A review of the budget Aukey DR01 dashcam. A simple camera with plenty to like – but because of one issue, I just can’t recommend it.
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Hopefully it can be fixed with a firmware update.
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NOTE: I did not put this in the subscriber feed *on purpose*. This is *not* a YouTube glitch. Feedback tells me that the vast majority of subscribers to this channel are no longer interested in my dashcam reviews.
With the ‘notify subscibers’ option unticked everyone still gets to see this video in their ‘recommended videos feed’ and they can decide whether or not it is a topic that they want to see. No-one misses out – but also no one can complain about ‘oh another rubbish dashcam video in my feed – I really hate these’
What I’m doing here is a survey – I’m seeing how many people actively click on a dashcam video – if it’s negligible then I know that I’m best concentrating my efforts elsewhere.
So please just bear with it – and let’s see how this pans out.
It’s like a free newspaper – you might post it though 100,000 letterboxes – but if 95,000 of those households immediately put it in the recycling without reading a page then you are probably wasting your time.
I want to see how many people are actively interested in dashcam videos. This is a way I can find out. Putting a video in the subscriber feed guarantees it a number of views that it might not deserve.
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Phenomenal review!!! Can you recommend another Dashcam that you feel is better than this one – in your opinion, of course? Cheers!
useless for car porno…ugh!
Just picked up one of these. The Firmware version shows DR01_H_V1.7.0409. I wonder if this firmware has fixed the issues you had?
Hope Techmoan
will do an car FM Transmitter episode someday.
Do these dash cams get repackaged under different babes from time to time?
This looks very like my Nextbase dash cam and apparently performs the same as well.
Have you done a video review on 360 cameras, I'm struggling to find my way through the 360 camera maze !
Have you ever tried this dual dash cam? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0742J69SQ
Silly question….was that youlgrave in Derbyshire?????
How is it he has an american voice on his radio?
Any plans to test the Viofo A129 dual cam
The cameras were why I subscribed to you in the first place!
Please keep them coming.
Good videos of Standish and Wigan as well ! :O)
Techmoans worst drivers , always Audi and BMW ! :O)
I do find your dashcam reviews useful and also entertaining. Owner of a DR02 based on your previous review. Thanks
15:56 So you listen to MacBreak Weekly from TWiT, good choice of Podcasts 👌
Wow nice presentation here, Techmoan you were right on with just about everything regarding this Aukey DR-01 review. I took in most of your setup directions and menu setting THAT information is where I got the most value in the time spent here. I have a Vantrue N2 dash cam on the front of my Toyota Sienna and a nice Aukey DR-01 on the rear window over looking any rear end collisions or idiot drivers to the rear of my Van. I live in Lakewood California we all can agree that the So Cal. drivers here are the absolute WORST OF THE WORST! anywhere. you need a dashcam here just to save your ass if or when you have a problem. I was able to set up my device flawlessly. Your English accent for some reason makes it all that much easier to understand. Thank you for your time.
Nice vid – suggestion please; can you include 'sections' like performance, conclusion, etc. to your description so that we can easily navigate?
You took that unlit country lane at quite a pelt 🙂
Shenzhen Aukey E-Business Co., Ltd. LOL It pretend not to be a Chinese brand
30fps like you're using is really stupid for the purposes of a dashcam
You want 60. You want all the frames you can possibly get.
What if the key frame for seeing a plate isn't there because you're only capturing frames at half the rate you could be?
Just an asinine decision on your part
I have this Aukey DR-01 dash cam and I can confirm that mine DOES NOT have the emergency video glitch. I'd guess the problem is his SD card. I use mine with a San Disk 64gb high endurance micro sd card. I personally wouldn't use a 128GB card in a dash cam.
10:45 well why are you all hogging the middle lane? You are provoking the situation to happen in the first place
Okay the cow guy LMAO this is probably the stupidest way to burn through gas i have ever seen 😀
Oh wow Audi drivers are the new BWM cocks.
AUKEY 1080FHD > YouTube 2160 4K
What do you call the guy at 10:26? An "absolute barn-pop"?
The crash of rendering is a failure on Apples shitty coding of iMovie. How is that a fault of the cam? And who else is gonna want to render these files anyway?
12:36 Am sure that was a topic on Top Gear
In New Zealand they were going to or have introduced a "fart" tax for livestock because of the amounts of methane they expel. Australia has an on again off again carbon tax but one program not available overseas but made in Australia thought that instead of taxing carbon perhaps they should just tax farts from humans too. This program said that quite a bit of money could be raised as long as people didn't take refuge in the fart havens like the Cayman Islands to avoid paying the tax.
Can you review the dji osmo pocket camera,
I know that there are other reviews on YouTube by the bucket load, but I trust your opinion on this device.
this would do me perfect for a webcam since i have a tiny desk, i have an av recorder to my pc and my budget is too low for a 720p60fps webcam
Please continue your series of DashCam reviews. There is no reviewer better than you offering detail and clarity. Extra bonus: puppet vignettes.
Since it's on sale for 48$ here in the us, I bit the bullet and got it. Those glitches look like sd card writing errors. That either the card isn't fast enough, or I'd even bet it doesn't fully support 128gb cards.
Like my old note 4 'says' it can do 128gb, but it'd get errors all the time.
Please do the osmo pocket!! Pls! 🙂
More dashcam reviews please mate ! Thanks
People don’t like the dash cam videos? I think that’s how I found the channel…