras mounted on the dashboards of cars to record the behavior of pedestrians and other motorists in case of accidents. In several countries, the use of such dashcams can already be required by insurance companies, at least to obtain a discount. It seems a plausible scenario that such practices might expand beyond car insurance and police forces, aggregating dashcams with lifelogging to create a situation in which citizens, under cover of security and legal protection, become expected to record and store their daily experience. 2018, Pinelopi Troullinou, Mathieu d’Aquin, “Seeing the ‘Surveillant Face’ of Technology in Black Mirror: Using Futuristic Scenarios for an Interdisciplinary Discussion on the Feasibility and Implications of Technology”, in Angela M. Cirucci, Barry Vacker, editors, Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 74–75:
   • Why not direct viewers to your website for entire, unedited interviews, an exclusive one-on-one with a local sports star or the whole five minutes of raw police dashcam from that cool chase you aired 20 seconds of? 2006, RTNDA Communicator, volume 60, Washington, D.C.: Radio-Television News Directors Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:
   • Proliferating as well are personal monitoring devices—dash cams, cyclist helmet cameras to record collisions, doorbells equipped with lenses to catch package thieves—that are fast becoming a part of many a city dweller’s everyday arsenal. 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
   • The evaluator is generally interested in the acquired video data as well as its integrity, but does not operate the dashcam himself. The evaluator is allowed to review anonymized dashcam videos for certain purposes. However, just like the operator, the evaluator must not be granted access to the classified data. An example for this actor is an insurance company that offers lower fees for dashcam users and wants to evaluate the video images after an insurance claim has been filed. 2017, Paul Wagner, Pascal Birnstill, Erik Krempel, Sebastian Bretthauer, Jürgen Beyerer, “Privacy Dashcam – Towards Lawful Use of Dashcams through Enforcement of External Anonymization”, in Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Hannes Hartenstein, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology: […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); 10436), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 188:

Forms

Hypernyms

digital video recorder

Hyponyms

taxicam

Relateds

webcam

Synonyms

event data recorder · car DVR · driving recorder

Translations (34)

da dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · lt vaizdo registratorius (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · ru автомобильный видеорегистратор (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · hu fedélzeti kamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · fr dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · nl dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · ar دَاش كَام (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · fi autokamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · yue 行車記錄儀 /行车记录仪 (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · fi kojelautakamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · cmn 行車紀錄器 /行车纪录器 (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · ru видеорегистратор (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · ja ドライブレコーダー (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · be відэарэгістратар (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · cs autokamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · fr caméra-témoin de circulation (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · hu autós kamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · pl kamera samochodowa (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · no frontrutekamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · it dash cam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · ro dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · cmn 行車記錄儀 /行车记录仪 (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · de Dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · ro cameră de bord (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · hu dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · km កាមេរ៉ាឡាន (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · ca dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · fa داشکم (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · es dashcam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · no dashbordkamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · tr araç kamerası (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · sv bilkamera (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · pt câmara de tablier (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle) · yue 車cam /车cam (digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle)