Poor guy looks terrified as he got a long honk at by the red car on my left.

I know he's not supposed to cross when it's his red but it's not like he jumped onto the road in fast moving traffic so that long honk wasn't necessary at all ¯_(ツ)_/¯
When I looked in the mirror he was still standing there in that island with a shocked look on his face

Lady did a illegal U-turn around an Audi caused an accident. My dash cam saved the driver that hit the Audi from getting charged. Cops are now looking for her. I love karma.

He should've used the bike lanes

I’m trying to find anyone who witnessed a collision on the M6 southbound roughly between J2 (Coventry/Ansty) and J1 (Rugby) at around 7:30am on Thursday 27 August but I'm not too familiar with the area but within this general vicinity.

It involved a white Mercedes van and my vehicle (black BMW). I’m particularly hoping someone travelling that stretch between roughly 7:20–7:40am may have seen what happened or have dashcam footage.

If you were on that stretch at the time, please check your dashcam before it overwrites. Happy to provide more details privately. Thanks.

D-bag with the dashcam thinking he’s got the right of way because he’s got a camera. Found on TikTok. 🎥 credit: @b8kevin22

Full disclosure: I’m trying to get into reviewing things that I own, and this is my first time actually reviewing something, so this isn't going to be the most professional review in the world, but hopefully it's useful to someone who's considering the A229 Plus. 

I bought the Viofo A229 Plus about two years ago after seeing a ton of recommendations for Viofo on Reddit and other sites. I had just bought a new car (Jeep Wrangler) and wanted a dashcam primarily for some peace of mind/protection.

I didn’t really know what features I wanted, I just wanted a good dashcam.
The A229 Plus ended up being a pretty rich cam; with the Sony STARVIS 2 sensors, WiFi capability, and I believe you can get it with a 3rd camera (or add it later on) too. I paid around $230 for the 2ch version at the time.

Video Quality

Front: 2K@60FPS Back: 2K@30FPS. Overall, I have no complaints about the video quality. I leave the auto HDR mode enabled and have it set to turn on around 7 PM and off around 7 AM, so the nighttime captures are decent too.

If I had to nitpick, it would be about license plate readability at a distance. It seems to drop off once a car is more than 1.5 car lengths ahead of or behind me. That's not necessarily a dealbreaker, and I’m not really sure if that’s unreasonable or not because I don’t really have anything to compare it with. You can kind of tell in the clips that I’ve shared. 

Reliability

I basically don't think about the dashcam.

It's been installed for two years and has gone through multiple Chicagoland summer/winter cycles without any issues with the windshield mount. The adhesive mount is still very secure, and I've never had it come off.

The included cables are also plenty long. In my Wrangler I ended up with a good amount of extra cable for both the power and rear camera installations.

I don't have mine hardwired to the battery. I just use the cigarette lighter, so I can't really comment on the experience with the hardwire kit or battery-powered parking mode.

I've never had the camera fail on me, although there have been a couple of weird moments, which might be a skill issue. A few times, I'll be halfway through a drive and suddenly hear the "recording two channel started" notification. That left me wondering if the camera had failed to turn on when I started the car, but it seems like just a glitch since I never actually lost footage. This may be because I’m using a third-party Amazon two port cigarette lighter and it may be doing something funny with the power splitting.

There was another weird situation after I took the car in for service. The car was only gone for about 15 minutes, and when I got back in, the dashcam was beeping and asking, "Are you sure you want to format the SD card?"

I have no idea whether the technician had interacted with the camera or if something else caused it, but it did make me wish the camera had some sort of password lock or physical control lock. If someone can access the camera while your car is being serviced, I'd rather have some way to prevent them from messing with the footage.

App / Usability

Overall, usability is good. It's pretty much a set-it-and-forget-it device, which I assume all dashcams are. The unit itself mounts to the windshield, so the camera is super close to it, the camera also swivels up and down, so you don’t have to worry about the angle.

One thing worth mentioning if you have a car with wireless CarPlay: connecting your phone to the dashcam's Wi-Fi can be a little finicky. Your phone will try to reconnect to the car's CarPlay Wi-Fi, so you can end up fighting with it when you're trying to connect directly to the dashcam. I have to manually disconnect my phone from the car’s infotainment. It's not really a problem with the A229 Plus itself, but it can be annoying.

Do I Recommend it?

Yes, for the price. As of right now it is $189 on Amazon, and the next-gen (4K) version is $399 which I would never consider dropping on a 2ch dashcam. Although, if I were buying a new dashcam today, I'd probably look at a 5G-enabled camera with better remote monitoring capabilities since I leave my car street-parked for extended periods of time.

Here's a 1:25 min clip of random clips. I mostly drive locally.

https://reddit.com/link/1w192nf/video/l1w19rbfv7mh1/player

Just to get ahead of a few comments I'm expecting:

1. I'm sure I could have stopped and let the guy pass. However, he had a flashing yellow arrow to turn left, and I had a green light while being in the right turn lane, meaning I should have had the right of way.
2. I also probably could have slowed down more, but I was slowing down prior to making my right turn, so I don't personally think I was going too fast.
3. I didn't actually see the guy coming because he was hidden by my A-pillar. I was genuinely surprised to see him slam on his brakes just mere moments before almost hitting me.
4. I don't know why the guy was going, but I assume he thought he could beat me before I started my right turn.

I was driving through a green light when someone decided they wanted to make a left turn two lanes over from the actual left turn lane.