All articles tagged with #dashcam
A woman in her 30s was unharmed after a bear attacked her car on a rural road in Hokkaido, Japan, on Tuesday evening. Dashcam footage shows the animal, accompanied by a cub, emerging from the trees and pounding on the vehicle. The bear bit through the metal hood and shook the car, but the driver locked the doors and waited for it to leave. She later drove the damaged vehicle to a police station to report the incident.
A cement mixer truck flipped on Highway 140 near Yosemite, spilling fuel that sparked the Colorado Fire in Mariposa County. The fire grew to about 250 acres, triggering evacuations for zones 546, 548 and 549 and warnings for zones 550 and 551, with Highway 140 (Briceburg to the Bug Hostel) and Rancheria Creek Road closed. Ground crews faced steep terrain as aircraft attacked the blaze; the cement truck driver’s fate is unknown, but the tour bus driver was unharmed and aid was rendered to the truck driver as 911 was called.
A dashcam video from Sydney shows a pedestrian crossing an intersection in Castle Hill when a red-light-running car hits him, flinging him into the air; he survives, gets up, and walks away as bystanders watch. The incident occurred August 23 on Old Northern Road, and the footage has sparked social-media commentary and comparisons to other Western Sydney crashes.
Beaverton police released dashcam footage of a weekend road rage incident and are asking for information from the public as they investigate the confrontation shown in the video.
Pasadena police released dashcam footage of a September 2025 incident in which one officer shot a colleague during what Chief Harris called unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay inside a department parking garage; the shooter, Roy Alatorre, has separated from the city and the case is under criminal investigation with state authorities reviewing. The round pierced the cruiser windshield, injuring the other officer who later recovered.
Newly released dashcam video from a Pasadena police parking garage shows a fellow officer accidentally firing a gun during a 'horseplay' incident, wounding another officer who has since recovered; the shooting occurred last September and disciplinary action has been taken.
A bakery truck that left Baltimore was struck by an airplane in New Jersey, and the moment was captured on dashcam video, according to the truck’s owner.
A Tesla owner used a USB-to-FDD adapter to connect a 3.5-inch floppy drive to a Tesla. The Linux kernel still recognizes the drive and can mount it as external storage for Sentry/Dashcam/media, even allowing a single MP3 (such as Never Gonna Give You Up) to play. However, the drive’s 1.44 MB capacity makes it impractical for real use and it cannot be used to hack the car or run modern software.”
A dashcam video, though unplayable due to a technical error, appears to show a meteor exploding into a green fireball over parts of the Pacific Northwest, days after a suspected meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in Texas.
A white Chrysler 300 fled a traffic stop in Atlanta, outrunning Georgia State Patrol units, including Ford Mustangs, in a high-speed pursuit that zigzagged through streets and onto Interstate 20 before the driver vanished; the dashcam video sparked debate over pursuit tactics and whether aerial or coordinated methods might have been more effective.
Police released dashcam and bodycam video showing former WWE chief Vince McMahon driving a 2024 Bentley Continental GT at more than 100 mph on the Merritt Parkway in Westport, Connecticut, before rear‑ending a BMW and skidding into a guardrail. He was cited for reckless driving and following too closely and later entered a pretrial probation program that will erase the charges next October if completed, along with a $1,000 charitable donation. McMahon told investigators he was on his granddaughter’s birthday errand, and no one was seriously injured in the July 24, 2025 crash.
Tesla will dynamically adjust dashcam recording length based on the connected USB drive, boosting retention from a fixed 60 minutes to as much as 3 hours on a 128GB drive and up to 24 hours on 1TB+ drives, with 4 MB/s sustained write speed required; the feature is rolling out to China first and will expand regionally, enabling longer review windows for incidents.
A dashcam video captures good Samaritans rescuing two people and their dogs from a vehicle near Lake Tahoe that nearly fell off a cliff on Christmas, with the vehicle stabilized and all individuals safely evacuated without injuries.
Tesla's 2025.38.3.1 software update introduces features like Tron Mode, 3D Buildings view, enhanced Dashcam Viewer with street names, side camera recording, new scroll wheel functions, and a beta feature called Grok, primarily available on AMD Ryzen vehicles worldwide.
A dashcam video shows an electrical worker being hit by the top of an 18-wheeler while working on a traffic signal in Denham Springs; the worker suffered minor injuries, and investigations are ongoing by local authorities and the Louisiana Department of Transportation.