same but that also just brings up another rant about modern cars. mine has surround view cameras -so you can see a birds eye view when parking. it's really nice. but then why do I have to suction cup a dash cam right next to the built in camera and run a USB cable around my car? please just let us plug in a USB storage device and use the built in cameras as a dash cam.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

On the other hand I can see why allowing arbitrary USB devices to be plugged into a safety-critical system wouldn't be a good idea, particularly one that doesn't get easy security patches.

[–] eyeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You're not wrong, but in my case and presumably others there already are USB ports and relevant drivers for both playback of media files, and funny enough for applying security patches or other updates.

In practice I think the concern becomes most USB storage devices are not intended to be constantly written to, while vibrating from the car, and it would definitely destroy data and cause support complaints. But it's still annoying all the hardware and most of the software I want is there and wouldn't take that much more to do what i want.. but instead if they ever do decide to let us use the built in cameras as a dashcam, I expect it will require replacing my entire car with a new model

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

USB video class is far from arbitrary