On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:40:59 GMT, DYM > wrote:

>>>To avoid this carl-taylor style problem I would like to install small
>>>video cameras in my car. The cameras are pretty cheap, it's recording
>>>the video where it gets difficult and more costly.
>>
>> Not at all.
>>
>> I used a piece of masking tape to affix a $50 webcam to the top of my
>> dashboard.
>
>It would probably come out a jittery mess that would be barely viewable.

You've obviously never watched any of the videos I made with my webcam
(links to which were posted to the group).

>I don't know how much vibration a laptop's hard drive can take and still
>be accessing with a high enough through put to handle video images.

Observation #1: laptop hard drives are shock mounted and capable of
withstanding significant G forces.
Observation #2: the front passenger seat does a REALLY good job of
absorbing road bumps.

Needless to say, neither my laptop nor its hard drive suffered any ill
effects - even though I recorded an entire round trip between SoCal
and Tucson (roughly 16 hours of driving).