Guidemaster: The best dash cams worthy of a permanent place in your car

Update: Our original Dash Cam Guidemaster was published in March 2018, but we recently tested out some of the newest options and updated our picks—just in time for 2019 summer road trips.

If you've ever been in a fender-bender or a serious car accident, you can appreciate the importance of a dash cam. These tiny car cameras stick to your windshield and silently record driving footage, capturing all the strange, mundane, and perilous things going on in front of your car. In addition to peace of mind during daily commutes, they can provide information footage to law enforcement, insurance companies, and other parties in accident situations, monitor your car when you're not around, and sometimes capture fun videos of you and your friends on a road trip.

But with the numerous big and small companies making dash cameras now, wading through the sea of devices before you choose one to buy is a formidable task. Ars reviewed the newest dash cams and revisited our testing of existing devices to pick the best dash cams available now.

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Table of Contents

• Best overall
• Nextbase 312GW
• The Good
• The Bad
• Best budget dash cam
• Yi Dash Cam
• The Good
• The Bad
• Best with front and rear cameras
• Thinkware F200D
• The Good
• The Bad
• Best for car interior recordings
• Anker Roav Duo
• The Good
• The Bad
• Best for sharing videos
• Vava Dash Cam
• The Good
• The Bad
• Best alternative design
• Garmin Dash Cam Mini
• The Good
• The Bad
• Best dash cam mobile apps
• Android—DailyRoads Voyager
• iOS—Dash Cam 2

Best overall

Nextbase 312GW

I can sum up my philosophy about dash cams in one sentence: the best dash cams disappear in your car, monitoring your surroundings andRead More – Source

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