Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Ring Car Cam Hands-On: Dashcam That Functions Like Your Doorbell”.
Now most of you may know ring from The Ring doorbell and security cameras, but they have entered the car with the ring car cam. Let’S go check it out there. It is right on the dashboard. This is the device, and this is powered directly from the car’s battery. It is plugged into What’s called the OBD2 port.
Now most cars have this. After the year of 1996.. There are some exceptions like the Tesla, so it may not work for that type of car, but you’ve got it right here. It’S got two cameras, one on either side, then, as you can see, there’s this little privacy latch when you pop this up. It mutes the microphone and shuts off the inner camera, but it still will record from the camera looking out. So this is obviously for theft.
Carjackings accidents but, let’s find out some more hey, I’m here with CEO of ring Jamie simenov to learn more about Ring car cam. I’M very excited about this product. Tell me more about what it was like bringing the ring camera into the car. So it’s kind of funny because it was a product that I actually didn’t want to do. Our mission is around making neighborhoods safer and people kept coming to me saying we should do a car camera and I’m like it’s, not our business, our business around the home. In the neighborhood, but customers kept emailing me my emails on every box and they kept emailing me saying we need it because my car was broken into in front of my house. It was vandalized here, and I realized that protecting the car was actually a neighborhood thing and the car camera we could build is one that does it in a ring way and that that did not exist. So tell me about what are some of the features and the the design ideology that set the ring car cam. So it’s a it’s a dash cam at its base. So like it’s a normal like what a dash cam but you’d expect a dash cam to do.
If you’re driving around like it’ll video, like kind of that kind of that that stuff, but what it really does, is when you’re a parked in front of your driveway at night, if someone was to open the door, it’ll give you a motion alert, you can see, And talk to them like rings, so it’s just like what ring did to the front door with protecting your home with being always home, with really connecting you to this asset, or this this this thing, that’s so important to you. A car is very important to people. It’S not just like a product or a cost. It’S a like, actually very important. It takes them to work, takes their kids to school, and so I know you can use the Amazon assistant in order to trigger it to start recording.
But what are some of the other ways that it will record on its own? So it’s it’s! You can set it up. So when it’s driving it’ll record again, just like a regular dash cam it then you know when you’re parked. This is the big thing. It’S like the safe, the the protection mode. So if someone comes near the car, it’s going to start recording so you’re going to get that video.
It goes up to the cloud. So if someone did actually want to take your car and broke into it and took the dash cam and threw it out, we already have now all the footage that you need, and so it is it’s taking that dash cam base, which would have all the features You’D expect and then bringing all like the sort of ring and a what a security camera we know now would do in a home into the car. And can you tell me about the user experience on the app? What that looks like how they’re interacting with it? So again, I think, what’s great, is it sort of brings that consumer first UI? So it is our normal Ring app you get go, see the video search back to see what’s going on get alerts on your phone, so it is I’d, say what you expect now from the consumer side of a camera in your home. Is that what you’re going to get in your car? You can also link them together. So if the car camera goes off, you could have the floodlight camera on top of the garage go off, so it is like all linked together. Now your home and your car – and I know with other ring cameras in the past, like police, would have to put out like a public request for footage.
Is that the same case for this or does that change at all correct? It would be it’d be the same case and the same privacy protection. You would get on this. As with anything else does it differ at all the way that the ring camera uses the footage versus the home, or is it all the same sequence? So basically, it looks like another camera in your ring. The only difference is this.
One has two cameras so like when you’re scrubbing you’re, going to see like a front in the back um, but other than that it really is. It just feels like another, your front door, camera your rear, camera, your car camera. So now you have all your sort of cameras in the list you can see. What’S going on, can you tell me about some of the Privacy features on it? So one of the greatest privacy features is we did like a little and again.
I think one of the best things about privacy is having it be manual, so have it physical, so we have a physical shutter, it disables the microphones and you literally just like click. It around and now the the forward. Basically the rear facing camera is now obscured and can’t be seen. If you want to check this out yourself. It’S going to be available February 15th pre-orders started today today, and they are 200 right now for a limited time and going 249 is the MSRP all right. Thank you.
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