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The way I'd set the system up is to have a rolling log of about 5-30 minutes after this time the video will drop out the bottom of the system and be discarded, therefore simulating a continuous loop tape.

When the button is pressed, the current contents of the log are moved to another file and a new one is started.

You could even store the looped live footage in RAM – less wear on hard drive.

Regarding my previous ideas, i welcome any critisism and i agree that the system would be quite open to abuse. One point raised i do disagree with is getting more police on the roads. Although more are needed, we would need huge numbers to fully patrol the roads. If this was done we would get the usual response that the police should be catching real criminals not preying on innocent motorists!!!
At the end of the day the only deterent with serious crimes on the roads and the streets is proper sentencing at thecourts. We are constantly told in the media of people who despite having no licence, no MOT, no insurance, several driving bans and a string of driving offenses and then get off with a couple of hundred quid fine a shake of the judges finger and maybe another pointless ban. You could put a police car on every street and police down every road, but unless there is a real deterant then its pointless. Just watch any programme such as Booze Britain, Street crime etc etc and see just how much you can get away with these days and just be let off with either a caution or a small fine.
P.S Big brother has never bothered me as i have nothing to hide. It may be cheesy sounding and no doubt a bit simplistic but with the kind of people around these days then film away as far as i'm concerned.

Absolutely right! We need to get all the banned drivers off the roads and into prison where they belong.

You'd have to have some form of either on-board battery backup or battery-powered dump to a non-vol medium though - else a shunt taking out the car's electrics would just allow the data to evaporate at the most inopportune moment!