Back successful 2020, Ring announced a security camera for your car that connects to the company’s wider location information ecosystem. Now, somewhat aft its planned 2021 merchandise date, Ring is opening pre-orders for Car Cam, the newest subordinate of its information family. The portion is beauteous small, but projects up and distant connected a cantilever limb mounted to your dashboard to springiness it the indispensable height.

There are 2 cameras, 1 to support an oculus connected the interior, the different facing retired the beforehand model to seizure immoderate insurance-worthy incidents. Should the system’s sensors beryllium startled, it’ll trigger a recording, and alert you via the Ring app to amusement you what’s going on. Like beauteous overmuch each different Ring device, there’s a microphone and speaker, allowing you to ticker (and communicate) with immoderate unwanted visitors lurking successful your vehicle.

In addition, Car Cam volition automatically statesman signaling if you accidental “Alexa, record,” and has been designed to seizure footage from postulation stops. (Which, erstwhile you deliberation astir it, speaks volumes astir however small adjacent a institution with precise close ties to instrumentality enforcement thinks astir the integrity of what goes connected astatine postulation stops.) The hardware is powered from the car’s battery, connected via the OBD-II port, and volition usage WiFi to pass unless you opt for LTE by paying for a Ring Protect Go subscription.

Ring has added that, similar its different products, you’ll person the enactment to activate end-to-end encryption, and won’t activate a signaling unless triggered. It added that a privateness shutter volition alteration you to artifact the interior camera and microphone erstwhile closed. It’ll beryllium disposable to pre-order from today, with shipping expected to statesman successful February, but there’s a hefty inducement to get your currency connected the barrelhead present and not hold for the retail launch. Car Cam volition retail for $250, but aboriginal pre-order customers tin get theirs for $200 —while the Protect Go subscription volition acceptable you backmost $60 a year, oregon $6 a month.