dashcamn.
/ˈdaʃkam/, U.S. /ˈdæʃˌkæm/ A small video camera mounted on a vehicle's dashboard or attached to the inside of its windscreen, used to record the view ahead. Frequently as a modifier. Cf. dashboard camera n. at dashboard n. Additions.Some dashcams (also) record views other than straight ahead, e.g. the interior of the vehicle and its passengers.
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1998 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Dec. 52/3 Shockumentaries..providing a ready template for the infinite reels of reality being recorded daily by surveillance cameras, home video cameras, nanny cams, dash cams (cameras mounted on patrol-car dashboards) and the helicopter ‘cowboys’ who roam L.A.'s skies.
2008 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 3 June a5 The Ohio Highway Patrol cobbled together the dashcam footage to send out the message this holiday weekend: Don't drink and drive.
2015 Observer 1 Feb. 47/2 Dashcams give drivers an added level of protection to guard against unexpected malicious events which they might otherwise struggle to prove.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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