Overall, Lee says her mental jury is still deciding on whether dashcams are useful. She says that everybody perceives themselves to be a better driver than they are, so when people come to her with footage of their own incidents thinking it would exonerate them, it can actually hurt them instead.  “So from my perspective, I think that it's generally less helpful for my clients to have it. But at the same time, it's a really great way to get a piece of objective evidence that shows what happened at a point in time that can't be disputed. It's just a recording from a position where the dashcam was set up and what's captured on dashcam is what actually happened.” So while it probably wouldn’t hurt to have a dashcam in your vehicle, understand that the footage is objective and it’s up to the legal system to decide who’s at fault. It can certainly be used against you.