How to use the mobile camera to record trips in the car

Prevention is cure. All drivers are well aware of the myriad of risks they face every time they get behind the wheel of their car. Hundreds of traffic accidents occur daily, and normally it is the insurers who have to decide which of those involved is responsible for the accident. For this reason, the simple fact of using our phone to record our car trips can help us a lot when it comes to going through the hardship of showing who has been at fault in a crash or traffic accident.

In fact, in countries like Russia the insurers themselves force drivers to incorporate a camera inside their vehicle to record their driving and thus be able to demonstrate the degree of involvement they have in an accident. If we have a phone with the operating system Android and a mobile phone holder, also we can record our car trips in a very comfortable way that does not require any complex installation in the car. If we happen to go through the bad news of suffering a traffic accident, all we have to do is extract the video from the phone and send it to the insurer.

How to record videos of our car trips

To start recording videos with your phone while driving, the first thing you have to do is download an application specifically designed for this purpose.There are many alternatives to these applications, but the most interesting (and free) are the ones we show you below

• AutoGuard Blackbox It is one of the best applications in this category. It allows us to start recording by simply clicking on a shortcut, and we can do the rest of the trip with the phone screen off without it bothering us while driving. Along with the video, a small map will also be automatically added showing our position and an indicator of the speed we are carrying at all times ( although for this we must have turned on the GPS of the mobile). The application can be downloaded by following this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hovans.autoguard&hl=en .
• DailyRoads Voyager. Application very similar to the previous one, it includes practically the same configuration options. The application can be downloaded from this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dailyroads.v&hl=es .

Once we have downloaded and installed the application, all that remains is to place the mobile phone in a support that can be attached directly to the front window of the car. While we are recording the videos we can continue to use our phone as normal (answer calls, follow a navigation route from the map, etc.). In addition, if we want to avoid high battery consumption, we always have the possibility of charging the mobile in the car at the same time that we record the videos.