Well there is an alternative. If you know you are at fault, hide the dang thing before Jonny take your S### shows up and takes your s###.
Personally I find it unsettling an individual's dash cam could be used against them in traffic court. It feels far fetched but I would wager it's not.
What's next sending a warrant to Verizon to provide the gps data? Or just deciding warrants are unnecessary, and just monitor everyone's phones and automatically send out tickets. Then when you are riding in the passenger seat and get a ticket that you don't deserve you could just pay the extortion because everyone knows it's impossible to get out of a ticket.
The leap really isn't that far. The Obama administration already told us we have no right to privacy as to where our phones are.
But to hell with the Bill of Rights I mean we all just want to be fair and safe and all get our participation trophies. Right?
This is kinda my thought as well. Why be so quick to incriminate yourself if you have any doubt you could be at fault. Take the camera down and review the footage at a later time when you have time to actually look at it and think about what happened. It may have even happened differently than you remembered in the heat of the moment. There is no reason to rush; the law, lawyers, the court and certainly insurance companies don't rush, no reason for you to jump the gun either.