The camera that reads a plate at night.
Every dash cam is sold on resolution. A number plate at night is retroreflective — it throws your own headlights straight back into the lens — so the failure at distance is usually overexposure, not a shortage of pixels. The one published test that reports legibility as a distance found a 4K camera that read nothing after dark and a 1440p camera that read a plate at twenty feet. Resolution is the number everyone quotes and the one that decides least.
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Legibility
How far can a dash cam read a plate at night?
Nine cameras, one plate, measured in feet. The best managed 30 ft after dark, four managed nothing at all — and a 4K camera failed where a 1440p one succeeded.
30 ft, best of nine
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Parking mode
Parking mode, and the two words that decide it
Why the 12 V socket cannot run it, what a pre-impact buffer actually saves, and the claimed buffer lengths — from 10 seconds to three minutes.
10 s – 3 min buffer
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Rove R2-4K Dual Pro
Furthest night plate read of nine cameras, at 30 ft