Government Considers Making Dashcams Mandatory for new cars

At a meeting today, the Mr Anthony Loke commented on various calls for making dashcams mandatory for all vehicles.

While the proposal was "doable", there will definitely be a pushback from the public because any additional equipment means additional expense.

However, a more reasonable course of action is to actually have the dashcams installed when the car is built, so the responsibility drops to the manufacturers instead of the consumers. This is something they are considering, although not mandating just yet. This would be a cheaper option as manufacturers have order visibility and economies of scale thus bringing down the unit price of each dashcam installation, rather than having consumers buy individual dashcams and going to workshops to get them installed properly.

Perhaps, in the near future, all new cars will come with built in dashcams and reverse cameras as part of the normal spec.

As of now, many brands do offer dash cams (or driving video recorders, DVRs) as part of an "add on" package or to the top line models, so it wouldn't be too difficult to just extend it to the lower models.

Of course, I can't not tag $AMTEL / 7031 (AMTEL HOLDINGS BERHAD) as one of the players in this space, who makes DVRs as well as built in toll readers. I believe $MCEHLDG / 7004 (MCE HOLDINGS BERHAD) might be also involved, and *maybe*, that could be why Creador is interested in them. I'm just speculating at this point.

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