Another cool feature is that you can replay, review and manage the footage. The footage of any crash is saved to the removable microSD card within the device itself. All very useful stuff should you find yourself in an unfortunate situation. It’s also possible to change the view from the recorded footage to a map view of your exact location. This could be very useful if you find yourself having to explain to the police what exactly happened at the scene. Rather cleverly you will also be able to playback the accident from the device.

It’ll save the exact GPS location along with the time and date of the incident. Not only will the sat nav record the accident itself but it will also note other important details.

This means that in the event of an insurance claim or a future court case you’ll have the footage of the crash to rely upon. If, God forbid you find yourself in an accident, then the DriveAssist will automatically save the footage of the incident for you. This is probably the future where ‘big brother’ is always watching you, or rather in this case watching where you go! The built-in dash camera continuously records the road ahead of you as you drive. And this really the unique selling point and what differentiates the Garmin DriveAssist from the other devices in the range. If you pick up the device and look at the back of the unit you can see in the centre a lens protruding out. The most obvious of which is the inbuilt dash camera. Well, probably because this sat nav comes with lots of added features. So, if the screen size and resolution are both lacking a little why on earth should we consider this device?

To put this into context it’s the same as the budget offering sat nav from TomTom, the TomTom Go 50. The screen resolution is a little disappointing as you only get a rather standard 480 x 272 pixels. The Garmin DriveAssist is only available with a 5inch (12.7cm) screen. However, I do like the fact that this device feels like a quality product in the hand. They come in a thin rectangular-shaped box, just like this one does. They are in effect more or less the same. There’s probably not much more we can say about the design of sat navs these days.

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