Baseus has introduced a brand new sprint cam that may proceed capturing incidents even whereas your car is turned off. The PrimeTrip VD1 Professional consists of each a chargeable battery and a high-efficiency photo voltaic panel it makes use of to document incidents when movement or impacts are detected for as much as 14 days whereas your automobile is parked, with out draining your car’s battery.
It’s out there now by way of Amazon for $169.99 (discounted to $109.99 with a coupon that expires on October 1st) and whereas the VD1 Professional doesn’t must be hardwired to your car’s electrical system or fuse field throughout set up, it’s positively not a wi-fi resolution. When you’re driving the primary unit attracts energy out of your car’s auxiliary outlet so its 4K digicam with a 170-degree wide-angle subject of view can document regularly, guaranteeing the occasions main as much as an incident are captured. One other cable, which you’ll want to hide within the seams of your automobile’s trim panels, connects the primary unit to a second 1080p rear digicam with a 120-degree subject of view for capturing what’s taking place behind your car.
The VD1 Professional’s photo voltaic panel is about as small as these used on calculators so the unit stays unobtrusive, however it solely generates sufficient energy to increase the sprint cam’s battery, not hold it charged indefinitely. Because of this, you’ll solely rise up to 14 days of what Baseus calls “standby parking monitoring.” When movement across the car or an influence is detected, the sprint cam will wake and seize 30-second clips from the entrance and rear cameras as much as a most of 20 incidents or 40 clips which can be saved on a 32GB microSD card that may be upgraded. For those who’re parking someplace like an underground storage the place the out there lighting is proscribed, you possibly can anticipate the battery life to be lowered.
Different options embrace steady loop recording that may robotically overwrite the oldest movies when the microSD card will get full, and hands-free voice controls. The VD1 Professional connects to the Baseus cell app over Wi-Fi 6 for wirelessly downloading movies from the dashcam or importing firmware updates.
