The recent coverage of the meteor crash in Russia made me wonder why so many people there seem to have a dash-mounted video camera in their car.
It rurns out that several unique factors there have made dash cams important to motorists, according to Damon Larinc, writing on Wired.com today.
For more: http://www.trulia.com/blog/ken_allen/2013/02/why_almost_everyone_in_russian_has_a_dash_cam