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Smart Forfour - Dash camera - Richard10012
Would dash cam record people hitting their door into my car and other scratches?
Smart Forfour - Dash camera - badbusdriver

Unlikely a dash cam would have such a wide field of vision. Given most are mounted on the inside of the windscreen, it would require more than 180 degrees to "see" the door. But, most dash cam have a sensor to start recording if the car is hit. Assuming the car which hit you was passing from the rear to the front, you should be able to get the reg of the likely culprit. If the car was passing from front to rear?, maybe, I think some will start the recording from 10 or maybe 20 seconds before the impact.

Smart Forfour - Dash camera - gordonbennet

Unless the manufacturer offers all round ''whilst parked too'' camera cover, Tesla offer this, then you'll be into a aftermarket commercial vehicle standard all round camera system being fitted continually uploading to an on board hard drive.

We have such systems on our trucks, costing many £hundreds and due to infa red darkness viewing the cameras would probably be unsightly on a car.