It’s pretty wild out there on the roads these days, so protect yourself legally by investing in a dash cam. This Garmin Dash Cam Live is a good place to start…

The genius of Garmin’s Dash Cam Live is its LTE connectivity, the subscription-based function enabling anytime access to live-view, location tracking, theft alerts, and parking guard notifications from your dash cam to the app on your smartphone.

This clever unit comes with all sorts of features: it stores saved videos securely in the online ‘Vault’ (which you can access through the Garmin Drive app), and with an LTE subscription or Wi-Fi connectivity, you can share video clips with others by sending a link and passcode.

Once plugged into your vehicle’s power source, the dash cam continually records, so you can set it and forget it – and with 1440p HD video, a wide 140-degree lens and Garmin Clarity HDR optics, this dash cam records crisp footage of important details, day and night. The 3in LCD display is what you use to align the camera and change the settings.

RRP: $399.99/£349.99, buy now.

On the Road Features

The camera also features voice control, so that you can keep your hands on the wheel and use voice commands to tell it to save video, start and stop audio recording, take still pictures and more. This feature is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish.

There are alerts for red lights and speed cameras, as well as handy features such as lane departure alerts, forward collision warnings, ‘go’ alerts when stopped traffic in front of you has started to move, and Travelapse – which allows you to easily condense hours of driving footage into minutes of highlights for a fun, creative video.

The memory card is included, and the charger cleverly has an extra USB port integrated so you don’t have to choose between using the camera and plugging in your phone. With all of this plus incident detection, theft alerts and parking guard, this is a very versatile package indeed.

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